In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...

Reproducibility is a major issue in scientific research. It is often addressed by conducting the same experiment, independently, in more than one laboratory. Work developing cutting-edge ...

There is a chronic need for medical devices for the diagnosis and treatment of patients in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) 1. The current medical device market is not providing affordable ...

The open-source revolution is expanding beyond software into hardware design. New microcontrollers from Microchip Technology and Espressif incorporate processors based on RISC-V—an open-source ...

The companies behind Google’s OpenTitan project recently announced the commercial availability of what they called the world’s first chip with open-source hardware security baked directly into it.

The concept of using open-source software has become increasingly commonplace in industry, with many large software vendors incorporating use of open-source technologies as part of their software ...

Former Hugging Face executive Tiezhen Wang explains how China's open-source strategy is reshaping the AI race.