Less than a month after releasing the first developer preview build of Android 14, Google is back with Android 14 DP2. The official announcement is aimed at developers and largely focuses on behind-the-scenes stuff the users may not even notice. But independent experts have begun digging into the the developer preview to find new user-facing […]

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Samsung is one of the few companies making premium Android tablets these days... and the company's been at it for years, even when Google seemed to have largely given up on the space. But now that Google has remembered that tablets are a thing and started releasing versions of Android optimized for large screens, Samsung […]

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The Raspberry Pi Zero and Raspberry Pi Zero 2 are incredibly small, cheap, and versatile single-board computers... but in a time of global supply chain shortages, they're also kind of hard to get your hands on these days. But there are also a growing number of other tiny PCs competing in this space. And Bret Weber […]

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Intel's upcoming Arc A750 desktop graphics card will be the company's most powerful discrete GPU to date. But what does that mean in terms of real-world performance? Last month Intel released a few internal benchmarks showing that the GPU was competitive with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 in a handful of games. Now the company has […]

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The Dell XPS 13 Plus is a thin and light laptop with a 13.4 inch display and a 28-watt, 12th-gen Intel Core processor. It also features an updated design that gives the laptop a distinctive look. And like most recent Dell XPS 13 series notebooks, it's available with a choice of Windows or Ubuntu Linux […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is now available. As a Long Term Support release of the popular GNU/Linux distribution, it'll be officially supported for at least five years. That means Ubuntu 22.04 will continue receiving bug fixes, security patches, and other updates until April, 2027, making it a good choice for folks that don't want to get […]

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Over the past few years we've seen a growing number of cloud gaming services that can turn just about smartphone, tablet, or PC into a gaming device without the need for premium hardware (assuming you've got a speedy internet connection). Now Ubuntu creator Canonical and wireless carrier Vodafone are demonstrating Cloud Smartphone technology that takes […]

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The Raspberry Pi line of computers are small, inexpensive single-board PCs that are most commonly used to run GNU/Linux distributions. But while Raspberry Pi devices have been shipping since 2012, it took more than eight years for one of the most popular Linux distributions to add support - and even then, the developers of Ubuntu […]

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Microsoft set some pretty strict system requirements for Windows 11. You don't necessarily need a super-powerful computer, but you do need one with an Intel, AMD, or Qualcomm processor released within the past few years, support for Secure Boot, and Trusted Platform Module 2.0. Want to install Windows 11 on a system that doesn't meet […]

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New versions of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution come out every six months, but most are only officially supported with bug fixes and security updates for nine months. But every two years Canonical issues an LTS (long term support) release. Up until a few years ago that meant you'd get five years of support. But […]

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KaiOS is a Linux-based operating system that powers more than 150 million feature phones. It's not considered a full-fledged smartphone operating system due to limited functionality and limited support for third-party apps. But it brings features like a web browser, media player, and some apps to cheap phones that may not have touchscreen displays. And […]

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The latest version of the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system has a new display server, a newer Linux kernel with improved hardware support, an updated theme, and support for joining Microsoft Active Directory domains, among many other changes. Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsuite Hippo" is now available for download, and it'll be officially supported for 9 months. […]

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The latest version of Ubuntu Linux is out today, and it's a long term support release, which means that it'll receive 5 years of official support from Canonical. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will be supported through April, 2025. As such, there's more of a focus on stability and performance than flashy new features -- especially if […]

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While Canonical's Ubuntu operating is one of the most popular desktop GNU/Linux distributions, the folks at Canonical have been pushing cloud services pretty hard in recent years (because that's where the money is). The latest example? Canonical's new Anbox Cloud solution, which lets developers host mobile apps in the cloud. Basically the idea is that […]

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Ubuntu has been one oft he most popular GNU/Linux distributions for well over a decade... but the operating system has changed quite a bit over the years. The latest release, Ubuntu 19.10, came out this week... almost exactly 15 years after the first version of Ubuntu was released on October 20th, 2004. In a blog […]

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This month Canonical announced it would not include 32-bit packages in future versions of Ubuntu -- and that led Valve to announced that the popular Steam game client would drop support for Ubuntu moving forward. The move wasn't out of spite -- Valve says that not only does Steam itself rely on a number of […]

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A few days after announcing it would effectively drop support for 32-bit software in future versions of the Ubuntu operating system, Canonical has decided to "change our plan and build selected 32-bit i386 packages." The company's original decision sparked some backlash when it became clear that some existing apps and games would no longer run […]

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Canonical's Ubuntu operating system is one of the biggest names in desktop GNU/Linux. But if you plan to play PC games on Linux, you might want to start looking around for a different Linux distro. Ubuntu developer Steve Langasek announced last week that starting with Ubuntu 19:10, which comes out in October, Canonical would no […]

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Like sands through the hour glass, so are the releases of Ubuntu. The folks at Canonical push out a new version of the popular GNU/Linux distribution every six months, and the next one is scheduled to ship April 18th, 2019. But if you want to get an early look, Ubuntu 19.04 beta is available for […]

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Canonical releases a new version of its popular Ubuntu operating system every six months -- but most versions are only officially supported for nine months. That means if you want a stable version of Ubuntu that you can run for a long time, you'll probably want to opt for an LTS release like Ubuntu 18.04 […]

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