On September 17, 1991, a volunteer administrator for the FTP server shared by Finland’s universities uploaded the kernel of a new, open-source operating system. The administrator, Ari Lemmke, did so ...

An Apex Legends event was postponed by organizers after two players appeared to be hacked and given unwanted cheat devices. — © AFP/File Denis Charlet An Apex ...

Over the past several years, my son and I have spent a significant amount of volunteer time creating exhibit software for the Sciencenter in Ithaca, New York. This article discusses how this project ...

Linux 30 years Jubilee Seminar was held on 8 October 2021 as a hybrid event. Linux was born at the University of Helsinki 30 years ago. We celebrated this with a public jubilee seminar on Friday 8 ...

3D Robotics and other drone makers have joined Intel and Qualcomm in an effort to formalize the creation of open-source hardware and software for the unmanned aerial vehicles. Stephen Shankland Former ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

Linux was developed by Linus Torvalds. He released it on August 25th, 1991, making the operating system 25 years old today. At the start, it was a “completely personal project,” Linux.com reports ...

In 1991, a 21-year-old Finnish computer science student named Linus Torvalds got annoyed. He had bought a personal computer to use at home, but he couldn’t find an operating system for it that was as ...

Big data refers to datasets that are too large, complex, or fast-changing to be handled by traditional data processing tools. It is characterized by the four V's: Big data analytics plays a crucial ...