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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

Having an open-source IVI operating system would create a reusable platform consisting of core services, middleware and open application layer interfaces that eliminate the redundant efforts to create separate proprietary systems. By developing an open-source platform, carmakers can share upgrades as they arrive.

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Ugh! There's an App for That!

Phil Windley

I traveled to Munich for European Identity Conference several weeks ago—my first international trip since before the pandemic. Post-pandemic travel can be confusing, international travel even more so. The lesson of the internet was not that it was the cheapest, easiest way to build global network.

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Analysis: Microsoft’s big hires foreshadow bold new move into consumer AI

GeekWire

But young consumer audiences use various social networking tools — Instagram, TikTok, and others —that typically have nothing to do with Microsoft. However, they did miss the mobile platform wave, which transformed how we communicate, work, shop, travel, and entertain ourselves.

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Online romance scammers stole more hearts (and money) in 2020 than 2019

Vox

They say they’re in the military and are stationed abroad and it’s hard for them to travel due to the pandemic. They might say in-person dates can’t happen due to social distancing requirements or travel restrictions. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. The FTC warns : “You won’t get it back.”.

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Americans are one step closer to a national contact tracing app for Covid-19

Vox

That means if you had the New York version of the app and traveled to New Jersey for a large, crowded superspreader event where you were exposed to the coronavirus, you’d still get a notification (assuming the infected person used one of those states’ apps and reported their positive results to the proper health authorities).

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Global distributed organizations can attract the most talented in the world

Trends in the Living Networks

Forbes has a nice story about the history of WordPress and the role the open-source software plays in the for-profit business Automattic. As a legacy of its open-source roots its 120 employees are spread across 26 countries and six continents. The article at one point says: Automattic has an idiosyncratic workplace.

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S3motion Buckets Containers Objects AWS S3 Cloud and EMCcode

Storage IO Blog

It’s springtime in Kentucky and recently I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Kendrick Coleman to talk about S3motion, Buckets, Containers, Objects, AWS S3, Cloud and Object Storage, node.js, EMCcode and open source among other related topics which are available in a podcast here, or video here and available at StorageIO.tv.

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