TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Natural language processing ( NLP ), while hardly a new discipline, has catapulted into the public consciousness these past few months thanks in large part to the generative AI hype train that is ChatGPT. The company also says that its basic open source incarnation has been used by data scientists at companies such as Samsung and DocuSign.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Bringing the capabilities of LLMs to robotics An incredible feature of large language models (LLMs) is their ability to encode descriptions and context into a format that’s understandable by both people and machines. When applied to robotics, LLMs let people task robots more easily — just by asking — with natural language.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

too many tools) as the top blockers, as well as concerns about open source tools. ClickHouse was open sourced in 2016, and in 2021, a corporate entity — ClickHouse, Inc. “Better Stack is intuitive to use for engineering teams as it leverages SQL for data querying instead of a custom querying language.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2021

This training helped create a language model that could respond when the man was thinking about saying particular words, even if he couldn’t actually speak them. Since then, Facebook acquired electromyography (EMG) wristband company CTRL-Labs in 2019 , giving it an alternate control option for AR and VR.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

GraphQL, developed internally at Facebook to help developers with API management before getting rolled out as an open-source query language in 2015, has gained traction as an alternative (or complement) to REST and other tools. Airbnb, Pinterest, PayPal and of course Facebook parent Meta are among the companies using it.

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It turns out that the latest generation of language models, such as PaLM , are capable of complex reasoning and have also been trained on millions of lines of code. To explore this possibility, we developed Code as Policies (CaP), a robot-centric formulation of language model-generated programs executed on physical systems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They sometimes deal with vendors and developers that don’t really understand their mission, don’t speak their language, and don’t tell them the truth (whether intentionally, or by a lack of self-examination.) I very much look forward to your re-emergence from the IT wilderness! 3 Catherine Carey 04.10.07 Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

QR code tech, which exploded during the pandemic as businesses searched for hygienic alternatives to physical touchpoints, continues to grow in popularity particularly across sectors such as restaurants and outlet retail. According to Insider Intelligence, more than 99.5 million smartphone users will scan a QR code by 2025, up from 83.4

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In “ Robust Routing Using Electrical Flows ”, we presented a recent paper that proposed a Google Maps solution to efficiently compute alternate paths in road networks that are resistant to failures (e.g., On the optimization front, we open-sourced Vizier , our flagship blackbox optimization and hyperparameter tuning library at Google.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

Unsurprisingly, companies are increasingly embracing alternatives to relational databases, like NoSQL. of EdgeDB quietly launched in February, and brought with it an integrated access control system and a query language , EdgeQL, that Selivanov claims is 10 to 1,000 times faster than traditional SQL (depending on the operation).

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Byte Technology

JULY 4, 2017

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets are wonderful for working on a document written in a markup language, but what if you don’t know anything about CSS? Indeed, message boards teem with useful information that WordPress users, designers and administrators at every level of knowledge and skill share and disseminate.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

“Alternative approaches can’t introspect streaming data and instead rely on metadata-driven metrics. ” Beyond monitoring for critical data issues, Streamdal uses AI, including natural language processing algorithms, to detect personally identifiable information in streams and take action on it (e.g., redact it). .”

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

All ur base r belong to us : Supabase raised an $80 million Series B for its open source Firebase alternative. Yeah, straight from the top of my ‘zon: Byrd nabbed $56 million to offer an alternative to Amazon’s fulfillment network. We are now its hostage.”.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

GANTT charts are great marketing tools -- senior executives never fail to be impressed by them -- but they don't tell the Facilities Coordinator in clear language that you need the facility booked by March 10th, or the designer that the web page has to be up by April 2nd. GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Together at MIT, Marzoev and Gjengset spearheaded an open source project called Noria, a streaming data-flow system designed to act as a fast storage backend for web apps. After the project gained traction on GitHub, the two decided to refine it and bring it to market as a managed service: ReadySet.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

JSight: An “open source API” standard meant to automatically keep your team’s API documentation up to date. Tellus Technologies: Plant-based plastic alternative. “It is completely biodegradable, quickly compostable, and sustainably sourced,” they write.

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TechNode

JULY 29, 2024

NIO on July 26 gave updates on some of its most important technological developments, including the worlds first five-nanometer chip for automated driving, its in-house developed operating system for vehicles, and a voice assistant powered by its large language model. The Chinese EV maker will also release its Banyan 3.0

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The Next Web

JULY 15, 2012

He has lived in five countries, speaks five languages and has published five books. Don’t get me wrong, we’re all for open source stuff like WordPress, MySQL, and PHP. If you can’t stand it, just think of the alternative: Get a “regular” job, and the road to success will become… infinite. Do one thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The project uses a tool named STEVE , an open-source tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create folksonomies. Supporting social tagging of museum collections, and providing access based on the resulting folksonomy, opens museum collections to new interpretations that reflect visitors???

