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Payment firm JCB partners with Keychain for blockchain business funds processing
Japanese business to business payments processor JCB Co., Ltd. announced Friday a partnership with Singapore-based Keychain, a distributed ledger blockchain technology provider, to build out a payment processing network. JCB intends to use Keychain’s technology to increase security and suitability for payments made over its network. With blockchain technology, JCB’s payments system will gain increased ...
Hackers steal $480,000 in NULS tokens from blockchain platform
The distributed ledger blockchain platform Nuls announced Sunday in a tweet that thieves have stolen about $480,000 worth of NULS tokens in a hack. The platform’s operators detected 2 million NULS transferred and 548,354 tokens, worth approximately $132,000, have already been posted to trading markets and traded away. In order to combat the theft, the ...
VR glove maker HaptX raises $12M and announces partnership with Advanced Input Systems
Provider of realistic haptic technology for virtual reality controls HaptX Inc. announced today it has closed a funding round for $12 million from existing investors NetEase and Amit Kapur of Dawn Patrol Ventures. The company also announced a partnership with human-machine interface specialists Advanced Input Systems. Funding from the Series A round will be used to ...
Enterprise blockchain Alchemy raises $15M and launches its platform worldwide
Alchemy, a San Francisco-based enterprise-grade distributed ledger blockchain company, announced today the worldwide debut of its infrastructure platform and the closure of a $15 million funding round including investors from Pantera Capital, Stanford University and Coinbase Inc. Founded in 2017 by Joe Lau and Nikil Viswanathan (pictured), Alchemy has grown to be a global blockchain ...
TCS announces Quartz low-code enterprise blockchain development kit
Multinational information technology services company Tata Consultancy Services today launched a blockchain development kit, called Quartz DevKit, designed to take the complexity out of launching and operating distributed ledger business applications. The DevKit, for the company’s Quartz blockchain, delivers an intuitive, low-code development kit that will allow business and enterprise users to quickly build and ...
Atlassian debuts Forge, an enterprise-ready cloud app development platform
Software development and collaboration tool maker Atlassian Corp. Plc today introduced a new way to build cloud apps for the company’s ecosystem known as Forge. Forge is aimed at making it easy for developers to build enterprise-ready cloud-based apps rapidly that integrate with Atlassian’s products. The platform is composed of three different components designed around ...
Scope AR acquires augmented reality toolset company WakingApp
Enterprise-class augmented reality platform developer Scope AR announced today the acquisition of WakingApp Ltd., an AR technology company based in Tel Aviv that creates AR tools and experiences for businesses. Scope AR will retain six of WakingApp’s founding members and intends to integrate the resources and expertise of the company to build the next generation ...
Bank of Lithuania plans to release blockchain-based collectible coins
The Bank of Lithuania today announced its intent to release blockchain-based collectors coins. The virtual coins will be dedicated to the Feb. 16, 1918 Act of Independence of Lithuania and its 20 signatories and the coins will be issued next spring. As the country’s central bank, the Bank of Lithuania is tasked with issuing the ...
Microsoft announces Azure Blockchain Tokens and enterprise data management
Microsoft’s distributed ledger blockchain services built on its Azure cloud offering are getting some new features, the software giant announced Friday, with the unveiling of Azure Blockchain Tokens preview, an enterprise-scale blockchain data manager and a development kit for Ethereum. The company’s Azure-based blockchain-as-a-service offering, Azure Blockchain Service, launched in 2015 and since then has ...
With Hanabi-playing bot, Facebook AI reaches a milestone in cooperative AI
Facebook AI, the social media giant’s artificial intelligence research division, announced today that it has met a milestone in the creation of a bot that can play Hanabi, a cooperative card game involving imperfect information, with near-perfect results. This milestone is important because games such as Hanabi represent real-world situations where an AI must participate ...