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Everledger teams up with JD.com and the GIA to grade and trace diamonds on the blockchain
China’s largest retailer JD.com Inc. and distributed ledger blockchain solutions company Everledger Ltd. today announced an inter-chain collaboration that will combine forces with the Gemological Institute of America to certify diamond authenticity and provide track and trace for online diamond purchases. The Everledger platform will synchronize GIA’s diamond grading information to JD’s Blockchain Anti-counterfeiting and ...
BurstIQ releases blockchain-enabled user interface toolset for JavaScript and Python
BurstIQ LLC, a provider of blockchain-enabled secure data exchange services, Thursday launched a user interface software developer kit for BurstChain, the company’s data exchange network. The UI SDK is filled with tools for developers to rapidly develop and deploy distributed ledger blockchain hooks for web applications and services using the BurstIQ platform. To make it as ...
Kadena open-sources Kuro private blockchain and scales up public blockchain
Kadena LLC, the first blockchain technology company to come out of J.P. Morgan’s Blockchain Center for Excellence, today open-sourced its private blockchain Kadena Kuro and upgraded its scalable public blockchain from 10 to 20 chains. Kadena’s Chainweb public protocol now enables its public blockchain to reach up to 480,000 transactions per second by working through ...
Infosys launches Cobalt cloud suite with enterprise security and integration
Indian digital services and consulting company Infosys Ltd. today announced the launch of Infosys Cobalt, a suite of services, platforms and solutions for the cloud that are designed to help enterprise business with cloud-powered transformation. The suite provides the tools needed for business users to adopt and adapt to cloud-first development and app delivery. The ...
Honeywell partners with iTRACE to embrace blockchain printed labels for supply chain management
Multinational technology conglomerate Honeywell International Inc. today announced that it has partnered with iTRACE Technologies Inc. to build a blockchain distributed ledger platform that will help with complex supply chain tracing, identity, verification and inventory management. With the assistance of iTRACE, a provider of supply chain security applications for anti-gray-market and anti-counterfeit efforts, Honeywell will integrate ...
RallyPoint teams with Amazon and Harvard to enable faster suicide intervention for veterans
RallyPoint, a professional social media network serving the U.S. military and its veterans, today announced a pilot program in collaboration with Amazon Web Services from Amazon.com Inc. and researchers at Harvard University’s Nock Lab to help veterans with issues of self-harm and suicide. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, an estimated 17 military ...
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 ...