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Clothing brand Alyx turns to Iota’s blockchain to track garment authenticity
Clothing designer Matthew William’s luxury fashion brand Alyx announced today that it will use Iota Foundation’s blockchain distributed ledger technology to track the production of clothing from raw materials to the final product. The system, which will be used to instill consumer trust, combines the efforts of materials science company Avery Dennison and supply chain ...
DigiLens secures $50M in funding on the path to cheap augmented reality
DigiLens Inc., maker of holographic waveguide technology for augmented reality devices, today announced it has raised $50 million in a new funding round. Smart glasses and other augmented reality devices use transparent displays so that users can look through them — for example the lenses of glasses or the windshield of a car — and ...
Nike uses augmented reality to get people into better-fitting shoes
Years of experimenting with augmented reality has paid off for footwear maker Nike Inc. with the company’s release of Nike Fit, an AR app that helps customers make sure they get properly sized shoes. Announced today by the athletic-shoe maker, Nike Fit is a special measuring solution built directly into the company’s mobile app that ...
Facebook lifts ban on cryptocurrency and blockchain ads
Facebook Inc. today said it’s relaxing restrictions on advertisements for cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies on its platform. The ban first arose in January 2018 when the social network giant rolled out a blanket restriction on all ads featuring cryptocurrencies or initial coin offerings, a method of crowdfunding new projects and startups by selling blockchain-based tokens. The reason ...
Symantec: NSA hacking tools fell into the hands of Chinese spies
Cybersecurity firm Symantec Corp. revealed Monday that cyberwarfare hacking tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency have been repurposed and used by Chinese intelligence agents. In the field of cybersecurity, as with any other data- and information-related industry, tools can be stolen and reverse-engineered. In the case of the NSA’s hacking tools, Symantec announced ...
Singapore to issue diplomas based on blockchain
Starting this year, students from 18 educational institutions in Singapore will receive digital ledger blockchain-based verifiable certificates, Education Minister Ong Ye Kung announced today. The initiative is part of a nationwide government-level project called OpenCerts, a jointly developed blockchain project by SkillsFuture Singapore, the Government Technology Agency, the Ministry of Education and Ngee Ann Polytechnic. ...
Qtum launches blockchain smart contract developer tools with Google Cloud
Qtum Chain Foundation, a secure, open-source smart contract platform built on blockchain distributed ledger technology, today announced a partnership with Google LLC that will bring the company’s developer tools to Google Cloud. By way of the partnership, free-to-use tools will enable developers and nontechnical users to design and deploy nodes on the Qtum blockchain as well ...
Splunk brings augmented reality into the server room
Real-time data monitoring analysis and DevOps tools company Splunk Inc. today announced the release of its Splunk Connected Experiences and Splunk Business Flow products that will allow customers to access data and information from mobile devices. Aside from making the dashboard and access to insights more available on mobile, Splunk is reaching into augmented reality, ...
Hyundai taps the blockchain to track used cars, with help from Blocko
Automotive manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group’s internet and communications technology division Hyundai AutoEver announced a partnership with blockchain distributed ledger platform provider Blocko Inc. on Wednesday to design a system to track used cars. Together, the two companies will build the infrastructure and service with the intention of tracking information involved in the resale of used ...
Volkswagen uses Minespider blockchain to track raw materials for batteries
Worldwide car maker Volkswagen Group today announced a partnership with Minespider GmbH, a provider of distributed ledger blockchain technology for tracking ethical sourcing for raw materials, to track the production of its automotive batteries. Using blockchain technology, it’s possible to tag and track every step along a supply chain from when a mineral is dug out ...