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Researchers claim discovery of 13 security flaws in AMD Ryzen and Epyc chips
Israel-based security company CTS-Labs announced today that its researchers have discovered a number of critical vulnerabilities affecting Advanced Micro Devices Inc. products. The vulnerabilities in the affected chips, which include AMD’s Epyc secure processor and the Ryzen chipset, could allow attackers to take control of systems running on these chipsets, access secure data and even ...
Headphone maker demos Bose AR smart glasses designed to augment ‘audio’ reality
Bose Corp., the Massachusetts-based designer and developer of audio equipment, demonstrated its new augmented reality glasses that augment sound instead of vision Friday at the 2018 South by Southwest conference. Much of the news and technology that follows AR development attends to augmenting vision: projecting virtual objects onto walls, floors, park benches or into living rooms and ...
Blockchain startup Blockdaemon raises $3.2M seed funding led by Comcast
Blockchain nodes-as-a-service startup Blockdaemon announced Thursday that the company closed a seed round for $3.275 million led by telecommunications giant Comcast Ventures. This round was joined by a number of enterprise venture capital outfits, including Boldstart Ventures, MState (backed by IBM Corp. and Comcast) and Plug and Play as well as a number of Silicon ...
Smart glasses in the workplace: Augmented reality outfit Upskill raises $17.2M
Industrial and enterprise augmented reality outfit Upskill today announced that the company has closed a $17.2 million funding round that brings on new strategic investors such as Accenture PLC and Cisco Investments. Upskill is the developer of a platform called Skylight AR, a software suite designed to power smart glasses in industrial and enterprise settings. ...
Yahoo! Maps Japan introduces augmented reality navigation mode for iPhones
Yahoo! Japan today announced the release of augmented reality navigation for the company’s mapping application for iOS phones and mobile devices. The addition to Yahoo! Japan Maps will provide users an “in-world” visualization of the route to their destination using the phone’s camera. The new feature uses the ARKit framework available with iOS 11 and will ...
BBC brings objects out of history into augmented reality with Civilisations AR app
In the latest move to make history more accessible, the British Broadcasting Corp. Thursday launched its first augmented reality app, Civilisation AR. The app, developed by BBC Research and Development, BBC Arts and Nexus Studios features more than 30 captivating artifacts from museums across the United Kingdom. Each object has been digitally scanned by archaeologists ...
Credit Suisse and ING use blockchain platform to transfer $30M in securities
Credit Suisse Group AG and ING Groep NV announced today that they completed a securities lending transaction worth 25 million euros ($30.48 million) using a blockchain-based platform designed for this purpose from HQLAx. For the underlying protocol, financial technology company HQLAx selected Corda, a distributed ledger blockchain platform developed by innovation firm R3CEV LLC. HQLAx ...
Rakuten plans to build blockchain-based loyalty system with ‘borderless currency’
Japanese e-retailer giant Rakuten Inc. today announced plans to roll out a blockchain-based loyalty system that will incorporate its existing point system. The new system will take existing Rakuten Points, used to purchase anything on the system from snacks to electronics, and turn them into a cryptocurrency called Rakuten Coin. The company has shown a ...
S&P Global Platts launches commercial blockchain for oil inventory data
Energy market information and analysis supplier S&P Global Platts announced Thursday that the company will soon launch a blockchain distributed ledger to help track oil storage data for the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone and the regulator FEDCom. FOIZ is the largest reservoir and supplier for refined oil products in the Middle East and Platts is ...
Qualcomm unveils new mobile headset platform to power next-gen virtual reality
The era of cheaper, standalone mobile virtual reality headsets is almost here, as VR makers preparing to release less costly displays based on mobile technology. Today, chipmaker Qualcomm Technologies Inc. announced the company’s most recent VR reference platform based on the company’s flagship mobile chip, the Snapdragon 845. Right now, VR hardware is expensive. Most ...
