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

In the end of an internet era, AOL’s pioneering Instant Messenger will go offline Dec. 15

APPS By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

One of the internet’s first instant messaging services will go dark in two months when AOL Instant Messenger goes offline. Oath Inc., a subsidiary of Verizon Communications that now owns the AOL brand, officially announced this morning that AIM will shut down …

Google teams up with Discovery for 38-episode virtual reality travel series

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Discovery Communications Inc. and Google LLC have teamed up to use the magic of immersive virtual reality technology to bring more people to places they have never been before through a 38-episode travel documentary. The series, announced Wednesday by the Discovery VR …

Four new big banks join IBM, UBS to build Batavia blockchain and streamline trade finance

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Computing giant IBM Corp. yet again expanded its reach into finance blockchain technology today with the announcement that the company’s trade finance platform collaboration with UBS AG has been joined by Bank of Montreal, CaixaBank S.A., Commerzbank AG and Erste Group Bank AG. …

Dragonchain, creator of blockchain developed at Disney, launches initial coin offering

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

To celebrate the one-year anniversary of its software going open-source, Dragonchain Inc., a blockchain platform originally developed at the Walt Disney Co., today announced its initial coin offering. According to Dragonchain, the coin offering will involve a crowdsale of currency tokens, called …

A virtual ‘Fantastic Voyage’: Sharecare’s 3-D human body software You is ‘all about you’

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Austin-based digital health company Sharecare Inc. announced today that it is launching its virtual reality software platform dubbed You, providing a way for healthcare providers, educators, students and patients to see their own bodies in a way they never have before. The software …

Now called Bread, Breadwallet releases a revamped bitcoin wallet app

APPS By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Switzerland-based bitcoin wallet app developer Breadwallet announced Tuesday that the company has rebranded itself as simply “Bread” as part of a revamp of its iOS application. The revamp brings to market an app built from the ground up, a new user interface, …

Google Daydream users may now surf the entire web in virtual reality

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

With its most recent release, Google Inc.’s flagship browser Chrome on Android will now allow users who have the Google Daydream virtual reality headset to experience the entire web in three dimensions. The release of Chrome 61, updated on Friday, includes the …

Mobile augmented reality startup Mira raises $1M for cheaper headsets

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Los Angeles-based mobile augmented reality headset developer Mira Labs Inc. announced Wednesday that it has raised $1 million in a seed funding round to pave the way for its Prism AR product. This funding round, led by Greylock Partners, Founders Fund Angel and …

Pimax’s 8K VR headset shoots past crowdfunding goal to $680K in 24 hours

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Shanghai-based Pimax Technology Co. Ltd. announced the launch of its new high-resolution virtual reality headset Tuesday with the unveiling of a Kickstarter project asking for $200,000. Less than 24 hours later, the project has been fully funded, tripling its original ask to …

IBM open-sources WebSphere Liberty code for building Java cloud-native apps

CLOUD By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. today announced the launch of the Open Liberty project, which will see the development process for its WebSphere Liberty Java application server become open-source. All further development of Liberty will be based on the Open Liberty codebase and like any other …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

In the end of an internet era, AOL’s pioneering Instant Messenger will go offline Dec. 15

Google teams up with Discovery for 38-episode virtual reality travel series

Four new big banks join IBM, UBS to build Batavia blockchain and streamline trade finance

Dragonchain, creator of blockchain developed at Disney, launches initial coin offering

A virtual ‘Fantastic Voyage’: Sharecare’s 3-D human body software You is ‘all about you’

Now called Bread, Breadwallet releases a revamped bitcoin wallet app

Google Daydream users may now surf the entire web in virtual reality

Mobile augmented reality startup Mira raises $1M for cheaper headsets

Pimax’s 8K VR headset shoots past crowdfunding goal to $680K in 24 hours

IBM open-sources WebSphere Liberty code for building Java cloud-native apps

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