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Ex-Vertica CEO: Hadoop Is Pulling The Rug From Under The Database Industry

Derrick Harris | GigaOM | November 2, 2013

Venture capitalist Chris Lynch has disrupted the database industry before as CEO of Vertica Systems, but now he’s watching Hadoop take it to the next level. Here are his thoughts on the challenges legacy vendors face and who’s positioned to ride the big data wave. Read More »

Experimental Network Connects Zambia’s Most Remote

Staff Writer | IT News Africa | July 17, 2013

Range Networks, a leading U.S.provider of commercial open-source cellular systems, announced this week that it had successfully deployed an experimental cellular network in Southern Zambia. Read More »

Experts from BMW Group Research and Technology are developing in the research project webinos an open source platform for using mobile web applications across different devices.

Press Release | BMW Group, BMW Forschung und Technik GmbH | September 10, 2012

The infinite world of the web. Experts from BMW Group Research and Technology are developing in the research project webinos an open source platform for using mobile web applications across different devices. Read More »

Explainer: What Is The Open Movement?

Rob Chalmers | The Conversation | October 29, 2012

You’ll have read on this site, and perhaps others, about the push towards “open access” for journal articles. But what is open access, and how does it fit into the wider “open movement”? Read More »

Exploring Use Cases for Electronic Clothes

Chris Jablonski | ZD Net | January 29, 2012

Adafruit Industries, an open-source hardware company, recently announced a new wearable electronic platform that is Arduino compatible. Called Flora, the 1.75-inch device will soon be available to Adafruit’s community of makers, hackers, crafters, artists, designers and engineers. Read More »

Extending The Spectrum Of Openness To Include The Moral Right To Share

Glyn Moody | Techdirt | August 13, 2013

[A] great post by David Eaves points out that the spectrum of openness actually extends well beyond the variants typically encountered in the West... Read More »

Facebook Adapts Open Compute For Colo Space

Rich Miller | Data Center Knowledge | October 25, 2012

We’ve been closely tracking the progress of the Open Compute Project, wondering if these uber-efficient open source hardware designs would ever be available at your local colocation center. Facebook has now shared details of its first use of Open Compute hardware in its third-party colo space. Read More »

Facebook Blows Up The Server Industry With New Open Source Hardware

Lucian Parfeni | Softpedia | January 17, 2013

It may seem a bit strange, but Facebook has some serious hardware chops these days. It started with the open hardware server designs, but this year the company is doing one better and unveiling a new standard server design that should allow for much more modular servers and racks. Read More »

Facebook Makes The Animation Library Behind Paper Open Source

Lauren Hockenson | GIGAOM | April 28, 2014

The animation generator behind Facebook’s Paper will now be available as open source for mobile developers...The company plans to announce today that the animation engine behind Paper, Pop, will be available to developers as an open source tool.

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Facebook Open Sources Thrift Protocol ... Again

Thor Olavsrud | CIO | February 20, 2014

After more than six years of internal development of its branch of the cross-language framework that powers its internal services, Facebook has released that branch to open source and hopes to work with the Apache Thrift community to incorporate the work. Read More »

Facebook Rebooting Their Open Source Contributions

Jason Hibbets | OpenSource.com | April 7, 2014

Facebook is on a new open source journey. They're managing hundreds of active open source projects across the company and over the last nine months, have rebooted how they run those projects.

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Facebook Shatters The Computer Server Into Tiny Pieces

Cade Metz | Wired | January 16, 2013

As the man at the center of Facebook’s Open Compute Project, Frankovsky spent the last two years rethinking the very essence of the computer hardware that runs the company’s massive social network — and sharing his ever-evolving data center ideology with the rest of the tech world. He’s a kind of hardware philosopher. And now he looks like one too. Read More »

Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research Lab Releases Open Source FastText on GitHub

John Mannes | Tech Crunch | June 18, 2016

Every day, billions of pieces of content are shared on Facebook. To keep up with the data, Facebook has been using a variety of tools to classify text. Traditional methods of classification, like deep neural networks are accurate, but have serious training requirements. Read More »

Facebook’s Open-sourcing of AI Hardware Is the Start of the Deep-learning Revolution

Steven Max Patersson | Ars Technica | December 15, 2015

A few days ago, Facebook open-sourced its artificial intelligence (AI) hardware computing design. Most people don’t know that large companies such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon don’t buy hardware from the usual large computer suppliers like Dell, HP, and IBM but instead design their own hardware based on commodity components...

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Fairphone and /e/ expand the availability of /e/OS to Fairphone 3+ users

Press Release | /e/, Fairphone | November 12, 2020

Following the successful launch of /e/OS for Fairphone 3 in April 2020, people across Europe will now be able to buy the latest Fairphone, Fairphone 3+, with /e/OS software. The collaboration between Fairphone and /e/OS is the first of its kind, providing users with a phone that puts both privacy and sustainability first. Fairphone community members nominated /e/OS as their alternative operating system (OS) of choice when asked which OS they wanted for the next Fairphone - highlighting that fairer technology for many isn't just about the device and its components but also about the software that powers the product. The launch of /e/OS for Fairphone 3+ proves Fairphone's commitment to providing its users with options when it comes to privacy, giving them the option of choosing from the standard Android OS and /e/OS, for those who value the protection of their personal data.

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