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Motorola: The Moto X Sells at a Profit; Custom Orders ‘Substantial’

The company says that the Flextronics plant is capable of producing “tens of millions” of phones per year, but only 100,000 Moto X units are leaving the plant each week. [Read more]

 
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Welcome to Piksi, the Ultra Precise GPS Receiver for Autonomous Vehicle Systems

This device, particularly designed for applications in autonomous vehicle systems, has been recently funded on kickstarter.

 An RTK (Real Time Kinematic) GPS system gives positions that are 100 times more accurate than commercial receivers (down to centimeters)

What is Piksi?

Piksi is an RTK GPS receiver with open source software that costs one tenth the price of any other available RTK system.

piksi

 
Read more at Open Electronics

Let’s Talk About Continuous Delivery

Skilful driver required: avoid bumps in the road

Continuous delivery is defined as a process in which software development teams focus on deployment and refinement over and above any imperative to work on new features.…

Read more at The Register

Company Culture at Red Hat Through the Eyes of the 2013 Summer Interns

red hat intern program

Every year, a select group of university students and recent graduates join Red Hat’s North American summer intern program. The application and interview process is vigorous. In 2013, we received more than 5,800 applicants and hired only 71. But for those chosen, a Red Hat summer internship offers unique opportunities to learn, grow, and network.

 

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Mellanox FDR InfiniBand Speeds Apps on Ivy Bridge

This week Mellanox announced that its end-to-end, FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect solutions provide industry-leading performance for compute-intensive applications running on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family. With up to 30 percent better performance, applications running on Ivy Bridge processors and Mellanox’s FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand solutions do more, faster, thereby lowering product design […]

 
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IDF 2013: From Quark to Xeon, Intel Wants to Be Inside Everything

We expected the new low-power Haswell chips and Bay Trail Atoms for tablets. But on the first day of its annual conference, Intel offered a few surprises too including working 14nm Core processors and a new Quark chip family for tiny devices.

A Glitch in the 3.12 Merge Window

In case anybody wonders why the merging of patches for the 3.12 kernel appears to have come to a stop: Linus has run into a disk failure. “If worst comes to worst, I’ll just do the last next days of the merge window on the laptop that I was planning on finishing it off with anyway, since I have travel coming up. At least this didn’t happen at the very beginning of the merge window…

Read more at LWN

Intel Finally Unleashes Ivy Bridge-E Core i7 Desktop Processors

The three new high-performance CPUs include the six-core i7-4960X Extreme Edition for $999, but lack the improvements from the company’s recent Haswell microarchitecture.

Samsung Kicks Off March of ARM’s big.Little Architecture

Samsung is pushing ARM’s big.Little architecture, which utilizes a combination of cores to maximize power savings while boosting mobile computing power.

Excited for LinuxCon New Orleans, in GIFs

LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America are next week in New Orleans.

Erica Brescia

And to get you pumped up for the event, we’ve collected some fun moments from LinuxCon 2012.

Whether you’re coming to hear the great prognosticator give his state of Linux address

Jim Zemlin

Goof off like Greg Kroah Hartman in a half pipe

GKH Skateboard

Find people to laugh at your kernel jokes

Guys Laughing

Join the penguin rookery

Endless People

See Linus Torvalds on stage (is this thing on?)

Linus Torvalds on stage at LinuxCon

Or rock out with Linus 

Linus Singing

We hope your experience is Excellent. 

Head Banging

And if you can’t make it, be sure to catch the live video stream of the LinuxCon and CloudOpen keynotes.