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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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Pixvana launches native VR cloud-based editing platform for creators
Virtual reality software developer Pixvana Inc. announced Monday the full release of its video editing suite, Spin Studio, that lets users use VR headsets for the full life cycle of video creation. Spin Studio is a cloud-based cross-platform publishing suite designed to …
US Navy pilots blockchain project to track aviation parts through their life cycles
The Naval Air Systems Command, the provisioner of material support for aircraft flown by the United States Navy known as NAVAIR, announced Thursday that it has started an experimental pilot using distributed ledger blockchain technology to track aviation components through the parts …