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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.

Qlik introduces web-based data visualization tool for developers

By Kyt Dotson Oct 3, 2016

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…

Cyberbit and ETA to develop cybersecurity training range

By Kyt Dotson Sep 29, 2016

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…

Bitcoin Weekly: Japanese soon pay utilities with bitcoin, U.S. Congress ‘Blockchain caucus’, IBM open-sources blockchain for enterprise

By Kyt Dotson Sep 28, 2016

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…

DroneDeploy makes image uploads quicker so users in remote areas can work faster

By Kyt Dotson Sep 27, 2016

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…

Node40 launches hosting for Dash blockchain governance

By Kyt Dotson Sep 23, 2016

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…

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 September 21: A week of blockchain and exchanges–Gemini, Bitfinex, Overstock TØ.com and Accenture

By Kyt Dotson Sep 21, 2016

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…

CodeFights unveils Code Arcade: Sharpening programming skills with gamification

By Kyt Dotson Sep 21, 2016

Every day developers sit down in front of computers to learn something new. Many turn to the web to read documents, others buy books and read while playing with code in an editor and…

Breaking the blockchain: Accenture patents editable version of immutable infrastructure

By Kyt Dotson Sep 20, 2016

The power of the blockchain, the technology that underlies the immutability of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, may be that once a transaction is secured it cannot be changed or edited. To combat forgery and counterfeiting…

Apple’s Swift 3.0 revitalizes the language but breaks backward compatibility

By Kyt Dotson Sep 19, 2016

Last week Apple Inc. announced the 3.0 version of its Swift programming language, which makes for the first major release of the language since it was open sourced. This release brings major improvements to…

AI, robots will replace 6 percent of U.S. jobs by 2021, but all hope is not lost

By Kyt Dotson Sep 15, 2016

The robots are coming for our jobs. According to a report from analyst firm Forrester, a total of 6 percent of all U.S. jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) and automated robotics…