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The software delivery platform startup Harness Inc. today announced it has acquired ChaosNative Inc. to extend its scalable chaos engineering capabilities for enterprise development and operations teams. Chaos engineering is the principle of approaching software production by building it to withstand unexpected or …
Nvidia scales out Omniverse ecosystem for designers to build digital twins
Omniverse, Nvidia Corp.’s hyper-realistic real-time 3D graphics collaboration platform, is getting a number of new improvements that will make it even more accessible to creators, developers and enterprise customers to create “digital twins,” or virtual models designed to simulate real-world objects accurately. …
Web3 gaming platform C2X raises $25M at $500M valuation
The blockchain gaming platform C2X operated by MetaMagnet Ltd. said today it has raised $25 million in new funding led by FTX Ventures, Jump Crypto and Animoca Brands. Funds were raised in a private token sale, which raised the valuation of the …
Android 13’s newest developer preview focuses on security and tools
Google LLC today released the second developer preview for Android 13, which follows up the first preview with more security and privacy features as well as more user experience and performance-enhancing tools. Today’s announcement of the Android 13 Developer Preview 2 also …
DeFi analytics firm Treehouse raises $18M to assist crypto investors
Treehouse Finance today announced that it has raised $18 million in seed funding to serve decentralized finance investors with its analytics platform by giving them meaningful insights into blockchain data. The company said the round was led by a large undisclosed financial …
Aptos raises $200M to bring the Diem blockchain back to life
Aptos Labs, a startup built by employees who developed the blockchain behind Meta Platform Inc.’s now-defunct payment system Diem, today said that it has raised $200 million in strategic funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Coinbase Ventures, FTX Ventures, Tiger Global, Multicoin Capital, …
Google Go 1.18 release adds dev tools and CPU performance
The Go programming language team at Google Cloud today released Go 1.18, which includes a massive number of performance improvements and features requested by developers. Go was publicly announced in 2009 by Google as a way to improve programming productivity for multicore, …
Niantic acquires web-based augmented reality platform 8th Wall
Niantic Inc., the developer of the popular augmented reality game “Pokemon Go” and the Lightship AR platform, today announced that it has acquired the web-based AR development platform 8th Wall Inc. Augmented reality uses the camera on a mobile device to create …
LimeWire will be resurrected as a music-focused NFT marketplace
The former peer-to-peer file-sharing network LimeWire is relaunching in May as a marketplace for music-related digital collectibles, the company announced Wednesday. The original LimeWire was shut down in 2010 during the heyday of file sharing and the company was one of those …
CircleCI acquires Ponicode to add AI-powered testing to its CI/CD roster
DevOps platform company Circle Internet Services Inc. today announced that it has acquired Ponicode SAS, a Paris-based artificial intelligence-driven testing platform, aiming to add its capabilities to its service so it can further reduce coding errors for developers. CircleCI provides a continuous …