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

Off the road: UPS taps virtual reality to prepare new drivers for hazards

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

United Parcel Service of America Inc. today announced a plan to start using virtual reality to train employees to spot road hazards. The package delivery company’s new VR classroom program will be launched in September at the company’s nine UPS Integrad training …

Google woos virtual reality customers with Daydream summer sale

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

In a move to get more people to buy into virtual reality, Google Inc. today started the “Daydream Summer Sale” for VR apps on its Daydream VR headset. During the sale, which runs Aug. 11-17, numerous apps available for Google’s Daydream View …

Microsoft unveils open-source Coco Framework to speed enterprise blockchain networks

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. today announced the release of Coco Framework, an open-source system for building large scale, confidential blockchain networks that meet enterprise standards. With the Coco Framework, enterprise developers can quickly roll out distributed ledger technology at scale that can provide tamper-proof …

Overstock.com becomes first major retailer to accept multiple digital currencies

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Paying for home décor and clothing at Overstock.com is about to get a lot more interesting as the online retailer announced today that shoppers can now purchase products with numerous cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Dash, Monero even the newly minted Bitcoin Cash and …

Firefox update will add WebVR support for virtual reality viewing

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Web browser developer Mozilla Corp. will bring virtual reality viewing capabilities to its flagship product Firefox by default with its planned update Tuesday. This addition will bring Firefox in line with its major competitors, Edge and Chrome, which already support some parts …

DMarket looks to blockchain for cross-game virtual item marketplace

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

A new decentralized marketplace called DMarket announced its intention to become the first service to allow users to trade virtual items between game worlds. Using distributed ledger technology, also known as blockchain, DMarket intends to allow game developers and publishers to bring their …

WWPass announces free password manager to make logins more secure

APPS By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Cybersecurity and identity management company WWPass Corp., developer of authentication technology dubbed PassKey, today announced the release of a password manager for those people who haven’t yet been able to ditch passwords entirely. The free password manager, PassHub, allows people to log …

Neverdie launches digital currencies to make virtual jobs and economies a reality

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Virtual worlds may make way for virtual jobs in the future and Jon “Neverdie” Jacobs, chief executive of Neverdie Studios, believes the answer will come in the form of digital currencies. To make this happen, Jacobs and Neverdie have been running a …

Second Life developer breathes life into social VR with new virtual world, Sansar

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Linden Lab, the creator of the world’s most popular and prolific virtual world Second Life, released its newest creation, the virtual reality world of Sansar, to the public today. Sansar’s open beta gives creative access to developers and artists with the tools …

Ethereum smart contracts gets smarter with technology to ‘see’ what they say

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

The Ethereum blockchain, a cryptographic distributed-ledger protocol, just got smarter for developers and business users with the addition of technology to reduce bugs and exploits. Using a so-called decompiler dubbed Porosity, Ethereum developers and smart contract users can translate contracts from Ethereum Virtual …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Off the road: UPS taps virtual reality to prepare new drivers for hazards

Google woos virtual reality customers with Daydream summer sale

Microsoft unveils open-source Coco Framework to speed enterprise blockchain networks

Overstock.com becomes first major retailer to accept multiple digital currencies

Firefox update will add WebVR support for virtual reality viewing

DMarket looks to blockchain for cross-game virtual item marketplace

WWPass announces free password manager to make logins more secure

Neverdie launches digital currencies to make virtual jobs and economies a reality

Second Life developer breathes life into social VR with new virtual world, Sansar

Ethereum smart contracts gets smarter with technology to ‘see’ what they say

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