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Digi-Capital releases augmented and virtual reality market analytics dashboard
Silicon Valley-based augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed-reality analysis company Digi-Capital LLC announced Monday the launch of its industry data dashboard and Analytics Platform for businesses just starting out, established enterprise management, investors and others. With this dashboard, it is possible to get information about any segment of the AR/VR industry at a glance with more ...
Blockchain company Aikon teams up with the Hubble Space Telescope for deep space research
Space is huge: The Milky Way, our own galaxy, alone may have more than 200 billion stars and our home is only one of many. The process of imaging and categorizing stars and other deep space phenomena is a slow process that involves a great deal of computer processing power. To make this process easier, ...
Microsoft, Oculus and others outline VirtualLink spec for simpler VR with one USB-C cable
An open industry standards body Tuesday announced the development of a new standard for virtual reality headsets that will do away with the multiple connectors and wires required by current VR headsets and replace them with a single cable. The VirtualLink Consortium consortium includes makers of VR headsets such as Microsoft Inc., Facebook Inc.-owned Oculus Inc. and ...
Healthcare blockchain Health Wizz gets upgrades and announces hospital pilot program
The healthcare industry can be complex and puzzling for consumers with documents scattered between hospitals, doctors, specialists and insurance companies. Health Wizz Inc., the developer of a distributed ledger blockchain app, today announced enhancements to its mobile app that put more control of health documents into the hands of users. The Health Wizz app was ...
Malware, bitcoin and phishing: US indicts 12 Russian spies in 2016 election hack
Updated: A U.S. grand jury today returned indictments against 12 officers in the Russian military accusing them of accessing information stolen from the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2016. The indictments are part of the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into alleged interference by Russia in the 2016 presidential election. The ...
BrickHeadz AR: Lego brings bricks and toy figures into augmented reality app
Legos, the resolutely physical set of toys that have remained popular for decades, are moving further into the digital world. Owners of Android phones with the most recent version of Google LLC’s ARCore can now download a new augmented reality app launched today by Lego Group. The magic of AR is that it turns smartphones ...
R3’s Corda Enterprise launches with first-ever ‘blockchain firewall’ for business
Blockchain development consortium and software provider R3CEV LLC Tuesday announced the launch of the commercial version of its open-source distributed ledger platform Corda for enterprise customers. Corda Enterprise builds on R3’s existing blockchain platform, based on the same technology that underlies global digital currencies such as bitcoin. It can act as a tamperproof, privacy-focused distributed database for large-scale ...
Open Mineral and ConsenSys seek to put the blockchain in the mineral supply chain
Open Mineral, an online metal and mineral exchange based in Switzerland, announced today the company’s upcoming launch of a distributed ledger blockchain platform to serve a consortium of mining companies and financial institutions. The platform, dubbed Minerac, will be established in partnership with U.S.-based startup ConsenSys Inc., which provides a decentralized information service based on the ...
Gamania announces virtual item blockchain system for game publishers in Taiwan
Taiwanese multiplatform gaming entertainment publisher Gamania Group announced today at the 2018 Asia Blockchain Summit its roadmap to build and grow a distributed ledger blockchain system for virtual items. Video game publishers have sought to monetize games by selling virtual items to consumers and allow players to trade items in their games. Securities market trader Deutsche Börse Group ...
Coinbase launches cryptocurrency cold-storage and custodial service for businesses
Coinbase Inc., the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S., announced today the launch of its cold-storage and custodial service for digital currencies aimed at allowing institutional investors greater opportunity to enter the market safely. This service, to be provided through Coinbase subsidiary Coinbase Custody, already accepted its first deposit last week. Cryptocurrency will be kept by ...