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 10, 2024

A key selling point of the open-source tool is its data lineage capabilities. Alternatively, theres a lightweight open-source Python tool called SQL-WatchPup that already has thecode. No extra computer languages to learn. However, it can also be a mammoth task to implement. No server hosting costs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

“If another lawsuit showed up and OpenAI disappeared tomorrow, there are several alternatives that could power QuickVid,” he said, referring to the open source DALL-E 2-like system Stable Diffusion. And ChatGPT, a fine-tuned offspring of GPT-3, has been shown to use sexist and racist language.

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Towards Data Science

JULY 13, 2023

In this post, we’re going to share how Hamilton , an open source framework, can help you write modular and maintainable code for your large language model (LLM) application stack. This post is written in collaboration with Thierry Jean and originally appeared here.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

More recently, though, developers have grown fond of an alternative blockchain, Ethereum, which is designed to let them create decentralized applications through more sophisticated smart contracts than Bitcoin enables. In December, he began to teach himself Solidity, the programming language for creating smart contracts on Ethereum.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . When listeners called, they were able to choose their language.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Our top pick remains ProtonVPN thanks to its easy-to-use interface, no-logs policy and open-source framework, while other popular options like NordVPN didn't quite make the cut. We tested nine of the most popular VPN services available now to come up with our top picks, and lay out what you should know before paying for one.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The team behind the app, which is comprised of 30% PhDs, has been working on the core privacy vs convenience problem for some six years (though the company was only founded in 2017); initially as an academic research project — going on to offer an open source framework for masked federated learning, called XayNet. ”

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We also valued keyboards that are easy to program and customize through software, whether its a manufacturer-specific app or popular open-source programs like VIA. Still, its a great alternative. It can only work wirelessly using Bluetooth, though, and we noticed a couple of connection hiccups in testing.

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

We then created over twenty Data Cards that describe image, language, tabular, video, audio, and relational datasets in production settings, some of which are now available on GitHub. Patterns help unblock teams with recommended practices, caution against common pitfalls, and suggested alternatives to roadblocks.

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Stanford AI Lab Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In our previous post , we discussed the technical structure of our socialbot and how developers can use our open-source code to develop their own. Once trained, our dissatisfaction predictor can be used mid-conversation to choose between multiple alternative neural-generated bot utterances.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

Creative tech loopholes get chatbots online "In all the analyzed communities," Graphika explains, "there are users displaying highly technical skills that enable them to create character chatbots capable of circumventing moderation limitations, like deploying fine-tuned, locally run open-source models or jailbreaking closed models.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Startups and VC When DBeaver creator Serge Rider began building an open source database admin tool in 2013, he probably had no idea that 10 years later, it would boast more than 8 million users. A bold claym : “Drink to dust”: Startup says to just smash its clay alternative to plastic cups , reports Harri.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Boston Dynamics has done a lot to imbue its quadrupedal robots with personality, through design language and viral videos of Spot and company busting a move to the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. Per the Mi blog: CyberDog is Xiaomi’s first foray into quadruped robotics for the open source community and developers worldwide.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

It’s a free download for most computer OS platforms like Mac, Linux, and Windows, and is available in several languages as well. It’s not super easy to use, but it has lots of assistance like help files, a user manual and online resources such as tutorials , a wiki , documentation (in 11 languages), forums , FAQs , tips etc.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its now parlaying its advancement of business AI into serving as an open-source tools hub for the technology community. With an open-source model fostering community-driven innovation, Airbyte has used AI to help a robust community of 20,000 data engineers develop 10,000+ user-built custom data connectors.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

With the investment, the company will build a “quality-assured” manufacturing marketplace, as well as mirrored servers in China to open access to its hardware capital, Shenzhen. Wikifactory is available in four languages right now and is set to expand to 20 after it raises a Series A funding round next year.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

We should be vigilant when companies with half-a-billion dollar valuations wrap social good initiatives in shiny, marketing wrappings and assume the language of urban planning. We should also pause and note t he tech sector’s troubling tendency to turn inward while adopting the language of the public square and the commons.

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Towards Data Science

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

This is where open-source alternatives come into play. Frameworks like Airbyte and Meltano might be an easy and quick solution to deploy a data source integration microservice. It’s not a surprise that many of them are open-source and are Python-based. PETL is great for aggregation and row-level ETL.

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