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In the end of an internet era, AOL’s pioneering Instant Messenger will go offline Dec. 15
One of the internet’s first instant messaging services will go dark in two months when AOL Instant Messenger goes offline. Oath Inc., a subsidiary of Verizon Communications that now owns the AOL brand, officially announced this morning that AIM will shut down Dec. 15. America Online Inc. is best known as one of the very ...
Google teams up with Discovery for 38-episode virtual reality travel series
Discovery Communications Inc. and Google LLC have teamed up to use the magic of immersive virtual reality technology to bring more people to places they have never been before through a 38-episode travel documentary. The series, announced Wednesday by the Discovery VR and Google VR team, will launch on Friday, Nov. 3, exclusively on YouTube ...
Four new big banks join IBM, UBS to build Batavia blockchain and streamline trade finance
Computing giant IBM Corp. yet again expanded its reach into finance blockchain technology today with the announcement that the company’s trade finance platform collaboration with UBS AG has been joined by Bank of Montreal, CaixaBank S.A., Commerzbank AG and Erste Group Bank AG. With the use of distributed ledger technology, the platform, named Batavia, is designed ...
Dragonchain, creator of blockchain developed at Disney, launches initial coin offering
To celebrate the one-year anniversary of its software going open-source, Dragonchain Inc., a blockchain platform originally developed at the Walt Disney Co., today announced its initial coin offering. According to Dragonchain, the coin offering will involve a crowdsale of currency tokens, called “Dragons,” running from Oct. 2 to Nov. 2. The tokens sold in the ...
A virtual ‘Fantastic Voyage’: Sharecare’s 3-D human body software You is ‘all about you’
Austin-based digital health company Sharecare Inc. announced today that it is launching its virtual reality software platform dubbed You, providing a way for healthcare providers, educators, students and patients to see their own bodies in a way they never have before. The software platform uses a medically accurate simulation of organ and system functions, as well as diseases ...
Now called Bread, Breadwallet releases a revamped bitcoin wallet app
Switzerland-based bitcoin wallet app developer Breadwallet announced Tuesday that the company has rebranded itself as simply “Bread” as part of a revamp of its iOS application. The revamp brings to market an app built from the ground up, a new user interface, enhanced security and increased privacy protection for users. Bread is a bitcoin wallet ...
Google Daydream users may now surf the entire web in virtual reality
With its most recent release, Google Inc.’s flagship browser Chrome on Android will now allow users who have the Google Daydream virtual reality headset to experience the entire web in three dimensions. The release of Chrome 61, updated on Friday, includes the WebVR platform that can now conveniently bring the web to life in full-blown ...
Mobile augmented reality startup Mira raises $1M for cheaper headsets
Los Angeles-based mobile augmented reality headset developer Mira Labs Inc. announced Wednesday that it has raised $1 million in a seed funding round to pave the way for its Prism AR product. This funding round, led by Greylock Partners, Founders Fund Angel and Macro Ventures, brings Mira’s total funding raised to date to $2.5 million. The ...
Pimax’s 8K VR headset shoots past crowdfunding goal to $680K in 24 hours
Shanghai-based Pimax Technology Co. Ltd. announced the launch of its new high-resolution virtual reality headset Tuesday with the unveiling of a Kickstarter project asking for $200,000. Less than 24 hours later, the project has been fully funded, tripling its original ask to over $680,000 from 1,063 backers. The Pimax 8K headset is designed to greatly ...
IBM open-sources WebSphere Liberty code for building Java cloud-native apps
IBM Corp. today announced the launch of the Open Liberty project, which will see the development process for its WebSphere Liberty Java application server become open-source. All further development of Liberty will be based on the Open Liberty codebase and like any other open-source project, it will accept contributions to the code from developers. “Today IBM ...
