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ServiceNow to acquire DevOps observability platform Lightstep
ServiceNow Inc. today announced plans to acquire LightStep, a DevOps observability platform Lightstep Inc. to expand its monitoring capabilities for cloud-native applications. ServiceNow is a workflow automation platform for optimizing productivity for information technology and operations, with the addition of LightStep, DevOps engineers will gain deep systematic observability capabilities to detect problems before they affect ...
Crowdsourced expert NFT appraisal outfit Upshot raises $7.5M
Upshot, a distributed ledger blockchain protocol that pays experts to give opinions on nonfungible token appraisals, today announced that the company has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding to expand its operations. This round was co-led by Framework Ventures, CoinFund, Blockchain Capital and others. The rise of NFTs, which exist as cryptographic tokens on ...
LogDNA adds browser logging for DevOps teams for web app debugging
LogDNA, a log management solution for DevOps teams, today extended its browser logging capability, which will give developers visibility into the front end and thus more easily debug web apps. The new feature, called Browser Logger, is generally available within its platform with web app integration. As more and more applications run on web clients ...
Red Hat unveils Developer Sandbox for OpenShift to power Kubernetes app development
Red Hat Inc., provider of open-source solutions, today announced the launch of Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift, an OpenShift-based development environment that will give organizations the ability to prototype Kubernetes-based applications rapidly. The OpenShift sandbox is a private environment in a shared, multitenant cluster already configured with a set of developer tools, so that ...
Digital avatar startup Genies raises $65M from Bond, Dapper Labs and Coinbase
A startup that lets people bring their own virtual selves to life, Genies Inc., today announced $65 million in funding to expand its virtual identity marketplace and digital swag. With this new capital, Genies seeks to build out its avatar technology and hook into the wave of interest in non-fungible tokens. NFTs allow people to ...
Cotton Trust Protocol adopts TextileGenesis blockchain for sustainable cotton farming
The U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol, a new sustainability program for robust farm-level data for cotton metrics, today announced a partnership with the distributed ledger blockchain TextileGenesis platform to help track and trace cotton supply chains. The Trust Protocol recognizes the need for increased transparency in supply chains as industry regulators peer further into farming practices ...
Google Cloud and 2K introduce ‘Open Saves’ open-source storage for game developers
Google Cloud, in partnership with American game publisher 2K, today announced the development of an open-source, cloud-native storage interface called “Open Saves” for video game developers. Video games, whether single-player or multiplayer, create immersive and persistent experiences and must track numerous variables and items in order to provide the best possible entertainment. In role-playing games, game ...
Google expands its Android-based earthquake alerts outside the US
Google LLC today announced it’s expanding its Android Earthquake Alerts System that uses mobile phones to both detect earthquakes and warn users to countries that don’t have early-warning alert systems. The system is currently being introduced in Greece and New Zealand, where Android users will receive automatic early-warning alerts when an earthquake is detected in their ...
JetBrains announces TeamCity Cloud, a managed CI/CD solution for DevOps teams
JetBrains s.r.o., a developer of extended integrated development environments for many programming languages, today announced the launch of TeamCity Cloud, a software-as-a-service product aimed at helping DevOps teams streamline continuous integration and continuous delivery for software development. TeamCity Cloud helps DevOps teams during the build, test and deployment phases of software by making it easier ...
AWS open-sources DeepRacer machine learning software to let developers tinker at home
Amazon Web Services Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., today announced it’s open-sourcing the device driver software at the heart of its AWS DeepRacer robots, its 1/18th-scale autonomous racing vehicles designed to demonstrate machine learning technology. AWS DeepRacer provides a fast way to learn about machine learning programming by putting it into practical terms using ...