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Why the 'Star Trek Computer' Will Be Open Source and Apache Licensed
Posted by slashdot (#4) 18 hours ago (http://rss.slashdot.org)
psykocrime writes "The crazy kids at Fogbeam Labs have a new blog post positing that there is a trend towards advanced projects in NLP, Information Retrieval, Big Data and the Semantic Web moving to the Apache Software Foundation. Considering that Apache UIMA is a key component of IBM Watson, is it wrong to believe that the organization behind Hadoop, OpenNLP, Jena, Stanbol, Mahout and Lucene wil
Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early
Posted by slashdot (#4) 18 hours ago (http://rss.slashdot.org)
Tesla Motors announced today it has completely repaid the $465 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy the company received in 2010. The funds were generated by Tesla through a recent sale of their stock, worth close to a billion dollars. The stock price had risen sharply after the company reported its first profitable quarter (and the stock still sits roughly 50% higher than before their
Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheels Show Damage
Posted by slashdot (#4) 18 hours ago (http://rss.slashdot.org)
astroengine writes "In a recent batch of images beamed back to Earth from Mars rover Curiosity's MAHLI camera, obvious signs of wear and tear could be seen in the 'skin' of the robot's wheels. Considering Curiosity is only 281 sols (Mars days) into its mission and roved less than a kilometer after landing, surely this doesn't bode well? Fortunately, there's good news. 'The wear in the wheels is e
Intel's Linux OpenGL Driver Faster Than Apple's OS X Driver
Posted by slashdot (#4) 18 hours ago (http://rss.slashdot.org)
An anonymous reader writes "The open-source Intel Linux graphics driver has hit a milestone of now being faster than Apple's own OpenGL stack on OS X. The Intel Linux driver on Ubuntu 13.04 is now clearly faster than Apple's internally-developed Intel OpenGL driver on OS X 10.8.3. when benchmarked from a 'Sandy Bridge' class Mac Mini. Only some months ago, Apple's GL driver was still trouncing th
3D Printers For Peace Contest
Posted by slashdot (#4) 18 hours ago (http://rss.slashdot.org)
First time accepted submitter Bas_Wijnen writes "3D printing is being condemned in the media because of the potential for printing guns. Engineers at Michigan Tech believe there is far more potential for 3D printers to make our lives better rather than killing one another. To encourage thinking about constructive uses of 3D printing technology Michigan Tech Open Sustainability Technology (MOST) L
Missile Test Creates Huge Expanding Halo of Light Over Hawaii
Posted by slashdot (#4) 18 hours ago (http://rss.slashdot.org)
The Bad Astronomer writes "A Minuteman III missile launch from California early Wednesday morning created a weird, expanding halo of light seen from the CFHT observatory on Hawaii's Mauna Kea. The third stage of the missile has ports that open and dump fuel into the near-vacuum. This cloud expands rapidly as a spherical shell, shock-exciting the air molecules and causing them to glow, creating th
Paid Low Wages on the Government Dime
Posted by cnbc (#5) 18 hours ago (http://www.cnbc.com)
"I can't survive on $8.80 an hour," says a McDonald's worker.
Wal-Mart Using Big Data to Power Mobile
Posted by cnbc (#5) 18 hours ago (http://www.cnbc.com)
Wal-Mart is making moves to cash in on its mobile strategy and it's using big data to do it.
