Publishing date: 2020-08-18
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: This mixed methods study consisted of in-depth interviews with 14 biomedical researchers before and after participation in an introductory programming workshop. During the interviews, participants described their research workflows and responded to a quantitative checklist measuring reproducible behaviors.
Publishing date: 2020-08-18
Published on: Futurism
summary: Earlier this month, the code management platform GitHub sealed away its archive of open source software in an Arctic vault so deep that they say it could survive a nuclear blast.
Publishing date: 2020-08-18
Published on: Forbes
summary: This article reports on “https://www.project-aslan.org/">Project ASLAN<, a collaborative alternative to the tech race at the forefront of the move towards fully-autonomous vehicles. ASLAN is a supergroup of tech companies, research groups and universities, focused on bringing a fiscally practical, fully-autonomous vehicle solution to public roads.
Publishing date: 2020-08-18
Published on: TechRepublic
summary: Moving database applications to the cloud has been a boon for development teams anxious to move faster. It has also, however, exposed security flaws inherent in traditional security solutions, something data layer security startup Cyral has been tackling.
Publishing date: 2020-06-15
Published on: Nature
summary: This article looks at how a growing emphasis on do-it-yourself science is helping researchers to equip labs in resource-limited areas. For example, “https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2018.e00047">Actifield< n automated open source actimeter for rodents developed by Victor Kumbol at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana.
Publishing date: 2020-06-15
Published on: The Space Review
summary: Innovations in scientific research and data analysis can propel us forward in the field of space exploration. This article explores how Open Source practices can be used to boost the rate of innovation in the software and hardware involved in space exploration.