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Meet ‘Kit,’ the free virtual employee Shopify merchants can now hire
Shopify Inc. today announced the debut of a virtual employee called Kit for its virtual stores. Shopify provides e-commerce solutions, which are essentially virtual stores that deliver an online presence for merchants. Shopify’s Kit extends the metaphor of the virtual store by adding something that was missing for merchants before: someone to hire the moment they open ...
Hackers take no holidays: 2017 DDoS attacks rise fivefold
Distributed denial-of-service attacks rose by a stunning 380 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to a report released by Nexusguard Inc. today, Furthermore, attackers showed a stronger tendency towards using global holidays to do their deeds, with a greater number of attacks occurring during Valentine’s Day and the Chinese New Year. Large-scale ...
Hallmark brings virtual reality to Father’s Day greeting cards
Greeting card giant Hallmark Cards Inc. today revealed its own take on virtual reality with a new Father’s Day lineup of cards that transform into virtual reality headsets. Hallmark is taking what Google Inc. started with Google Cardboard – cheap VR headsets that could be folded out of cardboard cutouts and inexpensive lenses powered by ...
Walmart bets on STRIVR Labs’ virtual reality training for store employees
The world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is turning to virtual reality to assist in training employees on subjects such as management and customer service. With the help of VR startup STRIVR Labs, the retailer expects to deploy VR training capability to more than 200 of its “Walmart Academy” training centers across the U.S. before ...
Samsung SDS builds blockchain network for Korean shipping industry
Samsung SDS, the information technology subsidiary of electronics company Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., announced today that it would be building out a major blockchain network operation to manage Korea’s shipping industry logistics. The network would use a blockchain, a distributed cryptographically secured ledger technology, to track shipping imports, exports and location of cargo in real-time. ...
Aryzon Kickstarter project aims to bring cheap augmented-reality headsets to everyone
Netherlands-based Aryzon today launched a Kickstarter campaign for what the company is calling “cardboard for augmented reality,” a $30 device that uses folded card stock and lenses to turn a smartphone into an AR experience. Augmented reality, also called mixed reality, is a method by which virtual objects are placed into a person’s field of view, ...
Swiping in VR: Worldpay demos credit card payments in virtual reality
London-based Worldpay, one of the world’s leading payment processing companies, on Thursday revealed a demonstration showing how people could make credit card payments in virtual reality. Using credit cards may not be the most exciting thing that people might do in VR, to say the least. But being able to pay for things – and doing ...
Twilio announces Functions to simplify communication application development
Cloud communications platform Twilio Inc. today announced the release of Twilio Functions, a serverless environment designed for software developers to build and run communications applications. Using Functions, developers and businesses need not worry about building out, configuring and scaling web infrastructure for messaging applications. Through Functions, Twilio’s own cloud acts as host for applications written by ...
Developers take control of customer communications with Twilio Proxy and Engagement Cloud
Twilio Inc., a cloud communications platform for developers, today announced the release of Twilio Proxy, a new application programming interface designed to manage private text and voice conversations between customers and mobile workers. The company announced the release of the Proxy platform at its Signal developer conference taking place in San Francisco over the next ...
Digital currency wallet Jaxx brings on 70 blockchain partners
Toronto-based Decentral, the developer of digital currency wallet Jaxx, today announced a massive integration expansion encompassing over 70 new partners and blockchain projects, exchanges and platforms. Jaxx is a multiplatform wallet solution that crosses web and mobile allowing users to store and access a large number of digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Blockchains, or ...