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Homebank

Homebank is a free, open source personal finance app for Linux, Windows, and MacOS users. It easily imports files from Quicken, Microsoft Money, and other software. It also imports from popular bank formats OFX/QFX, QIF, and CSV. The source code for Homebank is freely available and licensed with GPL v 2.0. The project provides information…
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GnuCash

GnuCash is a popular open source personal finance or small business accounting program for Linux users. It is a full-featured double-entry accounting system that supports multiple accounts, investments, and currency conversions. The app also provides a variety of helpful financial tools, including budgeting, reporting, invoicing, and more. GnuCash is a great choice for users looking…
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Teams Begin Work to Develop Tasty Food from Air, Water, and Electricity

DARPA’s Cornucopia program aims to create a variety of healthy new microbial-based foods using three ingredients — air, water, and electricity—with minimal or no supplementation. If successful, troops one day could deploy with a transportable system that makes nourishing and appetizing food on demand in remote locations, obviating costly and brittle food supply chains. Three…
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Accurate Aerosol Identification—Really Fast

The bottom line is that right now it’s very difficult and potentially dangerous to identify harmful chemicals or agents once they’re aerosolized. However, one of IARPA’s newest programs, Pursuing Intelligent Complex Aerosols for Rapid Detection (PICARD), hopes to give the USG and IC a tool that will help reduce risk while accurately and quickly detecting…
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DARPA RPM – Reimagining Protein Manufacuring

DARPA RPM Aims to Speed-Up Production of On-Demand Protein-Based Therapeutics Department of Defense (DoD) access to critical protein-based therapeutics is limited by the slow pace and substantial costs associated with current protein production methods. The goal of the DARPA Reimaging Protein Manufacturing (RPM) program is to develop tools for distributed, on-demand manufacturing of protein-based drugs,…
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AGILE – Advanced Graphic Intelligence Logical Computing Environment

Intelligence Value The AGILE program seeks innovative, energy-efficient, and reliable computer architectures that can address the Intelligence Community’s large-scale data-analytic applications, as well as other classes of data intensive applications. AGILE offers the potential to enable a predictive analysis of massive data from diverse sources and methods, not just forensic analysis after the event has…
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LHO – Little Horned Owl

Intelligence Value The need for increasingly sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for intelligence purposes requires a maturation of the technology to include the need for quiet UAVs. The Little Horned Owl program is developing ultra-quiet mini UAVs (defined as having a take-off weight of 55 pounds or less) to further enable critical intelligence and military…
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Fwd: NIST’s Researchers Look Ahead to High-Tech

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit View as a Web Page Taking Measure Blog NIST’s Researchers Look Ahead to High-Tech Trends in 2023 and Beyond As 2022 draws to a close, we asked NIST’s senior researchers to look ahead to the new year and beyond. They research topics that impact all of us, from indoor air…
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