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Atlassian debuts Forge, an enterprise-ready cloud app development platform
Software development and collaboration tool maker Atlassian Corp. Plc today introduced a new way to build cloud apps for the company’s ecosystem known as Forge. Forge is aimed at making it easy for developers to build enterprise-ready cloud-based apps rapidly that integrate with Atlassian’s products. The platform is composed of three different components designed around ...
Scope AR acquires augmented reality toolset company WakingApp
Enterprise-class augmented reality platform developer Scope AR announced today the acquisition of WakingApp Ltd., an AR technology company based in Tel Aviv that creates AR tools and experiences for businesses. Scope AR will retain six of WakingApp’s founding members and intends to integrate the resources and expertise of the company to build the next generation ...
Bank of Lithuania plans to release blockchain-based collectible coins
The Bank of Lithuania today announced its intent to release blockchain-based collectors coins. The virtual coins will be dedicated to the Feb. 16, 1918 Act of Independence of Lithuania and its 20 signatories and the coins will be issued next spring. As the country’s central bank, the Bank of Lithuania is tasked with issuing the ...
Microsoft announces Azure Blockchain Tokens and enterprise data management
Microsoft’s distributed ledger blockchain services built on its Azure cloud offering are getting some new features, the software giant announced Friday, with the unveiling of Azure Blockchain Tokens preview, an enterprise-scale blockchain data manager and a development kit for Ethereum. The company’s Azure-based blockchain-as-a-service offering, Azure Blockchain Service, launched in 2015 and since then has ...
With Hanabi-playing bot, Facebook AI reaches a milestone in cooperative AI
Facebook AI, the social media giant’s artificial intelligence research division, announced today that it has met a milestone in the creation of a bot that can play Hanabi, a cooperative card game involving imperfect information, with near-perfect results. This milestone is important because games such as Hanabi represent real-world situations where an AI must participate ...
Blockchain-based lending startup Figure secures $103M in new funding
Figure Technology Inc., a lending startup that wields the power of distributed ledger blockchain technology to transform the lending and borrowing process, announced Thursday it has closed a $103 million funding round led by Morgan Creek Digital. The Series C funding round brings the total raised by Figure to more than $225 million and pushes ...
JetBrains launches collaborative tool Space for DevOps teams into early access
The company behind Kotlin, a preferred language for Android, announced today the early-access availability of Space, a DevOps collaboration tool that combines communication, team and project management into a single environment. JetBrains announced the launch of Space at KotlinConf 2019, a conference that focuses on the company’s programming language. Space is an integrated team environment ...
DevOps platform CircleCI integrates with AWS Serverless Application Model
CircleCI, a so-called DevOps platform for software innovation, announced today at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas the release of a variety of software integration “orbs” for AWS that provide simple, out-of-the-box solutions for building and testing code. A CircleCI orb is a sharable package of configuration elements, including jobs, commands and executors designed to ...
Softbank issues debit cards with connected blockchain wallet
Tokyo-based Softbank Group Corp. announced over the weekend that it has released an ultra-thin blockchain-enabled wallet card, the SBC Wallet Card, designed to improve on shortcomings of traditional cards. The SBC Card uses its own encryption system, implements multiple encryption mechanisms, can act as a hot and cold wallet and displays information on a card-thin ...
Blockchain platform ArcBlock upgrades identity services with new ABT Wallet
ArcBlock Inc., a distributed ledger blockchain platform for production-ready applications and enterprise environments, announced today the release of a new version of its decentralized identity wallet. The ABT Wallet version 2.0 will deliver a new decentralized wallet that allows users to take control of their daily lives and provide provably identity services they can control. It ...