CubeOasis, the first AR to Earn (A2E) virtual world platform, is proud to announce the launch of their new metaverse space for both work and play. Blending the dynamic capabilities of Web3 with innovative offerings to embolden businesses, and set against the backdrop of an ever-evolving technological landscape, CubeOasis offers an exceptional avenue for enterprises to explore uncharted digital territories and harness newfound opportunities.

Introducing CubeOasis: A Window into the Future of Business

CubeOasis introduces an unprecedented paradigm shift for businesses, propelling them into a realm where 3D Virtual Space Display takes center stage. This groundbreaking feature allows enterprises to craft mesmerizing showcases within a virtual landscape, infusing products and services with captivating visual narratives. The platform’s Personalized Management facet enables businesses to mold exclusive exhibits that mirror their distinct brand identities, ushering in a new era of limitless creativity.

CubeOasis stands as the answer to a longstanding market demand, providing a seamless transition for businesses into the Web3 era. Existing solutions have grappled with the challenge of merging virtual and physical realms seamlessly. CubeOasis emerges as the definitive solution—forging connections and creating an interconnected ecosystem that nurtures business growth in this uncharted digital frontier.

At its heart, CubeOasis carries a distinctive value proposition that redefines how businesses interact with customers and partners. Going beyond technology, CubeOasis empowers businesses to unlock their potential, fostering growth, creativity, and profitability within a domain that transcends convention.

CubeOasis extends beyond being a mere platform; it represents a robust ecosystem of possibilities. The introduction of NFT and RWA Transactions ushers in novel trading modes, preserving the uniqueness and value of virtual blocks, thereby captivating investors and collectors. The platform encourages Community Interaction and Creation within its virtual haven, where users can engage in events, collaborations, and creative endeavors unbound by physical constraints. Moreover, CubeOasis remains committed to User Education and Documentation, offering resources that enrich comprehension and optimize the user experience within the virtual block universe.

A Progressive Business Model

CubeOasis thrives on a dynamic, user-centric business model, cultivating avenues for unprecedented growth:

• Transaction Fees: Nominal charges for virtual block transactions generate consistent revenue, ensuring platform sustainability.
• Creation Tool Sales: By providing access to creation tools and digital assets for sale, CubeOasis amplifies the design and showcasing of virtual blocks.
• Virtual Space Rentals: The platform allows for the leasing of display areas within its virtual landscape for personal or commercial use, presenting new avenues of revenue generation.
• Virtual Events and Competitions: CubeOasis engages users through virtual events and competitions, harnessing revenue from sponsorship and participation fees.

CubeOasis, already a trailblazer, has completed its initial build and now awaits businesses to embark on their exploratory journey. The platform’s OG users have rigorously tested and validated its capabilities, setting the stage for upcoming milestones. CubeOasis’s meticulously laid-out roadmap charts a course toward a future where it redefines the digital business landscape.

Forging Collaborative Alliances

Collaboration lies at the core of CubeOasis’s essence, evident through its strategic partnerships with industry giants, including renowned names like Huawei. The collaboration with Metasurge, an acclaimed agency within the web3 domain, solidifies CubeOasis’s stature as an industry leader.

Extending beyond, the project’s network encompasses influential partnerships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), collectively shaping the trajectory of digital business.

Embrace the Future with CubeOasis

CubeOasis isn’t a mere platform; it’s an evolution. It encapsulates innovation, immersive interactions, and a business landscape unrestrained by conventional norms. CubeOasis bridges contemporary businesses and the future of enterprise, where success finds limitless expression. The journey begins now, and it commences with CubeOasis.

WISeKey Empowers Luxury Brands with Advanced NFT Technology to Digitally Authenticate and Represent Unique Products

Secure NFT tags embedded as ePassports can be affixed to any product and create a unique digital footprint.

WISeKey International Holding Ltd, a leader in cybersecurity, digital identity, and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions operating as a holding company, today announced that it is supporting luxury brands’ efforts to NFT (non-fungible tokens) their products as unique, digital assets, unalterably registered on a blockchain, which can be bought and sold like any other product or commodity. As the world of luxury goods intersects with the digital realm, WISeKey's trusted NFT technology is ushering in a new era of authentication and representation. By leveraging the groundbreaking concept of NFTs luxury brands can now create a unique digital footprint for their products on the blockchain.

NFTs are distinctive digital assets that symbolize ownership or proof of authenticity of a unique item, using the revolutionary blockchain technology are now gaining monumental traction in the art and collectibles domain. Unlike fungible cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum, NFTs are non-fungible, signifying each token's distinctness and non-interchangeable nature. Beyond digital art and collectibles, NFTs have vast potential, and can be used to tokenize assets ranging from digital artwork, music, videos, virtual real estate, in-game virtual goods, domain names, in addition to tangible assets such as real estate and luxury goods.

