Welcome to our selection of business IT innovation news. Created using our own opinionated selection and summary algorithm. We present some top innovation news items to get you thinking, debating and take action in order to make our world better.
1 Legal Foundations of a Free Society
Seen on the great site of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF). This foundation is dedicated to building public awareness of the manner in which so-called “intellectual property” (IP) laws and policies impede innovation. The free PDF or ePUB of the book ‘Legal Foundations of a Free Society’ is available here. But mind, the book is 800 pages.
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2 ToolJet
Most low-code or no-code platforms are closed source. ToolJet is an open-source (AGPL) low-code platform. Put this solution on your short list when considering using a low code platform. There are some use cases when a low code platform fits. But as with closed source solutions: There is no holey grail. People still matter.
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3 High-performance parallel programming in Python
The Python ecosystem is the powerhouse behind countless groundbreaking open-source ML and AI solutions. This specific solution is particularly compelling and deserves closer inspection. Better performant GPU programming in Python makes a lot of ML/AI innovations possible.
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4 Room-Temperature Superconductor
Superconductivity is still the holy grail towards saving our climate. A retracted paper in Nature reports the discovery of a superconductor that operates at room temperatures and near-room pressures. The claim has divided the research community. Nature has retracted the paper, but the story and hope remains.
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5 The Citizen Lab
The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research and development at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security. Recently some nice reports on Russian cyberattacks and vulnerabilities on keyboards are published.
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6 The Progress Playbook
The Progress Playbook focuses on proven ideas for a better world. They cover policies and projects that are succeeding in driving sustainable development, and that could be replicated elsewhere.
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7 State of Crypto Report 2024
Crypto and blockchain are alive. The 2024 State of Crypto report also reveals all-time highs in crypto activity. And it analyzes how blockchain infrastructure has matured.
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8 An industrial evolution in how we make buildings
WikiHouse is a modular building system that makes it easy to design, manufacture and assemble high-performance buildings. Think global, manufacture local. WikiHouse blocks are manufactured not in a single, large centralised factory, but by a distributed network of small, local CNC fabricators.
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9 Three.js: JavaScript 3D library
Click some examples or make your own. Personally I like this one. WebGL in the browser still keeps finding new ways to make things possible that were very hard in the past. For example animations.
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