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The blockchain beyond bitcoin

O'Reilly Media - Data

Taking blockchain technology private for the enterprise. Blockchain technologies have been made popular by the creation of bitcoin, but how exactly can a blockchain benefit an enterprise? A blockchain provides an immutable store of facts. This is a fundamental feature of a blockchain. The concept of consensus.

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Data-sharing platform Vendia raises $30M Series B

TechCrunch

Vendia , a blockchain-based platform that makes it easier for businesses to share their code and data with partners across applications, platforms and clouds, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B round led by NewView Capital. for its multicloud serverless platform. They’ve got real challenges.”

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Capsule gets $1.5M to build ‘super simple’ decentralized social media

TechCrunch

“The Internet Computer will hopefully be helping us build a ‘customized mini-blockchain’ to solve two issues with Capsule: Global authenticated timestamps for posts as well as a root of trust for user’s authentication keys for posts,” he says.

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Here are the 23 companies pitching at Alchemist Accelerator’s Demo Day XXVIII today

TechCrunch

Copyright Delta : A blockchain-based platform for verifying and managing who owns the rights to a piece of media. Direktiv : It’s honestly a bit over my head, but Direktiv pitches itself as a platform-agnostic “event-driven serverless orchestration engine” in the cloud.

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Daily Crunch: $8.5B Amazon-MGM merger will bring thousands of titles to Prime Video

TechCrunch

Paradigm backs Ethereum scaler Optimism : The Ethereum blockchain has a lot to like about it. Upstash, an early-stage startup, is building a serverless data platform for developers of data-intensive applications using a consumption-based pricing model, which should help drive down prices,” he reported. Upstash just closed $1.9

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Piramal CTO Saurabh Mittal on financial services innovation

CIO

Blockchain holds promise for financial service companies as it can lead to cheaper and faster transactions, enhanced security, and automated contracts. Mittal: We don’t have active investments in blockchain yet. One of the areas where blockchain can play a vital role is that of a property registrar.

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Orchestrate generative AI workflows with Amazon Bedrock and AWS Step Functions

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Since Amazon Bedrock is serverless, you don’t have to manage any infrastructure, and you can securely integrate and deploy generative AI capabilities into your applications using the AWS services you are already familiar with. Off the clock, he can be found spending time in nature or setting fastest laps in his racing sim.