Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

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Researchers claim discovery of 13 security flaws in AMD Ryzen and Epyc chips

INFRA By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Israel-based security company CTS-Labs announced today that its researchers have discovered a number of critical vulnerabilities affecting Advanced Micro Devices Inc. products. The vulnerabilities in the affected chips, which include AMD’s Epyc secure processor and the Ryzen chipset, could allow attackers to …

Headphone maker demos Bose AR smart glasses designed to augment ‘audio’ reality

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Bose Corp., the Massachusetts-based designer and developer of audio equipment, demonstrated its new augmented reality glasses that augment sound instead of vision Friday at the 2018 South by Southwest conference. Much of the news and technology that follows AR development attends to augmenting vision: …

Blockchain startup Blockdaemon raises $3.2M seed funding led by Comcast

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Blockchain nodes-as-a-service startup Blockdaemon announced Thursday that the company closed a seed round for $3.275 million led by telecommunications giant Comcast Ventures. This round was joined by a number of enterprise venture capital outfits, including Boldstart Ventures, MState (backed by IBM Corp. …

Smart glasses in the workplace: Augmented reality outfit Upskill raises $17.2M

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Industrial and enterprise augmented reality outfit Upskill today announced that the company has closed a $17.2 million funding round that brings on new strategic investors such as Accenture PLC and Cisco Investments. Upskill is the developer of a platform called Skylight AR, …

Yahoo! Maps Japan introduces augmented reality navigation mode for iPhones

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Yahoo! Japan today announced the release of augmented reality navigation for the company’s mapping application for iOS phones and mobile devices. The addition to Yahoo! Japan Maps will provide users an “in-world” visualization of the route to their destination using the phone’s …

BBC brings objects out of history into augmented reality with Civilisations AR app

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

In the latest move to make history more accessible, the British Broadcasting Corp. Thursday launched its first augmented reality app, Civilisation AR. The app, developed by BBC Research and Development, BBC Arts and Nexus Studios features more than 30 captivating artifacts from …

Credit Suisse and ING use blockchain platform to transfer $30M in securities

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Credit Suisse Group AG and ING Groep NV announced today that they completed a securities lending transaction worth 25 million euros ($30.48 million) using a blockchain-based platform designed for this purpose from HQLAx. For the underlying protocol, financial technology company HQLAx selected …

Rakuten plans to build blockchain-based loyalty system with ‘borderless currency’

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Japanese e-retailer giant Rakuten Inc. today announced plans to roll out a blockchain-based loyalty system that will incorporate its existing point system. The new system will take existing Rakuten Points, used to purchase anything on the system from snacks to electronics, and …

S&P Global Platts launches commercial blockchain for oil inventory data

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Energy market information and analysis supplier S&P Global Platts announced Thursday that the company will soon launch a blockchain distributed ledger to help track oil storage data for the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone and the regulator FEDCom. FOIZ is the largest reservoir …

Qualcomm unveils new mobile headset platform to power next-gen virtual reality

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

The era of cheaper, standalone mobile virtual reality headsets is almost here, as VR makers preparing to release less costly displays based on mobile technology. Today, chipmaker Qualcomm Technologies Inc. announced the company’s most recent VR reference platform based on the company’s …

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