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.

Latest from Kyt Dotson

At I/O, Google debuts Android 12 beta with new design, Wear OS and more

APPS By KYT DOTSON5 YEARS AGO

Android 12, the Google LLC mobile operating system now used in some 3 billion active devices worldwide, today debuted in beta test mode with a new design, developer tools and updates to the Android-based WearOS software for wearable devices. The updates came …

Animoca Brands raises $88M to allow in-game item ownership with NFTs

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON5 YEARS AGO

Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands, a company that seeks to deliver digital property rights to gamers via nonfungible tokens, today announced it raised $88 million in capital on a valuation of $1 billion. The company has brought together a number of NFT-based and …

Niantic expands its AR tools and developer platform with Lightship

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON5 YEARS AGO

Niantic Inc., the developer of the augmented reality game “Pokemon GO,” announced Tuesday that it’s renaming the Niantic Real World Platform to Niantic Lightship and opening access to the platform with a private beta that includes an Augmented Reality Developer Kit. The ARDK …

DrFirst raises $50M to enhance its telehealth and recordkeeping capabilities

APPS By KYT DOTSON5 YEARS AGO

Health technology company DrFirst today announced the company has raised $50 million in equity investment from Sixth Street Growth, the growth investing platform of Sixth Street. This follows a previous $35 million investment from Sixth Street and an additional $50 million from …

ServiceNow to acquire DevOps observability platform Lightstep

APPS By KYT DOTSON5 YEARS AGO

ServiceNow Inc. today announced plans to acquire LightStep, a DevOps observability platform Lightstep Inc. to expand its monitoring capabilities for cloud-native applications. ServiceNow is a workflow automation platform for optimizing productivity for information technology and operations, with the addition of LightStep, DevOps …

Crowdsourced expert NFT appraisal outfit Upshot raises $7.5M

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON5 YEARS AGO

Upshot, a distributed ledger blockchain protocol that pays experts to give opinions on nonfungible token appraisals, today announced that the company has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding to expand its operations. This round was co-led by Framework Ventures, CoinFund, Blockchain …

LogDNA adds browser logging for DevOps teams for web app debugging

APPS By KYT DOTSON5 YEARS AGO

LogDNA, a log management solution for DevOps teams, today extended its browser logging capability, which will give developers visibility into the front end and thus more easily debug web apps. The new feature, called Browser Logger, is generally available within its platform …

Red Hat unveils Developer Sandbox for OpenShift to power Kubernetes app development

APPS By KYT DOTSON5 YEARS AGO

Red Hat Inc., provider of open-source solutions, today announced the launch of Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift, an OpenShift-based development environment that will give organizations the ability to prototype Kubernetes-based applications rapidly. The OpenShift sandbox is a private environment in a …

Digital avatar startup Genies raises $65M from Bond, Dapper Labs and Coinbase

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON5 YEARS AGO

A startup that lets people bring their own virtual selves to life, Genies Inc., today announced $65 million in funding to expand its virtual identity marketplace and digital swag. With this new capital, Genies seeks to build out its avatar technology and …

Cotton Trust Protocol adopts TextileGenesis blockchain for sustainable cotton farming

BLOCKCHAIN By KYT DOTSON5 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol, a new sustainability program for robust farm-level data for cotton metrics, today announced a partnership with the distributed ledger blockchain TextileGenesis platform to help track and trace cotton supply chains. The Trust Protocol recognizes the need for …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

At I/O, Google debuts Android 12 beta with new design, Wear OS and more

Animoca Brands raises $88M to allow in-game item ownership with NFTs

Niantic expands its AR tools and developer platform with Lightship

DrFirst raises $50M to enhance its telehealth and recordkeeping capabilities

ServiceNow to acquire DevOps observability platform Lightstep

Crowdsourced expert NFT appraisal outfit Upshot raises $7.5M

LogDNA adds browser logging for DevOps teams for web app debugging

Red Hat unveils Developer Sandbox for OpenShift to power Kubernetes app development

Digital avatar startup Genies raises $65M from Bond, Dapper Labs and Coinbase

Cotton Trust Protocol adopts TextileGenesis blockchain for sustainable cotton farming

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