Ensuring the distinctiveness, origin, and permanence of NFTs, blockchain technology embeds each token with a unique identifier and ownership details, ensuring easy verification and nullifying unauthorized duplications or alterations.

Capitalizing on this, WISeKey provides a seamless bridge between luxury items and the digital metaverse. Luxury brands, without the need for a physical product, can now create unalterably registered NFTs on a blockchain, a move aligned with the digital preferences of the younger generation.

Notably, WISeKey's VaultIC154 NFC secure element can be integrated into luxury items, enabling secure authentication when accessed by an NFC device. Furthermore, the technology grants brands the prowess to issue, validate, and adjust digital certificates of authenticity, fortifying against counterfeiting.

WISeKey's innovation heralds a paradigm shift in luxury product authentication, positioning luxury brands at the digital forefront, readying for a future where tangible and digital realms intertwine seamlessly.

WISeKey, a global pioneer in combining dual-factor authentication with blockchain technology, ensures the security of luxury mechanical watches. As of now, it safeguards over 2.5 million luxury timepieces.

Since 2010, WISeKey has partnered with luxury watch manufacturers to deploy its distinctive technology. Using its VaultIC155 NFC secure element, WISeKey integrates semiconductor tags into luxury items including bags, watches, jewelry, accessories, perfumes, etc.

These capabilities empower brands to:

1. Issue storage devices with a digital certificate of authenticity.
2. Verify the authenticity of the digital certificate as needed.
3. Update the status of the digital certificate's validity when necessary.
4. Initiate the dematerialization of a product and its Digital Twin transformation into a corresponding NFT.

These tags, akin to an embedded ePassport, can be affixed to any product. When tapped by an NFC-enabled phone, they securely authenticate and trace the item, registering its identity on the blockchain ledger. This innovative approach has earned WISeKey a US patent, which can be explored here.

In addition, WISeKey offers a groundbreaking concept: the Product Watch Birth Certificate. This digital identifier is comparable to a product's birth certificate, replete with details such as its manufacturing date and company. By transitioning into a "Trusted Object" on the Internet, it equips the luxury product with a robust digital identity, furnishing verifiable data throughout its lifecycle.

The essence of this Product Birth Certificate lies in its unique cryptographic key pair. While its public key is shared openly as part of the certificate, the private key operates in the background to validate the IoT device's identity and guarantee data's cryptographic integrity. This private key is the very crux of the IoT device's identity.

New capabilities allow customers to discover, classify, and secure sensitive data across two of the most widely used cloud file-sharing services

Laminar, the leading data security posture management (DSPM) company, recently acquired by Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security™ Company, today announced that it has added support for Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive. Customers can now use Laminar to continually discover overexposed and unprotected sensitive data in OneDrive and Google Drive, enabling proactive risk remediation and data leak detection. With this expanded support, organizations can safeguard sensitive data across their entire digital landscape, including major cloud service providers Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure as well as Snowflake, BigQuery, and other SaaS applications.

As organizations increasingly leverage cloud file-sharing services like Google Drive and OneDrive for seamless data sharing and storage, the potential risks associated with data breaches, unauthorized access, and compliance violations have grown significantly. Data security and governance teams’ limited visibility into the contents of these files can lead to unprotected sensitive data. Additionally, unintentional file sharing and incorrect permissions can lead to oversharing internally and externally.

To address these challenges, the Laminar Data Security Platform takes an agnostic approach to data security; discovering, classifying, and securing sensitive data as it moves across an organization’s digital environment, including collaborative cloud-based services. Laminar provides secure scanning, ensuring data is not removed from the customer environment. With the platform, data security and governance teams can see and secure enterprise data consistently across the entire digital landscape.

"Today’s businesses are powered by cloud file-sharing services, which enable easy and rapid collaboration. This is why it is so critical to have a comprehensive approach to data security, so as to not leave these important files unprotected. With the integration of Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive support into the Laminar Data Security Platform, we believe this is a giant step towards solving this sensitive data security challenge," said Amit Shaked, CEO and co-founder at Laminar. "We recognize that data security is a collective responsibility, encompassing every individual within an organization. Laminar is now positioned to provide an agile platform that safeguards sensitive information, no matter where it resides or whether it's utilized by developers, data scientists, or any employee across an organization."

The news follows the acquisition of Laminar by Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security Company™. Together, Rubrik and Laminar create the industry’s first complete cyber resilience offering of its kind bringing together cyber recovery and posture across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS.

