April 14, 2020
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said, “We have the capability of mobilizing identification — testing — identification, isolation, contact tracing” to finally get a grip on the coronavirus.
The first three we know about, but what’s contract tracing?
How Apple and Google coronavirus contact tracing will work More>
April 13, 2020
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As we struggle to get a grip on exactly how COVID-19 makes us ill and what we can do about it, researchers have created over 50,000 articles. That’s a lot of information! So, how do you make sense of it all? Verizon Media is doing it by using Vespa. This is an open-source, big data processing program to create a coronavirus academic research search engine: CORD-19 Search.
Verizon introduces open-source, big data coronavirus search engine More>
April 9, 2020
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The US Department of Justice (DoJ) is asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to revoke and terminate China Telecom (Americas) Corp’s authorization to provide international telecommunications services to and from the US.
April 8, 2020
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A few weeks ago, Zoom was riding high. Zoom had become a verb. You didn’t video-conference, you Zoomed. Then came the constant drumbeat of one Zoom security problem after another, including the infamous Zoombombing. Zoom fought back with security fixes. But it may be too little too late. Today, BuzzFeed News reported Google has banned Zoom from its staffers’ devices.
April 8, 2020
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The Mapzen open-source mapping platform has a hard history. On the one hand, Mapzen, which is based on OpenStreetMap, is used by over 70,000 developers and it’s the backbone of such mapping services as , Remix and Carto. But, as a business, Mapzen failed in 2018. Mapzen’s code and service lived on as a Linux Foundation Project.
Now, it’s moved on to the Urban Computing Foundation (UCF), another Linux Foundation group with more resources. UCF is devoted to helping create smarter cities, multimodal transportation, and autonomous vehicles.
Mapzen open-source mapping project revived under the Urban Computing Foundation More>
April 8, 2020
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For over a decade, Abby Kearns has been the face of the popular open-source, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud, Cloud Foundry. First as the project manager for Pivotal Cloud Foundry and then as the Cloud Foundry Foundation’s executive director. Now, Kearns’ moving on to another executive position, and CTO Chip Childers has assumed her role as executive director