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

The U.S. Post Office looks to the Internet of Things for solutions

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The recent woes of the United States Postal Service (USPS) are well known, but that doesn’t mean the service can’t find a friend in digital messaging. The USPS’s Office of Inspector General is offering up to $100,000 to any supplier that can …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 June 18th: BitPay announces the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl, Expedia to take BTC for hotels, GHash.IO sneaks up on 51% again

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

This week has seen a lot of interesting news and some drama from the world of Bitcoin. BitPay has made news by announcing the world’s first upcoming “Bitcoin Bowl” and also brought news of TigerDirect expanding bitcoin payments onto their Canadian website. …

Machine Learning for the cloud on its way to Microsoft Azure

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

In July, Microsoft plans to unveil a preview of its Machine-Learning-as-a-Service platform, hosted on Windows Azure. The platform is expected to leverage Microsoft’s powerful Azure cloud platform to provide powerful predictive analytics services and off premises data crunching. Microsoft calls this new …

US government prepares to auction $17 million worth of Silk Road bitcoins

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The US Marshals are preparing to auction off the bitcoins seized from the raid of anonymous, black market site Silk Road. According to the asset forfeiture auction document, the auction will take place on June 27th and winners will be notified on …

Facebook open-sources Haxl: Big Data Haskell library

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Yesterday, Facebook announced the open-sourcing of Haxl, a Haskell library used to greatly simplify access to remote data, such as databases and API web-based services. This release continues a trend of Facebook’s strong bent towards data science and the processing of complex …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 June 11: Yahoo! Finance adds BTC ticker, REEDS Jewelers partners Coinbase, Dark Wallet alpha promises anonymity

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

In the news today, Yahoo! Finance follows Bloomberg in adding a Bitcoin market price ticker. REEDS Jewelers is the newest retail chain to partner with Coinbase for bitcoin payments. Finally, Dark Wallet has been in the news since April, but how does …

AI milestone: Computer passes Turing test by posing as a 13-year-old boy

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

A computer program at the University of Reading in the U.K. has achieved an artificial intelligence milestone by passing the venerated Turning Test. The software, called Eugene Goostman, attempts to simulate a 13-year-old Ukranian boy. The Turing test, named after Alan Turing …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 June 6: Dish to accept Bitcoin, Coinsetter adds features, Voorhees settles with SEC over securities trading

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Dish Network announced its intention to become the biggest company to start accepting bitcoins. Andreas Antonopoulos published a Bitcoin beginner’s guide on Boing Boing. Coinsetter is adding new features for customers and app developers. And Erik Voorhees of SatoshiDice has settled with …

Apple turns up developer appeal with Swift programming language

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

On Monday, Apple announced a new programming language called Swift for iOS and OS X app development. As a language, it’s extremely similar to C and Objective-C with a couple exceptions. Apple’s mission with Swift is to provide easy coding, combined with security …

Betterment DevOps Profile: Development and the mobile vs. web experience

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Betterment, developer of an online investment app, launched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010 with a web and mobile product directed towards consumers interested in managing their own money. Their road from a startup with an interesting idea to a powerful app set that …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

The U.S. Post Office looks to the Internet of Things for solutions

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 June 18th: BitPay announces the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl, Expedia to take BTC for hotels, GHash.IO sneaks up on 51% again

Machine Learning for the cloud on its way to Microsoft Azure

US government prepares to auction $17 million worth of Silk Road bitcoins

Facebook open-sources Haxl: Big Data Haskell library

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 June 11: Yahoo! Finance adds BTC ticker, REEDS Jewelers partners Coinbase, Dark Wallet alpha promises anonymity

AI milestone: Computer passes Turing test by posing as a 13-year-old boy

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 June 6: Dish to accept Bitcoin, Coinsetter adds features, Voorhees settles with SEC over securities trading

Apple turns up developer appeal with Swift programming language

Betterment DevOps Profile: Development and the mobile vs. web experience

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