Stephen is an author at Android Police who covers how-to guides, features, and in-depth explainers on various topics. He joined the team in late 2021, bringing his strong technical background in ...

Members of the open-source community can now contribute code to Fuchsia, an experimental operating system that Google LLC has been developing over the past four years. Fuchsia first appeared with ...

A kernel can be defined as the essential center of an operating system. The kernel is the core of an operating system that provides a set of basic services for the other parts of the operating system.

To some, an operating system is a burden or waste of resources, like those working on embedded systems and other low-power applications. To others it’s necessary, abstracting away hardware so that ...

Charles Kalko is a big fan of trusted operating systems. With PitBull from Argus Systems Group Inc., he’s used them to lock down vital functions that run his business-to-business barter site. The ...

Company is determined to keep making its statement, time and time again, that, someday, the operating system won't matter. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist although the opinions expressed ...

macOS’s Gatekeeper and XProtect functions provide a strong baseline for security and block the vast majority of malware and questionable apps. Still, determined or careless users can bypass ...

Microsoft has invested heavily in increasing the security of Windows. The firewall, the automatically activated antivirus program, various security functions for protection against boot viruses and ...

The Cologne-based startup dataMatters, a spin-off of RWTH Aachen University, has introduced urbanOS, which it claims is the world’s first operating system for Smart Cities. This municipal operating ...