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Docker comes to Raspberry PI

“If you’re not already familiar with Docker, it’s a method of packaging software to include not only your code, but also other components such as a full file system, system tools, services, and libraries. You can then run …

Facebook is giving away the software it uses to understand objects in photos

“Facebook is open sourcing a set of computer vision software tools that can identify both the variety and the shape of objects within photos. The tools, developed by the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team, are called DeepMask, SharpMask, and MultiPathNet …

Linus Torvalds Reflects on 25 Years of Linux

“When Linus Torvalds first announced his new operating system, Linux, on Aug. 25, 1991, it was a “completely personal project,” Torvalds said at LinuxCon today. The kernel totaled 10,000 lines of code that would only run on the same …

Solving network congestion

“MegaMIMO system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab speeds data transfer by coordinating multiple routers at the same time. There are few things more frustrating than trying to use your phone on a crowded network. With phone usage …

BittWare Delivers Arria 10 OpenCL BSPs for Altera OpenCL SDK 16.0.2 Release

“BittWare, designer and manufacturer of Altera-based FPGA platforms, announced today at the Intel SoC FPGA Developer Forum 2016 (ISDF16) the availability of Arria 10 FPGA Board Support Packages (BSPs) for Altera’s recently released OpenCL SDK 16.0.2, including …

Google is developing an OS called Fuchsia, runs on All the Things

“Every single operating system developed by Google to date has one thing in common: they’re based on the Linux kernel. Chrome OS, Android, Chromecasts, you name it. Linux has powered Google hardware for years. However, the Linux kernel is …

Introducing mbed OS 5

“I’m very pleased to share the newest update to mbed; the introduction of mbed OS 5 and our 5.1 release! This release marks significant changes and enhancements that have accelerated features of our roadmap, opened up the applicability …

Download the new Arduino IDE 1.6.10!

“Great news, Makers! We’re excited to announce the immediate availability of the Arduino IDE 1.6.10, AVR core 1.6.12 and SAM core 1.6.9. The most notable feature of this release is the introduction of …

Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s

“We are pleased to announce the open source release of Lepton, our new streaming image compression format, under the Apache license. Lepton achieves a 22% savings reduction for existing JPEG images, by predicting coefficients in JPEG blocks and feeding those …

ECMAScript® 2016 Language Specification

“This Ecma Standard defines the ECMAScript 2016 Language. It is the seventh edition of the ECMAScript Language Specification. Since publication of the first edition in 1997, ECMAScript has grown to be one of the world’s most widely used general …