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

Populating the World with Virtual People: How Augmented Reality Can Amplify Us

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

We essentially have wearable computers, an Android smartphone of sufficient power can do a great deal of computing and if it can’t succeed all on its own it can have a cloud-computer do the heavy lifting and beam the answer back over …

Lockheed Martin’s Cyber Security VP Curt Aubley Talks About Cloud Security at Intel Forecast 2012

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The adoption of cloud in the consumer market and especially the high-profile enterprise market has seen some inhibition, especially surrounding security. John Furrier brought Curt Aubley, Lockheed Martin VP & CTO Cyber Security & NexGen Innovation, into TheCube at Intel Forecast 2012 …

Bittorrent Traffic a Rising Tide After Dutch ISP’s Block The Pirate Bay

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Because the Internet, much like the universe, is fueled by irony it looks as if attempts by UK courts to stifle Bittorrent traffic have backfired. This week, the anti-piracy group BREIN succeeded in getting The Pirate Bay blocked from 90% of Dutch …

The Queen’s Peace of the 21st Century Brought by Big Data to Los Angeles

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The realm of justice and crime is a vast arena that contains a great deal of actors and how to approach it is a problem for law enforcement and governments worldwide. In many cases, the better informed law enforcement is the more …

To Nobody’s Surprise, After Buying Gaikai Sony Drops OnLive Support

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

It’s the battle of the cloud-streaming gaming services with Gaikai and OnLive staring head-to-head in the marketplace and the exclusive manufacturer effects are coming in. Sony has gotten the jump on the market by buying Gaikai—this came after the cloud gaming outfit …

Twitter Transparency Reports Reveals Huge Leap in Government Demands for Data

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

On Monday, commonly tight-lipped Twitter released their first-ever transparency report revealing how often and who of governments make requests of the social media microblogging platform. From the report, it looks like not only are requests somewhat common; but their incidence is increasing …

Google’s Nexus Q Rolls Into the Living Room with 5 Potential Future Hacks

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Last week at Google I/O 2012, the Nexus Q was unveiled to a spellbound public. This interesting living-room device arrives with a price tag of $299 and boasts the capability of being extremely hackable with an Android OS and a micro-USB port …

Ubisoft Accidentally Leaks Hundreds of Customer E-mail Addresses in Watch Dogs Marketing Snafu

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The video game Watch Dogs—a beautiful-looking technoir thriller about Big Data and paranoia—has gotten its publisher, Ubisoft, into hot water when it comes to the very same sort of sentiment portrayed in the game: accidental breach of privacy. In their marketing, the …

Facebook Testing “Want” Button: A Preemptive Strike Against Amazon and Pinterest Wishlists?

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Facebook is developing a new functionality into its SDK to allow users to “Want” something with much the same functionality as they could use to “Like” something. Developer Tom Waddington says that he discovered the functionality in Facebook’s JavaScript SDK under the …

Anonymous Claims Responsibility for Japanese Website Outages, Defacement

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Not to sit idly on their collective Guy Fawkes masks, Anonymous has found a new target to harass for violating their sense of information ethics: Japan. The websites of Japan’s Finance Ministry, Supreme Court and political parties DPJ and LDP were taken …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Populating the World with Virtual People: How Augmented Reality Can Amplify Us

Bittorrent Traffic a Rising Tide After Dutch ISP’s Block The Pirate Bay

The Queen’s Peace of the 21st Century Brought by Big Data to Los Angeles

Ubisoft Accidentally Leaks Hundreds of Customer E-mail Addresses in Watch Dogs Marketing Snafu

Facebook Testing “Want” Button: A Preemptive Strike Against Amazon and Pinterest Wishlists?

Anonymous Claims Responsibility for Japanese Website Outages, Defacement

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