Canonical is putting more resources into the Linux desktop and that includes making Ubuntu better on the Windows desktop.

An FBI branch office warns smart TV users that they can be gateways for hackers to come into your home. Meanwhile, the smart TV OEMs are already spying on you.

Forget about smart TVs for streaming. You need a streaming device for your internet video-viewing pleasure.

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Want to give your Linux-loving friend a great gift? Here are some of my favorites for the Tux-lover in your life.

The best Chromebooks, as well as many others, are available for discounted prices.

The new list of the world's fastest computers -- supercomputing's Top 500 -- is out, and every one runs faster than a petaflop using Linux.

Apple started this fight with some old-school smack talk, but it only highlighted how it’s clinging to the old PC-centric model.

Fast, affordable internet from the sky is almost here.

It may never be as big as Windows, but Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth still sees a bright future for the Linux desktop.

Yes, the sudo command has a security bug. But, in the real world, it's hard to see how it could be used against you.

The PC — and yes, Microsoft — set us free. Now Microsoft is taking control.

And you shouldn't be either. Every company wants to rule Linux -- none of them can or ever will.

iPhones are not now, nor have they ever been, worth their high price tags. And, yes, that includes the iPhone 11. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols shares his disdain for Apple's ubiquitous device.

The Eclipse Foundation has announced the release of the Jakarta EE 8, the first truly open-source, vendor-neutral version of Java Enterprise Edition.

In the beginning, there was machine languages and assembler. Neither was easy to use, but then along came COBOL, and everything changed.

We will soon learn if a much-hyped, rapamycin-like drug can boost the immune response by targeting how the body ages.

Global warming, nuclear war, and asteroid hits. There are so many ways the world could end, but now NASA and the ESA are working on a trial to deflect would be Earth-shattering asteroids.

Don't get me wrong: The command line will always be important to sysadmins. But in many ways, it's being superseded by DevOps tools such as Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.

After spending his days at training camp with the Dallas Cowboys, Leland Melvin would study math for material science and electrochemistry.