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Unlocking the Secrets of Software-based DRM: A Comprehensive Guide

Kitaboo

Gone are the days of clunky hardware-based DRM solutions that relied on physical tokens or specialized hardware components. Authentication mechanisms can range from simple username/password combinations to more sophisticated methods like biometric authentication or hardware-based authentication tokens.

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ePub for Education: How to Open and Convert ePub Files?

Kitaboo

Many top academic publishers have been delivering electronic versions of books (popularly known as eBooks) for decades. Short for electronic publication, an ePub is the most widely used open-source eBook file format. The format can be opened on all major eBook software including readers, third-party software and browsers.

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This Game Boy doesn’t need batteries, but shuts off every 10 seconds

The Verge

It’s about the size of a paperback book, but as CNET reports , it only weighs half as much as the original handheld. “We The Engage is due to be unveiled on September 12th at the virtual UbiComp conference, after which its design, hardware, and firmware will all be open-sourced on GitHub.

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Bringing AI to your organization? Better bring the right database

CIO Business Intelligence

And they all rely on the open-source NoSQL database Apache Cassandra ®. Although open-source data stores like Redis are available, they lack the durability necessary to support AI applications that are intended to form the foundation of a business. This data in turn is used to train and serve machine learning models.

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Understanding Readium – Features, Architecture and Alternatives

Kitaboo

The Open Source Foundation aims to develop technology for expediting the adoption of ePUB3 and the Open Web Platform by the Digital Publishing Industry. It strives to deliver leading-edge functionality that is fully specified, free, open, and interoperable. x, audiobooks, Web Pub, and image-based books such as Manga.

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Looking Ahead: My 2017 Projects

Scott Lowe

Without further ado, here’s the list for 2017: Finish the network automation book. One way or another, the network automation book I’m writing with Jason Edelman and Matt Oswalt is getting finished in 2017. Launch an open source book project. This is something I’ve been tossing around for a while now.

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Technology Short Take 164

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? Rory McCune shares some information on configuring Caddy , a Go-based open source web server. Career/Soft Skills Ioannis Moustakis shares 44 books for DevOps, site reliability engineering (SRE), and cloud engineers. Read his post for full details.