Orange Takes Leading Role in 5G with Help of LFN
As a leading global telecommunications company, Orange understands the importance of 5G in today’s networks. The company announced 5G trials in France for 2018 and aims to deliver an...
Open Source AI: Projects, Insights, and Trends
The Linux Foundation surveyed 16 popular open source AI projects – looking in depth at their histories, codebases, and GitHub contributions. Our conclusion? Building the right commun...
Open Source AI For Everyone: Three Projects to Know
At the intersection of open source and artificial intelligence, innovation is flourishing, and companies ranging from Google to Facebook to IBM are open sourcing AI and machine learn...
Lung-on-a-chip simulates pulmonary fibrosis
One reason: it’s difficult to mimic how the disease damages and scars lung tissue over time, often forcing scientists to employ a hodgepodge of time-consuming and costly techniques t...
How to measure the impact of your open source project
Open source project impact An effective way to understand an open source project’s impact is through its software libraries. Within the open source ecosystem, jQuery is an upstream ...
Faster genome evolution methods to transform yeast for industrial biotechnology
Scientists have created a new way of speeding up the genome evolution of baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the same yeast people use for bread and beer production, to develop a...
Computer redesigns enzyme
This successful proof of principle study was published in Nature Chemical Biology on 21 May. ‘That’s why a lot of effort is being put into modifying natural enzymes’, explains Dick J...
Tissue-engineered human pancreatic cells successfully treat diabetic mice: Self-condensation process for cells generates vascularized organ tissues for transplant
Researchers tissue-engineered human pancreatic islets in a laboratory that develop a circulatory system, secrete hormones like insulin and successfully treat sudden-onset type 1 diab...
Termux turns Android into a Linux development environment
What is Termux? Termux is Linux, but it is based on Android and runs in a container. Since you don’t have root access in Termux, you can’t just create a symlink to fix path issues. Y...
Researchers tailor E. coli to convert plants into renewable chemicals
Sandia National Laboratories scientists Seema Singh, left; and Fang Liu hold vials of vanillin and fermentation broth, which are critical for turning plant matter into biofuels and o...
Neutrons measured with unprecedented precision using a ‘magneto-gravitational trap’
– A study led in part by physicists at the Indiana University Center for the Exploration of Energy and Matter could provide new insight into the composition of the universe immediate...
Linux vs. Unix: What’s the difference?
So, what is this Unix? Linux distributions came to life with the components of GNU, the Linux kernel, MIT’s X-Windows GUI, and other BSD components that could be used under the open ...
Linux for developers comes to Chrome OS, using AR to assist surgeons, and more open source news
Linux for developers is coming to Chrome OS Developers will soon have the option to run a Linux virtual machine within Chrome OS. A selection of popular code editors will also be av...
LikeCoin, a cryptocurrency for creators of openly licensed content
Conventional wisdom indicates that writers, photographers, artists, and other creators who share their content for free, under Creative Commons and other open licenses, won’t get pai...
How a competitive cycling team applies DevOps and agile methods
In a cycling team, everyone works for the success of the entire organization, not just for themselves. The DevOps architect or engineer in your organization (Disclaimer: Yes, I belie...
Getting started with regular expressions
Why we need regular expressions As mentioned above, regular expressions are used to define a pattern to help us match on or find objects that match that pattern. Now, to start searc...
Getting robotic surgical tools from the lab to the operating room
Credit: Vanderbilt University The path from university lab to commercialization is especially complex in the biotech industry. Yet Nabil Simaan, a mechanical engineering professor w...
An introduction to cryptography and public key infrastructure
We call any cipher that uses the same key to both encrypt and decrypt a symmetric cipher. Symmetric ciphers are divided into stream ciphers and block ciphers. Our XOR cipher is a str...
A guide to Git branching
Next, run the following commands: git status git checkout -b myBranch git status The first command, git status reports you are currently on branch master , and (as you can see in...
Unravelling the mysteries of extragalactic jets
University of Leeds researchers have mathematically examined plasma jets from supermassive black holes to determine why certain types of jets disintegrate into huge plumes. Their stu...
Unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter map
The standard cosmological model (called LCDM) incorporates the cosmological constant. Wide and deep imaging survey using Hyper Suprime-Cam Figure 2: Expansion history of the Univers...
Tuneable genetic ‘clocks’ might lead to improved biotech strategies
In genetics, oscillators are biological ‘clocks’ that express certain key genes at regular time intervals. Scientists are increasingly giving genetic oscillators to engineered cells,...
The Maintainer’s Paradox: Balancing Project and Community
What are some of the challenges open source project maintainers face? One common issue is “The Maintainer’s Paradox,” which refers to the fact that open source maintainers are presen...
Star mergers: A new test of gravity, dark energy theories
The neutron star merger created gravitational waves - a squiggly distortion in the fabric of space and time, like a tossed stone sending ripples across a pond - that traveled about 1...
Science’s 2017 Breakthrough of the Year: The observation of two neutron stars merging
Science has chosen as its 2017 Breakthrough of the Year the first observations of a neutron-star merger, a violent celestial event that transfixed physicists and astronomers. As the ...