Stimulus Is Failing: Global Banks to Break Support Levels, US Dollar Plummets to 2-Year Low
Jul31

Stimulus Is Failing: Global Banks to Break Support Levels, US Dollar Plummets to 2-Year Low

Central banks worldwide have injected further stimulus into the economy, as European Union (EU) leaders recently approved a $2.1 trillion budget, the Bank of England boosted stimulus injections in mid-June, and the Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that it would keep lending until the end of the year. Meanwhile, bank indexes show that financial institutions based in the UK, Japan, and the EU are about to break support levels that...

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YouTube Rippers Eye Supreme Court After Appeals Court Denies Rehearing
Jul31

YouTube Rippers Eye Supreme Court After Appeals Court Denies Rehearing

YouTube rippers are seen as the largest piracy threat to the music industry, and record labels are doing their best to shut them down. In 2017, YouTube-MP3, the world’s largest ripping site at the time, shut down after being sued, and several others followed voluntarily. A group of music companies hoped to achieve the same with FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com. The sites’ Russian owner Tofig Kurbanov was taken to court in the...

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Bring your Mycroft AI voice assistant skill to life with Python
Jul31

Bring your Mycroft AI voice assistant skill to life with Python

In the first two articles of this series on Mycroft, an open source, privacy-focused digital voice assistant, I covered the background behind voice assistants and some of Mycroft’s core tenets. read more Powered by...

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Why we open sourced our Python platform
Jul31

Why we open sourced our Python platform

The team at Anvil recently open sourced the Anvil App Server, a runtime engine for hosting web apps built entirely in Python. The community reaction has been overwhelmingly positive, and we, at Anvil, have already incorporated lots of that feedback into our next release. But one of the questions we keep getting asked is, “Why did you choose to open source such a core part of your product?” read more Powered by...

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Defining cloud native, expanding the ecosystem, and more industry trends
Jul31

Defining cloud native, expanding the ecosystem, and more industry trends

As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are three of my and their favorite articles from that update. read more Powered by...

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