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Open LMS has announced plans to release all of its Moodle modules and enhancements by the end of the year, as well as dedicate more resources toward developing features and code for the open source learning management system.

Valve released a Linux version of its Steam Link app, allowing the connectivity system to work on even MORE devices than before. This is just the latest in a

Illustration by Zoran Svilar In 2020, billionaires made out like bandits. Jeff Bezos’s personal holdings surged from $113 to $184 billion. Elon Musk briefly eclipsed Bezos, with a net worth rise from $27 billion to over $185 billion. For the bourgeoisie presiding over “Big Tech” corporations, life is grand. Yet, while the expanded dominance of these corporations in their domestic markets is the subject of numerous critical analyses, their global reach is a fact seldom discussed, especial...

For John Snow Labs, doing good with NLP is in their DNA (and yours) Read later Summary: Too often, the AI startup field comes off as a VC-funded money grab. But commercial NLP healthcare player John Snow Labs is doing things differently. Their Spark NLP open source library includes support for 375 languages. Heres why their approach stands out. (via Fotolia.com) Why was Dr. John Snow designated the "Father of Epidemiology?" His painstaking investigations of the outbreaks of deadly cholera in ...

WordPress is at it again, launching a new feature in the WordPress block editor. The feature called reusable blocks, allows users to start building something and then save it for later. These reusable blocks can be edited in one place and enable users to reuse snippets of texts across posts and pages, save and reuse complex layouts, and edit things in one place.  Unlike templates, these blocks are snippets of globally synchronized content that can be reused and inserted into any page you want....

Deadline for submission of applications is 15.03.21

Changes/fixes: Updated the wording and inclusion of more select license blocks in about:license. Updated some site-specific user-agent overrides for web compatibility. Updated the lz4 library for performance and security updates. Improved performance of JSON stringify. Further improved support for building on FreeBSD. Fixed a regression where changes to useragent compatibility required a restart to take effect. Fixed a regression where AES-GCM in WebCrypto ("subtle" crypto API) wasnt working. T...

A team of scientists and engineers has invented a cryogenic computer chip capable of functioning at temperatures near absolute zero, which could enable a new crop of high performance quantum computers capable of performing calculations with thousands of qubits, or more. Quantum computers, up to now, could only accommodate a few dozen qubits. Thats why the new cryo chip is such a breakthrough.

The CDC endorsed a mask fitter designed by UW-Madison researchers that provides protection closer to an N-95 mask. &nbsp&#x3B;

https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/blob/master/resources/docs/Documentation.md#feedly Google Reader API support, tested with many services like The Old Reader, Bazqux, Reedah, FreshRSS. (#349) https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/blob/master/resources/docs/Documentation.md#google-reader-api Liferea-like Website scraping and feed post-processing. (#265) https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/blob/master/resources/docs/Feed-formats.md#websites-scraping-and-related-advanced-features In...