In the same session, Massimo Banzi described the diverse uses, DIY computer enthusiasts have found for his affordable, open-source computer motherboard Arduino.
To bring his idea to life, the Silicon Valley-based designer first created a 3D computer model of the Tardis's interior using the free-to-use open source computer software programme Blender.
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The device includes a fixed micro-USB connector and a pop-out flexible cable to plug into your computer or another power source.
When Andrew Fluegelman first got hold of an early IBM PC, he noticed that there was no way to exchange files with other PC users or log on to early services like CompuServe or The Source or computer bulletin boards.
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SourceXchange's mission is to help computer hackers who contribute to open-source software, such as the popular operating system Linux, to link up with computer companies.
Facebook created an initiative called Open Compute to create open computer architectures, including open source storage architectures.
But one genome pioneer is taking the opposite approach: imitating the open-source movement of computer science, which argues that technology works best when it is given away for free so that everyone can collaborate on it.
Saying things without providing references to evidence is a hallmark of the denialist argument, even as they demand climate scientists make available for scrutiny every change to every draft of every paper they ever touch, as well as the proprietary source code of computer programs they create to analyze their data.
We are now at the point where the source code to whatever computer programs were used needs to be made available as well.
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And in the meantime he's been spending his days on a hobby that periodically stuns the computer security world: seeking out cracks in the source code of Apple's iPhone, a device with more software restrictions than practically any computer on the market, and utterly obliterating its defenses against hackers.
Years ago, I met a legendary salesperson in the computer industry and could never pinpoint the source of his success.
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Bioengineers, like computer programmers in the Linux open-source software movement, are encouraged to contribute "bricks" voluntarily, and can order the parts they need over the Internet.
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Those included stored memory (the ability to hold both a stored program and data), conditional control transfer, which allowed the computer to stop and be resumed, and the central processing unit, which allowed all computer functions to be coordinated through one source.
Part of what has made WikiLeaks so much more effective than traditional hacking efforts, after all, is that whistleblowers with privileged accounts within computer networks are a far more efficient source of embarrassing data than hacking techniques such as random searches of filesharing networks.
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Gates' own source of lucre, the personal computer industry, worked that way, too.
Consider AlienVault, a Spanish company that wrote open source tools to help companies report on computer security intrusions.
Using modest skills as a programmer and considerable talent as an impersonator, he tricked employees of computer companies and phone equipment manufacturers into passing him confidential source codes.
Sabre Holdings' hotel reservations arm, likewise, has cut operating costs by 50% by upgrading to embrace newer computer languages such as Java and run on open-source software.
Sabre Holdings (nyse: TSG - news - people )' hotel reservations arm, likewise, has cut operating costs by 50% by upgrading to embrace newer computer languages such as Java and run on open-source software.
The sensors are wired to a power source and data flows through wires to a nearby computer.
The Vybe works with any sound source such as a gaming console, TV, computer, or mobile phone using a standard audio cable (included in the box).
The insurer sent its people, says this source, to its Ireland office, seized a computer belonging to an employee of Starr International, took her keys away and kicked her out.
Kerberos gained pre-eminence because it is clever, and because its developers, computer scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, released the source code, which let security experts around the world debug and refine the program line by line.
You can record from any stereo source with a stereo in-line jack and won't have to get any specialized software to put recordings back on your computer--all you need is an analog or digital source at bit rates up to 160 kbps.
For a physician who wants to get real information from a trusted source, the alternative to this is sitting down at a computer and really reading the CDC Web site.
Tsarnaev led authorities to look there, the source said, and others who may have knowledge of the computer's whereabouts or may have played a role in disposing it also provided leads that prompted the search.
The biggest source of growth, though, has come from universities that need computer desks, library carrels and chairs, and corporations that want to redo their boardrooms.
Much of the work is mind-numbing document review, my source says, sitting in a Midtown office in front of a computer, searching for highlighted words or phrases and quickly assessing their value as evidence in the case.
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Another, called Bloom, was developed by computer scientists at UC Berkeley for analysis of large data sets in the popular open source Hadoop database.
When the camera detects a heat source in the shape of a human being, the on-board computer alerts the driver by highlighting the pedestrian in yellow on the dashboard screen.
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