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Salesforce unveils Genie, a real-time data platform to power its apps
Salesforce Inc. today unveiled a new real-time data platform called Salesforce Genie that will power the company’s suite of customer relationship management products, allowing its customers to deliver highly personalized experiences across all channels from marketing, sales and commerce that can adapt to changing information rapidly. “This might be the most significant shift in our ...
Web3 developer tool provider Infura announces plans to launch decentralized protocol
Infura Inc., the provider of tools and application programming interfaces for connecting decentralized apps to Ethereum, said today it’s planning to launch a decentralized protocol to complement its existing product in order to provide better services for the peer-to-peer transactions of Web3 ecosystems. Infura was launched in 2016 with the goal of providing developers an ...
Uber investigates security breach of its internal systems
Uber Technologies Inc. says it’s investigating a “cybersecurity incident” after a hacker breached its internal systems and left messages with evidence that they had accessed critical information. “We are currently responding to a cybersecurity incident. We are in touch with law enforcement and will post additional updates here as they become available,” the Uber Communications ...
Walmart unveils AR experience using customers’ own bodies to model clothing
Walmart Inc. is expanding its lineup of digital tools for customers to see what clothing will look on them like before they buy them. Today, the retail giant unveiled a virtual try-on option called “Be Your Own Model” that uses augmented reality and artificial intelligence to give customers an ultra-realistic simulation of what clothing will ...
Ethereum completes ‘Merge’ upgrade, transforming the blockchain forever
The long-awaited Ethereum “Merge” update was completed just before midnight Wednesday and the blockchain has switched from its “proof-of-work” validation system to a “proof-of-stake” system under the hood. From the perspective of users and developers, the Merge changed absolutely nothing, but for current Ethereum miners, those creating new crypto tokens, millions of dollars’ worth of ...
Opera Crypto Browser integrates MetaMask in time for the Ethereum Merge
Opera Crypto Browser, the Web3-based web browser that supports decentralized blockchain applications, from Opera Software now supports the crypto wallet MetaMask, the company said Tuesday, ahead of the much-anticipated Ethereum Merge upgrade that’s expected to be completed tonight. Opera launched the Crypto Browser in January to give users easy, direct access to Web3 technologies such ...
Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon faces arrest in South Korea over Terra ecosystem collapse
A court in South Korea has issued an arrest warrant for Do Kwon, the founder of now collapsed stablecoin issuer Terraform Labs Pte. Ltd. who oversaw the spectacular implosion of the TerraUSD cryptocurrency in May, which led to multiple investigations. The Seoul-based court issued the warrant for Do Kwon and five others, Bloomberg reported today, according ...
Twitter shareholders vote for Elon Musk’s $44B buyout as whistleblower testifies
Twitter Inc.’s shareholders today voted to approve Elon Musk’s $44 billion buyout of the company and take it private. The vote comes after Musk has been seeking to drop the deal claiming that the company was in breach of the original agreement – primarily that Twitter had failed to disclose how many accounts were fake. ...
Linux Foundation announces OpenWallet Foundation for interoperable open-source digital wallets
The Linux Foundation today announced plans to form a new collaborative initiative called the OpenWallet Foundation to support the development of interoperable open-source digital wallets. The mission of OWF is to build an open-source engine on which anyone can build interoperable wallets with industry best practices for privacy and security baked in. It would become ...
Starbucks unveils Odyssey loyalty rewards program powered by NFTs
Coffee and muffins cafe and meetup spot giant Starbucks Corp. today unveiled details on its new upcoming rewards program Starbucks Odyssey powered by nonfungible tokens, which will offer loyalty rewards to customers through blockchain technology. The new setup uses the Web3 technology of NFTs, which are a type of crypto asset built on blockchains that ...