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  Google will keep Android free and open for at least five years

  By Nathan Ingraham on May 19, 2012 05:00 pm + 209 comments

  According to the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and the Associated Press, Google had to agree to keep Continue reading…

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  TicTocTrac watch measures both time and your perception of it

  By Adi Robertson on May 8, 2012 03:21 pm + 15 comments

  The passage of time can be measured with increasing accuracy, but our own perception of it often Continue reading…

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  Save an endangered Kickstarter project with Kicksaver

  By Adi Robertson on May 8, 2012 10:34 am + 15 comments

  When you're browsing Kickstarter, you could help drop another few million dollars on the Pebble Continue reading…

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  Sprint becomes first North American carrier to join Tizen Association

  By Adi Robertson on May 7, 2012 04:39 pm + 27 comments

  In a somewhat unusual move, American mobile carrier Sprint has joined the Tizen Association, an Continue reading…

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  Sony adds music player and puzzle game to SmartWatch development kit

  By Adi Robertson on May 7, 2012 11:34 am + 3 comments

  Sony's $149.99 SmartWatch is probably never going to be as exciting as Kickstarter sensation Pebble, Continue reading…

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  A brief history of Haiku OS

  By Evan Rodgers on May 4, 2012 12:58 pm + 12 comments

  Ryan Leavengood of Spectrum IEEE has written a detailed piece about the history of open source BeOS Continue reading…

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  Facebook's Open Compute Project: one year later

  By Bryan Bishop on May 2, 2012 11:59 pm + 2 comments

  When Facebook announced the Open Compute Project — an initiative to open-source its own server Continue reading…

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  Tizen project hits 1.0, source code and SDK released

  By Bryan Bishop on May 2, 2012 12:57 am + 34 comments

  We first heard about Tizen, the Linux-based open source software platform, back in September when it Continue reading…

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  Mozilla to launch Boot to Gecko phone in Brazil in early 2013

  By Nate Ralph on April 19, 2012 07:47 pm + 42 comments

  Mozilla has announced that its HTML5-based mobile phone platform — dubbed Boot to Gecko — will Continue reading…

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  Google Earth now includes publicly-sourced aerial images from balloons and kites

  By Nathan Ingraham on April 18, 2012 10:38 am + 3 comments

  Google Earth is already a remarkable repository of images of our planet, but the company is looking Continue reading…