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Inpired by Amiibos, Tony DiCola makes NFC-enabled papercraft blocks that can be used to build inside Minecraft

Now it just has to convince the other IoT foundations A new non-profit foundation dedicated to creating open standards for the Internet of Things (IoT) has launched.…

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at IBM's Quarks IoT development tool, the rise of open source textbooks, open source release of Google's TensorFlow Serving, and more. Open source news roundup for February 13 - 19, 2016 read more

From solar power packs and ePaper displays to near-field 3D gesture control, here are ten unmissable add-ons for your Pi.

Apple has been served with a court order at the FBI's request, demanding that it assist the government agency with unlocking an iPhone 5C that was used by Syed Rizwan Farook. Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 and injured 24 in an attack in San Bernardino, California on December 2, 2015.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation continues to push the limits of single-board computing. This month, it has added experimental OpenGL support to its Raspbian OS.

In this week's Top 5 articles on Opensource.com, we highlight low-cost, DIY, open hardware farming equipment; open source issue tracking tools; free and open source music making programs; a look inside the Secret Lab hackathon; and a new column on the site about how to build a business with open source.

Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to keep up with everything. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links to each.

In the first part, I presented the fundamental ideas behind Docker containers and how exactly they work. In this second part, we will proceed with the installation of Docker and its management as a service in our system. We will prepare our system so that in the next part we can create a personal notepad using the WordPress content management system (CMS) or the Dokuwiki which is a wiki software that doesn't require a database.

Canonical and Meizu will launch the most powerful Ubuntu phone ever, the Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition, at Mobile World Congress.

Working with other artists and creatives, I'm constantly amazed—and, to be frank, a little horrified—when I look at their project directories. So frequently, they're riddled with files that start with the same name, but with numbered with suffices like -v1, -v2, -v3-FINAL, -v3-FINAL3, v3-FINAL3-real, -v3-FINAL5-please_will_it_ever_end, and so on. read more

The Linux Foundation has published the list of keynote speakers and 124 conference sessions for its April 4-6 Embedded Linux Conference and OpenIoT Summit. The annual North American Embedded Linux Conference, co-located with a new “OpenIoT Summit,” will take place this year in San Diego, Calif. from April 4 through 6. This is the ELC’s […]

Realistic images of 3D objects—that can be viewed from any angle, and in a variety of lighting conditions—are something of great value to artists, designers, architects, scientists, and many others. The problem is that they often lack the equipment, skill, or both, to produce them. Enter POV-Ray, open source 3D image rendering software. read more

2016 is a special year for many FLOSS projects: KDE has its 20th birthday while Free Software Foundation Europe and VideoLAN both have their 15th birthday. All these call for celebrations! This year KDE has come together with Qt, FSFE, VideoLAN and KDAB to bring you QtCon, where attendees can meet, collaborate and get the latest news of all these projects.

Canonical and Meizu will launch the most powerful Ubuntu phone ever, the Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition, at Mobile World Congress.

For many of us, our introduction to computing is being placed in front of a machine where the only challenge is figuring out the Windows user experience paradigm. Getting started with Linux, on the other hand, requires a bit more effort, a fair amount of trial and error, and perhaps some colorful language along the way.

Money out of the marketing budget? And so IBM Watson's massive marketing push continues: this time with the launch of a $5m (£3.4m) prize in an artificial intelligence competition that will run until 2020. Contenders – or perhaps their 'bots – will have to battle it out at a mainstage event at IBM's annual conference before the winner pockets their prize at the annual TED talk-fest.…

Most modern GNU/Linux distributions use some kind of a software service that tracks the user activities and events. These events can be anything, from the opening of a document file, to the chat conversation. This isn't happening for the purpose to monitor the user and sell this usage data information to 3rd parties, but to help users enjoy a more user-friendly and unified experience across their applications. For example, if you want to quickly locate that document that you opened last weekend, chances are that you will easily and promptly find it after opening your file manager and going to the “Recent” folder.

Open source development and collaboration takes place online, in places made of information. From individual commit messages to project websites and even larger digital structures, each piece of information we create is part of a mess. This is not a slight against open source; all human endeavors are messy, because that is just the way we are as human beings. We all bring our own strengths and failings, wisdom and ignorance, to everything we do. read more

'Webmentions' spec promises future linkspam outbreak Something called Webmentions – which looks remarkably like the old WordPress pingbacks, once popular in the late 2000s – is grinding through the machinery of the mighty, and slow-moving, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).…