In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...

For anybody who did any kind of computing in the 1950s or 1960s, (or for that matter, in the 1970s or the 1980s), the advances that we’ve made in hardware are staggering. But if you do track them to ...

Organisations are struggling to manage end-of-life hardware, calling into question accepted IT Asset Management practices ...

After years of “software eating the world,” it’s hardware’s turn to feast. We previewed in the computation chapter of “Tech Trends 2024” that as Moore’s Law comes to its supposed end, the promise of ...

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

The advent of OTA updates. Advantages and challenges of software-defined vehicles. Why a solid hardware infrastructure is vital to successful software-defined design. You talk to Siri to get ...

Concerns about AI’s energy use have a lot of people looking into ways to cut down on its power requirements. Many of these focus on hardware and software approaches that are pretty straightforward ...

Nintendo showed off its Nintendo Switch 2 hardware and games to the press in New York City yesterday, and one of the rare parts of the event was a sit-down panel with the hardware designers. The group ...

Microsoft is rolling out a major operating system upgrade this week. It is unlike any Windows upgrade I can remember, and I've been covering this beat since the dawn of recorded time. Technically, you ...

Quantum computing has advanced at a remarkable pace over the past several years. As the technology matures, stakeholders in business and government are looking for tangible timelines—when will quantum ...