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Apple released the sixth beta for its upcoming iOS 11.2.5 and tvOS 11.2.5 operating system updates, which are meant to support iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple TV devices for developers and public beta testing. The brand also went on to register developers and public beta testers.

The latest data from NetMarketShare shows that Windows 7 is still the most popular desktop operating system, with Windows 10 gaining ground. The September 2017 statistics also revealed that iOS and Android 6.0 remain the most widely-used mobile operating systems, with more devices moving to Android 7.0. Mobile OS

Sick of Android? Don’t want to be part of a proprietary ecosystem? Security and privacy are becoming increasingly important for smartphone users, but what is the answer? For some, abandoning Android and switching to a phone that can run a Linux mobile operating system is the answer.

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

Legacy systems in the government are hard to secure against cyberattack, and that goes double for the embedded, real-time systems at the heart of the many control systems in advanced weapons, power plants and mission-critical infrastructure. Galois, a Portland, Ore.,-based secure software developer, has linked up with

Microsoft may have finally called time on its Windows Phone hardware Microsoft is officially set to pull the plug on its Windows Phone smartphone business. The company has reportedly signalled that it will be wrapping up its operations in the mobile device market within the next few weeks. The

While most of us are sound asleep on June 30, our computers and GPS systems will insert an extra second into our lives. It doesn’t seem like much, but a single second that was not planned for is enough to cause some interesting problems for computer systems.

Visible Light Communication (VLC), sometimes also referred to as “Li-Fi,” uses standard off-the-shelf visible light LEDs to transmit data using the visible light spectrum. The idea is very simple: the light emitted by standard LED luminaries is modulated to transmit data at such high speed that the

In the course of our day-to-day lives, we produce vast amounts of data. Whether gathered through online communications platforms, tracking devices, or other sources, these data reveal information about our behavior, decisions, and preferences. Researchers can ultimately use the data to improve systems across a variety of