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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 ...
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 ...