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The harmful impact of Audible-exclusive audiobooks
Amazon's creeping monopoly on the audiobook industry through Audible pushes bookshops and libraries out of audiobook distribution.
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Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund
Microsoft is joining the Blender Foundation's Development Fund as a Corporate Gold member!
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Brown M&Ms, or Why No One Reads the Manual
One of our favorite anecdotes that illustrates just how hard it is to get people to read the docs comes from an unexpected source: Van Halen. The...
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ScaNN: Efficient Vector Similarity Search
Posted by Philip Sun, Software Engineer, Google Research Suppose one wants to search through a large dataset of literary works using queries that r...
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Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
Testimony before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law
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Librem 5 Phone Dogwood Thermals and Battery Life
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Stack Overflow gets series E funding for $85M
This is my third in a series of quarterly CEO blog posts. I'm excited to share some very positive updates.
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Firefox 79
Firefox 79 offers a new Promise method, more secure target=_blank links, logical assignment operators, tooling improvements for better JavaScript debugging, and many other updates of interest to web developers. In ...
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Clutch, the Open-Source Platform for Infrastructure Tooling
By Daniel Hochman and Derek Schaller
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Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support
Today, we’re excited to announce support for Python, Scala, Kotlin, Reason and Dart. You can build applications on Cloudflare Workers using your favorite language starting today.
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Highlights from Git 2.28
The open source Git project just released Git 2.28 with features and bug fixes from over 58 contributors, 13 of them new. We last caught up with you on the…
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Next.js 9.5
Next.js 9.5 introduces Stable Incremental Static Regeneration, Custom Base Path, Redirects and Rewrites, Webpack 5 Beta, and more!
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Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, next evolution of its serverless platform
Today, we are excited to announce the next phase of this with the launch of our new platform, Workers Unbound, without restrictive CPU limits in a private beta.
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Apache Arrow 1.0
The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the 1.0.0 release. This covers over 3 months of development work and includes 810 resolved issues from 100 distinct contributors. See the Install Page to learn how to get the libraries for your platform. Despite a "1.0.0" version, this is the 18th major release of Apache…
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The Rise of Synthetic Audio Deepfakes
Nisos Resources Library is full of interesting case studies, client success stories, infographics, videos and more. Click to see what we do.
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How to pay your rent with your open source project
A look at the different business and pricing models to fund open source software and make it sustainable.
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Masking lack of evidence with politics
The increasing polarised and politicised views 1 on whether to wear masks in public during the current COVID-19 crisis hides a bitter truth on the state of contemporary research and the value we pose on clinical evidence to guide our decisions.
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Finding Gene Cernan's Missing Moon Camera
It’s often repeated how most of the cameras that landed on the moon stayed on the moon. Gene Cernan had been telling the story of how he left his camera on the lunar rover for years, recounting the tale in interviews. Looking closer, however, you being to unravel a space-age mystery.
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Doing stupid stuff with GitHub Actions
TL;DR: DevOps doesn't have to be all work and no play. I built 5 stupid (but fun!) GitHub actions... because why not ?
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Ozymandias
Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those…
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Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
Dear digiKam fans and users, we are proud to announce digiKam 7.0.0.
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Saliva based Covid test: results in 45 minutes
Researchers from the BioFrontiers Institute at CU Boulder have developed a saliva-based COVID-19 test capable of returning results in as little as 45 minutes—no
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