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Gestural control interfaces for everyday computing could get a big shot in the arm with this update.
Know Linux? You're in for a job or two. A new report shows Linux experience is in greater demand -- and, hiring managers say, harder to find -- than in past years.
What's the best new open-source project of them all? GitHub's got about 10 good guesses on that subject.
Editor's Pick Instagram's new Terms of Service got your neckbeard in a twist? Try these open-source, consumer-friendly alternatives.
Facebook’s Open Compute Project, a huge effort to create and promote open-source hardware, is hosting its first-ever hardware hackathon.
The hackathon will take place next month in Santa Clara, Calif., at the OCP’s Open Compute Summit. The hackathon’s goal is …
It's unlikely that you, Dear Reader, will ever experience the big-data challenges or infrastructure demands of a Facebook-scale, billion-user software platform. But if you do, you'll be happy to know that the company is sharing a sip of its secret sauce today.
Editor's Pick Today, a new class of startups is launching from nReduce, which got its start a few months ago as a self-proclaimed neo-Y Combinator. Now, eight of the best startups from its first batch are giving online demonstrations.
Twitter uses and builds a fair amount of open-source software, so it wasn't too shocking when we read in our inboxes this morning that the social media startup has joined the Linux Foundation.
Meteor Development Group has pulled in $11.2 million in funding to make building client-side web apps super easy and super fast. This is the group’s first institutional funding round, and it’s a rather large one at that.
Meteor is open-sourced …
We’ve been itching to know more about Firefox OS ever since Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs started talking real talk about it to us at SXSW.
And today, we got screenshots. Hooray!
UPDATE, 2:55 p.m. Pacific: A Mozilla rep emailed us …
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When Facebook decided to open-source the hardware that makes its data centers some of the most energy-efficient and innovative in the tech industry, others tech giants were eager to join in and open-source their Internet hardware as well. But not …
Twitter is opening its doors to open-source hackers for a few hours next Thursday night.
The OSS-themed open house will bring some of the brightest software engineers and developers to Twitter’s fancy new Art Deco headquarters for the “Twitter Runtime …
Ok, ok, make the obvious Twitter downtime jokes; go ahead, get it out of your system.
Done? Good. Here’s some fun news:
Twitter has just open-sourced Iago, a load generator it developed internally and that it has been using in …
“Facebook’s Folly” — sounds like a mid-life-crisis-type watercraft, doesn’t it? But it’s actually a huge bundle of C++ utilities focused on speed, ease of use, and interoperability with other C++ libraries you already use.
The collection of reusable C++ library …
What do HP, Salesforce, AMD, VMWare, and Alibaba all have in common?
They’re all partners in the Facebook-led Open Compute Project, a group that aims to revolutionize computer hardware through the power of open-source collaboration.
Facebook’s Open Compute Project is …
Linux is everywhere. You might not see it, and you probably don’t know it yet, but it’s powering the web services you use, the phone in your hand, and the ATM at your bank.
The following video, just released by …
Today, Facebook has open-sourced Ringmark, its new test suite for mobile device manufacturers.
Ringmark, which was announced just a few weeks ago at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, is designed to run “tests of core functionality that web developers need …
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Today, Yahoo is open-sourcing Mojito, a bit of software that uses JavaScript and Node.js to run a single codebase on both the client and server side.
Mojito is one of a few Node-centric projects Yahoo’s been brewing. Collectively called Cocktails, …
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For businesses and other organizations today, open-source software (OSS) is transformative in terms of its ability to allow organizations to write software very quickly and to leverage innovation very aggressively.
OSS component-based development has reached a strategic tipping point, having …
