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Continuing its push to bring the metaverse into the real world and not just the virtual world, Niantic Inc., the company behind the popular augmented reality game “Pokemon Go,” today announced the launch of its Lightship AR mapping system for web browsers. …
Coinbase Cloud launches Node to streamline Web3 development
In a bid to make blockchain development easier, Coinbase Inc. announced Wednesday a new developer platform named Node that allows developers to launch and access blockchain nodes in order to build their own Web3 decentralized applications. Node acts as a self-serve product for …
Nvidia unveils second-gen OVX system to bring the industrial metaverse to life
Nvidia Corp. today announced the second generation of Nvidia OVX, its purpose-built data-center-scale computing system built on next-generation graphics processors and designed to power digital twin simulations for industrial metaverse applications. OVX was launched in March, as a computing system designed to …
Nvidia launches Omniverse Cloud to support industrial metaverse ‘digital twins’
Nvidia Corp. is continuing to push the boundaries of the industrial metaverse, a virtual space parallel to the real one that simulates detailed physical assets in the virtual world, with its hyper-realistic physics simulation and collaboration product Omniverse. Today during the company’s …
Cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute loses $160M in DeFi hack
The major cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute Trading Ltd. said today that its decentralized finance unit was hacked for approximately $160 million; its centralized trades and over-the-counter services remain unaffected. The company’s founder and Chief Executive Evgeny Gaevoy announced the hack on Twitter in …
Salesforce unveils Genie, a real-time data platform to power its apps
Salesforce Inc. today unveiled a new real-time data platform called Salesforce Genie that will power the company’s suite of customer relationship management products, allowing its customers to deliver highly personalized experiences across all channels from marketing, sales and commerce that can adapt …
Web3 developer tool provider Infura announces plans to launch decentralized protocol
Infura Inc., the provider of tools and application programming interfaces for connecting decentralized apps to Ethereum, said today it’s planning to launch a decentralized protocol to complement its existing product in order to provide better services for the peer-to-peer transactions of Web3 …
Uber investigates security breach of its internal systems
Uber Technologies Inc. says it’s investigating a “cybersecurity incident” after a hacker breached its internal systems and left messages with evidence that they had accessed critical information. “We are currently responding to a cybersecurity incident. We are in touch with law enforcement …
Walmart unveils AR experience using customers’ own bodies to model clothing
Walmart Inc. is expanding its lineup of digital tools for customers to see what clothing will look on them like before they buy them. Today, the retail giant unveiled a virtual try-on option called “Be Your Own Model” that uses augmented reality …
Ethereum completes ‘Merge’ upgrade, transforming the blockchain forever
The long-awaited Ethereum “Merge” update was completed just before midnight Wednesday and the blockchain has switched from its “proof-of-work” validation system to a “proof-of-stake” system under the hood. From the perspective of users and developers, the Merge changed absolutely nothing, but for …