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what every open source project needs

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In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B

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Apple and Google are coming for your car

Vox

Apple’s next generation of CarPlay turns your dashboard into a giant iPhone. We may have gotten a sneak peek at the long-rumored, long-awaited Apple Car when the company unveiled the next generation of its CarPlay feature at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. Big Tech’s big car ambitions have antitrust advocates worried.

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Microsoft’s resurgence: Reflecting on Satya Nadella’s leadership, a decade after he became CEO

GeekWire

This is no small feat given that Microsoft wasn’t even part of FAANG , the name Jim Cramer coined in 2013 for the tech stocks (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) driving the market and consumer mindshare. Microsoft’s valuation surged from $300 billion to $3 trillion, rivaling Apple as the world’s most valuable company.

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Fraunhofer’s new H.266 codec promises to cut the cost of streaming 4K video in half

The Verge

With VVC, Fraunhofer says you can get something far better than AVC and HEVC without any of the licensing headaches. VVC promises to use half the data as HEVC to stream a 90-minute 4K video. Through a reduction of data requirements, H.266/VVC

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Ugh! There's an App for That!

Phil Windley

Apple recently announced that you can store your Covid-19 vaccination card in the Health app. The size of Apple and Android may help solve this problem since they already represent huge ecosystems. Beyond health pass applications, things like mobile drivers licenses need to be interoperable to be useful.

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Technology Short Take 170

Scott Lowe

A new zero-click, zero-day exploit was announced and Apple has released an update for all affected systems. Here’s another take on the future of Terraform following the license switch. Daniel Stenberg rails about everything that is wrong about CVEs. Grafana recently had to rotate their GPG signing key.

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You ever think about how Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC”

The Verge

There’s an Apple event next week , and it’s looking fairly likely that we’ll see updated models of the iPad Pro and perhaps the iPad Mini. Chromebooks exist, and both Apple and Microsoft worry about them in familiar ways. So it was all colors and screen sizes, really. It’s a netbook.)

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