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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Conductive fiber breakthrough has implications for human-sensing wearables

Clothing is an everyday thing to many people and has seen many technological innovations: elastic fabrics that stretch, thick fabrics that repel rain and cold, open fabrics that “breathe,” and now with the aid of weave that conduct electricity will come fabrics that can communicate. Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science ...

Bitcoin nodes mapper Bitnodes is now supported by 21, Inc.

Bitnodes, a website and data store designed to track the ebb and flow of full nodes in the Bitcoin network, is a project by Addy Yeow. Originally, the Bitnodes service was supported by the Bitcoin Foundation, an organization looking to promote and standardize Bitcoin use; but as of October 4, 2015 that appears to have ...

Destiny players soon to meet microtransactions, says Bungie

Players of Bungie, Inc.’s overwhelming hit space shooter video game Destiny on Xbox and PlayStation are about to see the return of a character named Tess Everis on October 13. Tess will be bringing with her a new store that contains items that can be bought for real money with a new in-game currency called “silver.” This ...

Rogue Wave acquires Zend to boost enterprise web development

Earlier this week, Rogue Wave Software, Inc. announced the company’s acquisition of Zend Technologies Ltd., the industry leader in end-to-end PHP web and mobile application development and deployment solutions. Approximately 50 percent of web workload runs on PHP, including popular content management systems (CMS), such as WordPress and Drupal, which puts Rogue Wave in a ...

AWS training from Amazon makes developers first priority | #reinvent

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) exists in a marketplace filled with competitors such as Google, Microsoft, IBM and many others. AWS was also cited by the Gartner Magic Quadrant report for 2015 as being much larger than its 14 leading competitors combined—about 10 times bigger. This means that AWS has a gigantic reach and popularity ...

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 October 7: Winklevoss twins launch Gemini, Coin Fire burns Cryptsy, U.S. Marshals final Silk Road auction

In many ways it’s been a thankfully dry week for big Bitcoin news, but this is also an industry that never sleeps. The technology is evolving and the companies that work in the Bitcoin space continue to build market and interest. First up, the Gemini bitcoin exchange, brainchild of the Winklevoss twins, launches this week ...

Microsoft HoloLens is on tour: How to get your own personal demo

The future of augmented reality (AR) is almost here now that Microsoft has announced the 2016 Q1 release for the developer kit for the company’s HoloLens technology. When it was initially revealed in January of this year, the HoloLens showed huge promise, and with each new stage demonstration it has continued to live up to a ...

Fuse UX tools bridge the divide between mobile developers and designers

After a full year in beta, Fuse (Fusetools AS) is now announcing the release of its user experience design (UX) tool suite for developers and designers to rapidly create beautiful mobile apps. The tool suite provides a markup language and unique visual tools to bridge the gap between designer and developer while also delivering powerful ...

Daimler self-driving semi truck makes first test trek on German autobahn

Self-driving cars have grown leaps and bounds in capability as well as in size. This is the case of German auto-giant Daimler AG recently tested a standard Mercedes-Benz Actros truck fitted with the ‘Highway Pilot’ system by letting it loose on the autobahn, the famous highway-system in Germany. The system uses a combination of radar, ...

Patreon hacked: User names, email and mailing addresses compromised

Go-to site for people to support their favorite artists and Internet personalities Patreon, Inc. announced late last night that the website’s database had been compromised. According to a security advisory released at the time, the information accessed included “registered names, email addresses, posts, and some shipping addresses,” additionally some billing addresses added prior to 2014 ...