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Walmart puts shrimp exports from India on the blockchain for food safety
End-to-end traceability is coming to seafood exports from India with help from a distributed ledger blockchain project announced today by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The project is intended to bring transparency and efficiency to shrimp shipments from the state of Andhra Pradesh and shipped to select Sam’s Club locations in the United States. Food safety and ethical sourcing ...
Scalable blockchain Skale Network announces $17.1M funding round
Skale Network, the highly scalable, elastic network of distributed ledger blockchains, announced today that parent company Skale Labs Inc. has raised $17.1 million in funding to prepare for the official launch of its service. “[Blockchain] networks need global distribution of ownership in order to provide a strong, secure, decentralized foundation to the network,” said Jack O’Holleran, ...
Communications network Beowulf brings phone calls to the blockchain
Beowulf PTE LLC, a fully decentralized cloud communications network using distributed ledger blockchain technology for companies and consumers, announced today the official launch of its service. That service will make available a comprehensive suite of tools that provide access to high-quality communication capabilities, including voice, video and messaging. Using blockchain technology, Beowulf is designed to ...
Oculus Quest headset gets big updates and Facebook tips new VR world Horizon
The boundaries of virtual reality continue to push ahead with announcements today from Oculus, the VR developer and subsidiary of Facebook Inc., during the Oculus Connect 6 conference. The news includes numerous updates to the Oculus Quest wireless VR headset that greatly expand its capabilities, the upcoming Facebook Horizon social virtual world, Oculus TV for ...
Developer of ‘Gods Unchained’ blockchain card game raises $15M in funding
Immutable, a company formerly known as Fuel Games that makes games that use distributed ledger blockchain technology to create player-owned assets, announced today that it has raised $15 million in new funding. The company’s flagship game “Gods Unchained” launched a public beta in July features playable digital cards similar to the hit game “Hearthstone” published ...
Factom Protocol launches Factom Pro, a new secure enterprise data storage product
The Factom Protocol, a distributed product from distributed ledger technology developer Factom Inc., announced today that one of its operators, De Facto, has launched a new portal for the cloud. The product, Factom Pro, is a cloud-based portal designed to secure business data using the Factom blockchain, anchored to the bitcoin and Ethereum public blockchains, ...
ThirdEye launches X2 mixed reality smartglasses for industry workers
Enterprise mixed reality solutions company ThirdEye Gen Inc. announced today the launch of its newest headset product the X2 Glasses. The X2 is an all-in-one hardware and software solution using mixed reality to provide workers from numerous industries the ability to “see” more with the addition of contextual overlays. With its AR solution, ThirdEye intends to ...
With new Anthos features, Google aims to simplify hybrid cloud services
Google LLC today announced updates to its hybrid cloud management platform Anthos to bring more enterprise-ready capabilities aimed at enhancing security for microservices and governing workloads across the cloud. The tech giant launched Anthos as a rebranding of its Cloud Services Platform in April. The platform is described as a modern application management environment designed to ...
Warner Music joins $11M round in CryptoKitties creator for new blockchain tech
Music and media giant Warner Music Group reportedly joined in an $11.2 million investment in Dapper Labs, the creator behind the virally popular distributed ledger blockchain game CryptoKitties. According to a report from Forbes today, the funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and joined by Digital Currency Group, Union Square Ventures, Venrock and others. ...
Energy Web Foundation joins Thailand power companies on renewables blockchain
Thailand-based multinational energy conglomerate PTT Plc. and global energy blockchain nonprofit Energy Web Foundation announced today the development of a new renewable energy trading platform based on blockchain distributed ledger technology. According to PTT, there is a strong corporate demand by companies in Thailand, Japan and other southeast Asian countries. The demand is for renewable ...