Last week, a group of Googlers did something strange: They quietly revealed a new operating system that theoretically competes with Google’s own Android OS. Dubbed Fuchsia, the open-source ...

Social media giant Facebook, in an attempt to free itself from being dependent on other tech giants like Google, has reportedly started development of its own operating system. The development was ...

Google’s long-in-development, from-scratch operating system, Fuchsia, is now running on real Made by Google devices, namely, the first-generation Nest Hub. Earlier this month, we spotted the ...

The engineering lead of Google’s Fuchsia operating system, Chris McKillop, has announced his departure from Google. Google has been known to be developing Fuchsia as a from-scratch operating system ...

When Mr Xi Jinping walks into Microsoft’s headquarters today for a global technology forum, he should have an extra spring in his step. Last week, Dell announced that 42 per cent of the computers it ...

What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. Allowing anyone to inspect the source ...

Developers talk a lot about “immutability.” Outside the technical world, it usually means something negative: unmoving, inflexible, and entrenched. However, in the technical field, these features ...