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Although OS X is now an integral part of the Mac experience, it represented a big gamble for Apple when the first general release version — code-named Cheetah — arrived on March 24, 2001. It was also a gamble that Apple had little choice in making —

Officials believe public outcry over Panama Papers has given fresh impetus to a crackdown on all tax avoidance Valdis Dombrovskis, European commission vice-president for the euro and social dialogue, argues that tax transparency has ‘rocketed up the agenda’. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images Tax avoidance by multinational corporations

Arab Youth Survey finds declining support for extremist group but lack of jobs is seen as main issue driving terrorist recruitment Pro-Isis demonstrators, many of them young men, on a march in Mosul, Iraq. Photograph: Uncredited/AP The vast majority of young Arabs are increasingly rejecting Islamic State

One in five Windows-powered devices steered to a host of U.S. government websites in March ran Windows 10, according to preliminary data. For the first time, Windows 10 accounted for more than one-fifth of the visits to sites tracked by the Digital Analytics Program (DAP), which mines

Instagram certainly rocked the social marketing boat these last couple of weeks with their announcement that your feed will soon be curated by an algorithm instead of by which accounts you follow and when they upload. Suddenly, everyone was drowning in requests to “turn on notifications if you still want

The images show a liver cell before and after processing the data with the software developed at Bielefeld University. Credit: Photo: Bielefeld University With their special microscopes, experimental physicists can already observe single molecules. However, unlike conventional light microscopes, the raw image data from some ultra-high resolution

LG thinks it’s time for a change. Rather than build just another thin, fast flagship, the company’s latest work lets you augment it with purpose-built, snap-on accessories. Say hello to the G5, a phone with the potential to grow with you. A lot of chutzpah went into

Greece has lifted its suspension of the EU-Turkey migration deal, deporting a second group of migrants to Turkey after a four-day pause amid administrative chaos and civil unrest. Greece began deporting 150 people from the islands of Lesbos, Samos and Kos early on Friday – the first

A new nonprofit will seek to speed the arrival of next-generation fabrics that can store energy, control their own temperature, change color and behave like computer sensors. MIT professor Yoel Fink, who is leading the effort, envisions the creation of an entire new industry: textiles for the

Whether you are a designer, a developer, or both, chances are high that you have several versions or instances of the same project on your computer at any one time. The problem is, it can be hard to keep up with these items if you don’t have