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Blockchain ballot voting to be used for first time in New Zealand party politics
The New Zealand political party, The Opportunities Party, plans to use distributed ledger blockchain technology to process a vote for the first time in the country’s history next month. Announced today, TOP intends to make use of Horizon State Pty Ltd.’s ballot box blockchain technology platform to provide secure voting for party member leadership from ...
Verses joins forces with XYO to bridge real-world locations with virtual reality
Verses, a nonprofit foundation creating standards and protocols for what’s known as the “spatial web,” announced Wednesday that the company has partnered with XYO Network, a blockchain-powered location network driven by device data. As a foundation, Verses is building what it calls the Spatial Web Protocol, a protocol-driven network of location data that makes it ...
IBM, Smart Dubai build first government-backed blockchain in the Middle East
Smart Dubai, a government initiative bringing cutting-edge technology to the city-state of Dubai, and IBM Corp. today announced the launch of the Dubai Blockchain Platform, the first government-endorsed distributed ledger technology platform-as-a-service in the United Arab Emirates. The blockchain system will be built locally in the UAE and use IBM’s enterprise-ready IBM Cloud environment to ...
DexFreight delivers its first truckload of seafood using blockchain technology
Decentralized logistics company dexFreight announced Wednesday the completion of its first blockchain assisted shipment using smart contracts to supply payment. The shipment was part of a pilot of its new platform designed to show the efficacy and capability of distributed ledger technology. It took 5,320 pounds of frozen foods from Preferred Freezer Services LLC in Medley, Florida, and delivered it ...
With Pilot, TeamViewer 14 brings augmented reality support to workers and customers
Augmented reality continues to make waves for remote assistance and technical support. Case in point: TeamViewer GmBH announced Tuesday that its upcoming TeamViewer 14 version will include AR support. TeamViewer 14 Preview includes a substantial number of updates and performance improvements, but it also implements new AR capabilities using TeamViewer Pilot. The TeamViewer Final version 14 is ...
HTC Exodus 1 blockchain phone is ready for preorder today – but only with crypto
If you want to get your hands on the newly launched HTC Exodus 1 blockchain phone, you’ll need to buy it for cryptocurrency. The phone, released by HTC Inc. today, can be preordered with bitcoin or Ethereum. It is available in 34 countries today, including the U.S., U.K., Hong Kong and Singapore. The purchase price ...
Augumenta launches mixed reality gesture recognition toolkit for HoloLens
Augmented reality development tool builder Augumenta Ltd. today announced the release of Infinite Touch, a toolkit for developers to enable 3-D gesture interaction for Microsoft HoloLens and Android smartglasses. One of the most powerful use cases for AR is the ability to add virtual objects the to the real world by overlaying them in a ...
With Autopilot, Twilio ups the ante on chatbot AI for customer service
From customer service bots to Amazon.com Inc.’s Alexa, machine learning algorithms spend a lot of time holding conversations with people, and developers need powerful tools to build apps that run on those systems. Communications platform Twilio Inc. today announced one such tool: Autopilot, which it calls the first fully programmable conversational artificial intelligence platform for building ...
GitHub debuts new developer tools for security and collaboration
As the curtains rose at the GitHub Universe developer conference today in San Francisco, open-source code repository GitHub announced an array of new products designed to embrace collective work by developers and enhance security. Newly added by the company, GitHub Actions and GitHub Connect will affect developer workflows with code execution on the platform and ...
Outline VPN: making it safer for reporters to work on the open internet
Alphabet Inc.’s Jigsaw, a privacy-centric technology incubator started by Google LLC, has stepped up with a new platform named Outline designed to help protect journalists, and information sharing organizations, on the open internet by delivering a way for them to communicate securely. Initially launched in March, Outline is an independently audited open source product that ...
