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Waves Enterprise blockchain unveils major updates and hundreds of smart contracts per minute
Fast-transaction blockchain distributed ledger provider Waves Enterprise, an extension of Waves Platform AG technology, Thursday announced major upgrades to its network that adds significant improvements, putting it into the same class as the corporate blockchain Hyberledger Fabric. Waves Enterprise, now in full Version 1.0, offers what the company says a powerful universal blockchain solution aimed ...
Ubisoft joins Ultra’s blockchain testnet as an infrastructure partner and block producer
Next-generation games distribution platform Ultra announced today that Ubisoft Inc., the big developer, publisher and distributor of video games, will become the first major gaming company to join its blockchain distributed ledger. Ubisoft it doing so as a corporate block producer during a trial period on Ultra’s testnet. Block producers provide infrastructure for validating transactions that happen ...
Affordable radar imaging startup Vayyar Imaging raises $109M
Tel Aviv-based Vayyar Imaging announced today that the company has raised $109 million in a late-stage round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies. Vayyar is a company that creates advanced, specialized sensors that use radio frequency imaging to “see” things that optical sensors (such as cameras) cannot detect. This technology allows Vayyar sensors to see through ...
Lenovo ThinkStations get enterprise VR certification for Varjo headsets
Varjo Technologies Oy, a maker of industrial-grade virtual reality headsets, today announced a partnership with Lenovo Group Ltd., a major manufacturer of enterprise workstations that will certify personal computers made by the company for all Varjo head-mounted displays. Varjo announced the partnership at AutoDesk University Las Vegas 2019, a computer-aided design conference. It will create ...
Nvidia unleashes an Azure cloud supercomputer, Magnum IO and Arm server architecture
Graphics processor chipmaker Nvidia Corp. today announced three supercomputer innovations aimed at expanding its designs to power artificial intelligence workloads in many more data centers. In particular, Nvidia introduced an Arm-based server architecture reference, a scalable Microsoft Azure cloud-accessible supercomputer and the Magnum IO software suite for data scientists and AI. Nvidia’s graphics processing units have become ...
Walmart Canada and DLT Labs launch industrial freight and payments blockchain
Walmart Canada, the Canadian division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and data management platform DLT Labs Inc. announced today the launch of a full-service enterprise production distributed ledger blockchain solution for industrial applications such as freight and payments. The new system will use distributed ledger technology to track deliveries, verify transactions and automate payments along Walmart ...
At Universe, GitHub rolls out Actions, Packages and more open-source goodies
GitHub Inc., an open-source repository for managing and hosting code acquired last year by Microsoft Corp., today opened its annual GitHub Universe conference in San Francisco with a raft of improvements and new features for its service. Announcements include the general availability of GitHub Actions and Packages, the launch of GitHub for mobile, a redesigned ...
NexTech rolls out major upgrade to its BetterRealityAR augmented reality tool
NexTech AR Solutions Inc., an industry leader in augmented reality, announced today the release of major upgrades to its BetterRealityAR tool that will vastly improve the visual fidelity and customization of AR creations. The BetterRealityAR tool provides a building solution for AR on the web, without the need for a downloaded client or mobile app. ...
UPS and HerdX team up on blockchain-tracked beef delivery from US to Japan
Package delivery company United Parcel Service Inc. today announced a partnership with HerdX Inc., agritech data company and distributed ledger blockchain platform, to track beef shipments from the U.S. to Japan. With support from the United States Embassy in Japan, executives from the two companies ate dinner last Friday at Ruby Jack’s, a steakhouse in ...
Blockchain-based streaming platform DLive partners with gaming rewards outfit
In an effort to reach out to more video game streamers, DLive, a livestreaming platform that uses distributed ledger blockchain-based technology, has partnered with tokenized gaming rewards outfit Refereum. As part of the partnership announced Thursday, videogame players and enthusiasts will be rewarded for livestreaming games and watching streams on DLive through Refereum’s token system. “Refereum ...