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Feb 26, 2021 12:46 EST with 0 comments  Calibre is an open source e-book library management application that enables you to manage your e-book collection, convert e-books between different formats, synchronize with popular e-book reader devices, and read your e-books with the included viewer. It acts as an e-library and also allows for format conversion, news feeds to e-book conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer. Calibres features in...

By Natalie Alms Feb 25, 2021 Of the $400 billion in CARES Act unemployment benefits distributed last year, states paid over $5.4 billion in potentially fraudulent unemployment claims between March and October of 2020, according to the Department of Labor’s inspector general. The actual number may  reach tens of billions of dollars, the watchdog said. In California alone, at least 10% of the benefits paid since the start of the pandemic have been to fraudulent claims, and that number could be...

By GCN Staff Feb 24, 2021 FirstNet added nearly 100,000 square miles of coverage in 2020, bringing the nationwide wireless broadband public-safety network’s communications capabilities to a total of 15,000 subscribing agencies and organizations via 1.9 million LTE connections across more than 2.71 million square miles.  The network, which AT&T started to build out in 2017, is ahead of schedule deploying Band 14 coverage, company officials said in a statement.  The company also plans to ins...

Meme pioneer launches NFT lolcats on OpenSea Meme master ‘Cheezburger’ is releasing a series of NFTs based on his website’s famous captioned ‘lolcat’ photos. 14591 Total views News The original “I Can Has Cheezburger?” meme has become the latest symbol of popular culture to be immortalized as an NFT. The meme’s creator, Eric Nakagawa, announced his foray into a series of lolcat NFTs on Feb. 23. “Happy Cat” — the crown jewel of Nakgawa’s NFT release — is being ...

Data from mobile ticketing, contactless fare collection systems and ride-share services can help small cities and transit authorities gain real-time insights into their transit routes and schedules to help optimize operations.

By Stephanie Kanowitz Feb 24, 2021 To handle the explosion of data in the electric industry, better big data analytics is needed, according to the Energy Department’s Electricity Advisory Committee (EAC). Its February report states that data sources are growing thanks to smart meters for field measurements and electric vehicle charging, radar for weather measurements and asset monitoring, such as embedded sensors for condition-based observations. Although the resultant big data contains valua...

By GCN Staff Feb 23, 2021 The Air Force is considering using DevSecOps to upgrade the software on the C-130, a versatile military transport aircraft that has been in use since 1956. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Air Mobility Command seeking two partner companies to work with aircraft prime Lockheed Martin to transform software development culture and practices. It wants recommendations for how to implement a digital enterprise strategy on the C-130 platform by transiting legacy sof...

Instead of supporting continuous innovation and upgrades to existing systems, we have been seduced by the siren song of exotic new systems that come with equally exotic price tags.

At a Feb. 22 virtual event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies., Sudhakar Ramakrishna said "this is not a one-company issue."

Github migration As a new year begins, its time to reflect on some of the things that have happened since the last news entry - which is a shocking 3 years ago! Firstly, the main AROS development has now migrated to GitHub. It has been a contraversial decision/move but in the long run is better for the developer community, and AROS as a whole. Along with this has been the migration of the nightly builds to use Azure Pipelines, so that as a developer team we can all contribute to the maintenance...