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IMAX raises $50 million fund to jumpstart move into virtual reality
IMAX Corp., the cinema technology company best known for its theaters with giant screens and 3D technology, has completed the first phase of a $50 million virtual reality fund. Investing alongside IMAX other partners include Acer Inc., one of the world’s premium hardware and manufacturing companies; and Creative Artists Agency, the world’s leading entertainment and ...
xMatters DevOps platform links with Zendesk marketplace
xMatters Inc. announced today that the DevOps communication automation platform’s capabilities have been integrated into Zendesk’s marketplace. Headquartered in San Francisco, Zendesk Inc. is a customer service platform provider that builds software to improve customer engagement. This integration with xMatters adds enterprise-level features that quickly notify the right on-call resources, at the right time, and ...
IBM Bluemix Garage Method site expands cloud-native DevOps architecture tutorials
IBM Corp. just announced the addition of cloud-native DevOps architecture tutorials and code samples for toolchains on the company’s Bluemix Garage Method website. IBM is looking to give businesses integrating DevOps — the practice of closing the gap between development and operations teams by emphasizing collaboration and automation — a top-down organizational view of how ...
BlockApps brings power of blockchain as a service to China
BlockApps, a startup focused on bringing the Etherium blockchain to enterprise companies, has announced the introduction of blockchain as a Service in China during the International Blockchain Week 2016 in Shanghai. Blockchains are a technology for distributed ledgers that can be used to provide cryptographic proof-of-publish, digital signing and other capabilities. As a platform, a ...
DroneDeploy launches the first app market for drones
Cloud-based drone platform DroneDeploy today announced the opening of its App Market, the first drone industry app store. The store launched with more than 15 apps directed at businesses using drones. It also provides access to the world’s largest dataset of drone 2D maps and 3D models. The company’s new App Market will provide a one-stop ...
Hackers now favor Internet of Things botnets for attacks
Attackers are turning away from reflection-style attacks, which use Internet services to amplify traffic, toward compromised Internet of Things devices, according to the recently released Q3 2016 DDoS Threat Report from distributed denial of service security firm Nexusguard Inc. An Oct. 16 attack used a host of compromised IoT devices to knock numerous major services offline including ...
Blockchain-powered image attribution engine launches to credit creators
Anyone who wants to find images from the Internet to use in social or other media has huge burdens: attributing the image to the creator and even making sure it’s OK to use it. To solve that issue, blockchain-powered startup Mediachain Labs last week announced the official release of an open-source image attribution platform that aims ...
Google Brain researchers teach AI to make its own encryption
Researchers at Google Brain, Google’s deep learning project, have worked out a way to teach artificial intelligence neural networks how to create their own encryption formulas. In a research paper published by Martín Abadi and David Andersen, “Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography,” the researchers put three AIs together: two that attempt to communicate secretly (Alice ...
Bitcoin Weekly: New mobile wallet technology and blockchain implementations emerge
This week two wallets made their debuts: BTCC and BitPay. China-based BTCC announced the “Mobi” mobile wallet designed for out-of-the-box quick access and ease of payments. And merchant processor BitPay announced an upgrade to its Copay wallet that will include Intel’s on-hardware security enhancements. The blockchain has also been hitting it big, with Chain Inc. ...
QuickBooks Online drives developer outreach to fuel global growth
Intuit Inc., the financial services developer of QuickBooks and TurboTax, has put third-party developers at the center of its new global expansion of its QuickBooks Online platform with an announcement today. Intuit cited a study of small businesses in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia that shows a dramatic increase in cloud, app and ...