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Hadean raises $30M to build out metaverse infrastructure
Metaverse infrastructure and developer startup Hadean today announced that it has raised $30 million in new funding to bridge the gap between the physical and virtual worlds. The Series A round was led by Molten Ventures, with participation from 2050 Capital, Alumni Ventures, Aster Capital, Entrepreneur First and InQTel. Epic Games, the creator of the ...
Niantic brings its Lightship augmented reality mapping system to web browsers
Continuing its push to bring the metaverse into the real world and not just the virtual world, Niantic Inc., the company behind the popular augmented reality game “Pokemon Go,” today announced the launch of its Lightship AR mapping system for web browsers. This web-based AR is made possible with WebAR, a technology powered by 8th ...
Coinbase Cloud launches Node to streamline Web3 development
In a bid to make blockchain development easier, Coinbase Inc. announced Wednesday a new developer platform named Node that allows developers to launch and access blockchain nodes in order to build their own Web3 decentralized applications. Node acts as a self-serve product for developers to access blockchain infrastructural “nodes,” which are the distributed ledgers that store ...
Nvidia unveils second-gen OVX system to bring the industrial metaverse to life
Nvidia Corp. today announced the second generation of Nvidia OVX, its purpose-built data-center-scale computing system built on next-generation graphics processors and designed to power digital twin simulations for industrial metaverse applications. OVX was launched in March, as a computing system designed to power large-scale 3D virtual worlds and digital twins, which are high-fidelity virtual spaces ...
Nvidia launches Omniverse Cloud to support industrial metaverse ‘digital twins’
Nvidia Corp. is continuing to push the boundaries of the industrial metaverse, a virtual space parallel to the real one that simulates detailed physical assets in the virtual world, with its hyper-realistic physics simulation and collaboration product Omniverse. Today during the company’s virtual GTC 2022 conference for developers, Nvidia announced the launch of Omniverse Cloud, a ...
Cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute loses $160M in DeFi hack
The major cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute Trading Ltd. said today that its decentralized finance unit was hacked for approximately $160 million; its centralized trades and over-the-counter services remain unaffected. The company’s founder and Chief Executive Evgeny Gaevoy announced the hack on Twitter in a brief statement noting that the company is still solvent, with twice the ...
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 ...