Today, AMD announced it has published the source code for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology, the backbone of AMD EPYC^™ processor-based confidential computing virtual machines (VMs) available from cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Compute Infrastructure (OCI).
This release from AMD will drive greater transparency for the security industry and provide customers the opportunity to thoroughly review the technology behind confidential computing VMs powered by AMD EPYC processors.
"As a leader in confidential computing, we are committed to a relentless pursuit of innovation and creating modern security features that complement our ecosystem partners’ most advanced cloud offerings," said Mark Papermaster, executive vice president and chief technology officer, AMD. “By sharing the underpinnings of our SEV technology, we are delivering transparency for confidential computing and demonstrating our dedication to open source. Involving the open-source community will further strengthen this critical technology for our partners and customers who expect nothing less than the utmost protection for their most valuable asset - their data.”
“At Google Cloud, we are mission-focused on helping customers protect their data throughout its entire lifecycle,” said Jeff Reed, VP, Cloud Security, Google Cloud. “As the first cloud service provider to support AMD's encryption in use capability, this release represents another significant milestone in our long-standing collaboration to enable transparent, robust, confidentiality of data in process at Google Cloud.”
“We applaud AMD’s decision to make portions of their security firmware available for public inspection. This is totally in line with Azure confidential computing’s philosophy of embracing open source and open sourcing our own code where practical.” Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO and Technical Fellow, Microsoft. 

Expanding Capabilities of Cloud Service Providers with AMD Processors
AMD EPYC processors offer world-class performance and modern security features to guard data at rest, in motion and in use. The processors are at the heart of a growing portfolio of confidential computing-enabled VMs from major cloud service providers; giving customers the assurance they need to move the sensitive workloads into the cloud. Using the AMD EPYC processors and the AMD Infinity Guard suite of security features, AMD continues to be a leading technology partner of choice for confidential computing including:

• AWS supporting AMD EPYC powered confidential computing with SEV-SNP in the EC2 M6a, C6a and R6a instances.
• Google Cloud supports Confidential Computing with AMD EPYC processors in numerous ways. This includes Confidential Spaces for privacy-focused use cases such as joint data analysis and machine learning model training; General Availability of Confidential VMs and Confidential GKE as IAAS services, and confidential Dataflow and Confidential Dataflow based Analytics solutions.
• Microsoft Azure using AMD EPYC processors to power multiple confidential computing services, including confidential virtual machines, confidential Azure Container instances, confidential VM node pools for Azure Kubernetes Service, Confidential VMs for SQL on Azure VMs, confidential VM cluster nodes for both Azure Databricks and Azure Data Explorer, and confidential VMs for Windows 11 Azure Virtual Desktop. These services are designed to offer hardware-based trusted execution environments leveraging AMD SEV-SNP, which hardens guest protections, helping to guard against external threats operator access.
• Oracle Compute Infrastructure (OCI) provides its customers a high assurance of data control as customers transition their workloads to the cloud while delivering the modern security features and impressive performance of the EPYC CPU-powered of the OCI E3 and E4-based Confidential VMs.

Customers Advancing Security in the Public Cloud
Customers, including AstraZeneca and MonetaGo, are demonstrating robust adoption of AMD SEV technology to encrypt full system memory and individual VM memory to expand their offerings for customers. The modern data center requires workload optimization and the AMD EPYC processor portfolio provides an all-in feature set, with modern security features, to power the optimized compute infrastructure for workloads that demand the highest level of confidentiality.

Vantiva launches new software suite
for Network Service Providers and consumers

Vantiva’s New NaviGate^TM Suite enables advanced data analytics for operators
to improve end-user video experience & iOS/Android mobile device management of broadband gateways for millions of subscribers

Vantiva, today announced the launch of its new generation of software services under the NaviGate^TM Suite at IBC 2023. This NaviGate^TM Suite focuses on bringing added value to Network Service Providers (NSPs) and TV operators while improving the consumer experience. The NaviGate^TM Suite features three services: NaviGate IQ^TM, NaviGate 5G^TM and NaviGate Companion^TM. NaviGate IQ^TM provides operators with advanced data analytics and machine learning to improve set-top box (STB) performance and offer upgraded and tailored services. NaviGate 5G^TM and NaviGate Companion^TM offer a range of white-labeled iOS/Android tools for broadband, from 5G signal optimization to managing and accessing gateways from anywhere.

