[ad_1] Until today, only developers in the early adopter program could get the SDK, but now it’s freely available to all as open-source code. However, developers will still need to become early adopters if they want to lease a robot to test their code, Boston Dynamics said. That way, they can “create custom methods of […]
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GitHub will store all of its public open source code in an Arctic vault
[ad_1] At its Universe Developer Conference two days ago, GitHub announced its Archive Program — its plan to preserve all of its open source software for future generations. The program will see this data stored on an ongoing basis across various data formats and locations, including in the Arctic World Archive, a vault hidden 250 […]
Google open sources Cardboard as it retreats from phone-based VR
[ad_1] The company isn’t offloading all responsibility. It’s promising to contribute new features to the project, including a developer kit package for the Unity game engine. This will mainly help developers adapt to new phone displays and other changes without waiting for Google. The open source effort might be a relief to some. Cardboard is […]
Vodafone tests open cellular radio tech that could lower phone rates
[ad_1] Vodafone has so far only deployed OpenRAN in Turkey, where it provides 2G and 4G service. This represents a significant expansion, and the company isn’t moving slowly. It plans to roll out the open radio tech in 120 rural UK areas on October 7th. It’s also expanding to more countries with trials in the […]
GNU founder Richard Stallman resigns from MIT, Free Software Foundation
[ad_1] Richard M. Stallman has resigned as FSF president and from the board of directors: https://t.co/4Z8kyrgBuv — Free Software Fndn. (@fsf) September 17, 2019 This comes after growing calls for his removal, most recently tied to Stallman’s statements in an MIT email thread about Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre, and what he called the “injustice” of […]
Microsoft releases its first preview of Power Toys for Windows 10
[ad_1] The original set of utilities was useful for classic tasks like making CDs autoplay or bringing registry settings to the Control Panel via TweakUI. In its initial release, the Windows 10 Power Toys set includes a Windows key shortcut guide, as well as “FancyZones,” which lets you set up predetermined targets to drag applications […]
Google, Intel and Microsoft form data protection consortium
[ad_1] Some of the early contributions include a Microsoft framework that helps you write code to run inside Trusted Execution Environments, an Intel framework for protecting code at the hardware level and a Red Hat tool that abstracts secure environments to the point where you can create and run private “serverless” apps. Appropriately, the Linux […]
Can an open-source AI take on Amazon and Google?
[ad_1] But underneath all of this technology is the potential risk to your privacy. In just the past few months, news reports have uncovered a series of alarming revelations that companies like Amazon, Google and even Apple have been listening in on conversations without permission. The data that they collect are also often stored indefinitely […]
Facebook releases tools to flag harmful content on GitHub
[ad_1] Currently, when Facebook finds offensive photos and videos, it removes them and its algorithms assign a hash, or a digital fingerprint. Its technology can then use those hashes to determine whether two files are the same or similar, even without the original image or video. So when multiple copies of, say, terrorist videos appear […]
Google pushes for an official web crawler standard
[ad_1] While the Robots Exclusion Protocol has been around for a quarter of a century, it was only an unofficial standard — and that has created problems with teams interpreting the format differently. One might handle an edge case differently than another. Google’s initiative, which includes submitting its approach to the Internet Engineering Task Force, […]