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With Filament Blocklet Kit, enterprises can roll their own IoT blockchain solutions
Rapidly launching enterprise blockchain platforms for “internet of things” networks just got easier with the release of Filament’s Blocklet Kit distributed ledger technology starter kit. Announced Tuesday, the Blocklet Kit is an end-to-end solution starter kit designed to provide corporations everything needed to build a proof-of-concept blockchain network easily. The kit includes hardware, software and ...
IBM Food Trust commercial blockchain launch links food safety from farm to dinner table
After 18 months of testing, IBM Corp. today announced the commercial availability of its food safety blockchain-based platform, IBM Food Trust, designed for global use by farms, distributors and retailers. The system uses distributed ledger blockchain technology to track food throughout the entire supply chain by tagging each actionable event that happens to an auditable ...
Overstock.com’s Medici Ventures invests in VinX blockchain wine market and supply chain
Medici Ventures, a subsidiary of Overstock.com Inc., today announced a strategic investment in VinX, an Israel-based wine futures market and supply chain security company developing distributed ledger blockchain technology to reduce fraud and increase efficiency for wineries. The VinX platform would create a token-based system using blockchain technology using the Bordeaux futures model — a ...
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Hyperledger partner up to bolster blockchain standards
The Ethereum Enterprise Alliance and Hyperledger announced Monday that the two organizations have partnered up to collaborate on open standards across the distributed ledger blockchain industry. By formally joining each other’s organizations as associate members, both organizations will be able to share information, interconnect membership, form cross-community events and collaborate on open standards. The EEA ...
Hackers exploit Facebook security flaw, affecting 50 million users
The engineering team at Facebook Inc. has discovered and fixed a security issue affecting almost 50 million users that exploited a vulnerability in the social media site’s “View As” feature. “Our investigation is still in its early stages,” Guy Rosen, vice president of product management at Facebook, said in a public announcement today. “But it’s clear ...
Facebook reveals Oculus Quest VR headset coming in spring 2019 for $399
Facebook Inc. today fleshed out the final piece of its first-generation series of virtual reality headsets by announcing a new device called the Oculus Quest. At Facebook’s Oculus Connect 5 conference in San Jose, California, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg (pictured) revealed the all-in-one headset, which has has a powerful processor, a lightweight form factor and the ability to ...
Pixvana launches native VR cloud-based editing platform for creators
Virtual reality software developer Pixvana Inc. announced Monday the full release of its video editing suite, Spin Studio, that lets users use VR headsets for the full life cycle of video creation. Spin Studio is a cloud-based cross-platform publishing suite designed to give creators the full capabilities of a 360-degree video editing platform – in ...
US Navy pilots blockchain project to track aviation parts through their life cycles
The Naval Air Systems Command, the provisioner of material support for aircraft flown by the United States Navy known as NAVAIR, announced Thursday that it has started an experimental pilot using distributed ledger blockchain technology to track aviation components through the parts life cycle. To launch the pilot blockchain, NAVAIR partnered with Indiana Technology and ...
Mozilla’s VR web browser Firefox Reality arrives for Oculus, Vive and Daydream
Firefox Reality represents the Mozilla Foundation’s foray into the world of virtual reality and augmented reality with a web browser designed wholly to support those technologies. The Mixed Reality team at Mozilla Tuesday announced the launch of the 1.0 version of Firefox Reality for public release and it’s now available for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive ...
Automotive ‘holographic’ AR maker WayRay raises $80M from Porsche and Hyundai
WayRay SA, a maker of holographic augmented reality for cars, today announced a new late-stage $80 million investment from Porsche, Hyundai Motor Group, Alibaba Group, China Merchants Capital, JVCKenwood Corp. and Consortium of Sovereign Wealth Funds. Zurich-based WayRay produces AR products for cars that operate by projecting “holographic” effects onto the windows around a vehicle. Most ...
