The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet
My previous article, The Web began dying in 2014, here’s how, raised much more awareness than I thought it would.
There are three promising things that can enable a reinvented internet:
Continue reading “Andre Staltz: The Next Web – Mesh Web – Death to Facebook Etc.”
Open source in the enterprise: Trends and opportunities in 2018
Thomas Di Giacomo, CTO at SUSE, outlines key trends and emerging opportunities in open source and enterprise IT for 2018.
Decentralized Travel Distribution Platform Eliminates Middlemen to Make Your Trips Cheaper
Winding Tree is building a new decentralized, open-source travel distribution platform that aims to serve the needs both of the traveling public as well as the suppliers of travel products. The platform would involve no centralized control which means that there won’t be many intermediaries to escalate prices. It would also have no barriers for entry so that finally smaller businesses in the industry can have an equal footing with the big boys.
Ubuntu Core: A secure open source OS for IoT
Canonical's Ubuntu Core, a tiny, transactional version of the Ubuntu Linux OS for IoT devices, runs highly secure Linux application packages, known as “snaps,” that can be upgraded remotely.
Open Source Networking and a Vision of Fully Automated Networks
Transforming telecom
As an example of transformative change that is now underway, Joshipura pointed to the telecom industry. “For the past 137 years, we saw proprietary solutions,” he said. “But in the past several years, disaggregation has arrived, where hardware is separated from software. If you are a hardware engineer you build things like software developers do, with APIs and reusable modules. In the telecom industry, all of this is helping to scale networking deployments in brand new, automated ways.”
Continue reading “Penguin: Open Source Networking, Telecommunications Waking Up…”
Artificial organs developed by biohackers will soon deliver insulin to diabetics
In 2018, several hybrid closed-loop systems will begin to appear on the market. These will measure a user's blood-sugar levels every five minutes or so and supply insulin subcutaneously as appropriate. A large part of the R&D behind them was done in the open-source community. One such group, the Open Artificial Pancreas System project (OpenAPS), has for the past three years been encouraging diabetic biohackers to explore and improve their existing monitoring and insulin-delivery systems.
