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Microsoft releases open-source toolkit to accelerate deep learning

“A toolkit used across Microsoft to achieve breakthroughs in artificial intelligence is generally available to the public via an open-source license, a team of researchers and software engineers announced today. “The 2.0 version of the toolkit is now in …

The Adventure begins again

“Colossal Cave Adventure was the origin of many things; the text adventure game, the dungeon-crawling D&D (computer) game, the MOO, the roguelike genre. Computer gaming as we know it would not exist without ADVENT (as it was known in …

Facebook open sources Caffe2, its flexible deep learning framework of choice

“Today Facebook open sourced Caffe2. The deep learning framework follows in the steps of the original Caffe, a project started at the University of California, Berkeley. Caffe2 offers developers greater flexibility for building high-performance products that deploy efficiently. This isn …

Google Earth Enterprise - Open Source

“Earth Enterprise is the open source release of Google Earth Enterprise, a geospatial application which provides the ability to build and host custom 3D globes and 2D maps. Earth Enterprise does not provide a private version of Google imagery that …

A New Home for Google Open Source

“Free and open source software has been part of our technical and organizational foundation since Google’s early beginnings. From servers running the Linux kernel to an internal culture of being able to patch any other team’s code, open …

Announcing Guetzli: A New Open Source JPEG Encoder

“At Google, we care about giving users the best possible online experience, both through our own services and products and by contributing new tools and industry standards for use by the online community. That’s why we’re excited to …

News  Linux 4.10

Linux 4.10

“Linux 4.10 was released on 19 Feb 2017. Summary: This release adds support for virtualized GPUs, a new ‘perf c2c’ tool for cacheline contention analysis in NUMA systems, a new ‘perf sched timehist’ command for a detailed history of …

Welcome to AirSim

“AirSim is a simulator for drones (and soon other vehicles) built on Unreal Engine. It is open-source, cross platform and supports hardware-in-loop with popular flight controllers such as Pixhawk for physically and visually realistic simulations. It is developed as an …

Wine 2.0 Released

“The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 2.0 is now available. This release represents over a year of development effort and around 6,600 individual changes. The main highlights are the support for Microsoft …

Renault will release its Twizy EV hardware system as an opensource platform

“Renault has developed an open-source automotive platform for a compact and lightweight electric vehicle, based on its existing Twizy EV, which could enable those wanting to build their own electric vehicle company to jumpstart the process. In partnership with OSVehicle …