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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Cloud data platform Snowflake files confidentially for IPO

Cloud data platform Snowflake Inc. has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a report today by Bloomberg. Snowflake represents a new trend of cloud-native data storage as opposed to on-premises data centers. The company’s largest partner is Amazon Web Services Inc. and drives lots of Amazon Elastic ...

ANote Music to launch blockchain-based music royalty investment platform July 28

ANote Music, a European marketplace for investing in music royalties using blockchain distributed ledger technology, announced Thursday that it will officially launch its platform on July 28. The platform will allow users to invest in music, own rights from content creators and earn returns through royalties from music sales. Built using blockchain technology, ANote’s platform ...

Kvarøy Arctic joins IBM Food Trust blockchain to track Norwegian farmed salmon

Kvarøy Arctic, a major producer of Norwegian farmed salmon, today announced it will join the IBM Food Trust blockchain network to enhance the traceability of Arctic fish stock and increase consumer trust in its supply chain. Using distributed ledger blockchain technology, Kvarøy (pronounced “Kwa-ray”) and IBM Corp. will enable corporate buyers and customers a transparent view ...

Atlassian announces raft of new DevOps business automation features and integrations

Atlassian, maker of Jira and other project automation software, today announced the addition of 12 new features, automation resources and integrations designed to give DevOps teams an edge in their changing industry. DevOps teams rely heavily on cooperation, coordination and collaboration in order to connect development teams, deployment teams and information technology operations. To make ...

Varjo partnership with MeetinVR promises photorealistic immersive collaboration

Industrial-grade virtual reality and extended reality headset maker Varjo Technologies Oy announced Wednesday that a partnership with enterprise virtual collaboration software provider MeetinVR will bring photorealistic meeting technology to the workroom and boardroom. Through this partnership, MeetinVR will develop a dedicated version of its VR collaboration application designed to support Varjo’s enterprise-class headsets – the VR-2, VR-2 ...

Zappar launches Universal AR libraries to unite developers across platforms

Augmented reality platform and creative studio startup Zappar Ltd. today announced the release of Universal AR, a set of software development kits and application programming interfaces designed to allow developers to create compelling AR experiences for mobile app and web environments. Zappar AR provides a creative platform for developers to design, build and distribute AR ...

8th Wall brings augmented reality ‘face filters’ to the web with Face Effects

Augmented reality software company 8th Wall Inc. today announced the launch of Face Effects, a new developer-focused toolset aimed at allowing AR experiences that can be attached to faces.  This new addition to the platform will allow developers and brands the ability to create “face filters” that are interactive, real-time and can be triggered from ...

We.trade partners with IBM to expand its blockchain trade platform globally

Blockchain-based distributed ledger blockchain trade finance platform we.trade today announced it has inked a deal with IBM Corp. to join we.trade’s bank shareholders and enhance its service as part of an upcoming global expansion. The we.trade platform is one of the largest blockchain-enabled trade networks that connect businesses and banks in a way that’s designed ...

CloudBees extends its DevOps delivery management platform with Google Cloud Build and Tekton

Enterprise software delivery company CloudBees Inc. today announced it’s extending the integration of its software delivery management platform to include Google Cloud Build and Tekton. These updates will improve the lives of DevOps engineers seeking to build out their own continuous delivery and continuous integration or CI/CD lifecycles for software management with these popular platforms. Both ...

Claris launches FileMaker 19 to boost low-code development for business users

Claris International Inc. today announced the release of FileMaker 19, the newest version of the company’s flagship low-code development product for businesses. It represents the Apple Inc. subsidiary’s first open platform for developers, enabling the rapid production of custom apps using JavaScript integrations, drag-and-drop add-ons, machine learning via Apple’s Core ML and more. The features, the company ...