If you live in Silicon Valley, we’ve got your weekend planned for you. You’ll want to attend the 11th Vintage Computer Festival West at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. This is the first such festival in the Bay Area in nine years, and it features a lot of great content the old … continue reading
A slow disaster has been unfolding since the end of June in the BTRFS community. This open source file system, also known as the “ButterFS,” includes modern features that do not exist elsewhere on Linux, such as snapshots, pooling and integral multi-device spanning. According to BTRFS contributor Goffredo Baroncelli on the BTRFS mailing list, the … continue reading
Envelop VR has introduced its Envelop for Windows, a computing platform that enables interaction with Windows applications while immersed in a virtual reality headset. Envelop for Windows allows users to shop online, watch YouTube videos, and work in Microsoft Office, all at the same time. With this product, users can have control over each window’s … continue reading
Netflix’s traffic intuition tool that gives teams an understanding of traffic as it flows through their system was originally called Flux, but as of this week it has been renamed Vizceral, and Netflix has open-sourced four of its repositories on GitHub, making it this week’s GitHub project of the week. Netflix said that when it … continue reading
In May, the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) was signed into U.S. law. At the signing ceremony, President Obama remarked: “Unfortunately, all too often, some of our competitors, instead of competing with us fairly, are trying to steal these trade secrets from American companies. And that means a loss of American jobs, a loss of … continue reading
The 2016 Olympic Games kick off tomorrow in Rio. While millions of viewers tune in to see how the athletes are performing, application-management software provider Dynatrace will be tuning in to see how the websites are performing. “The Olympics puts many of these websites on a global stage like never before. During the two weeks … continue reading
In order to help mobile app developers with testing apps for the Android ecosystem at scale, LinkedIn announced that Test Butler, a new suite of tools that run large scale UI testing for Android, is now an open-source project. Today, mobile app developers face a few challenges. As mobile platforms grow, developers need to put … continue reading
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced the availability of HPE Mobile Center 2.0. It’s an integrated software development testing suite that allows developers and organizations to rapidly test and build mobile applications. The mobile center is expanding its capabilities to give users the ability to test, monitor and improve their mobile apps. It integrates with … continue reading
DimensionalMechanics today introduced the first product offerings driven by its cloud-based enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) platform, NeoPulse. The solutions – NeoPulse Profile, NeoPulse Expert and NeoPulse3D – leverage deep learning techniques to address complex data analysis, content curation and simulation challenges by incorporating human-like intuition into existing systems. Since its founding in February 2015, the … continue reading
Sencha, the company providing a unified platform for designing, developing and testing cross-platform web applications, announced a new partnership with Speedment, a leading provider of database acceleration software, to dramatically improve the performance of data-intensive web applications. Under the partnership, organizations can take advantage of Ext JS, the most comprehensive JavaScript platform for building data-intensive, … continue reading
It’s no secret Intel has had trouble gaining a foothold in the mobile device market. The company was issued a major blow last week when its Basis Peak smartwatch brand had to recall all of its devices due to overheating. The overheating in question resulted in burns on the user’s wrist. Josh Walden, senior vice … continue reading
GitHub today announced the release of an updated version of its enterprise SCM product. Version 2.7 of GitHub Enterprise adds support for GPG signatures, a handful of new APIs, and better controls over work assignments and task lists. For developers managing larger projects on GitHub Enterprise, version 2.7 adds more controls for the manager supervising … continue reading
