Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Autonomous drone startup Exyn raises $35M for mapping GPS-denied environments

AI By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Exyn Technologies, the developer of a robotic autonomy platform for multiple types of drones capable of navigating complex, hazardous and GPS-denied environments, said Friday it raised $35 million in early-stage funding to expand its operations. The Series B funding round was led …

How the industrial metaverse will transform manufacturing

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc. is one of the world’s largest makers of welding equipment, with more than 42 manufacturing locations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America — and its business depends on making sure enough welders are …

Crypto exchange Bullish and Far Peak scrap $9B SPAC deal

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

The cryptocurrency trading platform Bullish Ltd. and special-purpose acquisition company Far Peak Acquisition Corp. announced Thursday that the companies agreed to call off a planned merger deal that would have valued Bullish at $9 billion. The original merger agreement was inked in …

Kraken’s NFT marketplace beta is now open to the public

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken announced Thursday that it’s opening its nonfungible token marketplace beta to the public, allowing collectors to join, discover and securely trade digital crypto collectibles. “Since 2011, our mission has been to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrencies with a secure …

Alameda’s Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang plead guilty to fraud

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Former Alameda Research Chief Executive Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang have pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges, according to an announcement late Wednesday evening by Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney of the Southern District of New York. Ellison pleaded guilty …

Encrypted messaging tool Mask Network acquires Mastodon server Pawoo.net

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Mask Network, a privacy-based protocol that allows users to send encrypted messages and cryptocurrency across social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter, said today that it acquired Pawoo.net, a server on the decentralized social media platform Mastodon. As a social media …

Bitcoin miner Core Scientific files for bankruptcy

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Core Scientific Inc., one of the major bitcoin mining companies by mining power, today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Texas amid falling cryptocurrency markets and rising energy prices. Core Scientific is a cryptocurrency mining company that does “proof-of-work” computation mining …

Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal launches Web3 accelerator Beacon

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Sandeep Nailwal, the co-founder of Ethereum scaling solution Polygon, unveiled an accelerator called Beacon today built by a team of Web3 founders with the objective of bringing early-stage crypto projects online with mentoring and financing. The management team of Beacon includes Nailwal …

Bitcoin hardware wallet maker Foundation Devices raises $7M

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Foundation Devices Inc., the maker of bitcoin-centric tools including hardware and software wallets, said Monday that it has closed a $7 million seed round led by Polychain Capital to expand its product development. The round was joined by new investors including Greenfield Capital …

Revel NFT ‘social collectibles’ platform nabs $7.8M led by Dragonfly

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Crypto “social collectibles” startup Revel.xyz, said today that it has raised $7.8 million in seed funding led by Dragonfly Capital to expand its product offering that it describes as a cross between Instagram and Robinhood. Other investors joining the seed round included …

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