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KuCoin CEO: We’ll See First Fully Operational Metaverse in Five to Seven Years

The term ‘metaverse’ was coined by science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in his 1992 science fiction novel ‘Snow Crash’, where humans, as avatars, interact with each other and software agents, in a three-dimensional virtual space that uses the metaphor of the real world. Stephenson used the term to describe a virtual reality-based successor to the […]

Anduril Gets $5.2M U.K. Defense Contract

Defense and border protection company Anduril Industries Inc. said today it has been awarded a $5.2 million contract from the U.K. Ministry of Defence to demonstrate the Irvine firm’s force protection technology. The systems include Anduril’s Ghost 4 drones and its core Lattice AI operating system. The award is part of TALOS, an MOD program focused […]

U.S. Navy’s Solar Drone Will Fly 90-Day Missions Seeing All With Palantir Technology

Read David Hambling explain how Palantir Technologies, Inc. is collaborating with the U.S. Navy to fly its Skydweller reconnaissance drone on Forbes : The U.S. Navy is developing an uncrewed, solar-powered aircraft known as Skydweller that is designed to remain airborne for 90 days at a stretch. It was revealed Thursday that the drone will […]

Rethinking Cybersecurity in the Age of Infinite Attack Surface

We are living in the age of infinite attack surfaces where there are practically unlimited ways in which the enterprise can be breached. In this scenario, how should CIOs and CISOs rethink their cybersecurity programs to stay ahead of the adversary? See the video/read the transcript of the panel discussion of former CEO of Cisco, […]

Facebook’s vision of the metaverse has a critical flaw

Read Jerod Venema explain why Facebook’s The Metaverse has a critical flaw on Venture Beat : The “metaverse” is back in the headlines. Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Facebook “will effectively transition from … being a social media company to being a metaverse company.” Facebook plans to create “an embodied internet” — powered by its […]

Proof-of-stake: Ethereum 2.0 ranks worst energy consumption

Groundbreaking research by University College London has systematically assessed the energy consumptions of leading proof-of-stake networks and concluded not all PoS blockchains are created equal. Proof-of-stake has been heralded as the environmental savior of the crypto industry, emerging as the rousing response to widespread attempts at decrying blockchain technology on the basis of its environmental impact. […]

Elastic Announces the General Availability of the Elastic Cloud Terraform Provider

Today, Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) announced the general availability of the HashiCorp verified Elastic Cloud Terraform provider to deliver the best possible infrastructure-as-code experience for users of HashiCorp Terraform to deploy and manage Elastic Cloud. HashiCorp Terraform is a tool that allows users to manage the entire lifecycle of infrastructure using infrastructure as code. Elastic NV has […]

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Recorded Future as Innovation Leader in Global Cyber Threat Intelligence Market

Frost & Sullivan has named Recorded Future a top industry innovator in the Frost Radar™: Global Cyber Threat Intelligence Market. Recorded Future is recognized for the breadth of its intelligence capabilities and product strategy, which enables the company to support clients with different intelligence requirements and cybersecurity maturity levels. Read more about the Frost & […]

Epic Games shuts down Houseparty app to focus on metaverse

Houseparty, the social video app that launched in 2016 and soared in popularity during the pandemic, will be shutting down in October, the company announced Thursday. In a release, Houseparty said it will be absorbed into Epic Games to work on “creating new ways to have meaningful and authentic social interactions at metaverse scale across […]

Customer-Focused C-Suite Appointments Bolster DataRobot’s Executive Leadership Team

DataRobot announced three key additions to its executive leadership bench, welcoming Sirisha Kadamalakalva as the company’s first Chief Strategy Officer and Steve Jenner, who steps into the role of Chief Customer Officer. DataRobot veteran Jay Schuren has been elevated from SVP of Customer Success and Enablement to Chief Data Science Officer, representing the deep talent […]