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

Japanese researchers have made almost-touchable holograms

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Researchers and engineers at University of Tokyo’s Department of Complexity Science and Engineering have produced a prototype that uses holographic imaging and touch feedback to produce “touchable” holograms. The system is called Haptoclone and allows people to interact over a distance by sending 3D …

Last Minute Bitcoin Enthusiast Christmas Gift Guide for 2015

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

It may be a bit too late to get gifts quite in time for Christmas Day, but that doesn’t mean that people aren’t looking for a way to show their giving spirit. For anyone bitten by the bitcoin bug, or simply interested …

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 23: Linux Foundation and the blockchain fintech revolution, BTCS $1.45m round, Factom and Microsoft Azure, MIT Enigma beta

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

The end of the year is coming up fast for the Bitcoin community and blockchain technology dominates the news. Financial technology, or fintech, is fertile territory for an innovation such as Bitcoin or the infrastructure that powers it to disrupt–both as money …

Amazon.com brings Christmas spirit with festive shipment tracking bars

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

It’s the Christmas season and everyone is getting into the spirit including Amazon.com, Inc. which has brought the holiday spirit even to its shipment tracking user interface. Starting recently, users who want to check where their package is will see an animated …

Twitter suspends account of mayhem crew Phantom Squad after Xbox Live outage

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Last year during Christmas Day the infamous Lizard Squad attacked and knocked Xbox Live and PlayStation Network offline. This year a threat from a copycat group calling itself “Phantom Squad” appeared on Twitter (Twitter, Inc.) alongside a promise to repeat last year’s …

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 16: Microsoft Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service, SWIFT and blockchain technology, GASH Point bitcoin payments and more

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Technologies related to the blockchain, the distributed-ledger technology that underlies Bitcoin infrastructure, has seen a great deal of attention the past year and many more ventures involved continue to appear. This week, Microsoft’s Azure cloud service is adding several more partners to …

A tiny island off the coast of Portugal just became the first country with Bitcoin as its official currency

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Pontinha, a tiny micronation island off the coast of Portugal, just became the first country in the world to officially adopt Bitcoin as its national currency. Prime Minister Joby Weeks announced Bitcoin as the nation’s official money earlier this week as the …

MIT researchers develop Vuvuzela privacy network to guarantee untraceable communication

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Researchers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a prototype privacy network to rival Tor, an anonymizing network that uses special routing to protect privacy, and named it after one of the most annoying musical instruments in …

Unknown attackers strike DNS root name servers with massive DDoS

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

On November 30 and December 1, 2015 unknown attackers unleashed two massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against many of the 13 DNS root name servers in what looked like an attempt to knock them offline. The reasons for this attack …

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 9: Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto? At least Wired and Gizmodo think so

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

This week has seen a great deal going on in the Bitcoin community; however, what’s really dominating the news is yesterday’s investigative revelations by Wired and Gizmodo that out Craig Steven Wright as potentially (in part) Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin. The Bitcoin …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Japanese researchers have made almost-touchable holograms

Last Minute Bitcoin Enthusiast Christmas Gift Guide for 2015

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 23: Linux Foundation and the blockchain fintech revolution, BTCS $1.45m round, Factom and Microsoft Azure, MIT Enigma beta

Amazon.com brings Christmas spirit with festive shipment tracking bars

Twitter suspends account of mayhem crew Phantom Squad after Xbox Live outage

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 16: Microsoft Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service, SWIFT and blockchain technology, GASH Point bitcoin payments and more

A tiny island off the coast of Portugal just became the first country with Bitcoin as its official currency

MIT researchers develop Vuvuzela privacy network to guarantee untraceable communication

Unknown attackers strike DNS root name servers with massive DDoS

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 9: Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto? At least Wired and Gizmodo think so

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