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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The first Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) took place in Geneva, Switzerland on March 2-5, 2016. The primary goal was to develop an initial roadmap to promote widespread use of open hardware in science, and it included the presence of a number of open science projects and organizations including OpenPlant, Hackteria, DropBot, OpenTrons, and […]
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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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In an effort to spur Artificial Intelligence (AI) development, Microsoft has announced they will be releasing AIX as open source. AIX is an AI development engine that’s based on Minecraft; the company is currently using the engine to teach an AI how to do regular tasks in the game, such as climbing to the top […]
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In the Second Open Government National Action Plan, the White House committed to providing an open source software policy for the US Federal Government. On Friday, that commitment was met when Tony Scott, the US Chief Information Officer, announced the release of the first draft of the Federal Source Code Policy which provides an initial […]
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Scientific research has been held back to some extent in recent years due to the restrictions the traditional publishing model imposes. A number of tools have been built to remedy this, including the Open Science Framework: a cloud-based management system for scientific research, and GitLab: a popular platform for hosting digital resources like software code. […]
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Hot on the heels of hitting the 1 million certificates issued milestone, the Let’s Encrypt project has announced it will be changing it’s name and moving to be hosted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The goal of the Let’s Encrypt project is to make it as easy as possible to provide HTTPS encryption on […]
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R is a programming language and environment for statistical computing and generating graphics that is widely used in the scientific community. As a part of Microsoft’s growing embrace of open source, the company has released a first look at R Tools for Visual Studio. R has a relatively high learning curve, and one of the […]
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The State of Open Source: Digital Manufacturing
Over the past 20 or so years, the open source community has continually grown and evolved, with the majority of developments occurring in the software world. Recent developments, however, are allowing the open source community to expand into the physical realm and are opening up new opportunities for everyone. I call this the digital manufacturing […]
