Popular torrent website ExtraTorrent.cc domain name blocked by Domain Registrar; Moves to alternative Extra.to domain

Popular torrent website ExtraTorrent.cc domain name blocked by Domain Registrar; Moves to alternative Extra.to domain

The torrent community is still reeling from the after effects of the Australian ISP block on The Pirate Bay, ExtraTorrents, RARBG, RARBG and the move by United Kingdom ISPs to send warning letters to torrent downloaders. Now comes, even more, worse news for them. The 2nd most popular torrent website after The Pirate Bay, Extratorrents has lost its popular Extratorrent.CC domain name and has had to move a totally new domain name called Extra.To.
For the uninitiated, ExtraTorrent is one of the world’s largest torrent indexing website and has an Alexa rank of 305 just below the torrent king, The Pirate Bay. Today, the .CC Domain Registrar, Internet BS for Cocos (Keeling) Islands blocked ExtraTorrent from using that particular country domain name. While the Domain Registrar has not given any reason for the blockage but it is felt that the anti-piracy groups and the media companies are behind the blockage. This looks more feasible as the Cocos Islands is governed by Australia which has a history of blocking torrent websites.
As a result, ExtraTorrent has now lost control over it primary domain ExtraTorrent.cc. Since this morning the site’s domain has become unreachable around the world, and a whois search reveals that this is due to a “clienthold” status.

This smartwatch runs Windows, which is actually a Raspberry Pi computer

This smartwatch runs Windows, which is actually a Raspberry Pi computer

A self-proclaimed amateur tech-maker has managed to run the legendary Windows 98 straight from his self-made smart watch. And to do this, all you need is a Raspberry Pi.
The fearless inventor 314REACTOR built a wrist computer out of a Raspberry Pi Model A+ and then put Windows 98 on it. Besides the Pi, the DIY watch also sports a 2.4-inch touchscreen, a modest 1,000 mAh battery as well as a simple on and off switch.
However, in order to complete the entire collection, you will require a few more things. Since Windows 98 isn’t readily available for Raspberry Pi, the cunning Redditor resorted to emulating the system via QEMU.
QEMU.

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer, which runs operating systems for any machine, on any supported architecture.
While running a Windows 98 on a tiny DIY watch hardly makes for a smooth performance, which is quite expected, but you can still manage to play some games on the device.

314REACTOR says he was also able to run Minesweeper on the device, although it was pretty slow. He also has plans to try and play Doom.
For more information and tips on how you can build your very own Windows-powered smart watch, check out this page.


Source: TNW

Bitcoin beats gold in price for the first time ever

                Bitcoin beats gold in price for the first time ever 

This is the first time that gold price has trailed behind Bitcoin

For the first time ever, the price of one Bitcoin climbed above the price of one ounce of gold on Thursday.

Around 10:20 a.m. ET. The cryptocurrency jumped up to $1,241.30. In the meantime, gold was around $1,241.25 at the time. However, minutes later, Bitcoin fell below the yellow metal, but then bounced back again.

As of 10:41 a.m. ET yesterday, Bitcoin had increased by 1.8% at $1,248.10, while gold was down 0.6% at $1,242.15.