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Monday, April 3, 2017
NASA has released massive catalog of free and open source software 2017
NASA has released massive catalog of free and open source software 2017
You already know NASA, the space exploration arm of United States. From time to time NASA engineers write their own program for air and spacecraft design, business optimization, systems interaction and biomedical applications. Most of these programs are open source and have been made available to general public for free use.
NASA rolled out the third installment of the software. The newly released NASA 2017-2018 software catalog comes both in hard copy and offline format. The first pilot edition of NASA’s software catalog was made available to the public in April 2014.
NASA says that the freely released tools will be useful for top professionals, entrepreneurs, small businesses, industry, and academia and have a potential to create jobs, save lives, and earn revenue.
The NASA catalog contains some award winning software likeTraffic Aware Planner, is an in-cockpit tool to assist pilots in requesting the most efficient route of flight taking into consideration the position and track of nearby aircraft. The second, Pegasus 5, is a computational fluid dynamics solver, which allows users to calculate the pressure and temperature of fluid flows to model system performance, such as lift and drag from an airframe in flight. Although likely not as popular as astronaut ice cream, the most requested piece of NASA software in 2016 was Schedule Test and Assessment Tool, a plug-in to Microsoft Project to automate reporting of project performance data.
The NASA catalog also contains some super software which can help ordinary computer users. Here are some of the popular tools that have been open sourced by NASA:
Worldview Satellite Imagery Browsing and Downloading Tool
Global Planetary Reference Models
CARES/LIFE
NASA Root Cause Analysis Tool
PixelLearn
Cart3D
JPL’s Stereo Vision Software Suite
Video Image Stabilization and Registration
CARES/LIFE
What’s Up at Wallops (Android and iOS)
Lossless Hyper-/Multi-Spectral Data Compression Software
Here is how you can download the free software tools released by NASA:
NASA has nicely indexed the software it is releasing to the public. Here’s the complete list of tools released by NASA.
To download any of this software, feel free to visit this link. You may find the site little unresponsive or unavailable due the rush to download the free offering from NASA, but the wait is certainly worth it.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Google has Acquired Fabric Twitter’s Mobile App Developer Platform
Google has Acquired Fabric Twitter’s Mobile App Developer Platform
Crashlytics was founded in 2011, but was acquired by Twitter at the start of 2013. The team continued to work out of Boston, Massachusetts and had an SDK that was used in over 1 million applications. They developed software that enabled iOS, Android and Unity developers to pinpoint the reasons why their applications were not stable (down to the exact line of code in some cases). By the end of 2016, it was announced that their software had been installed on over 2 billion active devices.
Almost two years after Twitter acquired Crashlytics, they announced Fabric. This was their expansion into mobile application analytics, beta distribution, and also user identity and authentication. We have talked about the project on multiple occasions here at XDA, and Fabric had become quite popular within the mobile developer community. This was Crashlytics’ first introduction of a modular SDK platform for the company. The modular functionality allowed developers to pick and choose which features they needed.
It’s fair to say that Twitter hasn’t had the best revenue stream over the last few years. As the company tries to reorganize their business model so they can become more streamlined, we’re seeing them cut back in certain areas. This was a big reason why they chose to turn Vine into a simple camera application recently. Since Twitter doesn’t feel Fabric plays a vital role in their social platform, they have been in talks to sell the technology along with the team to Google.
The team behind Fabric will now work under Google’s Developer Products Group and they’ll be working directly with the Firebase team. Both teams have a goal to help developers build better applications as well as helping them grow and scale their business too. We’ll have to wait and see what the end goal of this acquisition is. Whether or not Google will let Fabric continue to function independently, or if they simply want to fold the technology into Firebase.
Source: Fabric
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