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Harnessing Open and Neutral Data to Decode Climate Change

By Dick Weisinger

Open and neutral data is increasingly recognized as a vital resource in understanding and addressing climate change. By making climate-related data accessible and usable, researchers, policymakers, and the public can gain deeper insights into environmental changes and develop effective strategies

The Open Data Revolution: Powering AI Across Clouds

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoft is shaking things up with its recent embrace of open data formats, sparking a new era of AI integration across cloud platforms. By adopting standards like Apache Parquet and Apache Arrow, the tech giant is tearing down data silos

Open Data: The Benefits of Openly Sharing Maritime Data

By Dick Weisinger

In many ways the earth’s oceans represent an unexplored frontier. They’ve managed to escape the same level of in-depth explorations that humans have made across the earth’s seven continents. But that is changing quickly. The Ocean Conservatory wrote in their

Open Source Chip Design: Lowering the Cost, but Chip Production Remains Expensive

By Dick Weisinger

The recent history of computer chips has seen the market dominated by very large market players that have invested large amounts of cash to produce ultra-miniature and highly complex semiconductors. Those industry players aren’t expected to change much in the

Open Data: Bridging the Data Inequality Gap

By Dick Weisinger

Top-tier technology companies are accelerating their dominance because of their access to large amounts of data. Brad Smith, president at Microsoft, noted that half of all data created on the internet is collected by fewer than 100 tech companies that