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Mahout greatly simplifies extracting recommendations and relationships from input datasets. Here we look at setting up Mahuout and running its recommender on a small data sample.

Whether you are using an email client or a web-based email solution, you can encrypt your email.

If you feel that package installation by apt-get or aptitude is often too slow on your Debian or Ubuntu system, there are several ways to improve the situation. One option is to use apt-fast, which is actually a shell script wrapper written around apt-get and aptitude, and can accelerate package download speed.

Google is one of those few companies which maintain a fine balance between free software/open source and their commercial offerings. They are fairly successful in both. Google is also one of the strongest proponents of free software/open source and do as much as they can.

Every day is a tease: Will Google launch Kit Kat today? Was that really the Nexus 5 we saw floating around in that one video? Is this real life?

That old hoary chestnut, the question of women being selected on merit for work/positions in the technology industry, has reared its head again. And this time it is on a mailing list hosted by Linux Australia, the umbrella group for Linux associations Down Under.

Overall, the Linux Foundation is growing because Linux itself is growing. "We're a mirror of Linux, so it's not that we're growing; it's that Linux is growing," Zemlin said. "We reflect the technical adoption that is happening."

Microsoft is embracing open source because they have no choice if they wish to keep their proprietary products relevant–especially in the cloud. If Windows Azure offered virtual machines running only on Windows, or only proprietary programs and apps for their stack, the service would fail miserably. Azure’s success depends on its ability to offer CentOS, Apache, Hadoop, Drupal and the like.

In light of the blah-fest that will surely be Android 4.4 Kit Kat, we’re already looking forward to next year’s version of the OS with all the patience of a child on Christmas Eve. We’re due for a major version update, and we want it to be something that makes everyone sit up and take notice.

A new app developed by a German University Stuttgart student during his PhD thesis research prevents people from unlocking your phone by looking at grease stains on your screen.

Cisco announced this morning their plans to open-source their H.264 codec under a BSD license and make it available free for all. Cisco is open-sourcing their H.264 codec without assessing any fees in an effort to push H.264 for the WebRTC real-time communication API.

With the first GNOME 3.12 development release (v3.11.1) due to occur this week, many of the first very early GNOME 3.12 packages are being checked in for early testing ahead of the desktop's full debut in March of 2014...

Adobe Systems Inc. said on Tuesday that the scope of a cyber-security breach disclosed nearly a month ago was far bigger than initially reported, with attackers obtaining data on more than 38 million customer accounts.

RICON West 2013 Riak-steward Basho has spliced crucial enterprise features into the second version of its NoSQL distributed database, and also admitted that its system can't do everything on its own.

Mozilla released 10 patches for three versions of its Firefox browser on Tuesday, five of which are considered critical and could be used to remotely install malicious code.

Does the phrase "Open Data" ring a bell? Like open source and open standards, you should want data to be open as well.

The first development version of the upcoming PyGObject 3.12 library, for the GNOME 3.12 desktop environment, was announced a few days ago, bringing assorted fixes and improvements.

At ARM TechCon, Cavium demonstrated an SDK for its upcoming ARMv8-based Project Thunder SoC family, and announced Ubuntu support for Project Thunder, while Cavium subsidiary MontaVista announced Carrier Grade Linux support for ARMv8.

With recent milestones like the Radeon performance improvements in Linux 3.12 that come as a side-effect from a CPUfreq change, Radeon DPM, and the improvements found by the upcoming Mesa 10.0 release, and numerous other open-source driver improvements, the AMD's Radeon Gallium3D performance is very competitive to AMD's Catalyst driver.

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