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Our Freemium Future: Development teams take advantage of free, entry-level versions of software 

CTOvision

Either home-grown or licensed from a vendor who billed you for maintenance at periodic intervals? Another accelerator for freemium – in our Web-centric world – is the way social networks and platforms mean that word-of-mouth/peer-developer buzz has become the most effective way to build a community of users.

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO Business Intelligence

Patents, product specifications, academic publications, market research, news, not to mention social media feeds, all have text as a primary component and the volume of text is constantly growing. SpaCy , an open-source library for advanced natural language processing explicitly designed for production use rather than research.

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Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

When it comes to ChatGPT, the only utilization in my practice is the way we go about creating our marketing strategy on social media—getting ideas, generating scripts, seeing what it can provide us as inspiration for new content. One option, however, is to use open source software. Probably not,” Orlandini says.

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

GeekWire

While Microsoft was an early pioneer in personal computing, it missed the mobile and search waves, didn’t participate in the consumer social networking wave, and was coming from behind on cloud. (Madrona Photo) When Satya stepped into the CEO role, the industry’s opinion was that Microsoft was on a path to becoming irrelevant.

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What is data science? Transforming data into value

CIO Business Intelligence

Many organizations look for candidates with PhDs, especially in physics, math, computer science, economics, or even social science. Data science teams make use of a wide range of tools, including SQL, Python, R, Java, and a cornucopia of open source projects such as Hive, oozie, and TensorFlow. Data science tools.

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Digital identity startup Evernym sells to Avast, looks to bring trust to a decentralized internet

GeekWire

There’s a lot of chatter these days about Web3 — a decentralized version of the internet that operates outside the confines and grips of social media and technology giants. “This could be a log-in credential, but it could also be a vaccine record, diploma, hotel reservation, driver’s license, etc.

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Sustainability in EdTech: Balancing Innovation With Environmental Responsibility

Kitaboo

Here’s your answer: Directly Impacts the Environment Socially, EdTech innovations are capable of improving the quality of education. In fact, free, open-source software also comes under the purview of sustainable EdTech products. But why is it so? What makes green innovation so important?

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