Kyt Dotson
Latest from Kyt Dotson
Chrome update will speed web pages with better memory usage
After years of complaints about its Chrome web browser’s slow loading of web pages, Google Inc. is promising that it will soon fix the problem. The average website that web visitors read on personal computers and mobile devices may contain upwards of two megabytes, with 10 percent of that thanks to complex scripts. This increasing page ...
RethinkDB database shuts down as its business falters
RethinkDB is shutting down. Today the RethinkDB team bid a fond farewell to its open source, scalable JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) database built for the real-time web. The news, announced on the project’s developer blog, is bittersweet and comes with a lesson-learned attitude about the failure of the project. “We worked very hard to make RethinkDB ...
Bitcoin Weekly: Adam Back becomes Blockstream CEO, bitcoin exchanges expand and more investment funding
A lot of business is going on in the bitcoin and blockchain ecosystem this week. A shakeup happened at the bitcoin technology startup Blockstream when co-founder Austin Hill quit his position as chief executive and co-founder Adam Back was appointed to the position. India’s biggest bitcoin company Unocoin announced $1.5 million USD in investment funding. ...
Automic releases updated suite of DevOps tools
Today, Automic Software Inc. announced the public release of Automic V12—a massive update to its suite of DevOps and business automation tools designed to drive agility and responsiveness for enterprise operations. This update changes the entire Automic unified portfolio including the company’s workload automation, release automation and service orchestration tools. The impetus behind this release is ...
Qlik introduces web-based data visualization tool for developers
The big data-oriented visualization and analytics company Qlik (Qliktech International Inc.) has announced the release of its Qlik Playground for developers, a web-based environment that provides an easy way for developers to experiment with Qlik’s powerful platform. With Playground, developers will be able to quickly prototype analysis and visualizations for large data sets with access ...
Cyberbit and ETA to develop cybersecurity training range
Cyberdefense may not be quite as glamorous as it is portrayed in movies from the 1990s (watch Hackers with Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie anyway). But unlike the 90s, cybersecurity has become an endurance profession. Not a week goes by that yet another big company doesn’t announce a security breach leaking thousands of customer ...
Bitcoin Weekly: Japanese soon pay utilities with bitcoin, U.S. Congress ‘Blockchain caucus’, IBM open-sources blockchain for enterprise
Things are getting interesting at the customer-level for Bitcoin in Japan where an electricity company is looking into allowing customers to pay their bills in bitcoins. This isn’t the first time since 2009 when bitcoins have been courted as a potential payment system for local utilities, but with 17 power plants, this might be one ...
DroneDeploy makes image uploads quicker so users in remote areas can work faster
Drones can go where people can’t, tirelessly doing repetitive, exact movements. As a result, a drone can be deployed into a situation where it might be dangerous or expensive to put a person, such as surveying land for a mining operation or examining the last stage of a building for a construction company. That’s where ...
Node40 launches hosting for Dash blockchain governance
Albany-based Node40 LLC, a technology startup focused on digital governance, just announced the official launch of its service from a successful beta phase. The company hosts masternodes — an infrastructure element important to the security of a blockchain platform — for the Dash cryptocurrency network, which subsidizes nodes by providing passive income to node hosts. ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 September 21: A week of blockchain and exchanges–Gemini, Bitfinex, Overstock TØ.com and Accenture
It’s been a week about the blockchain and what’s going on in the Bitcoin exchange industry. To start, the Gemini Bitcoin exchange is offering a new feature, auctions, to put it into the same vein as traditional asset exchanges such as the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq (just without the closing bell). And Bitfinex ...