Its Archive

System76 unveils its own Ubuntu-based Linux distribution called ‘Pop!_OS’

When Canonical announced the death of the Unity desktop environment, it sent shock waves through the Linux community. After all, Ubuntu is probably the most popular Linux-based desktop operating system and switching to GNOME was changing its trajectory. With Unity, Canonical was promising Ubuntu would be an OS that

Google Stakes Its Future on a Piece of Software

Early in 2015, artificial-intelligence researchers at Google created an obscure piece of software called ­TensorFlow. Two years later the tool, which is used in building machine-­learning software, underpins many future ambitions of Google and its parent company, Alphabet. TensorFlow makes it much easier for the company’s engineers

Flipkart Fashion Announces Divastri, Its First Private Label, Offering Ethnic Wear for Women

HIGHLIGHTS Flipkart Fashion has announced its first private label, Divastri It offers ethnic wear for women Private labels accounted for 21 percent of Myntra’s revenue Flipkart Fashion has announced the launch of its first private fashion label, called Divastri. The new label is a fashion line of

Teenage Engineering’s new pocket synth is its most versatile yet (updated)

Teenage Engineering debuted its first trio of pocket-sized $59 synthesizersalmost exactly two years ago. In 2016, the company followed those with a second set of three Pocket Operators featuring the sounds of the ’80s. Now the company is back with a third installment: the PO-32. Like the

How Fitbit Keeps Its Customers Moving in Social Media and Online Communities

Fitbit, a global leader in wearable fitness technology, has made it easier and more fun for millions of people to live a healthier life. And they’ve done it by focusing on the experience. “Customer experience is really paramount to everything we do here,” says Allison Leahy, the

Intel unveils its 7th-gen CPUs for desktops and performance laptops

Intel hasn’t forgotten about desktop aficionados. Only a few months after debuting its seventh-generation CPUs for ultraportables, the chip giant is rounding things out with new processors for more powerful machines. There’s the “H-series,” targeted at “performance laptops and mobile workstations,” and the “S-series,” which are meant

Facebook experiment suggests it’s trying to copy Snapchat again

Facebook appears to be working on yet another Snapchat-like experience. New screenshots of what look to be one of the social network’s many experiments show the company is working on a new feature that allows groups of friends to privately share photos and other updates that disappear

BT gets another chance to fix its broadband: Here’s what it means for you

Ofcom, BT and OpenReach – what this means to you BT used to like to tell us that “it’s good to talk”, but this morning it probably wasn’t the happiest of phone calls with the telecoms regulator Ofcom, which has told BT that it needs to seriously

Opinion: When Chrome, YouTube and Firefox drop it like it’s hot, Flash is a dead plugin walking

But we wanted more: interactivity, responsiveness, perhaps even a little bit of bling. Flash made this happen, and animators and designers could create all the interactivity they wanted and wrap it up in a file that was inserted into the web page and downloaded on request. The

Why face up to? Get Windows 10 while it’s nonetheless loose

What are you expecting? There are few motives left to withstand Microsoft’s Home windows 10 update, in particular while it’s nonetheless free. Wait any other month, and it’s going to cost you $120 . Due to the fact that Windows 10 came out nearly a year in