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Technology startup highlights from Blockchain Conference SF 2016 | #BlockchainSF
The Blockchain Conference in San Francisco brought out a few interesting technology companies to speak about the next generation of blockchain technology applications. Keep reading to see what the CEO of stealth startup Hellosent thinks about Internet of Things and smart contracts; what CyGuard, Inc.’s founder and CEO says about accountability in advertising and Vechains ...
Estonia partners with Guardtime to secure 1 million health records with blockchain technology
Blockchain-based security and infrastructure company Guardtime AS announced a partnership today with the government of Estonia and the Estonian e-Health Foundation to accelerate the development of blockchain-based technology for security, transparency and auditability. The company hopes to bring its Keyless Signature Infrastructure (KSI) technology to all levels of Estonian government in cooperation with the Estonian ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 March 2: OpenBazaar opens on testnet, Coinbase debit card buys, Bitcoin network DoS, Japanese BTC tax-exemption debate
This week the distributed peer-to-peer marketplace project OpenBazaar opened up on the Bitcoin testnet so that the system can be alpha tested for bugs. Bitcoin wallet company Coinbase, Inc. has begun to offer debit card instant purchase of bitcoins to U.S.-based users. Japan is currently debating how to treat virtual currencies, such as bitcoin, and ...
Rejoice Raspberry Pi users: the new Pi 3 is 64-bit with on-board Wi-Fi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation just announced the release of the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, a tiny open source hardware platform for Internet of Things applications, which comes with 802.11n wireless LAN and Bluetooth 4.1. The Pi 3 also boasts a powerful 1.2 Ghz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU (clocking in at approximately 10x the ...
Blockstack makes DNS more secure by building on top of the blockchain
A new blockchain-based domain name service (DNS) system has been proposed by Blockstack that would use the Bitcoin blockchain in order to register and cryptographically protect domain names with a decentralized ledger. As a decentralized blockchain, Blockstack promises to be more secure than the centralized traditional DNS system, allow private administration of domain names, provide ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 February 24: Butterfly Labs FTC slap on the wrist, Ledger segwit approval, Bitcoin Core 0.12
After really messing up the lives of potential customers and finally losing a fraud case to the United States Federal Trade Commission, Butterfly Labs receives a “slap on the wrist” of pennies on the dollar fines compared to the original settlement. Talk of segregated witness has reached the ears of Ledger hardware wallet, one part ...
IBM brings the power of cloud and AI-as-a-Service via Watson to Sword Art Online VRMMO
IBM Japan announced a new massively multiplayer online (MMO) game virtual reality project called Sword Art Online: The Beginning that will make use of IBM’s cognitive computing artificial intelligence Watson and the company’s high-function cloud service SoftLayer. In an almost science fiction move, the company is putting together two of the most powerful systems on ...
Facebook wants to be the moon landing of virtual reality social media
A new era of computing awaits in 2016 with virtual reality (VR) technology finally coming to the hands of consumers. With its acquisition of Oculus VR in 2014, Facebook, Inc. looked at VR and saw a chance to become part of a technology that would change the face of social media, much like the space ...
Yahoo embraces DevOps mobile analytics with update to Mobile Developer Suite
Personalized web portal giant Yahoo! Inc. announced an update to its mobile DevOps library, the Yahoo Mobile Developer Suite, at its San Francisco Mobile Developer Conference. The developer suite includes an all new Flurry, a data analysis platform, tvOS analytics support and a dashboard for direct ad control. Data analysis from apps running in the ...
Nvidia sets sights on PC gaming, VR, deep learning and self-driving cars after record year
Gaming and industrial graphics card chipmaker Nvidia Corporation has seen a record year—with 2016 fiscal revenue $5.01 billion, up 7 percent from $4.68 billion from last year. Quarterly earnings reported by Nvidia for Q4 2016 revenue hit $1.40 billion, up 12 percent from $1.25 billion in Q4 2015. “We had another record quarter, capping a ...
