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The University of Glasgow and Everledger use blockchain to fight counterfeit Scotch whiskies
The University of Glasgow joined forces today with distributed ledger blockchain solutions company Everledger Ltd. to produce tamper-resistant bottle tags to track rare Scottish whiskies. The Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre today announced that the Glasgow institution that researchers will use provenance techniques during the distillation and bottling processes to provide producers, retailers, auction houses and ...
MIT and Penn State join forces with AWS to help classify images of flood disaster zones
Researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and students at the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology have been working on artificial intelligence computer models that uses disaster scene images to inform responders about flooding. For humans, this process is relatively easy, but when a dataset is made up of more than 100,000 areal images ...
Vuzix and Topcon bring augmented reality to construction sites across Europe
Vuzix Corp., supplier of smart glasses and augmented reality technology, today announced a development for construction processes across Europe that’s compatible with Topcon Positioning Group’s Magnet software suite, which provides hands-free usage for onsite workers. Using AR smart glasses, construction workers and contractors can more readily access and identify positioning data with greater accuracy without ...
Grōv and AWS collaborate on vertical farming to grow animal feed
Grōv Technologies, the maker of a method for growing plants indoors in controlled conditions called Olympus Tower Farm, announced today a collaboration with Amazon Web Services Inc. to bring cloud-based machine learning to its operating system to streamline its processes. Using AWS and machine learning, Olympus Tower’s operating system, known as Sowyer, will ensure the ...
Spatial launches augmented reality workspaces app for mobile
Spatial Systems Inc., a holographic collaboration platform for augmented reality and virtual reality, today announced a native AR app for iOS and Android that runs on almost any current generation of mobile device. During the COVID-19 pandemic, interest in Spatial’s platform has exploded as an alternative to tools such as Zoom, with usage up over ...
EProvenance launches VinAssure blockchain-powered wine tracking supply chain
IBM Corp. and eProvenance, a company that monitors wine shipment conditions, announced Thursday the launch of VinAssure, a new distributed ledger blockchain-powered platform that will offer a highly secured way to track wine as it moves from vineyard to wineglass. IBM and eProvenance hope to change the way that wine producers, distributors, companies and retailers ...
JetBrains launches ‘Space,’ a collaboration platform for developers, designers and others
JetBrains, a company that makes software designed for project management and integrated development environments for various programming languages, today announced the public launch of Space, an all-in-one collaboration platform for creative teams. These creative teams could include developers, marketing, design, human resource, legal teams and others who do any sort of work that requires multimedia ...
AWS announces Amazon Forecast Weather Index to provide 14-day predictions
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the release of the Amazon Forecast Weather Index, which will help developers increase predictive accuracy of machine learning models by including local weather information into demand forecasts for retailers and service providers at no extra cost. Weather conditions can affect many industries, especially consumer buying patterns, such as product ...
CircleCI unveils self-hosted Server 3.0 and integrations with AWS and HashiCorp
CircleCI Inc., a software deployment and integration platform for DevOps, the practice of combining development and operations, today announced new updates to its server self-hosting option for new users. The company also debuted partner integrations, bringing on board Amazon Web Services Inc. and HashiCorp, among others. “The idea of automation, of being able to move quickly ...
GitHub reveals new features, Sponsors for companies, auto-merge and more
GitHub Inc., a provider of hosting for software development code version control, today announced a number of new features and products at its virtual developer conference GitHub Universe 2020. The first addition to the lineup is Sponsors for Companies, which extends the ability to sponsor open-source projects from individuals – who could support open-source developers ...