Opinion: From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear ...

Our computers can display an astonishing range of symbols. Unicode alone defines more than 150,000 characters, covering ...

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow ...

Microsoft Edge is pretty good at being a PDF reader. If you are interested in basic reading, then Edge will suffice. That being said, Windows is all about the freedom of deciding what you want to use, ...

First came Tetris, then Doom – and now a bare-bones Linux instance that boots inside a PDF. Yes, the humble PDF – thanks to its ability to run limited JavaScript – has been coaxed into booting a ...

From the office of "What can't Linux run on?" comes a story about a high school student on a mission to prove that an interactive PDF can run all sorts of things. Essentially, the apps (and now the ...

Resourceful inventors have proven time and again that the game “Doom” can run on anything – perhaps apart from a slice of salami, but who knows what else is coming –. Now, however, one of them has put ...

The PDF (portable document format) standard was created in the 1990s by Adobe cofounder John Warnock to make it possible for people to share reliably formatted documents across a wide range of ...

Five years after Swift 5, Apple's open-source programming language has been released in version 6.0. The release primarily completes the preparatory work of the last point releases in the area of ...

At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit in Hong Kong last week, Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, provided a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the open source ...

The conversation around gaming on Linux has changed significantly during the last several years. It’s a success story engineered by passionate developers working on the Linux kernel and the ...