Being open about data privacy
It turns out that the starting point for what data people and governments believe should be available for organisations to use is somewhat different between the U.S. and Europe, with...
Analyzing the Linux boot process
But how does the kernel itself get started? So the kernel must start up something like other Linux ELF binaries … but how do userspace programs actually start? The ELF interpreter pr...
An introduction to the GNU Core Utilities
Two sets of utilities—the GNU Core Utilities and util-linux —comprise many of the Linux system administrator’s most basic and regularly used tools. This new operating system was much...
Will rising carbon dioxide levels really boost plant growth?
But some groups opposed to limiting our emissions claim that higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) will boost plants’ photosynthesis and so increase food production. This wasn’t a pr...
UQDS: A software-development process that puts quality first
The Ultimate Quality Development System (UQDS) is a software development process that provides clear guidelines for how to use branches, tickets, and code reviews. Tickets In a proj...
Tiny microenvironments in the ocean hold clues to global nitrogen cycle
In the nitrogen cycle, phytoplankton and other marine plants turn nitrate (NO 3 ) into organic nitrogen during photosynthesis. The organic nitrogen sinks into the deep ocean, where m...
The current state of Linux video editing 2018
Independent An independent or hobbyist editor with simple needs will find OpenShot perfect. Independent Many of the obvious things a hobbyist would expect from a video editor just ...
Open source software: 20 years and counting
Soon afterwards, the Open Source Definition was created and the seeds that became the Open Source Initiative (OSI) were sown. Like any human creation, it has a dark side as well. In ...
Open Source Election System Certified
OSI Affiliate Member, The National Association of Voting Officials (NAVO), announced this week the certification of the Prime lll open source election system for the State of Ohio. N...
Mozilla’s large repository of voice data will shape the future of machine learning
Mozilla’s open source project, Common Voice, is well on its way to becoming the world’s largest repository of human voice data to be used for machine learning. The saved recording th...
Mainstream academia embraces open source hardware
Consider the graph below, which shows the number of articles on open source hardware indexed by Google Scholar each year from 2000 to 2017. opensource.com In the last 17 years, the...
How to start an open source program in your company
Many internet-scale companies, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, have established formal open source programs (sometimes referred to as open source program offices, or OSPOs f...
How to develop the FOSS leaders of the future
Once you’ve identified the roles and determined which ones are critical to your project, the next step is to list all of the duties and responsibilities for each of those critical ro...
6 pivotal moments in open source history
Early in 1985, he published The GNU Manifesto, which was a call to arms for programmers to join the effort, and launched the Free Software Foundation in order to accept donations to ...
Your IoT predictions for 2018 (Part 2)
We have severely underestimated the complexity of collecting data at the edge of the network and moving this data securely to nodes in the cloud where it can be analyzed and acted up...
Your IoT Predictions for 2018 (Part 1)
This year, we’ve seen IoT technology contribute to the evolution of biotech, manufacturing, how we inhabit our homes, and the development of city landscapes. But we know that the IoT...
Three Things You Need to Know About Google’s New Quantum Processor
It Needs To Make Fewer Errors In spite of recent advances, today’s qubits are still unstable, and hardware needs to be sturdy to run them. The blog post didn’t state Bristlecone’s e...
Scientists Are Creating GMO Species That Can’t Survive
However, as we genetically modify organisms, we run the risk of them mating with their non-modified counterparts, which could irreparably change wild species and disrupt whole popula...
Scientists aim to use lasers to turn light into matter
Scientists at Imperial College London are attempting to use powerful lasers turn light into matter, potentially proving the 84-year-old theory known as the Breit-Wheeler process. Acc...
Rice U. reports progress in pursuit of sickle cell cure
AUSTIN - (Feb. 16, 2018) - Scientists have successfully used gene editing to repair 20 to 40 percent of stem and progenitor cells taken from the peripheral blood of patients with sic...
Researchers achieve random access in large-scale DNA data storage
In a paper published in Nature Biotechnology, the members of the Molecular Information Systems Laboratory (MISL) describe the science behind their world record-setting achievement of...
New innovations in cell-free biotechnology
We developed a bacterial cell-free protein synthesis system that is capable of high level expression of pure proteins containing multiple non-canonical amino acids, said Michael Jewe...
New algorithm enables data integration at single-cell resolution
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team of computational biologists has developed an algorithm that can ‘align’ multiple sequencing datasets with single-cell resolution. For example, when ...
Industrial Medicine: Cell Therapy Scales Up
Above: GE Healthcare is working with the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) in Toronto to commercialize cell therapy. Top: As medical science advances and i...
In living color: Seeing cells from outside the body with synthetic bioluminescence
Now, scientists in Japan have supercharged these molecules, making them hundreds of times brighter in deep tissues and allowing for imaging of cells from outside the body. Biolumines...