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4 questions about AI ethics and how open source can help

opensource.com - Fri, 11/27/2020 - 16:00

As a high school student, I've become very interested in artificial intelligence (AI), which is emerging as one of the most impactful innovations of recent times. This past summer, I was selected for the AI4ALL program, where we learned how to develop AI systems using Python.


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Lenovo ThinkPad Palm Sensor Support Coming To Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Fri, 11/27/2020 - 13:07
As part of Lenovo offering Linux pre-loaded on more laptops and desktops, they have been working on upstream improvements themselves along with their partners at Red Hat and others. One of the latest Lenovo-contributed improvements to the kernel is palm sensor support for newer ThinkPad notebooks...

How to Install and Use Flatpak on Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 11/27/2020 - 10:32

In Linux, there are many avenues for installing a software package. You can use the package managers such as APT for Debian-based distributions and YUM for RHEL-based distributions. If the packages are not available

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Systemd 247 Released With Experimental Out-of-Memory Daemon, New Credentials Capability

Phoronix - Fri, 11/27/2020 - 02:15
Systemd 247 is out today as the latest major version of this Linux init system. Like most systemd releases, systemd 247 is very heavy on new features...

PHP 8.0 Officially Released With Many Language Additions, Better Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 11/27/2020 - 00:28
PHP 8.0 is out today as expected as a major update to this widely-used programming language for server-side programming and other purposes...

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