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.

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

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 bitcoins have been courted as a potential payment system for local utilities, but with 17 power plants, this might be one ...

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

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 as surveying land for a mining operation or examining the last stage of a building for a construction company. That’s where ...

Node40 launches hosting for Dash blockchain governance

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 security of a blockchain platform — for the Dash cryptocurrency network, which subsidizes nodes by providing passive income to node hosts. ...

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

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 vein as traditional asset exchanges such as the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq (just without the closing bell). And Bitfinex ...

CodeFights unveils Code Arcade: Sharpening programming skills with gamification

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 yet others take classes at local schools or go to code camps. There are as many ways to learn languages, development ...

Breaking the blockchain: Accenture patents editable version of immutable infrastructure

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 it is important to make its history indelible. Now the financial technology consulting and management service provider Accenture PLC has just ...

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

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 the core language, functionality, and major changes to the Linux port of Swift libraries. All this is nice for programmers working ...

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

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 by 2021. We’re already seeing the cusp of this wave with the advent of autonomous vehicle fleets from Uber and “humanizing” ...

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 September 14: McAfee Bitcoin mining starts, blockchain innovation, Apple ‘authorized currency’ and more

This week, Bitcoin mining is getting a boost from two different directions. The first is from John McAfee’s MGT Capital Investments, which just spun up its first mining operation in the U.S. at 2.6 PetaHash, a company that also intends to develop security services for Bitcoin users, merchants and miners. The second is from Bitcoin ...

Nokia enhances the VR broadcast ecosystem with OZO Live and the OZO Player SDK

The business of virtual reality (VR) is heating up with the consumer release of headsets, which means that demand for VR content will begin to follow. To keep up with that demand and put tools in the hands of content creators and VR businesses, technology company Nokia Corporation recently announced OZO Live—a real-time VR broadcast ...