Operating System Archive

It’s iPhone 8 Day…and as you’d expect of any new Apple product launch, the news of major redesigns and cool new features owns the day. But despite all the cheers, jeers, and general debate around the iPhone 8 and everything it represents, it’s easy to overlook the software that’ll soon

Apple has transferred responsibility for Siri, its voice assistant, from content chief Eddy Cue to operating systems chief Craig Federighi, a sign that the company is looking to embed the voice assistant more deeply into its core systems amid rising competition from Alphabet Inc’s Google and Amazon.com

There can be no doubt that Kubernetes is where it’s at for container orchestration services these days. Mesosphere, which was one of the early companies to adopt containers and which focuses on allowing businesses to run their big data and analytics workloads in the cloud, today announced that it

Sony is investing in Acutronic Robotics‘ Series A round, via its Sony Innovation Fund. Sony will also adopt Acutronic’s Hardware Robot Operating System (H-ROS), for use in its own robotics division, the company says. This funding follows investment by DARPA in Acutronic’s platform, which aims to become an industry

The Android Operating System (OS) has continued to dominate on a global level. The International Data Corporation (IDC) said it expects shipments on the platform to slightly outperform the market with 2.3% year-over-year growth in 2017. In terms of volume, Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) continues to lead the

Short Bytes: The developers of Bodhi Linux have released Bodhi 4.3.0. Based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, this release is powered by Linux kernel 4.11. Please note that this isn’t a feature release and the existing users don’t need to perform a re-installation. The new users can visit the

A new strain of malware has been spreading on Facebook, leading victims into innocuous-looking websites tailored to their system and browser preferences. Discovered by David Jacoby, Senior Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab, he received a suspicious message from one of his friends who he rarely spoke to.

Andy Rubin, best known for leading Android, thinks artificial intelligence is the next major operating system. Rubin made the comments during a press event for the launch of his new Android smartphone at the headquarters of Playground, his hybrid venture capital firm and start-up incubator in Palo

Oreo, the world’s top-selling cookie, is getting into technology. Well, sort of. The next version of the Android mobile operating system is named Oreo, Google and Oreo announced Monday. The collaboration between Google and Oreo’s parent company, Mondelez International Inc., follows some generic sweet-treat names for versions of the

That enables you to combine the control and HMIapplications on a single PC, for example, or have an industrial PC double as both a real-time controller and an edge controller that sends pre-processed data to higher level systems and the cloud via OPC UA. Virtual network The hypervisor provides a