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.

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With $2M funding, inCitu aims to democratize city planning using augmented reality

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

New York City-based inCitu said Tuesday that it has raised $2 million in funding to bring future city developments to life via augmented reality so citizens can visualize what will happen to their neighborhoods and participate more fully in city planning. The …

Sam Bankman-Fried speaks out about FTX’s dramatic collapse in internal employee letter

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder and former chief executive of FTX Trading Ltd., apologized to the employees in an internal letter this week explaining why the cryptocurrency exchange failed under his command. According to the letter, Bankman-Fried said that he “froze up …

Magic Eden NFT marketplace integrates Polygon to tap into blockchain gaming

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Magic Eden, a cross-chain nonfungible token marketplace, today announced that it plans to expand to integrate the Polygon blockchain to allow its market to work more closely with gaming partners and creators that use the network. Polygon is a scaling solution for the …

Carv raises $4M to build Web3 decentralized identity for gaming

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Los Angeles-based startup Carv said today it has raised $4 million in seed funding to build decentralized identity solutions for gaming applications that allow users to move freely between applications and games. The funding round was led by Singaporean-based venture capital firm …

Amazon plans to shut down Wickr’s free encrypted messaging app

APPS By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc. announced Friday that it plans to shut down Wickr Me, its free encrypted messaging app, on Dec. 31, 2023, and the service will end registrations for new users by the end of 2022. Amazon bought Wickr in June …

Crypto markets fall as FTX hacker begins to move ill-gotten coins

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency markets dropped today to one-week lows after the hacker who is believed to have drained the accounts of the recently bankrupted crypto exchange FTX Trading Ltd. began trading their ether currency for bitcoin. Over the weekend, the hacker …

FBI reports Hive ransomware has extorted $100M from 1,300+ businesses

SECURITY By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

A joint report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released Thursday revealed that the Hive ransomware gang extorted more than 1,300 businesses for over $100 million in payments since June 2021. In addition to ransoming …

Productivity web browser startup SigmaOS raises $4M

APPS By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

U.K.-based startup SigmaOS Inc. announced Wednesday that it has raised $4 million in seed funding led by Localglobe to help people become more productive with a web browser designed specifically for focusing on work and productivity. Investors from Y Combinator, 7percent Ventures, …

New FTX CEO calls lack of corporate controls ‘unprecedented’ in bankruptcy filing

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

In a new filing with a Delaware bankruptcy court, newly appointed FTX Chief Executive John J. Ray III said that never in his 40-year legal career of restructuring experience has he seen such large corporate failure as what happened to the cryptocurrency …

Qualcomm announces Snapdragon AR2 chipset to power next-gen augmented reality

APPS By KYT DOTSON4 YEARS AGO

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. today unveiled a new chipset platform for augmented reality glasses, the Snapdragon AR2 Gen 1 Platform, to power the next generation of wearables and make them lighter and lower-power. The chipmaker revealed the new platform during this year’s Snapdragon …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

With $2M funding, inCitu aims to democratize city planning using augmented reality

Sam Bankman-Fried speaks out about FTX’s dramatic collapse in internal employee letter

Magic Eden NFT marketplace integrates Polygon to tap into blockchain gaming

Carv raises $4M to build Web3 decentralized identity for gaming

Amazon plans to shut down Wickr’s free encrypted messaging app

Crypto markets fall as FTX hacker begins to move ill-gotten coins

FBI reports Hive ransomware has extorted $100M from 1,300+ businesses

Productivity web browser startup SigmaOS raises $4M

New FTX CEO calls lack of corporate controls ‘unprecedented’ in bankruptcy filing

Qualcomm announces Snapdragon AR2 chipset to power next-gen augmented reality

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