• NaviGate IQ^TM: Provides operators with valuable insights into their Android TV subscribers’ video service consumption. It is designed to be used on a Vantiva STB as well as a competitor’s hardware. It is a lightweight monitoring agent running on subscribers’ STB. NaviGate IQ^TM allows operators to understand how the end-user is consuming content and using applications with the goal of providing a better experience and tailored services. On the back end, NaviGate IQ^TM takes advantage of machine learning to detect anomalies at the earliest stages, accelerating root cause analysis and proactive corrections to preserve customer experience. NaviGate IQ^TM has the capability to identify and inform the operator of rogue and pirated content consumption, preventing loss of revenue for operators.
• NaviGate 5G^TM: Supporting Vantiva’s 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) gateways, the NaviGate 5G^TM is a white-labeled application for both iOS and Android mobile devices that helps consumers locate the best 5G reception “sweet spot” in their home. NaviGate 5G^TM helps the end-user set up and position the FWA gateway to maximize performance. The app also runs signal strength and speed tests, providing users with the most accurate data to confirm its correct installation. It enables and secures the quality of end-user self-service installation, reducing inbound technical support calls and the costs of truck rolls.
• NaviGate Companion^TM: For broadband operators, NaviGate Companion^TM is a white-labeled iOS and Android application for all Vantiva gateways that allows consumers to set up and manage their home gateways and extenders using their mobile phones and tablets. NaviGate Companion^TM allows end users to monitor and manage their home network in real-time and from anywhere. It grants visibility and defines Internet access rules, including advanced Wi-Fi settings and parental controls.
  
  

“Our experience has given us a deep understanding of the complex home environment and the unique challenges NSPs have in ensuring a premium user experience," said Ashwani Saigal, Vice President of broadband and video product at Vantiva. “We developed the NaviGate^TM Suite to provide data-driven insights that will enable operators to provide preventive care that reduces operational expenses while elevating the home experience.”  

This is the latest development in Vantiva’s ongoing commitment to providing open and innovative technologies for Network Service Providers (NSPs) and TV operators around the world. The ultimate goal is to help deliver consumers seamless connectivity and premium entertainment experiences by creating best-in-class customer premise equipment (CPE) and partnering with the most innovative companies in the connected home ecosystem.

Powerful Live Events Portal Now Available to Primary Schools Nationwide

Livestream Learning Studio (the Studio), and Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider^®, today announced a partnership. Under the agreement, Carahsoft will serve as the Studio’s Master Government Aggregator^®, making the company’s industry-leading Virtual Live Events Portal available to Educational institutions through Carahsoft’s reseller partners and NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) V, National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) ValuePoint, E&I Cooperative Services Contract and OMNIA Partners contracts.

“We are pleased to partner with Carahsoft and its reseller partners to offer our groundbreaking “Laugh While Learning” academic enrichment to the Public Sector nationwide,” said Ward Eames, CEO of Livestream Learning Studio. “Unfortunately, many schools aren’t able to teach students in the way they want to learn today. That is why we created and tested an easy-to-use livestream platform that boosts content engagement and student achievement. We deliver live, interactive, educational theatre performances to individual classrooms.”

“With the addition of Livestream Learning Studio to our offerings, we are now able to bring innovative educational technology to schools across the nation,” said Tim Boltz, Sales Director for the Educational Technology Team at Carahsoft. “Through collaboration with Livestream Learning Studio and our reseller partners, we can provide educators and administrators access to resources that will enrich their curriculum and enhance their students’ learning.”

While governments scramble to regulate AI, business leaders must act carefully to proactively get ahead of business-critical issues and risks.

Conversica, Inc., the leading provider of conversational AI solutions for enterprise revenue teams, is announcing today the results of its newest survey conducted with business owners and leaders to get a perspective on enterprise preparedness regarding AI Ethics and Corporate Responsibility.

While governing bodies around the world are still considering AI-specific regulations, giving AI providers the power to launch services and products with various degrees of reliability, almost every organization is falling short of formulating in-house, well-defined principles and guidelines for their own responsible and ethical implementation of this technology. But this is inevitable, as business leaders need to get ahead of potential risks and issues given the disruptive possibilities of this technology.

Survey highlights

For organizations already adopting AI, a whopping 86% agree on the critical importance of having clearly established guidelines for the responsible use of AI; the percentage was 73% among all respondents.
However, only 6% of companies have policies in place for the responsible use of AI. And among organizations planning to adopt AI in the next 12 months, it’s even lower: 5% have policies.
One in five business leaders at companies that use AI have limited or no knowledge about their policies concerning critical AI issues including security, transparency, accuracy, and ethics.
The main concerns for companies who adopted AI are: the lack of transparency (22%), false information (21%), and the accuracy of data models (20%).
Getting ahead of the issue: Survey details

The survey data shows that companies that already utilize AI or those with plans for its adoption within a year are more likely to acknowledge the importance of having clear ethical guidelines for the responsible use of the technology.

