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Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary
On August 21st, 2016 with 46 comments
-- OriginalOwner_ writes:InfoWorld reports MariaDB Corp. has announced that...
Mind the Arrows: Coding at Scale
On August 25th, 2016 with 18 comments
quietus suggested this story:Professional programming is hard: dealing with...
Thoughts on Thinking
On August 27th, 2016 with 8 comments
martyb writes:For many years now, I've been following the blog, Knowing and...
Netflix: VP9 Codec Can Beat H.265/HEVC at 1080p or Higher Resolutions
On August 30th, 2016 with 14 comments
takyon writes:Google's VP9 codec can (sometimes) outperform H.265/HEVC at...
Austria Offering Up To €200,000 for Your FOSS Project
On September 1st, 2016 with 10 comments
-- OriginalOwner_ writes:The European Union's interoperability page...
The Next Version Of Fedora Picks Up Rust
On September 2nd, 2016 with 23 comments
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:You know a language has...
OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement
On September 3rd, 2016 with 38 comments
takyon writes:OpenOffice may not last much longer as many of its former...
Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable
On September 3rd, 2016 with 65 comments
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Apollo 11 Guidance Computer Code is on Github
On September 6th, 2016 with 48 comments
JNCF writes:Quartz reports that a former NASA intern has made a Github...
New Algorithm Detects Online Fraudsters: Sees Through Camouflage to Reveal Fake Followers, Reviewers
On September 9th, 2016 with 36 comments
Phoenix666 writes: An algorithm developed at Carnegie Mellon University makes...
Researchers Demonstrate "WaveNet" Neural Network, Claim Large Improvements in TTS
On September 12th, 2016 with 9 comments
f4r writes:Researchers at Google DeepMind have released a paper (PDF) and...
Microsoft Officially Releases Skype 1.7 for Linux
On September 12th, 2016 with 18 comments
An Anonymous Coward writes:"Microsoft has just released a new version of Skype...
Vim 8.0 Released
On September 12th, 2016 with 103 comments
CoolHand writes:Vim 8.0 has been released. This is the first major Vim release...
Elon Musk Says Pending Radar Autopilot Update Would Prevent More Accidents
On September 13th, 2016 with 19 comments
takyon writes:Tesla's Autopilot software is being upgraded to version 8.0,...
Ask SN: Best Online Store for a Command-Line Tool
On September 13th, 2016 with 29 comments
MichaelDavidCrawford writes:I'm nearing feature completion of a command-line...
New Programming Language Delivers Fourfold Speedups on Problems Common in the Age of Big Data
On September 13th, 2016 with 13 comments
AnonTechie writes:In today's computer chips, memory management is based on...
Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation
On September 15th, 2016 with 18 comments
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:SRI International, the...
Pandora Launches Song Replays, More Ad Skips for All
On September 16th, 2016 with 12 comments
Phoenix666 writes:[Pandora,] the veteran online radio provider said Thursday...
Emacs 25.1 Released [Updated]
On September 18th, 2016 with 26 comments
martyb writes:For those who have mastered typing ctrl-alt-meta-cokebottle...
Windows 10 Software Condemned by Which?
On September 23rd, 2016 with 63 comments
Phoenix666 writes: Microsoft has been criticised over its Windows 10 software...
Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content]
On September 25th, 2016 with 26 comments
FakeBeldin writes in with some Original Content: Following up on NCommander's...
Worst Authentication Experiences?
On September 25th, 2016 with 62 comments
Appalbarry writes:I always find the various authentication experiences to be...
Adobe Revives Flash for Firefox on Linux After Four-Year Lag
On September 26th, 2016 with 33 comments
CoolHand writes:PCWorld reports that Adobe has decided to start supporting...
Firefox 53 Will Stop Supporting Windows XP and Vista
On September 28th, 2016 with 50 comments
number6 writes in with a story from: ghacks.net where Mozilla has reported its...
Google Upgrades Chinese-English Translation with "Neural Machine Translation"
On September 29th, 2016 with 24 comments
takyon writes:Google Translate will be upgraded using a "Neural Machine...
City of Moscow to Ditch 600k MSFT Exchange and Outlook Licences
On September 29th, 2016 with 28 comments
-- OriginalOwner_ writes: El Reg reports The city of Moscow has announced it's...
Google Deleted Some Cloudy Middleware Accounts
On October 2nd, 2016 with 8 comments
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:Google's Cloud has...
Using Big Data to Monitor Societal Events Shows Promise, but the Coding Tech Needs Work
On October 2nd, 2016 with 6 comments
Phoenix666 writes: In the age of Big Data, automated systems can track...
Why Kernel Development Still Uses Email
On October 3rd, 2016 with 29 comments
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story. It is an interesting...
CAFC Judge: Software Patents Are Against the First Amendment
On October 4th, 2016 with 58 comments
-- OriginalOwner_ writes:Roy Schestowitz at TechRights reports Further...
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