These operating systems treat extra features the way budget airlines treat legroom.

Age verification laws are moving beyond porn sites and social media. Soon, your operating system could be required to check your age and share it with apps and websites.

If I asked you to name the operating systems people actually use, I would probably get three answers: Windows, macOS, and “Linux, probably.” That is a fair answer in 2026, but it is also a very narrow ...

Aditya Akella leads the project that aims to boost performance of OSes and help enable assistant robots, autonomous vehicles and smart cities. Research that will use artificial intelligence to boost ...

Using Ubuntu Linux to import and edit photos from a digital camera. By J. D. Biersdorfer Companies are starting to see the advantages of being able to do large amounts of computing with technology ...

Effective January 1, 2027, providers of computer operating systems in California will be required to implement age verification. That's just part of a wave of state and national laws attempting to ...

A NeXTcube computer running the NeXTSTEP operating system. Simon Claessen / Flickr Today marks the 35th anniversary of the launch of NeXTSTEP, a computer operating system launched by Steve Jobs during ...

Google has surprised the tech world with an announcement that it will launch its own operating system, aimed initially at the cheap, portable computers known as netbooks. It's the first-time Google ...

David Gelernter is wrong [“Future of Operating Systems: Simplicity,” Computerworld.com, Jan. 8]. I can find my data easily with the current system. Computers are never wrong; they assemble the ...