Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 hit general availability in July, but that doesn’t mean Shadowman has stopped polishing the version 6 branch of its flagship Linux distribution, despite it being nearly four years old.…
VID Shaky GoPro videos are the new post-holiday family slide nights: just as seeing an Uncle’s slides of their most recent journey is tedious, helmet-cam footage of your rellies hurtling down a hillside on a mountain bike is evocative for those who’ve done it, but contextless and dizzying for anyone else.…
A newly granted patent has revealed Apple’s plans to free its mobile assistant Siri from the iPhone and unleash it upon desktops.…
Microsoft has quietly joined an industry party building 3D interactive graphics boosted by graphics chips, after 14 years spent in opposition.…
Siggraph 2014 As the 41st Siggraph computer graphics conference kicks off in Vancouver this week, industry standards body the Khronos Group has announced updates to two of its most important specs.…
Siggraph 2014 Graphics standards body the Khronos Group has called on industry players to help draft the next generation of the OpenGL spec, a major rewrite that’s expected to help unify the OpenGL development model for desktop PCs, mobile devices, and the web.…
Microsoft may be planning to graduate Windows Phone 8.1’s Halo-inspired Cortana digital assistant from the small screen to a full-fledged desktop utility in the next version of Windows, if the Redmond rumor mill is to be believed.…
Developers can now download an early version of the software development kit (SDK) for Google Fit, the Chocolate Factory’s forthcoming health data platform that was announced at this year’s Google I/O conference, although not all of the components are fully baked yet.…
EMC Federation member Pivotal has put all its eggs in one basket, by releasing the first version of its AppSuite.…
China has tightened rules regulating the use of instant messengers, forcing users to reveal their real names when registering so their identities can be linked to their content.…