Google is releasing and open-sourcing TensorFlow, a machine-learning system. According to the company, the new system is greatly improved from Google’s previous machine-learning systems, and makes it easier to integrate in new products and research. “It’s a highly scalable machine-learning system—it can run on a single smartphone or across thousands of computers in datacenters,” wrote … continue reading
Babel 6.0.0 has been released for the JavaScript community, adding tools for the entire community to build upon. According to its blog, the biggest change is that Babel has been restructured to be as “modular as possible,” and its transformers have been rewritten as plug-ins using the same API. Overall, the language processing is easier … continue reading
Google is planning to bring its personal computer operating system, Chrome OS, to its mobile operating system, Android. According to the Wall Street Journal, the new operating system will be unveiled in 2017, but users can expect a preview of the early version by next year. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, recently told analysts that … continue reading
Tomorrow is Halloween, and to honor the holiday, we are featuring this creepy animation in our GitHub Project of the Week. Halloween eyes is a motion-sensitive animation that makes electronic eyes go from sweet and friendly to mean and spooky when you get closer. “For Halloween this year, some friends did a sort of ‘mini … continue reading
The Ceph Community, an open-source object and file cloud storage stack, has formed an advisory board that will work in governance with the community. The Ceph Advisory Board will assist the community in driving open-source software-defined storage technology, and in collaborating with the community’s technical and user committees. (Related: Why open-source storage is worth looking … continue reading
Razer has announced its open-source virtual reality (OSVR) kit is now available for preorder. The OSVR kit is a head-mounted virtual reality display that features a faceplate module, a mainboard with integrated sensors, a display module, an optics module, an head-mounted display mechanical module, and a belt box module. According to the company, there was … continue reading
A new Kickstarter project wants to create a global network for the Internet of Things (IoT). The Things Network Foundation’s mission is to provide a crowdsourced, open, free and decentralized IoT network. “The Internet was created by people that connected their networks and allowed traffic from, to and over their servers and cables to pass … continue reading
Neo Technology is launching a new open-source project to make the graph query language Cypher available to the masses. The project, openCypher, will provide a Cypher language specification, a reference implementation, a technology compatibility kit for vendors, and reference documentation for Cypher releases. Initial supporters of the project include Oracle, Databricks, Tableau, GraphAware, GrapheneDB, Graph … continue reading
Rogue Wave Software has released the results of its Open Source Support survey. The report reaps the fruits of support data gleaned from more than 8,000 open-source software packages from all walks of life. Rod Cope, CTO of Rogue Wave, wrote in the introduction of the report about the changing landscape of software due to … continue reading
Security firm SourceDNA has revealed a number of iOS apps that are violating Apple’s App Store policy that use private APIs to obtain a user’s private data. The apps all had one thing in common: They used the Youmi advertising SDK from China. “We found 256 apps (est. total of 1 million downloads) that have … continue reading
Adobe has put out a security advisory for its Flash Player. According to the company, there is a critical vulnerability in the plug-in affecting Adobe Flash Player 19.0.0.207 and earlier for Linux, Macintosh and Windows. The vulnerability has the ability to cause a crash and let a hacker take control of the system. The vulnerability … continue reading
Think of the words “simplicity, performance and usability.” They were key components of Leaflet, an open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. Leaflet was developed by Vladimir Agafonkin of MapBox, which is a building-block application that makes it easy to integrate location into mobile applications. The library weighs about 33KB of gzipped JavaScript code, and … continue reading
