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.

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Microsoft beats earnings forecasts, reaching $20 billion cloud revenue run rate

CLOUD By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. beat earnings expectations in sales for its first fiscal quarter, thanks in no small part to meeting its own self-imposed goal of reaching $20 billion in annual cloud revenue. The software and cloud giant’s shares rose about 4 percent in …

Chain launches cloud-managed blockchain service for business

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Enterprise blockchain startup Chain Inc. announced Monday the launch of a cloud-managed distributed ledger service called Sequence for business and financial applications. Sequence provides blockchain technology, a distributed cryptographic ledger that secures transactions privately in an auditable format, as a platform that …

Unity partnership with GameCredits will bring blockchain to mobile games

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Game developer tools outfit Unity Technologies SF today announced a partnership with blockchain company GameCredits Inc. to accelerate the adoption of digital assets in the gaming industry. The partnership would potentially bring blockchain assets to 3 billion unique mobile devices running Unity-made …

Mastercard reveals new blockchain payment system for banks and merchants

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Global payments and technology company Mastercard Inc. today announced that it will be opening up access to its blockchain technology for banks and merchants through an application programming interface published on Mastercard Developers. The Mastercard blockchain settlement network is based on the …

Blockchain investment is booming thanks largely to initial coin offering binge

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Initial coin offerings are becoming the funding mechanism of choice for the fast-emerging distributed ledger technology known as blockchain, bolting past corporate and venture investors — but also raising the specter of a bubble and potential mismanagement by startups suddenly flush with a …

JP Morgan Chase upgrades its Quorum blockchain with security from Zerocoin

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

The Zerocoin Electric Coin Co. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. today announced the initial release of a zero-knowledge security layer for J.P. Morgan’s enterprise blockchain and smart contract platform Quorum. Quorum is a distributed ledger technology, or blockchain, developed by J.P. Morgan …

Tour guides come to virtual reality with InstaVR’s ‘guided co-viewing’

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

The virtual reality authoring, publishing and analysis company InstaVR Inc. today announced an update to its product that lets publishers guide VR content in real-time and let participants “co-view” it. This change enhances the platform so that participants can view content at …

Blockchain storage is coming to enterprise documentation with Storj-CapLinked deal

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Blockchain technology is coming to enterprise document storage thanks to a deal announced Wednesday by decentralized-storage company Storj Labs Inc. and secure document sharing service provider CapLinked Inc. With distributed ledger or blockchain technology, it’s possible to build storage that does not …

Blockchain melds with professional reputation networks with SpringRole launch

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Startup incubator Science Inc. announced today the launch of California-based SpringRole Inc., which will govern the first professional reputation network using artificial intelligence and the distributed ledger technology known as blockchain. Blockchains are widely distributed databases that use cryptography and specialized algorithms …

With new UK design studio, Leap Motion explores the boundaries of augmented reality

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Mixed-reality sensor and peripherals maker Leap Motion Inc. signaled its intention to expand its efforts in the virtual and augmented reality industry with the announcement today of a London-based design research studio. A spokesperson for the company added that the new London …

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