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VisionBanker seeks to change vision care with the blockchain
VisionBanker Pte. Ltd., a startup looking to change vision care through technology, Tuesday announced plans to raise $10 million through a token sale on its own platform to tap into the Asian eye care market. Using facial recognition technology and a blockchain distributed ledger, VisionBanker seeks to change the way vision patients and eyeglass consumers ...
Nestlé pilots blockchain to let customers track milk origins and safety
Swiss multinational food and drink company Nestlé SA announced today a pilot project that uses blockchain distributed ledger technology to enable customers to track food from farm to the dinner table. The pilot, designed to bring supply chain transparency to the company, retail outlets and its customers, is being built in conjunction with OpenSC. Founded ...
Blockchain-based distributed API company dfuse raises $3.5M funding
Dfuse Platform Inc., a provider of blockchain distributed ledger application programming interfaces, announced Wednesday it has raised $3.5 million in a seed funding round led by Multicoin Capital and Intel Corp. As an API provider, dfuse makes it possible for developers to rapidly build distributed, high-performance blockchain-based applications. The company provides open-source libraries that allow ...
Vivo reveals smartphone-tethered AR glasses at MWC Shanghai
Chinese smartphone maker Vivo Communication Technology Co. Ltd. announced its first foray into the augmented reality market today at the Shanghai Mobile World Congress with a reveal of the company’s prototype tethered AR glasses. The glasses, called Jovi AR Glass (above), look like a bulky, but stylish, pair of wrap-around sunglasses, are designed to operate ...
Raspberry Pi 4 launch brings 4K display support and faster CPU for $35
The Raspberry Pi Foundation, maker of a favorite prototype production platform for inventors and “internet of things” developers, announced today the launch of its most recent product: the Raspberry Pi 4 on sale starting at $35. The newest incarnation of the Raspberry Pi brings with it a faster central processing unit, graphics processing unit, the ...
New Harry Potter AR game from ‘Pokemon Go’ developer launches a day early
A new augmented reality game from “Pokemon Go” developer Niantic Inc. for the Harry Potter universe “Harry Potter: Wizards Unite” became available for download today on iOS and Android in the U.S. and U.K. Earlier this week, Niantic announced via a tweet that the game would launch this Friday, June 21, but it appears to ...
Polish bank Alior uses Ethereum blockchain to authenticate documents
The Warsaw-based financial institution Alior Bank SA Monday announced plans to use the public Ethereum blockchain to authenticate and secure sensitive documents for clients. According to a report in Forbes, the Alior announced that the public blockchain distributed ledger, which is second only to the bitcoin blockchain, will be used to provide a feature that will ...
FDA, IBM and Walmart join to track pharmaceuticals with blockchain pilot
The United States Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that the department wants to use blockchain distributed ledger technology to track and trace the production and movement of drugs and vaccines in the U.S. To do this, the FDA has joined forces with IBM Corp. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Merck & Co. Inc. and KPMG LLP ...
Visa launches commercial blockchain-based payments system with B2B Connect
Visa Inc. announced Tuesday the commercial launch of its blockchain distributed ledger technology payments system B2B Connect after three years of development. The network provides financial institutions the ability to execute high-value corporate payments across borders quickly and securely at very little cost. “Launching Visa B2B Connect marks an important industry milestone which will accelerate the ...
New blockchain-powered private chat app launched by Odin
Odin Blockchain, a community-driven distributed ledger blockchain ecosystem, announced Thursday the launch of its private messenger service Odin Chat, which has been in early access since May. This chat application has been launched in advance of other Odin services, which will include gaming and asset trading capabilities, and will allow users to exchange private messages ...
