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Tunisian olive oil producer Cho looks to IBM Food Trust blockchain for food transparency
Cho Group, one of the biggest olive oil producers in the southern Mediterranean, and IBM Corp. today announced that Cho will use the IBM Food Trust Network, a distributed ledger blockchain technology, to provide traceability for extra virgin olive oil shipments. Cho, the largest exporter of branded olive oil in Tunisia, will use IBM’s blockchain ...
Mastercard brings card benefits to life with a new augmented reality experience
Credit card giant Mastercard Inc. today unveiled its newest augmented reality experience app that lets its cardholders view, explore and access the benefits they receive from using their credit card. Upon launching the app, card users can scan their card with a mobile device and enter a 360-degree virtual environment. Once activated, a series of ...
Resonai and CJ 4DPLEX join to push the envelope for augmented reality entertainment
Cinema entertainment technology company CJ 4DPLEX announced today a partnership with Resonai Inc., the creators of the Vera platform, which uses artificial intelligence and augmented reality to convert physical spaces into intelligent digital environments. The collaboration between these two companies will be demonstrated using the Vera platform this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in ...
Baidu launches ‘Xuperchain’ blockchain beta for distributed app deployment
Chinese internet company Baidu Inc. announced today the launch of the public beta for its “Xuperchain” open distributed ledger blockchain project. The company announced the public beta during an online press conference, which mentioned that the infrastructure is now live for testing and is generally available as a beta product. Until March, new users can ...
Google restores MetaMask cryptocurrency wallet to Android store after one-week ban
Google LLC has restored MetaMask, an Ethereum cryptoasset wallet, to the Android Google Play Store after a one-week ban that began Dec. 26. The company behind MetaMask tweeted on New Year’s Day that Google had reviewed its position on the Ethereum wallet app and restored its access on the app store. “Happy New Year!” the ...
Payment firm JCB partners with Keychain for blockchain business funds processing
Japanese business to business payments processor JCB Co., Ltd. announced Friday a partnership with Singapore-based Keychain, a distributed ledger blockchain technology provider, to build out a payment processing network. JCB intends to use Keychain’s technology to increase security and suitability for payments made over its network. With blockchain technology, JCB’s payments system will gain increased ...
Hackers steal $480,000 in NULS tokens from blockchain platform
The distributed ledger blockchain platform Nuls announced Sunday in a tweet that thieves have stolen about $480,000 worth of NULS tokens in a hack. The platform’s operators detected 2 million NULS transferred and 548,354 tokens, worth approximately $132,000, have already been posted to trading markets and traded away. In order to combat the theft, the ...
VR glove maker HaptX raises $12M and announces partnership with Advanced Input Systems
Provider of realistic haptic technology for virtual reality controls HaptX Inc. announced today it has closed a funding round for $12 million from existing investors NetEase and Amit Kapur of Dawn Patrol Ventures. The company also announced a partnership with human-machine interface specialists Advanced Input Systems. Funding from the Series A round will be used to ...
Enterprise blockchain Alchemy raises $15M and launches its platform worldwide
Alchemy, a San Francisco-based enterprise-grade distributed ledger blockchain company, announced today the worldwide debut of its infrastructure platform and the closure of a $15 million funding round including investors from Pantera Capital, Stanford University and Coinbase Inc. Founded in 2017 by Joe Lau and Nikil Viswanathan (pictured), Alchemy has grown to be a global blockchain ...
TCS announces Quartz low-code enterprise blockchain development kit
Multinational information technology services company Tata Consultancy Services today launched a blockchain development kit, called Quartz DevKit, designed to take the complexity out of launching and operating distributed ledger business applications. The DevKit, for the company’s Quartz blockchain, delivers an intuitive, low-code development kit that will allow business and enterprise users to quickly build and ...