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Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

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TikTok owner ByteDance acquires VR headset maker Pico

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON5 YEARS AGO

ByteDance Ltd., the owner of short video sharing apps TikTok and Douyin, confirmed Sunday that it acquired the virtual reality headset maker Pico Interactive Inc. “Pico’s comprehensive suite of software and hardware technologies, as well as the talent and deep expertise of …

Firemaps raises $5.5M to protect California homes against wildfires

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON5 YEARS AGO

San Francisco-based startup Firemaps Inc. today announced the availability of its tech-driven solution to protect California homes against wildfires. To facilitate the launch, Firemaps raised $5.5 million in seed investment led by Andrew Chen, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Uber Technologies Inc. …

Bitcoin tech firm Blockstream raises $210M at $3B valuation

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON5 YEARS AGO

Blockstream Corporation Inc. said today it has closed a $210 million funding round that values the Canadian bitcoin infrastructure outfit at $3.2 billion. The Series B round was led by U.K.-based investment management company Baillie Gifford and Hong Kong-based iFinex Inc., the parent …

Fetch.ai launches platform for AI-generated collaborative NFT art

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON5 YEARS AGO

The Cambridge-based artificial intelligence lab Fetch.ai today announced the launch of its new AI-controlled nonfungible token art generation platform. Colearn NFT Art will allow users collectively to create and own NFT artwork generated by training a machine learning algorithm. More than 100 artists …

PayPal expands its cryptocurrency service to the UK

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON5 YEARS AGO

PayPal Holdings Inc. announced today the launch of a new service that will allow customers in the United Kingdom the ability to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency within its app. According to the company, the new service will roll out this week …

Visa buys CryptoPunk NFT art for $150,000

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON5 YEARS AGO

Visa Inc. announced today that it spent $150,000 to purchase a piece of artwork represented by a nonfungible token named CryptoPunk 7610. The announcement was made by Cuy Sheffield, head of crypto at Visa, in a blog post who spoke to the …

Facebook announces ‘Horizon Workrooms’ VR remote work app

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON5 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. today announced the launch of the beta test of Horizon Workrooms, a virtual reality remote collaboration app that works on the company’s Oculus Quest 2 headset by providing virtual meeting rooms. Workrooms comes at a time when more teams are …

MobileCoin snags $66M for privacy-focused payments

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON5 YEARS AGO

MobileCoin Inc., a privacy-oriented cryptocurrency payments company focused on mobile devices, said today it has raised $66 million in funding to develop its payment system. Numerous investors joined the Series B round including Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research, Berggruen Holdings, BlockTower Capital, General …

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