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October 14, 2022
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Fintech giant The Clearing House joins open-source patent protection powerhouse OIN

You may never have heard of The Clearing House (TCH), but you use its services every day. Its US payment network clears and settles more than $2 trillion of wire, Automated Clearing House (ACH), check image, and real-time payments every … Continue reading →

October 11, 2022
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The four-day workweek works

Last June, in a UK pilot project, thousands of employees started working a four-day week for the same pay. With 3,300 workers at 70 companies, ranging from a car parts retailer to an animation studio, marketing agency, and fish-and-chips shop, … Continue reading →

October 10, 2022
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OpenStack from Austin to Zed

A dozen years ago, people still had trouble getting their heads around the concept of a cloud. The joke that a cloud was just someone else’s computer was still popular and already fundamentally wrong. Even Larry Ellison, Oracle’s CEO, sneeringly…Read … Continue reading →