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Hershey joins AdLedger for chocolatey blockchain advertising campaigns
The Hershey Company, popular producer of chocolate bars and treats in America, announced Tuesday the company has joined AdLedger, a blockchain-based advertising consortium to put the technology to use. Media outlet AdWeek reported that this partnership would affect more than just advertising, since Hershey intends to use distributed ledger blockchain technology to increase the efficiency ...
HTC teams up with Qualcomm to optimize future mobile VR devices
HTC Corp.’s Vive division today announced that the company will start using Qualcomm Technologies Inc.’s Snapdragon chipset reference for its mobile and standalone virtual reality devices. The partnership will see Qualcomm’s technology integrated into Vive XR all-in-one standalone VR devices and 5G smartphone as part of the Vive Wave platform specification. HTC Vive will create ...
Dragonchain and M2030 partner to eradicate malaria with the blockchain
Dragonchain Inc., a blockchain technology platform incubated at Walt Disney Co., and the humanitarian anti-malaria organization M2030 announced Wednesday a partnership dedicated to fighting malaria in the Asia-Pacific region. M2030 is a Singapore-based humanitarian organization that brings together corporate interests and health organizations under a brand aimed at consumer outreach about eliminating malaria. It connects consumers ...
Scope AR secures $9.7M to bring enterprise-ready augmented reality to workers
Enterprise-class augmented reality supplier Scope AR announced today the company has secured $9.7 million in an early-stage funding led by Romulus Capital. Scope AR delivers augmented reality solutions for businesses, including an entire AR platform that enables technicians and workers to receive remote assistance in the field from experts in offices. By using wearable AR ...
FBI crackdown reduced denial-of-service attack sizes by 85 percent
The Federal Bureau of Investigation shut down 15 of the largest distributed denial of service for hire websites in the world in December, leading to an 85 percent reduction in attack size worldwide. That’s according to today’s report from Nexusguard, a cybersecurity company that mitigates DDoS attacks. The FBI crackdown was announced Dec. 20 and led to ...
Cosmos Network launches network to create an ‘internet of blockchains’
Switzerland-based Interchain Foundation, a nonprofit group supporting research into secure and scalable open-source software, today announced the launch of the Cosmos Network. It’s a decentralized network of independent, scalable and interoperable blockchains designed to become the foundation of a new token economy. By design, the network allows multiple organizations to run their own blockchain systems, ...
FundamentalVR demonstrates touch-simulating gloves for virtual surgical training
Medical training company FundamentalVR Ltd. today announced a showcase of virtual reality gesture tracking and touch-simulating HaptX Gloves from AxonVR LLC as part of the company’s Fundamental Surgery platform. The gloves combine cutting-edge virtual reality technology — in order to immerse surgeons in a training scenario with lifelike simulations — with haptic technology, which provides a sense of touch and sensation. ...
Forte and Ripple launch $100M fund to spark blockchain games development
Forte Labs Inc., a provider of distributed ledger blockchain technology for the gaming industry, and Ripple Labs Inc., a cryptocurrency payments company, today announced the launch of a $100 million fund to support game developers. The fund will tie together Xpring, Ripple’s developer ecosystem, and build atop Forte’s blockchain platform using open-source developer solutions in ...
Blockmason and Magnachain team up to bring blockchain to gaming platforms
Blockmason, aeveloper of foundational distributed ledger blockchain technology, and distributed gaming application operator Magnachain announced Friday that they plan to develop blockchain-based gaming app systems. The two companies aim to combine efforts in order to create a more healthy gaming ecosystem for developers to build distributed gaming platforms. Blockmason Link is a blockchain infrastructure-as-a-service product that allows ...
Enterprise blockchain startup StrongBlock secures $4M in seed funding
StrongBlock, an enterprise distributed ledger blockchain software startup incubated by Magnetic Capital, announced Wednesday that the company has raised $4 million in seed funding led by Pangea Blockchain Fund. With this seed funding, the company intends to continue work on its enterprise-level blockchain technology designed to be a standard for distributed ledger technology for businesses, ...
