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Industrial VR technology startup Varjo secures $54M in new funding round
Varjo Technologies Oy, an industrial-grade virtual reality and mixed reality hardware and software developer, today announced that the company has secured $54 million in new funding. The Series C round has been joined by new investors that include Tesi, NordicNinja and Swisscanto Invest by Zürcher Kantonalbank alongside existing investors from Lifeline Ventures, Atomico, EQT Ventures ...
CircleCI expands continuous integration capabilities for Salesforce developers
Circle Internet Services Inc., a DevOps platform provider for continuous integration and delivery, today announced new and updated Salesforce.com Inc. integrations that will make it much easier for DevOps teams to build and support Salesforce apps. The two newly announced updates include a new version of CircleCI’s Salesforce Apex orb, that will allow Apex developers ...
Blue River harnesses AI to help farmers combat invasive weeds
Blue River Technology, a subsidiary of farming equipment maker John Deere, has started putting deep machine learning and to use for farmers to help make their lives easier with smart machines. Farmers use Blue River’s tools to control weeds and reduce costs with an intelligent sprayer that can “see” weeds and differentiate them from crop ...
Scope AR partners with ServiceMax to bring enhanced visual knowledge to technicians
Scope AR, an enterprise-grade augmented reality solution provider, today announced a partnership with ServiceMax Inc., a leader in asset-centric field service management, that will provide a large-scale visual knowledge base for industrial workers in the field. With this partnership, users will now have access to detailed AR work instructions and real-time knowledge needed to do ...
Marinus Analytics turns to Amazon Neptune cloud graph database to fight human trafficking
Human trafficking is a widespread and devastating criminal enterprise that spans continents and crosses the world. Exact numbers of those affected and the organizations involved are difficult to come by, but the footprints of this activity can be seen online — and analyzing the patterns in that activity gives law enforcement agencies the tools they need ...
UK schools embrace VR to prepare children for class during pandemic
A school district in the United Kingdom is embracing virtual reality technology to provide virtual tours of its classrooms and video introductions to bridge gaps in the face of the current COVID-19 pandemic. In a report covered today by The Eastern Daily Press, the Norwich Opportunity Area in conjunction with Norfolk Early Years Service in ...
Cargo blockchain platform updates unleash collectible virtual assets for digital artists
Cargo, a secure platform for creating and deploying digital assets using distributed ledger blockchain technology, today announced the release of numerous updates to its all-in-one platform for managing digital collectibles. Using Cargo’s infrastructure and code, artists and businesses can now fully manage and govern the creation of assets related to their work. Using a blockchain ...
DAML distributed app coding language launches on Corda blockchain
Digital finance technology company IntellectEU Inc. today announced that the DAML programming language for distributed applications has been launched for R3’s enterprise-grade distributed ledger blockchain technology Corda. DAML, which stands for Digital Asset Modeling Language, is a programming language created by Digital Asset Holdings LLC to provide a way for developers to create distributed applications, ...
With $9M in seed funding, StuffThatWorks launches AI-enabled crowdsourced healthcare platform
StuffThatWorks, which harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to crowdsource data on health-related issues, today announced it’s launching its platform after raising $9 million in seed funding. When it comes to chronic conditions, many people find themselves dissatisfied with the slow process of medical science because it often requires lengthy test series and long visits with ...
Dragonchain spins off ‘Factor’ decentralized identity services with MyFii for healthcare, fintech
Dragonchain Inc., the blockchain distributed ledger incubated by a Walt Disney Co. team, today announced that the company is spinning off its decentralized identity technology Dragon Factor to a new entity, MyFii. MyFii will launch an improved version of Factor that uses blockchain-based technology to provide secure and decentralized identity services for enterprise, healthcare, financial technology ...