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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

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A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. ” The open source factor. . ” The open source factor.

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With $8M seed, Onehouse builds open source data lakehouse, eyes managed service

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Vinoth Chandar, founder and CEO of Onehouse , was working at Uber in 2014. It had a lot of unstructured data sitting in a data lake, but the challenge was to find a way to execute on that data more quickly, something you could do with a data warehouse, but was more difficult in a data lake due to its unstructured nature.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Cell-cultured meat, alternative financing, avoiding tech debt

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Friederike Grosse-Holz, a director at impact investment firm Blue Horizon, said lab-grown meat is “a little like a moonshot,” but predicts that 11% of the seafood, meat, eggs and dairy consumed globally in 2035 will come from alternative sources. “We We are far from clear in knowing which technology will be the best,” she said. “So

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Friend.tech hype grows, Tornado Cash founders go for a spin and FBI’s monitoring North Korean hackers

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The company was founded in 2014 and has its own sidechain technology, Liquid Network, as well as bitcoin mining operations and hardware wallets for Bitcoin and other assets. The last startup he co-founded before Blockstream was Dan’s Plan, a health tech company.

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We’re all becoming software CIOs — a role Red Hat CIO Jim Palermo knows well

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In 2014, I interviewed Gerri Martin-Flickinger, then CIO of Adobe, on this topic. Enter Jim Palermo, who’s been CIO of open source solution provider Red Hat since 2022, and with the company for 14 years before that. There’s so much cross-pollination of the tech stack now.”

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Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

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million in grants to assist state governments in reducing barriers to employment with Code for America’s Clear My Record tool, which uses an open source algorithm to review records and produce clearance motions. .” Meanwhile, Google.org, Google’s charitable arm, will provide $4.25 For example, U.S.

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New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape

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A new report from Endeavor Nigeria reveals that Africa’s digital economy and tech ecosystem is set to experience exponential growth periods. It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors.

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