Before James Gunn directed the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie, he already had the plot for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in his head. Now, to be fair, he didn’t know there would be a third film at the time; back then, he didn’t even know if the first film would work. But …

Grab the low-hanging fruits with open-source Master Data Management, or MDM, is commercial vendors’ buzzword for an entity resolution framework. I talked to several vendors, most offering SaaS and priced by the total number of records ingested from sources. That totals in the 6- to 7-digit $ range per year for larger enterprises. The target …

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A quartet of mathematicians from Yorkshire University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Waterloo and the University of Arkansas has discovered a 2D geometric shape that does not repeat itself when tiled. David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig Kaplan and Chaim Goodman-Strauss have written a paper describing how they discovered the unique shape and …

Make it easy to take your computer anywhere when it’s the Acer Swift Go thin and lightweight laptop. Available in 2 sizes—14″ and 16″—both offer a beautiful OLED display. In fact, the Swift Go 16 (SFG16-71) and Swift Go 14 (SFG14-71) offer fast refresh rates along with 500-nit peak brightness. Not only that, but they …