86% of business leaders at organizations already adopting AI say that having AI ethics policies in place is crucial, compared to 73% of the overall group. However, despite being more likely to recognize the importance of these policies, only 5% of the leaders at companies adopting AI currently have clear guidelines in place.

One in five business leaders at companies who use AI have limited or no knowledge about their company's policies concerning the critical issues associated with the use of AI including security, transparency, accuracy, and ethics. Even more alarming, 36% claim to be only 'somewhat familiar' with these issues. This is a widening risk factor that businesses will have to address in the near future, especially those already using AI, as they likely are already experiencing the challenges and opportunities posed by this technology.

“From an enterprise perspective, these figures are concerning, especially considering the vast array of AI products and services expected to become available in the coming years and the potentially significant impact they will have on the future of business,” said Jim Kaskade, CEO of Conversica. “This could represent a problematic trend for companies that haven’t started planning to enforce responsible and ethical use of AI. Business leaders must get ahead of these issues now.”

According to respondents, the most challenging aspects of making informed decisions about the use of AI in their companies are the lack of resources for data security and transparency (43%), and difficulty with finding a provider that has ethical standards that are aligned with those of the company (40%).

“The main elements business leaders should be looking for are the safe, brand-protective, and compliant use of AI that protects their end users. The minimum AI factors include governance, diverse and representative training data, bias detection and mitigation, transparency and accuracy,” said Kaskade.

AI trends and concerns

Within the following year, business leaders said they intend to use AI for ‘external engagement’, i.e. customer service/support, and marketing/sales outreach (39%). ‘Insights’ including fraud detection, data analytics, and predictive modeling came in at a close second (36%).

Currently, the top concerns about AI vary according to where their companies are in adopting the technology. Among those that have already adopted the technology, the top three concerns about its use are the lack of transparency (22%), the accuracy of data models (20%), and false information (21%).

Respondents whose companies had no plans to adopt AI-powered services in the next year mostly said they don’t have any concerns about AI (29%). For the respondents who did express a concern, their top choice was ‘legal implications, patent infringements, plagiarism, and copyright violations’ (11%).

When asked to what extent they viewed false information generated by AI as a significant concern for their company, 77% of total respondents rated this as either ‘Concerning’ or ‘Very concerning.’ This figure was higher – 88% – for respondents whose companies already have AI-powered solutions in place, indicating that business leaders with more business experience with AI have better awareness of the possible brand risks associated with improper usage.

When it comes to employee use of popular AI-based tools like ChatGPT, the majority of respondents (56%) said that their company either already has rules in place, or is considering implementing a usage policy.

Neural Network Speech Enhancement Open-Source AI Model Operates in Real-Time with Minimal Latency and Energy

Ambiq®, a pioneer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces the Neural Network Speech Enhancer (NNSE), its latest addition to its neuralSPOT's Model Zoo. This highly optimized AI model effectively removes background noise from speech on the device in real time, allowing clean speech capture in noisy environments. As with all Ambiq Model Zoo components, NNSE includes scripts and tools to help developers add speech de-noising capabilities to their applications. It also consists of a simple graphical user interface allowing users to easily record and save the enhanced speech along with the original noisy audio on their PC for demonstration purposes.

Speech de-noising is useful in noisy or loud environments, such as vehicle cabins, factory floors, offices, and outdoors. NNSE can capture clean speech for various applications, such as voice memo recording, voice chat, and speech recognition. This AI model is optimized to operate on devices, in real time, with minimal latency and energy utilization. While the pre-trained model is ready to use on Ambiq development platforms, NNSE also includes software to train, convert, and deploy customized models where needed. All software has been released under the permissive BSD-3-clause license for ease of deployment and development.

"Ambiq's neural network speech enhancer may be the only open-source TinyML™ implementation of AI-based speech de-noising for IoT endpoint devices," said Carlos Morales, the VP of AI at Ambiq. "The highly optimized AI model will help developers get started on speech de-noising applications on Ambiq Apollo4 Plus SoC in a matter of minutes."

AI is used extensively in the multibillion-dollar IoT space for everything from industrial anomaly detection to speech-based consumer interfaces. Ambiq's recent AI development on the Apollo SOCs broke free the limitations of power consumption and form factor of endpoints to enable a truly immersive environment where users can leverage intelligence everywhere without physical constraints. Download the Technical Preview at [https://github.com/AmbiqAI/nnse.git] to download and start developing AI today.