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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 ...
AWS announces partnership with MGM to reinvent its media supply chain
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a multiyear collaboration with Metro Goldwyn Mayer, a media company best known for the production of movies and television programs, to reimagine its core digital distribution platform using the cloud. Founded in 1924, MGM has one of the world’s largest libraries of digital and physical film content. The company focuses on ...
Atlassian launches four DevOps features to raise visibility for enterprise developers
Atlassian, maker of the project automation software Jira, today announced four new features that will give enterprise DevOps teams greater visibility into development pipelines, shortening time from idea to production regardless of what tool they’re using. These new features will extend Atlassian’s flagship project Jira Software Cloud and will allow developers to visualize and measure ...
Capgemini enlists AI and AWS to identify and protect sperm whales
The professional outsourcing firm Capgemini SE has developed a solution designed to identify sperm whales accurately using computer vision using image processing and cloud computing to look at the animals’ tail fins or “flukes.” Whale flukes can be used to identify individual animals because the tails gain unique features over their lives – similar to human ...
Aspire launches ‘broadcasting on the blockchain’ for storing messages forever
Digital asset technology creator Aspire Technology today announced its own unique “broadcasting on the blockchain” feature that will allow its customers to generate and broadcast their own messages on its distributed ledger blockchain platform. These special messages will be permanently stored on its blockchain platform, pitched as a channel for brand marketing and declaring special ...