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France Ditches Zoom, Teams as Europe Seeks Digital Autonomy From US
In France, civil servants will ditch Zoom and Teams for a homegrown video conference system. Soldiers in Austria are using open source office software to write reports after the military dropped Microsoft Office.
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Meta Just Launched The Largest 'Open' AI Model In History. Heres Why It Matters
In the world of AI, a battle is underway. On one side are companies that believe in keeping the datasets and algorithms behind their advanced software private and confidential. On the other are companies that believe it should be made public.
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Beeper Says Its Efforts to Bring iMessage to Android Is ‘Unsustainable’ After Providing Jailbroken iPhone Fix
Beeper, the messaging platform that has fought hard to bring Apple’s iMessage to Android phones, seems to have released a final update for its service. After multiple attempts at making iMessage work on Android devices reliably, with workarounds that involved users accessing a Mac, Beeper has said its efforts to bring the popular messaging servic...
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Open-Source Simulation Engine Using Photorealistic Simulator for Self-Driving AI Training Released
A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), have created a simulation engine capable of creating photorealistic environments to train AI for autonomous vehicles (AVs) which can be used for very realistic locations used to train the AVs.
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CoWIN Now Showing Fully/ Partially Vaccinated Badges, Platform Made Available Globally as Open-Source Software
CoWIN has announced that it will now start displaying badges for fully vaccinated and partially vaccinated on user's profiles on the portal. The badges will appear as shields. Furthermore, back in July the Government of India announced that it will offer CoWIN on a global scale and earlier this week, it was offered as an open source platform.
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IIT Bombay Invites Applications For FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2021
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has invited applications for the Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education (FOSSEE) summer fellowship 2021.
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IBM Gains Unconditional EU Approval for $34 Billion Red Hat Deal
The EU's powerful antitrust authority on Thursday cleared the buyout by IBM of open source software company Red Hat.
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GitHub Hit by Hacker Holding Code Repositories for Ransom
Hackers have hit open source software development platform GitHub, removing code repositories and asking ransom from developers in order to restore their source codes.
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Google Pixel 4 Spotted in Android Open Source Project Commit, Tips at Ongoing Testing
Google Pixel 4 has been mentioned again on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) Gerrit with reference to fixing software issues.
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Facebook Open Sources 'Horizon' AI Tools Used to Improve Video, Messenger
The Horizon software is focused on reinforcement learning, in which software improves itself by trial-and-error from experience.
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Microsoft Makes 60,000 Patents Open Source in Bid to Help Linux, Joins Open Invention Network
Microsoft's decision reflects a change in attitude of the software giant which earlier considered open sources technologies a threat to its business.
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Google Deepens Partnership With Facebook on AI Tech
Google is integrating Facebook's open source Machine Learning (ML) PyTorch framework across its software and hardware tools for AI development.
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IIT Mandi Students Selected For 'Google's Summer Of Code'
IIT Mandi ranks 10th globally in this initiative with an aim to encourage more student developers into open source software development.
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Google Open Sources 'Portrait Mode' Image Software for Developers, Similar to Pixel 2
The DeepLab-v3+ model has put in place to create a "synthetic shallow depth-of-field effect" like the one shipped with the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL.
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Mozilla Is Creating AI-Based Voice-Recognition Software Using Crowdsourcing
Mozilla is exploring an alternative way of gathering data, by asking users to pool information to power an open-sourced AI initiative, The Verge reports.
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France Ditches Zoom, Teams as Europe Seeks Digital Autonomy From US
In France, civil servants will ditch Zoom and Teams for a homegrown video conference system. Soldiers in Austria are using open source office software to write reports after the military dropped Microsoft Office.
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Meta Just Launched The Largest 'Open' AI Model In History. Heres Why It Matters
In the world of AI, a battle is underway. On one side are companies that believe in keeping the datasets and algorithms behind their advanced software private and confidential. On the other are companies that believe it should be made public.
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Beeper Says Its Efforts to Bring iMessage to Android Is ‘Unsustainable’ After Providing Jailbroken iPhone Fix
Beeper, the messaging platform that has fought hard to bring Apple’s iMessage to Android phones, seems to have released a final update for its service. After multiple attempts at making iMessage work on Android devices reliably, with workarounds that involved users accessing a Mac, Beeper has said its efforts to bring the popular messaging servic...
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Open-Source Simulation Engine Using Photorealistic Simulator for Self-Driving AI Training Released
A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), have created a simulation engine capable of creating photorealistic environments to train AI for autonomous vehicles (AVs) which can be used for very realistic locations used to train the AVs.
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CoWIN Now Showing Fully/ Partially Vaccinated Badges, Platform Made Available Globally as Open-Source Software
CoWIN has announced that it will now start displaying badges for fully vaccinated and partially vaccinated on user's profiles on the portal. The badges will appear as shields. Furthermore, back in July the Government of India announced that it will offer CoWIN on a global scale and earlier this week, it was offered as an open source platform.
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IIT Bombay Invites Applications For FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2021
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has invited applications for the Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education (FOSSEE) summer fellowship 2021.
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IBM Gains Unconditional EU Approval for $34 Billion Red Hat Deal
The EU's powerful antitrust authority on Thursday cleared the buyout by IBM of open source software company Red Hat.
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GitHub Hit by Hacker Holding Code Repositories for Ransom
Hackers have hit open source software development platform GitHub, removing code repositories and asking ransom from developers in order to restore their source codes.
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Google Pixel 4 Spotted in Android Open Source Project Commit, Tips at Ongoing Testing
Google Pixel 4 has been mentioned again on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) Gerrit with reference to fixing software issues.
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Facebook Open Sources 'Horizon' AI Tools Used to Improve Video, Messenger
The Horizon software is focused on reinforcement learning, in which software improves itself by trial-and-error from experience.
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Microsoft Makes 60,000 Patents Open Source in Bid to Help Linux, Joins Open Invention Network
Microsoft's decision reflects a change in attitude of the software giant which earlier considered open sources technologies a threat to its business.
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Google Deepens Partnership With Facebook on AI Tech
Google is integrating Facebook's open source Machine Learning (ML) PyTorch framework across its software and hardware tools for AI development.
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IIT Mandi Students Selected For 'Google's Summer Of Code'
IIT Mandi ranks 10th globally in this initiative with an aim to encourage more student developers into open source software development.
-
Google Open Sources 'Portrait Mode' Image Software for Developers, Similar to Pixel 2
The DeepLab-v3+ model has put in place to create a "synthetic shallow depth-of-field effect" like the one shipped with the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL.
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Mozilla Is Creating AI-Based Voice-Recognition Software Using Crowdsourcing
Mozilla is exploring an alternative way of gathering data, by asking users to pool information to power an open-sourced AI initiative, The Verge reports.
