By Serdar Yegulalp Last week The Intercept reported that the Central Intelligence Agency’s In-Q-Tel venture capital firm has been investing in companies that mine social media, a reflection of the agency’s …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: April 2016
IDG Contributor Network: Android N will support 3D Touch
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•By Jim Lynch Android N and 3D Touch 3D Touch was one of the best new features of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. And now Android N will make it possible for Android …read more Source:: OpenSource
Cloud computing is everywhere, and so are frayed nerves about security
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•Fear of the unknown: Intel’s latest survey of 1,200 IT decision makers finds most don’t know what vulnerabilities exist with their cloud providers and services. …read more Source:: it-priorities
Simple succeeds: Visual Studio Code at 1.0
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s open source, cross-platform development environment powered by Node.js and the Blink layout engine has been upgraded to a full 1.0 release after approximately a …read more Source:: OpenSource
Docker and CoreOS no longer have an image problem
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The OCI (Open Container Initiative), the Linux Foundation’s project for developing and maintaining standards in the software container community, has expanded its scope to include a spec for …read more Source:: OpenSource
Docker 1.11 adopts Open Container Project components
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The biggest news about Docker 1.11 isn’t features in the application, but that it uses component versions standardized under the aegis of the Open Container Project. Last year, Docker …read more Source:: OpenSource
Apache Beam wants to be uber-API for big data
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•By Ian Pointer A long-standing joke about the Hadoop ecosystem is that if you don’t like an API for a particular system, wait five minutes and two new Apache projects will spring up …read more Source:: OpenSource
Apache Storm 1.0 packs a punch
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•By Serdar Yegulalp When big data mavens debate the merits of using Apache Spark versus Apache Storm for streaming data processing, the argument usually sounds like this: Sure, Storm has great scale …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Will the iPhone 7 win over Android users?
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•By Jim Lynch Will the iPhone 7 win over Android users? There are lots of rumors going around right now about Apple’s upcoming iPhone 7, and many in the media have been speculating about …read more Source:: OpenSource
Facebook open-sources Android byte code optimizer
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Late last year, Facebook enhanced the performance of its Android application with a byte-code-optimizing tool called ReDex. Now, ReDex has been open-sourced. Android developers can use …read more Source:: OpenSource