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Google Glass can now search faces in real time

A new facial recognition app for Google Glass could tell people a lot about you without your help.

By Colin Neagle

Dec 20, 2013 2 mins

Open Source Security

Robot trading cards, Dark Silicon & other last-minute stocking stuffers

These are among treasures (somewhat jokingly) suggested for your loved ones by Georgia Tech researchers

By Bob Brown

Dec 18, 2013 1 min

Open Source Operating Systems Robotics

German coalition favors German-owned or open source software, aims to lock NSA out

The new coalition government promised Monday to support German software and take steps to protect European data from spying

By Loek Essers

Dec 17, 2013 4 mins

Cybercrime Government Government IT

Take the Puppet Labs survey to make DevOps better

You could win great stuff too

By Alan Shimel

Dec 17, 2013 3 mins

Data Center Open Source Servers

Unix: Book review — Perl one-liners

If you get a secret thrill out of a well crafted Perl one-liner, but only have a few that you can pull out of your mental pocket and use, this book may be just what Santa should be leaving under your tree!

By Sandra Henry Stocker

Dec 15, 2013 7 mins

Data Center Open Source Operating Systems

Dell and Red Hat team to sell enterprise OpenStack

Dell will sell a hardware system that runs Red Hat's OpenStack implemention

By Joab Jackson

Dec 12, 2013 3 mins

Asset Management Software Open Source Servers

Switch to open source successfully completed, city of Munich says

The 10-year long project has been a success, city officials said

By Loek Essers

Dec 12, 2013 2 mins

Data Center Government IT Open Source

Objectivity in the Linux world

How the open source world fosters open discussion.

By Bryan Lunduke

Dec 11, 2013 2 mins

Open Source Operating Systems

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 issued in beta form

RHEL 7.0 embraces containers and NUMA-aware virtualization, and offers a unified command line interface

By Joab Jackson

Dec 11, 2013 4 mins

Open Source Operating Systems Servers

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

SAP's HANA in-memory platform figures prominently in the new announcements, which include the long-awaited launch of River

By Chris Kanaracus

Dec 11, 2013 3 mins

Enterprise Applications Open Source SAP