The evolution of the ribosome, a large molecular structure found in the cells of all species, has been revealed in unprecedented detail in a new study. The evolution of the ribosome, a large molecular ...

Elementary OS has gotten a lot of attention from Linux users and Wired has a look at its origin and evolution. Daniel Foré didn’t plan on building an operating system. In 2006, Foré was fed up with ...

Apple's desktop operating system, macOS, has been the staple crop for its iMacs and MacBooks. Here we go back to where it all began in 2001 (when it was known as Mac OS X). On March 24, 2001, Apple ...

An operating system, like Windows OS, is a computer program that links a computer user to hardware and handles files, memory, processes, input and output, and peripheral devices like disc drives and ...

Since personal computers became a thing, we’ve always been free to install any app we like as long as the code was compatible on a very basic level. No approval processes. No regulation. OS X has been ...

Apple's release plan for OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" has been previewed early, thanks to the company's director of engineering of Unix technologies, Jordan Hubbard. Hubbard gave a presentation about the ...

Jason Parker has been at CNET for nearly 15 years. He is the senior editor in charge of iOS software and has become an expert reviewer of the software that runs on each new Apple device. He now spends ...