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Malware, bitcoin and phishing: US indicts 12 Russian spies in 2016 election hack
Updated: A U.S. grand jury today returned indictments against 12 officers in the Russian military accusing them of accessing information stolen from the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2016. The indictments are part of the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into alleged interference by Russia in the 2016 presidential election. The ...
BrickHeadz AR: Lego brings bricks and toy figures into augmented reality app
Legos, the resolutely physical set of toys that have remained popular for decades, are moving further into the digital world. Owners of Android phones with the most recent version of Google LLC’s ARCore can now download a new augmented reality app launched today by Lego Group. The magic of AR is that it turns smartphones ...
R3’s Corda Enterprise launches with first-ever ‘blockchain firewall’ for business
Blockchain development consortium and software provider R3CEV LLC Tuesday announced the launch of the commercial version of its open-source distributed ledger platform Corda for enterprise customers. Corda Enterprise builds on R3’s existing blockchain platform, based on the same technology that underlies global digital currencies such as bitcoin. It can act as a tamperproof, privacy-focused distributed database for large-scale ...
Open Mineral and ConsenSys seek to put the blockchain in the mineral supply chain
Open Mineral, an online metal and mineral exchange based in Switzerland, announced today the company’s upcoming launch of a distributed ledger blockchain platform to serve a consortium of mining companies and financial institutions. The platform, dubbed Minerac, will be established in partnership with U.S.-based startup ConsenSys Inc., which provides a decentralized information service based on the ...
Gamania announces virtual item blockchain system for game publishers in Taiwan
Taiwanese multiplatform gaming entertainment publisher Gamania Group announced today at the 2018 Asia Blockchain Summit its roadmap to build and grow a distributed ledger blockchain system for virtual items. Video game publishers have sought to monetize games by selling virtual items to consumers and allow players to trade items in their games. Securities market trader Deutsche Börse Group ...
Coinbase launches cryptocurrency cold-storage and custodial service for businesses
Coinbase Inc., the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S., announced today the launch of its cold-storage and custodial service for digital currencies aimed at allowing institutional investors greater opportunity to enter the market safely. This service, to be provided through Coinbase subsidiary Coinbase Custody, already accepted its first deposit last week. Cryptocurrency will be kept by ...
High Fidelity raises $35M to develop blockchain economies for VR marketplaces
Looking to continue to push the envelope of virtual reality social platforms, High Fidelity Inc. announced today it has raised $35 million in a late-stage funding to continue developing its global infrastructure. The open-source distributed VR platform received $20 million from digital ledger blockchain technology investment firm Galaxy Digital Ventures and from additional new investors including ...
Twilio reaches out to developers and consultants with Build partner program
Cloud communications platform provider Twilio Inc. announced today that the company is getting down in the trenches with developers through the launch of Twilio Build, a partner program for certification, training and market support aimed at developer success. Ron Huddleston, chief partner officer at Twilio, called Build a developer-first approach that focuses on application programming ...
Theta Labs launches beta blockchain video delivery network and $2M development fund
Distributed media network startup Theta Labs Inc., the developer of the first video delivery network powered by distributed ledger blockchain technology, today announced the launch of a public testnet beta that will introduce its distributed streaming protocol. Alongside the release of this public testnet, Theta will also launch a $2 million distributed app development fund ...
Ernst & Young and Microsoft build blockchain to power Xbox royalty payments
The world of royalty remittance and digital rights contracts is fraught with accounting errors, inefficiency and complex contracts. To solve this problem, software giant Microsoft Corp. and assurance advisory company Ernst & Young Global Ltd. have partnered up to develop distributed ledger blockchain technology to streamline royalty payments among game publishers, developers and others. In ...