Mini-Kong Arcade, New D.C. Museum, DC Comic $ale$, Oracle Buys Palerra
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MINI-KONG ARCADE: Cnet.com’s Bonnie Burton gives us a mini-peek at the world’s smallest Donkey Kong Arcade Game. How mini? The cabinet is 2.65 inches tall, 1.32 inches wide and 1.41 inches deep. She also provide links providing insight on how to build one. Click here for Bonnie’s article.
NEW D.C. MUSEUM: The National Museum of African American History & Culture doesn’t officially open until Sept, 24 — but it’s already sold-out through November. Lead designer was David Adjaye: “I wasn’t interested in architecture just as a technical art,” he told Wired.com. “It was about the ability to use technology to be able to transform stories and to make relevance of places and geography for people.”
DC COMIC $ALE$: TheVerge.com notes that “Orders for comic books have hit a 20-year high.” August sales were super-heroish in stature, topping $10 million, a figure not seen since 1996. Driving the comic book boom is DC’s Rebirth series in general and Harley Quinn in particular. Ka-POW!
ORACLE BUYS PALERRA: Ingrid Lunden, writing for TechCunch.com, sez Oracle is buying Palerra, a cloud security startup (a.k.a. Apprity) founded in 2013. Here’s what Palerra’s CEO Rohit Gupta (an Oracle alum) thinks: “Together, Oracle and Palerra will help accelerate cloud adoption securely by providing comprehensive identity and security cloud services,”
HOLY CASH COW! Michael Grim of Georgetown University sez the total economic impact of religion in America is around $1.2 trillion. That’s more than the top 10 tech companies combined, according to the ChristianPost.com. In his study, Grim provide the first-ever documented quantitative analysis of the economic impact of congregations, religious institutions and businesses. The research was sponsored by Faith Counts, a campaign that “promotes the value of faith in society.”
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