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Quartz’s iPhone news app gets augmented reality treatment with ARKit
News readers who use Quartz Media LLC’s iPhone app can now experience the news in full, live 3-D right from their phones with an augmented reality update. With this addition, some Quartz news stories will include illustrative 3-D objects with news stories. The app is available for iOS 11 devices and is currently rolling out to ...
Company and regulators form Token Alliance to tame the blockchain ICO industry
The Chamber of Digital Commerce, a blockchain advocacy group, announced today the formation of the Token Alliance, an industry-led initiative to promote and shape the responsible growth of token and digital asset sales. The focus of the new alliance is to bring a measure of responsibility to token crowdsales and initial coin offerings that have become ...
SETL launches blockchain platform for European fund record-keeping
A pan-European fund record-keeping platform launched today, courtesy of London-based blockchain settlement system developer SETL Development Ltd. With the platform, named IZNES, firms will be able to enter new relationships with investors, manage the Know Your Customer processes required by financial regulatory bodies, handle subscriptions and redemptions, settle transactions and manage assets. It represents a collaboration between SETL ...
Atlassian introduces Identity Manager for its cloud team management products
Team productivity management software company Atlassian Inc. said today that over 75 percent of new customers start with a cloud deployment. Seeking to better accommodate these customers, Atlassian today unveiled an identity management system focused on bringing enterprise security and scale to these cloud applications. The Atlassian service for the cloud is called Identity Manager for ...
Atlassian rolls out updates for Jira, which now can run on Microsoft Azure cloud
Team management software company Atlassian Inc. today announced updates to its flagship enterprise workforce product Jira Software that open up infrastructure and collaboration opportunities for software development teams. Jira acts as a connector for bug tracking, issue tracking and project management. It is used across the industry to connect development, production and information technology teams across ...
With $2.5 million round, Genvid seeks to make live streaming more interactive
Game technology solutions provider Genvid Technologies Inc. today announced an additional $2.5 million in financing alongside the general release of its software development kit and enhanced live-streaming interactivity platform. The company said it has already integrated with the popular first-person shooter game “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive” and works with Twitch and YouTube. For most live-streamed content ...
Animated GIFs will soon invade augmented reality, thanks to new Tenor software
A big development for the wild world of animated graphics is coming to augmented reality from Tenor, the massive search site for Graphics Interchange Format images and developer of the Tenor GIF keyboard. Those amazing moving pictures everyone loves (or hates) on social media will soon escape the web and leap into “reality,” as the company ...
EY and Guardtime team up to launch marine shipping insurance blockchain
Insurance and assurance advisory service Ernst & Young Global Ltd. and Guardtime AS announced today the world’s first platform for marine insurance. The platform, which will use distributed ledger technology to make it easy to transition to a fully paperless and secure system, was built in collaboration with Microsoft Corp., major multinational shipping company A.P. Møller-Maersk ...
Samsung and South Korean hospitals team up on VR to curb rising suicides
Hoping initially to reduce South Korea’s rising suicide rate, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Gangnam Severance Hospital in South Korea and virtual reality content maker FNI Co. Ltd. joined forces today to develop VR tools to diagnose and treat mental illness. The broader goal is to use health data and principals developed by Gangnam Severance to ...
Illinois looks to blockchain to streamline the birth certificate process
One important function of any government is keeping track of citizens, specifically making certain people can prove they are whom they say they are. Eyeing a new solution for this, the Illinois Blockchain Initiative, a consortium of state and county agencies working with financial blockchain technology focused groups, announced Thursday a birth registration digitization project ...
