Intel and Softbank beware. Open source is coming to the chip business
After revolutionizing software, the open-source movement is threatening to do same to the chip industry.
Jan 23, 2020
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Security
Open-source system securing software updates 'graduates' to protect leading cloud services
The Update Framework (TUF), an open-source technology that secures software update systems, has become the first specification project to graduate from the Linux Foundation's Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). A specification—common ...
Dec 19, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Hanabi: Facebook AI steps up to cooperative gameplay
The card game Hanabi has been taken on as a challenge by Facebook's AI, and it is quite a challenge considering they are entering a realm where playing is not just a question of one opponent beating another, but a "cooperative" ...
Software
New software aims to make science more replicable
Every field in science and engineering employs highly specialized equipment: surface area analyzers, nanosizers, recording membrane osmometers. This equipment is often incredibly specific, designed for just a single function, ...
Dec 3, 2019
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Drone project aims to put floating Lagos slum on map
John Eromosele records the coordinates of a bustling canal on his smartphone from aboard a dug-out canoe navigating the floating slum of Makoko in Nigerian megacity Lagos.
Nov 29, 2019
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Machine learning & AI
New analytical tool locates shooters using smartphone video
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that can accurately locate a shooter based on video recordings from as few as three smartphones.
Nov 20, 2019
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Telecom
Technology strengthens connectivity of 1 in 8 of world's smartphones
Today, your smartphone's switch from Wi-Fi to 4G goes completely unnoticed. The key is an open technology developed by UCLouvain, used by one in eight people around the world, called the Multipath Transmission Control Protocol ...
Nov 18, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Study leads to a system that lets people use simple English to create complex machine learning-driven visualizations
The ubiquity and sheer volume of data generated today give experts in virtually every domain ample information to track everything from financial trends, disaster evacuation routes, and street traffic, to animal migrations, ...
Oct 23, 2019
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Internet
Browser tool aims to help researchers ID malicious websites, code
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an open-source tool that allows users to track and record the behavior of JavaScript programs without alerting the websites that run those programs. The tool, ...
Oct 22, 2019
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Time-saving software in an age of ever-expanding scientific data
It is hard to get people excited about software, says Eliza Grames, a doctoral candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology. Yet, the software she has developed is exciting for anyone about to embark on a new research and ...
Sep 5, 2019
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