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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Microsoft's Start open source ambitions pick up speed</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Microsoft's level of trust in the open source community is continuing to build after it moved to absorb its MS Open Technologies subsidiary back into the company.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The move, which brings the "startup subsidiary" back under Microsoft control, came after MS Open Tech reached its key goals and it will help Microsoft "take its next steps in deepening its engagement with open source and open standards," according to a company blog post.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Since it started life three years ago, MS Open Tech has worked with a number of open source communities to help developers take advantage of Microsoft products. This has included making it easier for Linux and Java developers to integrate Azure into the likes of Docker, Chef and Puppet using various SDKs, tools and plug-ins.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>In the time that it has kept its open source department at an arm's length it has also taken Microsoft services and APIs onto iOS and Android, and made .NET open source in the time.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>In terms of where the project will go next, Jean Paoli, president of MS Open Tech, promised that "team members will play a broader role in the open advocacy mission with teams across the company, including the creation of the Microsoft Open Technology Programs Office."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>It was only couple of weeks ago that one Microsoft engineer hinted that the source code for Windows 10 may one day get released and absorbing MS Open Tech back into Microsoft only accelerates this possibility.</i></span></div>

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>It's not perfect, but it's close</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Practical battery technology has been stagnant for far too long, but researchers at Stanford may have made a crucial breakthrough thanks to one thing: aluminum.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Compared with today's lithium-ion options, the researchers' aluminum-ion batteries are cheaper, safer, more flexible, and longer-lasting, they said in an article in the science journal Nature.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>And two of them can charge a smartphone in as little as one minute.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>So close</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Aluminum has high energy storage capacity, low flammability and low cost, and by combining the metal with graphite cathodes (a happy accident, apparently) the scientists made viable batteries.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>They have a low chance of catching fire or exploding, and since they use a liquid electrolyte, the new batteries can take the form of liquid-filled pouches that can be used in flexible technology like curved phones.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>But although they can last for thousands more charge cycles than lithium batteries and charge fully in a fraction of the time, the aluminum batteries have a fatal flaw: the scientists have yet to work out how to make them produce enough voltage to be truly practical.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>The researchers said they see the tech as "a new battery in its early days."</i></span></div>
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