Tag Archives: open source

Google’s Bard AI: ChatGPT Rival or The Next Frontier in AI and NLP Technology

By | February 8, 2023

Google has recently announced its new Artificial Intelligence (AI) language model, Bard AI, as a response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. As the field of AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) continues to evolve, companies are racing to develop the most advanced AI models. And now, Google has entered the race with its new language model, Bard… Read More »

Google Introduces KataOS, as a Security-based Open-source Operating System 

By | December 22, 2022

The need for a straightforward approach to constructing verifiably secure encryption methods for embedded hardware has never been greater, what with the proliferation of smart gadgets that gather and analyse data from their surroundings. If the security of the gadgets we use every day can’t be rigorously verified, then hackers might potentially gain access to… Read More »

What is Snap: The Raving New Way Software is Distributed in Linux?

By | August 28, 2018

If you’re an ubuntu user for quite some time, you could have been recently hearing about Snap or snap applications (snaps). But you’ve been wondering about what they are and why they are becoming the norm in installing software (and apps) in Linux, how many snap apps are available and how you could use them.… Read More »

How to Install Synaptic Package Manager in Ubuntu Linux

By | August 23, 2018

Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+. If you prefer using a GUI to install apps in Debian and Debian-based systems (ubuntu, mint, etc) synaptic would make it worthwhile.     Features: Install, remove, upgrade… Read More »

Microsoft Acquiring GitHub for 7.5 Billion Dollars

By | June 12, 2018

Microsoft has finally hit the nail squarely in a much rumoured deal of acquiring GitHub.     Though the talks for the acquisition has been on and off for while according to rumours from unnamed persons close to the companies. Finally the rumours have been put to rest as it announced on June 4 that… Read More »

How to Change Bootstrap Default Colour Theme: Without writing Code.

By | May 23, 2018

For those of y’all that don’t know what bootstrap is, bootstrap is one of the most amazing development that have come into front-end web development. It’s a responsive framework that helps to reduce development time by providing ready-to-use UI/UX components that can be easily imported into any website/application UI/UX design, while focusing more on content.… Read More »

Microsoft is Making love to Linux in the Windows store.

By | April 12, 2018

Bringing the unmatched Linux experience to the world of windows is being made possible by Microsoft through its windows subsystem for Linux (WSL) that has been released as open-source software to the public. Though the then newly appointed CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, publicly declared Microsoft’s love for Linux, many in the free and open… Read More »

7 Open Source Alternatives to DreamWeaver.

By | March 24, 2018

Looking for an open source alternative to Dreamweaver or another proprietary HTML/CSS editor? Let’s round up some of your options. Not all that many years ago, pretty much every webpage on the Internet was, at some level, designed painstakingly by hand. It was tough, and before CSS really took hold and became well supported across… Read More »

3 open source alternatives to AutoCAD

By | February 14, 2018

Open source computer-aided design software may not have all the functionality of proprietary solutions, but it may have everything you actually need. CAD—computer-aided design or computer-aided drafting, depending on who you ask—is technology created to make it easier to create specifications for realworld objects. Whether the object you’re building is a house, car, bridge, or… Read More »

Can Android flourish WITHOUT Google?

By | January 17, 2018

That was the question that lurked in the back of my mind when I heard the news of Gaël Duval‘s quest to produce an android mobile operating system (OS) – eelo – with little or no influence from Google as much as possible. A mobile OS that should respect users’ privacy and rights – a… Read More »