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Switzerland’s government launches Hyperledger-based blockchain platform
Switzerland’s state-owned telecom and postal services, Swisscom AG and Swiss Post Ltd., today announced the launch of a government-run distributed-ledger blockchain platform with business ease-of-use in mind. The data on the blockchain system will remain entirely within Switzerland and the infrastructure is designed to meet the requirements of big banks and regulations for the finance ...
Aetna and Ascension join Synaptic Health Alliance blockchain pilot for healthcare provider data
Healthcare giants Aetna Inc., a subsidiary of CVS Health, and Ascension, the largest non-profit health system in the United States, announced Monday that both companies have joined a distributed ledger blockchain pilot program aimed at improving data quality for healthcare providers run by the Synaptic Health Alliance. By joining the pilot program, Aetna and Ascension ...
Firefox Reality VR browser update brings 360-degree video and bookmarks
A new version of Firefox Reality, Mozilla Corp.’s virtual reality web browser, now brings 360-degree video native support, bookmarks and seven new languages to the 3-D software, the company announced Thursday. Firefox Reality brought the web browser out of the land of 2-D and into virtual reality in April with its initial release. Since then, ...
Harbor launches $20M ‘tokenized’ investments in student residence
Asset tokenization solution provider Harbor Platform Inc. announced Tuesday the launch of its service that lets institutional businesses issue and manage their own securities based on real-world assets using distributed ledger blockchain technology. The process, called “tokenization” uses the blockchain to digitally track transfers, records and ownership of private securities – such as shares in ...
Securitize raises $12.7M to deliver regulatory compliance for blockchain securities
Securitize Inc., a compliance platform for digital securities using blockchain technology, today announced it has raised $12.75 million in new funding. Using digital ledger blockchain technology, it’s possible to ensure secure representation of securities, such as stocks and bonds, and tokens, including digital currencies such as bitcoin. As a result, companies looking to use blockchain ...
Chinese warehouse robotics automation outfit Geek+ rolls in $150M funding
You might not have heard of the warehouse logistics robotics company Beijing Geekplus Technology Co. Ltd., but investors have: Today the Chinese company announced it has closed on a $150 million funding round. Geek+, which produces robots that assist with warehouse logistics by providing smart, integrated systems that automate work, said it’s the largest Series ...
Humans.net launches blockchain-based freelance market
Peer-to-peer freelance network Humans Net Inc. today announced the global launch of its distributed ledger blockchain system that provides an immutable reputation-based scoring system for workers to promote themselves and find employers. The maker of Humans.net claims that the current state of online search engines is highly inefficient and that data monopolies allow these providers ...
Google introduces Squoosh for Chrome to help create faster web pages
Google Chrome Labs has released an open-source web-based image editing app with a silly name, Squoosh, but a very significant purpose: It shows off how images can load faster using Google’s WebP image container format. A lot faster, in fact: WebP can typically get up to 30 percent more compression than the popular JPEG image standard, ...
Sauce Labs unveils cloud-based scalable headless browser testing solution for web DevOps
Sauce Labs Inc., maker of automated continuous testing solutions for DevOps processes, today announced a cloud-based testing solution for web development the company calls an industry first. With the unveiling of Sauce Headless, DevOps and developer teams can introduce code for testing much earlier in the development cycle. That means that component code, such as for individual ...
Scientific collaboration blockchain Orvium brings health academic publisher on board
Decentralized scientific publishing and collaboration platform Orvium OÜ announced a partnership today with leading health-science publisher Partners in Digital Health, the company behind peer-reviewed journals Blockchain in Healthcare Today and Telehealth and Medicine Today. The partnership between Orvium and Partners in Digital Health will make the Telehealth and Medicine Today journal the first journal to ...
