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

CTOvision

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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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

Average salary: $170,939 Torch Torch is a scientific computing framework, scripting language, and open-source machine learning library based on the Lua programming language — and it’s often used to build and train deep neural networks.

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Google Cloud launches new AI chatbot for COVID-19 information

Tech Republic Cloud

The Rapid Response Virtual Agent program includes open source templates for companies to add coronavirus content to their own chatbots.

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Google Magenta’s Lo-Fi Player lets you create your own virtual music room

The Verge

When you open Lo-Fi Player, you’re taken to a pixellated virtual “room” where you click different objects — a clock, a cat, or a piano, for instance— in the room to change the different tracks, like the bass line and the melody.

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Fostering Innovation at Discover Financial Services

CIO Business Intelligence

Innovation squads to build out new ideas Discover launched its Innovation Accelerator program to help designers and engineers flesh out new ideas across their entire lifecycle—from inception to launch and optimization. So, they released the code as open source and invited creators from around the globe to contribute. “But

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Four Attributes of Openness in Modern Communications

CTOvision

By Prayson Pate Openness is one of the most-cited advantages of cloud-based applications, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). In this context, what does open really mean? A good example of this type of openness is the Microsoft Outlook Messaging API (MAPI).

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Technology Short Take 175

Scott Lowe

Networking The good folks over at Packet Pushers have compiled a list of open source networking projects. Operating Systems/Applications Google has open sourced Magicka, an AI-powered file type identification library. I hope you find something useful here! More details are available in this blog post.