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Augumenta launches mixed reality gesture recognition toolkit for HoloLens
Augmented reality development tool builder Augumenta Ltd. today announced the release of Infinite Touch, a toolkit for developers to enable 3-D gesture interaction for Microsoft HoloLens and Android smartglasses. One of the most powerful use cases for AR is the ability to add virtual objects the to the real world by overlaying them in a ...
With Autopilot, Twilio ups the ante on chatbot AI for customer service
From customer service bots to Amazon.com Inc.’s Alexa, machine learning algorithms spend a lot of time holding conversations with people, and developers need powerful tools to build apps that run on those systems. Communications platform Twilio Inc. today announced one such tool: Autopilot, which it calls the first fully programmable conversational artificial intelligence platform for building ...
GitHub debuts new developer tools for security and collaboration
As the curtains rose at the GitHub Universe developer conference today in San Francisco, open-source code repository GitHub announced an array of new products designed to embrace collective work by developers and enhance security. Newly added by the company, GitHub Actions and GitHub Connect will affect developer workflows with code execution on the platform and ...
Outline VPN: making it safer for reporters to work on the open internet
Alphabet Inc.’s Jigsaw, a privacy-centric technology incubator started by Google LLC, has stepped up with a new platform named Outline designed to help protect journalists, and information sharing organizations, on the open internet by delivering a way for them to communicate securely. Initially launched in March, Outline is an independently audited open source product that ...
With Filament Blocklet Kit, enterprises can roll their own IoT blockchain solutions
Rapidly launching enterprise blockchain platforms for “internet of things” networks just got easier with the release of Filament’s Blocklet Kit distributed ledger technology starter kit. Announced Tuesday, the Blocklet Kit is an end-to-end solution starter kit designed to provide corporations everything needed to build a proof-of-concept blockchain network easily. The kit includes hardware, software and ...
IBM Food Trust commercial blockchain launch links food safety from farm to dinner table
After 18 months of testing, IBM Corp. today announced the commercial availability of its food safety blockchain-based platform, IBM Food Trust, designed for global use by farms, distributors and retailers. The system uses distributed ledger blockchain technology to track food throughout the entire supply chain by tagging each actionable event that happens to an auditable ...
Overstock.com’s Medici Ventures invests in VinX blockchain wine market and supply chain
Medici Ventures, a subsidiary of Overstock.com Inc., today announced a strategic investment in VinX, an Israel-based wine futures market and supply chain security company developing distributed ledger blockchain technology to reduce fraud and increase efficiency for wineries. The VinX platform would create a token-based system using blockchain technology using the Bordeaux futures model — a ...
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Hyperledger partner up to bolster blockchain standards
The Ethereum Enterprise Alliance and Hyperledger announced Monday that the two organizations have partnered up to collaborate on open standards across the distributed ledger blockchain industry. By formally joining each other’s organizations as associate members, both organizations will be able to share information, interconnect membership, form cross-community events and collaborate on open standards. The EEA ...
Hackers exploit Facebook security flaw, affecting 50 million users
The engineering team at Facebook Inc. has discovered and fixed a security issue affecting almost 50 million users that exploited a vulnerability in the social media site’s “View As” feature. “Our investigation is still in its early stages,” Guy Rosen, vice president of product management at Facebook, said in a public announcement today. “But it’s clear ...
Facebook reveals Oculus Quest VR headset coming in spring 2019 for $399
Facebook Inc. today fleshed out the final piece of its first-generation series of virtual reality headsets by announcing a new device called the Oculus Quest. At Facebook’s Oculus Connect 5 conference in San Jose, California, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg (pictured) revealed the all-in-one headset, which has has a powerful processor, a lightweight form factor and the ability to ...