Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Fireblocks launches crypto payments solution for merchants

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Digital asset custody firm Fireblocks Inc. today launched a new cryptocurrency payments engine and suite of tools for merchants to accept and manage crypto transactions anywhere in the world. The Fireblocks Payments Engine allows merchants, creators and businesses more easily to transact in …

Google brings new features to Jetpack Compose with productivity and performance update

APPS By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Over a year after releasing Jetpack Compose, a developer tool for helping developers build native Android user interfaces, Google LLC is announcing a new stable release with improved features that enhance performance and productivity for developers. Google launched Compose in July last …

Messaging app Telegram plans to auction off usernames on a blockchain marketplace

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

The popular messaging platform Telegram Messenger Inc. plans to auction off usernames on a marketplace using The Open Network blockchain, the company said on Thursday. This announcement follows the idea being suggested by Telegram founder Pavel Durov in August that the platform …

Celestia Labs raises $55M to build modular blockchain networks

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Celestia Labs, the startup behind the Celestia blockchain network, announced Wednesday that it has raised $55 million in funding led by Bain Capital Crypto and Polychain Capital to build modular architecture for deploying and scaling blockchains. Celestia builds what it calls modular …

Solana-killer blockchain Aptos project off to a rocky start after launch, token drop

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Aptos Labs, a startup founded by employees who built the blockchain behind Meta Platform Inc.’s ill-fated Diem, recently announced its “tokenomics” model amidst a rocky mainnet launch that has performed more slowly than expected. The platform raised $200 million in March, backed …

Meta builds AI-powered speech translation for Hokkien to understand unwritten languages

AI By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Most artificial intelligence translation to date has been focused on written languages because that is the easiest way to train machine learning systems to understand and translate them. However, more than 40% of the world’s 7,000 living languages have no standard writing …

Jack Dorsey’s Bluesky announces beta waitlist for decentralized social network

APPS By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Bluesky, a decentralized social network project started by former Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey, revealed in an announcement on Tuesday that it’s getting closer to launching its app. The app, to be named Bluesky Social, will be a social networking platform developed …

Apple rolls out redesigned iPad and new iPad Pro

APPS By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. today announced a new lineup of iPads, including a redesigned 10th-generation model featuring the A14 Bionic chip and new versions of the iPad Pro powered by the M2 chip, alongside a new Apple TV 4K with increased storage. The new …

Meta will finally sell Giphy after UK antitrust watchdog ruling

POLICY By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms Inc., has agreed to sell Giphy Inc., an animated GIF image search and sharing platform, after it was again ordered to do so by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority. Meta, then known as Facebook, initially purchased …

ChainSafe raises $18.8M to support Web3 developers and blockchain infrastructure

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Blockchain infrastructure and implementation technology firm ChainSafe Systems Inc. said today it has raised $18.75 million in early-stage funding to expand its developer products. The Series A funding round, led by digital asset-focused venture capital fund Round13, also included participation from new …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Fireblocks launches crypto payments solution for merchants

Google brings new features to Jetpack Compose with productivity and performance update

Messaging app Telegram plans to auction off usernames on a blockchain marketplace

Celestia Labs raises $55M to build modular blockchain networks

Solana-killer blockchain Aptos project off to a rocky start after launch, token drop

Meta builds AI-powered speech translation for Hokkien to understand unwritten languages

Apple rolls out redesigned iPad and new iPad Pro

Meta will finally sell Giphy after UK antitrust watchdog ruling

ChainSafe raises $18.8M to support Web3 developers and blockchain infrastructure

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