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With $2.5 million round, Genvid seeks to make live streaming more interactive
Game technology solutions provider Genvid Technologies Inc. today announced an additional $2.5 million in financing alongside the general release of its software development kit and enhanced live-streaming interactivity platform. The company said it has already integrated with the popular first-person shooter game “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive” and works with Twitch and YouTube. For most live-streamed content ...
Animated GIFs will soon invade augmented reality, thanks to new Tenor software
A big development for the wild world of animated graphics is coming to augmented reality from Tenor, the massive search site for Graphics Interchange Format images and developer of the Tenor GIF keyboard. Those amazing moving pictures everyone loves (or hates) on social media will soon escape the web and leap into “reality,” as the company ...
EY and Guardtime team up to launch marine shipping insurance blockchain
Insurance and assurance advisory service Ernst & Young Global Ltd. and Guardtime AS announced today the world’s first platform for marine insurance. The platform, which will use distributed ledger technology to make it easy to transition to a fully paperless and secure system, was built in collaboration with Microsoft Corp., major multinational shipping company A.P. Møller-Maersk ...
Samsung and South Korean hospitals team up on VR to curb rising suicides
Hoping initially to reduce South Korea’s rising suicide rate, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Gangnam Severance Hospital in South Korea and virtual reality content maker FNI Co. Ltd. joined forces today to develop VR tools to diagnose and treat mental illness. The broader goal is to use health data and principals developed by Gangnam Severance to ...
Illinois looks to blockchain to streamline the birth certificate process
One important function of any government is keeping track of citizens, specifically making certain people can prove they are whom they say they are. Eyeing a new solution for this, the Illinois Blockchain Initiative, a consortium of state and county agencies working with financial blockchain technology focused groups, announced Thursday a birth registration digitization project ...
Marine Transport completes blockchain pilot to enhance shipping industry cybersecurity
Major shipping industry logistics company Marine Transport International USA LLC announced today the successful completion of its blockchain pilot program using its distributed ledger technology called Container Streams to enhance security and reduce costs. MTI executed the pilot program with the participation of Agility Sciences Ltd. The program was verified by computer scientists at the University ...
In a challenge to Apple, Google brings augmented reality to Android with ARCore
Developers hoping to try out augmented reality on Android devices just had their wish granted by Google Inc. Today the technology giant announced the preview release of ARCore, a software development kit for Android devices that implements mixed and augmented reality without the need for additional hardware. Augmented reality allows any handheld device with a ...
Blockchain startup Bluzelle grabs $1.5 million to build distributed storage platform
Blockchain middleware startup Bluzelle Networks Inc. today announced it has raised $1.5 million in an early-stage funding to develop the company’s distributed ledger storage platform. Bluzelle builds middleware applications for the enterprise using blockchain networks and tools that make use of cryptographic distributed ledgers in order to protect a record of historical transactions. With this ...
BLOCKv’s blockchain development platform aims to free digital goods from ‘walled gardens’
Switzerland-based BLOCKv today announced the launch of its blockchain-based development platform designed to help create tradable virtual goods such as digital tickets, coupons and items in online games. Demand for virtual goods is rising rapidly, driven by more mobile devices and smart appliances that can load apps that interact with virtual goods such as those in Pokemon ...
Blockchain firm ShoCard raises $4M for enterprise identity management
The blockchain identity management company ShoCard Inc. announced Tuesday that it has raised $4 million in funding to roll out an enterprise version of its technology called ShoBadge. The California-based distributed-ledger company started its foray into using blockchain technology for identity management in the consumer sector with its launch in 2015. Using its technology, customers could ...