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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups

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The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.

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Microsoft: we were wrong about open source

The Verge

Microsoft has admitted it was wrong about open source, after the company battled it and Linux for years at the height of its desktop domination. Microsoft president Brad Smith now believes the company was wrong about open source. Microsoft president Brad Smith now believes the company was wrong about open source.

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Google just removed RISC-V architecture support from Android's kernel

TechSpot

Android Common Kernel (ACK) are the main branches of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which informs all third-party and Google's own Android implementations on mobile and wearable devices. Removing RISC-V. Read Entire Article

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Google, like Samsung, is eavesdropping on your private conversations

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If you use Google Chrome , you could be subject to eavesdropping by Google. Similar to what Samsung's TVs are doing, the Chromium browser listens to conversations in the vicinity of your laptop, PC, or tablet, and transmits it back to Google. Ostensibly, this is part of the " Google Now " voice activation feature of Chrome.

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Google expands its Flutter development kit to Windows apps

Venture Beast

Google has announced that Flutter, its open source UI development kit for building cross-platform apps from the same codebase, is now available for Windows. Read More.

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Watch A New World Of Innovation Launch At O’Reilly Solid Conference 21-22 May 2014 in San Francisco

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.” Chairs Ito and Bruner have drafted a stellar lineup of innovators, funders, and visionaries for the conference, including: Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots at Google[x]. Moe Tanabian, Director of Mobile Technology at Samsung Mobile. Brian Gerkey, CEO of Open Source Robotics Foundation.

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Google and Canonical bring Flutter apps to Linux and the Snap Store

Venture Beast

Google is partnering with the Ubuntu Desktop team at Canonical to bring Linux support to its open source UI framework Flutter. Read More.

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