Publishing date: 2020-05-12
Published on: Information Age
summary: The inevitable and necessary responses to COVID-19 from the lockdown itself, to the use of contact tracing apps raise concerns about our civil liberties that in a different time would all have been hotly debated over a considerable time period.
Publishing date: 2020-04-06
Published on: The New Stack
summary: This article looks at “https://riscv.org”>RISC-V<. The RISC-V foundation provides a free and open source instruction set architecture for chips based on the long-established paradigms for reduced instruction set computing.
Publishing date: 2020-04-06
Published on: Hackaday
summary: This article was written to promote the OPEN-SOURCE NEUROSCIENCE HARDWARE HACK CHAT that took place in February 2020, a transcript of which is available https://hackaday.
Publishing date: 2020-02-07
Published on: The Startup
summary: This article presents the 2011 TED Talk of Marcin Jakubowski, the founder of “https://www.opensourceecology.org/">Open Source Ecology<, an open collaborative of engineers, producers, and builders.
Publishing date: 2020-02-07
Published on: Product Engineering Solutions
summary: This article reports on the findings of an independent global investigation of the current and future use of 3D printing. The study revealed that 995 of the manufacturing executives surveyed believe that an open ecosystem is important to advance 3D printing at scale.
Publishing date: 2020-02-07
Published on: Semiconductor Engineering
summary: Open-source hardware is gaining attention on a variety of fronts, from chiplets and the underlying infrastructure to the ecosystems required to support open-source and hybrid open-source and proprietary designs.
Publishing date: 2020-02-07
Published on: TechRepublic
summary: This article provides a summary of the history and future directions of “https://www.ros.org/">ROS<, the Robot Operating System. This project might not be well known, but it’s increasingly important for driving the robots used for industrial automation.
Publishing date: 2020-02-07
Published on: Design News
summary: The 2020 Consumer Electronics Show “https://www.ces.tech/">CES< saw many engineering marvels revealed for the first time. At the conference “https://www.pollen-robotics.com/">Pollen Robotics< displayed their “Reachy” robot.
Publishing date: 2020-02-07
Published on: Science
summary: In 1962 LMB researchers won a Nobel Prize for using x-ray crystallography to decipher the first atomic structures for proteins. One of LMB’s most recent Nobel laureates, Richard Henderson, helped to develop cryo-EM a technique that bypasses the difficult process of forming crystals from proteins.
Publishing date: 2020-01-15
Published on: TechRepublic
summary: This article discusses the current shortfalls of open source projects in inclusivity and diversity. In 2017 a GitHub open source survey found that 95% of respondents were male.