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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups

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The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.

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Fed News Roundup 16 July 2015

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Why government needs open source databases - GCN.com GCN (Today) - GCN.comWhy government needs open source databasesGCN.comRecent reports on our economy have been positive, but government agencies are still facing unprecedented financial pressures as a result of the 2008 economic crisis.

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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s become a vital skill for producing mobile devices and for developing embedded systems, IoT devices, and other consumer products. Average salary: $169,874 PyTorch PyTorch is an open-source machine learning library developed by Facebook’s AI Research Lab (FAIR).

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Google is shutting down its VR field trip app Expeditions

The Verge

The majority” of its tours will be migrated to Google’s separate Arts & Culture app, letting users view them via web or mobile device. Google launched Expeditions for its Cardboard VR viewer in 2015 , and classrooms could get boxes of Cardboard headsets for “virtual field trips.” But Google has since retreated from VR.

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Fed Tech Roundup October 14

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Protecting government IT systems at the source - FCW.com. SAVE THE DATE: 2015 Annual CARE (Companies As Responsive Employers) Awards Breakfast, Nov. If Mobile Isn’t On Your Radar, It Should Be. SAVE THE DATE: 2015 NVTC Tech Awards, October 19. Income Scams are Subject of New FTC Fotonovela. How to punish a 'hacker'?

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HackerOne CEO Mårten Mickos: COVID-19 is ‘the planet’s warning’ to accelerate digital civilization

GeekWire

A native of Finland, he’s the former CEO of MySQL, the open-source database company that was sold to Sun Microsystems in 2008. TB: You became the CEO of HackerOne in 2015. So WiFi, VPN, authentication, passwords, mobile phones and so on. What about its mission resonated so much with you? It’s beautiful.

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Online Training Solutions and the Art of Enterprise Training Delivery

Kitaboo

However, with the impending phasing out of Flash, companies have now begun to transform their eLearning courses to the popular HTML5 format, an open source web format. Mobile Learning: Mobile devices and tablets have revolutionized the way we consume our content. Employee Training / October 7, 2015. Conclusion.

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