In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look China’s open source AI technology, GitHub making open source licensing easier, the Eclipse Foundation taking over Java...
At Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, Ariane 6 is now a reality with the launch zone taking shape. Indeed there is no time to lose for the future European launcher since its first ...
Six differences between traditional and agile planning 1. The agile approach allows the team to find their own way towards achieving specific goals. The collaborative leadership sty...
Do you use open source software or free software? Although there are different rules for free software licenses (four freedoms) and open source licenses (Open Source Definition), wha...
Those who fork a project rarely, if ever, contribute to the parent project again. Whatever the reason, a project fork is the copying of a project with the purpose of creating a new a...
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What is threat modeling? Application threat modeling is a structured approach to identifying ways that an adversary might try to attack an application and then designing mitigations ...
In the past couple of months, we’ve invited 13-year-old algorithmist and cognitive developer Tanmay Bakshi, 11-year-old hacker and cybersecurity ambassador Reuben Paul, and 15-year-o...
One of these is people with disabilities. But the community must be willing to do so. Accessibility to events should consider both presenters and attendees. Finding the way to sessio...
This year, Opensource.com contributors shared some of the ways open source software and science teamed up. Why aren’t more researchers using open source? Developing the scientific co...
The cron service checks for files in the /var/spool/cron and /etc/cron.d directories and the /etc/anacrontab file. This line is set to run at 5:03 a.m. (03 05) every day. */ 5 08- 18...
One of the most important first steps is to rally leadership behind your community participation strategy. “You should really understand the company’s objectives and how to enable th...
Prepare questions When an interviewer asks, Do you have any questions for me? any answer that isn’t Yes! Before you start an interview, make sure to have several questions prepared....
Wood, as the researchers note, has always been a popular material for crafting tools and weapons. The sticks were found at a site in Tuscany, Italy, called Poggetti Vecchi—an area th...
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec.1, 2017 - Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have identified a common set of genes that enable different drought-resistant p...
The process through which cells are able to sense their environment is regulated by force detection. Since this force depends on the ligand spatial distribution, this enables cells t...
Postdoctoral researcher Seon-Yeong Kwak led a team of engineers and scientists to instill the plants with the same enzyme that makes fireflies sparkle. The light is ultimately powere...
At higher temperatures, PIF4 activates growth-promoting genes and the plant grows taller. In the lab, the scientists identified plants with a gene defect which still only formed shor...
A team of researchers, including a faculty member and postdoctoral fellow from Washington University in St. Louis, found that oxygen levels appear to increase at about the same time ...
Rapid developments in the field of synthetic biology and its associated tools and methods, including more widely available gene editing techniques, have substantially increased our c...
(Nov. 27) - A research team led by Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research has harnessed metabolomic technologies to unravel the molecular activities of a key protein that can en...
In order to find this out, the Jena Experiment was established in 2002, one of the largest biodiversity experiments worldwide. Professor Weisser from the Chair for Terrestrial Ecolog...
This database is made up of museum collections from the past 150 years and demonstrates that some Neotropical regions, such as the Cerrado in the central Brazil, contain a disproport...
Trade of wild birds has dropped about 90% globally since the EU banned bird imports in 2005. A study published today in the recognized scientific journal Science Advances demonstrate...
This thruster, which is being developed by NASA’s Glenn Research Center in conjunction with the US Air Force and the University of Michigan, is a scaled-up model of the kinds of thru...