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

LaunchDarkly’s summer updates empower DevOps teams to build better apps

APPS By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Feature management platform for DevOps teams LaunchDarkly has been spending all summer updating its product with new features to give developers the tools they need to manage software capabilities during release. Big new feature sets for general availability included a new and …

Apple unveils iPhone 14, new AirPod Pro, Apple Watch 8 and A16 Bionic chip

APPS By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

During its massive “Far Out” product event today, Apple Inc. announced the A16 Bionic chip, the successor to the already powerful A15 Bionic, to power the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. Alongside the more powerful mobile chip, Apple also …

Varjo focuses on the industrial metaverse with $40M in new funding

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Varjo Technologies Oy, a Finnish maker of industrial-grade virtual and mixed reality hardware and software, said today that it has raised $40 million in new funding to build on enterprise opportunities in the industrial metaverse. Varjo focuses on building enterprise hardware and software …

DevOps automation platform Zeet raises $4.3M led by Sequoia Capital

CLOUD By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Zeet, a cloud-native integrated DevOps platform for software developers, said today that the company has raised $4.3 million in seed funding to help developers get the most out of their cloud services. The funding round was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation …

LG launches NFT gateway and marketplace for its smart TVs

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

LG Electronics Inc. jumped on the crypto bandwagon today with a new nonfungible token platform for some of its smart TVs that allows viewers “buy, sell and enjoy high-quality digital artwork” during their viewing experience. The marketplace, called LG Art Lab, is …

DeFi platform KyberSwap suffers $265,000 loss in user interface exploit

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

KyberSwap, a decentralized exchange built to allow users to swap tokens between blockchains, confirmed Thursday that it has suffered an exploit to its front-end web code. Attackers were able to steal about $265,000 in cryptocurrency funds before the Kyber team was able …

Snap is disbanding its Web3 team amid layoffs

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Snapchat’s parent company, Snap Inc., is reportedly closing shop on its Web3 ambitions amid recent layoffs that could result in a 20% reduction in its workforce. Jake Sheinman, one of the team’s founders, announced the news on Wednesday in a tweet that …

California passes crypto regulation bill similar to New York ‘BitLicense’

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

The California State Assembly has unanimously passed the Digital Financial Assets Bill, which will create tighter regulations for cryptocurrency firms in the state and require stablecoins to be issued from a bank. The bill now passes to California Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk …

The Ethereum ‘Merge’ is coming and it’s about to change everything in crypto

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

The Ethereum blockchain that underlies the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is about to go through a historic software upgrade that will change it forever. The upgrade, known as “the Merge,” has been in the works for more than two years after …

Reddit acquires AI-powered analysis company Spiketrap to improve its ads

AI By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Reddit Inc. announced today that it acquired Spiketrap, a company that uses artificial intelligence to contextualize audience understanding, to improve the social media platform’s advertising relevance and performance. Spiketrap uses AI to deliver insights into audience metrics using contextual analysis of conversations …

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