Google has released Cartographer: an open source, real-time, simultaneous localization and mapping library for 2D and 3D spaces. It can combine data from various sensors like LIDAR, IMU, and cameras. The program is intended primarily for robots to map local facilities. To learn more, read the post on the Google Open Source Blog.
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Government institutions are a prime target for open source software for many reasons, primarily the low cost of ownership and relative ease of upgrading to the latest standards and software. Network World has pieced together a map of governmental adoption of open source around the world, and it paints an interesting picture of worldwide open […]
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The Linux Foundation has compiled a report of the companies and individuals who contribute to and influence the Linux Kernel code. The latest report includes kernel releases 3.19 to 4.7, here are some major points from their report: Nearly 115,000 changesets have been merged from 5,062 individual developers, representing 500 corporations. On average, each version […]
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FastText is a software library designed to help with text representation and classification; facebook has used this tool internally to evaluate the meaning of users posts. The company has released it as open source, and hopes other research and engineering communities will find uses for it. Read more from Facebook.
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Attic Labs is an startup based in San Francisco. The company has announced they’ve raised $8.1 Million to advance Noms: their own open source database software. Noms differs from other database software by making it possible to fork and sync data in the same way that git allows people to work together on source code. […]
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Upskill University is an online educational resource that delivers education related to business changes taking place in the communications industry. The program has announced a series of classes on open source technology in the telecommunications industry that will start on August 10th. Here’s the published schedule of classes for this series: Telcos & Open Source […]
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At the 2016 Embedded Linux Conference in San Diego, CA, the Linux Foundation has announced the launch of the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) to advance open source technology for essential services and civic infrastructure like electricity, oil and gas, health care, communications, transportation, and more. From the announcement: The Civil Infrastructure Platform will aim to […]
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Google has released Walt, a toolset for measuring touch and audio latency on mobile devices, as open source. Previous solutions to measure device latency have mostly focused on providing a single, round-trip number that shows overall latency by either detecting how long audio took to go from the microphone to the speaker, or how long […]
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The Linux Foundation Hyperledger project is an effort to advance open source blockchain technology. It’s goal is to “build and sustain an open, distributed ledger platform that will satisfy a variety of use cases across multiple industries.” The project has announced the election of a board of directors and technical steering committee that includes representatives […]
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The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of Open Source Compliance Basics for Developers (LFC191), a course that is designed to provide software developers with knowledge about legal and licensing issues around building open source software. As the footprint of open source in the technology industry grows, compliance is becoming a core competency of a […]
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The Linux Foundation has announced new financial support for seven projects under the R Consortium: an open source foundation that supports the R programming language community. R is a programming language that excels at data analysis, modeling, and visualization, and it’s popularity is expected to grow along with demand for big data services. The Linux […]
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The MIT Media Lab is a cross-disciplinary research lab that has produced work in wearable computing, tangible interfaces, treatment of neurological disorders, advanced imaging technologies, and more. The organization has previously relied on an internal committee to approve all requests to make software code open source, but they have now announced they will begin approving […]
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In an effort to expand on their successes in medical research apps with the release of ResearchKit, Apple has released CareKit, a framework for making healthcare apps, as open source. Apple plans to release the software in April, and the company said the software is aimed at making things easier for users to track their health […]
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Senator Daniel Squadron, a senator from New York Stat, has co-sponsored a bill along with Senator Ruth Russel-Thompson to provide a tax credit to open source software developers for writing free software. The senators hope to encourage greater technology development in an effort to create jobs and add to the state’s technology sector. Senate bill […]
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Toonz is a popular animation software application that has been used to make some popular animated shows and movies including the popular TV series Futurama. It is often preferred because it makes it easy to combine hand-drawn animations with software-created animations. Japan-based Dwango has acquired Digital Video, the company that made the software, and has […]
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One of the limitations of 3d printing is often the use of a single extruder nozzle that must lay out all of the material in a print job. Autodesk seeks to expand this bottleneck through project Escher: software that coordinates the operation of multiple extruders to complete a single print job. The ability to add […]
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The Linux Kernel 4.5 was released by Linux Torvalds on Sunday, March 13, 2016. Notable features: copy_file_range(2) system call – This allows files to be copied to a new location without the need to transfer data through the userspace. This makes file copying more efficient, especially for NFS systems. Btrfs scalability improvements: All file systems […]
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The Open Source Solution to Privacy
In this part of the series, I want to explore the various open source solutions that have risen recently. The transparency of open source software offers a unique solution to the issues of protecting the privacy of citizens by allowing anyone to check the integrity of the code used to generate applications. This is only […]
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Silicon Valley is considered the center of the tech world by many, but according to an analysis of the top GitHub Contributors, roughly 3/4’s of open source development occurs elsewhere in the world. This shows that companies could benefit from hiring distributed teams in order to increase the size of their hiring pool. More from […]
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goSDL is “is a web application tool that serves as a self-service entry point for following a Security Development Lifecycle checklist in a software development project.” Slack has released goSDL under an MIT license. Slack is known for churning out large amounts of code quickly with a relatively small developer team, and they had a hard […]
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Much like how the software industry is shifting from large companies controlling the production to distributed open source communities controlling the production, the energy production industry is going through a similar transformation to small-scale renewable technologies, such as solar panels, to produce energy through distributed networks. PowerMatcherSuite is a new open source project that includes […]
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