This paper introduces a new trend in hardware design and development — open-source hardware. It defines open-source hardware design terms, features and requirements. It presents FPGA-based platforms ...

What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. Allowing anyone to inspect the source ...

If you’re a software developer today—or a cloud engineer, or a data scientist, or anyone who works with code—then open source software is like the air that you breathe. But open source wasn’t always ...

We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse Underlying every piece of software you use is source code ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Charles writes about organisational changes required to scale & AI. The tech world is a strange place; it is egalitarian and ...

Good software is the basis of all PC use, but many professional programs are too expensive for private use. This is where the free software-based applications step in, which, including their source ...

This week, Sonos announced -- and then subsequently retracted -- that it would end-of-life a series of popular audio streaming products made by the company during its first 10 years in business. Sonos ...

Elegoo has confirmed that full color printing is coming to the Centauri Series of FDM 3D printers by the third quarter of 2025. The highly anticipated Automatic Filament Switching System will be the ...

Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.