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The Supreme Court is taking on Google and Oracle one last time

The Verge

Ten years after Oracle first sued Google over the code in the Android platform, the two tech giants are finally facing off in the Supreme Court. For Oracle and Google, the lawsuit is about whether Oracle — which owns Java Standard Edition — is now entitled to a piece of Android, to the tune of billions of dollars. When Google v.

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Oracle and Google’s Supreme Court showdown was a battle of metaphors

The Verge

Oracle , a decade-long war over the future of software, neared its end in the Supreme Court this week as a battle of metaphors. Oracle covers a complex question : what elements of computer code can be copyrighted, and if that code is covered by copyright, when it’s still legal to use pieces of it under fair use. Alex Castro.

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Zilliz raises $43 million as investors rush to China’s open source software

TechCrunch

After six years as a software engineer at Oracle, Xie left the U.S. China is an ideal starting point both for the cheaper engineering talents and the explosive growth of unstructured data — anything from molecular structure, people’s shopping behavior, audio information to video content.

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Singapore’s KNN3 wants to enable social discovery for decentralized apps

TechCrunch

There’s no shortage of startups trying to make sense of the explosive growth of data generated from blockchain applications. The Graph is “programmable”, but the data structure it supports is quite “limited”, Yu argued. The Graph offers an API for developers to query blockchain data. In the U.S.,

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The Surge of "Software as a Service" and OnDemand technologies

NetWits

Forward thinking traditional software vendors such as Oracle and Blackbaud have invested in technologies to deploy their solutions over the web by providing hosting services, often called “OnDemand” services, while retaining the ability to offer full-featured, customizable, and data rich solutions. Now, that's accessibility!!

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This is the beginning of the unbundled database era

TechCrunch

Today, thanks to the cloud, microservices, distributed applications, global scale, real-time data and deep learning, new database architectures have emerged to solve for new performance requirements. We now have different systems for fast reads and fast writes.

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Polymath Robotics launches plug-and-play autonomy software for any industrial vehicle

TechCrunch

. “Everyone kind of ends up building nearly everything from scratch, for nearly every application.” ” To make matters more complex, robots used in warehouses, mining, agriculture and other industrial environments have hyper-specific applications that are structured and are often repeated thousands of times.

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