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Novena: A leather-bound open-source hacker laptop that you can build yourself

2014-01-10 15:42:41| Extremetech

The beautiful laptop that you see before you, called Project Novena, was built from scratch. Because its creators have open-sourced the laptop's blueprints, you can even build a Novena yourself -- if you had a lot of time, money, and technical expertise, anyway. In keeping with the laptop's open computing roots, even the motherboard was designed and created from scratch. Inside the laptop, which was created specifically for hardware hacking, there's a whole range of goodies: an FPGA on the motherboard, dual Ethernet sockets, a USB OTG port -- and again, due to the open-source requirement, a Freescale iMX6 quad-core ARM CPU. The build took more than a year and a half to complete.

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SAP courts developers with new license, tools, open-source contributions

2013-12-11 20:13:38| InfoWorld: Top News

SAP has made a series of announcements aimed at bringing more software developers into its fold, making their jobs easier and bolstering the reach of its HANA in-memory computing platform. The most significant changes include a new, unified developer license that covers a wide range of SAP technologies, and the long-awaited launch of the cloud-based River application development toolset for SAP's HANA in-memory computing platform.

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The brain-fixing machine in Enders Game is a real open-source surgical robot

2013-11-07 18:47:34| Extremetech

The futuristic robot that probes brains in Ender's Game is no modern day fantasy. The real-life machine, known as the Raven II, was in fact built at the University of Washington, and has already been used in the brain tumor operations.

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