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London Stock Exchange Group taps IBM blockchain technology for private securities
The London Stock Exchange Group plc has teamed up with IBM Corp. to build a solution using digital ledger technology, or blockchain, to allow small and medium-sized European businesses to digitize corporate securities. Using the technology, LSEG expects to help simplify the way that businesses track and manage shareholding information. The new system will create ...
Bitfury reveals enterprise-grade blockchain framework for business
Blockchain software and infrastructure company BitFury Group Monday announced the launch of its enterprise distributed cryptographic ledger technology service. The blockchain framework, named Exonum, is aimed at providing businesses and governments a secure and easy way to rapidly bring blockchain solutions online. “We have seen interest and enthusiasm for blockchain solutions grow every day as businesses, ...
MelodyVR partners with Sony Music to bring sweet tunes to virtual reality
Sony Music Entertainment has become the latest major record label to sign a deal with MelodyVR Ltd., a subsidiary of EVR Holdings plc, to produce and distribute music using the emerging technology of virtual reality. With this deal, MelodyVR has inked deals on with the three biggest music labels in the world. Warner Music Group signed ...
Dalux puts augmented reality to work building a hospital in Denmark’s Faroe Islands
Dalux, Denmark-based company that does building information modeling, Wednesday launched an augmented-reality phone app designed to give construction workers an edge. The so-called BIM platform, intended to assist construction crews in the field by providing visual overlays via mobile phone camera as well as floor plans, is currently being used in Denmark’s Faroe Islands to assist with ...
Facebook reportedly planning to release $200 VR headset in 2018
Facebook Inc. has plans to unveil a new standalone virtual reality headset with an affordable price tag of $200 later this year that will begin shipping in 2018. According to a report from Bloomberg, the headset’s code name is “Pacific.” This report follows Facebook’s recent efforts to make its Oculus Rift headset cheaper to enhance sales of ...
Food and drink transparency blockchain startup Provenance raises $800K seed round
United Kingdom-based startup Project Provenance Ltd. announced today closing $800,000 in funding to enable a market launch of its blockchain service. Provenance has developed a distributed cryptographic ledger, or blockchain, designed to provide transparency to track fresh produce from origin to grocery store shelf. This seed round follows a successful international pilot tracking tuna through Southeast ...
Oculus Rift price drops for the second time this year, to $399
Facebook Inc. is dropping the price of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset for the second time this year, bringing the price tag of the Rift bundle down to $399 for a limited time. The price drop for the Oculus Rift comes during a promotion the company calls the “Summer of Rift” covering a broad ...
SWIFT adds 22 banks to its international finance blockchain project
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, the international payments settlement network, announced Thursday that it has added 22 more banks onto its proof-of-concept project harnessing distributed-ledger blockchain technology for cross-border account reconciliation. The project is part of the SWIFT Global payments innovation initiative. SiliconANGLE reported on the plans for GPI in 2015 and it ...
Free ‘Google Blocks’ VR app lets anyone make 3D art
Virtual reality holds a lot of promise for entertainment, education and industry using 3D worlds, but the tools for the production of VR content still largely remain in the world of 2D. And the new software and gear for creating VR content come with quite the price tag. To address this gap, Google Inc. today released ...
Just four days in and already $200M Tezos crowdfund becomes largest ICO to date
The record for biggest initial coin offering has been broken again after just a few days. New crowdfunded blockchain startup Tezos began its “initial coin offering” crowdfunding campaign four days ago and it’s already making records. Since July 1, the ICO has raised over $213 million — $140 million in Bitcoin and $73 million in Ethereum ...