If you’re looking for a TV that maximizes picture performance with a minimal hit to your budget, you may want to keep the lucky number 7 in mind. For the past few years, Hisense’s U7 series TVs have offered some of the best performance you can get for the money, including this year’s punchy U7N […]
A Brief History of DevOps To understand the future of DevOps, it’s worth understanding its past—which I can recall with a level of experience. In the late ’90s, I was a DSDM (Dynamic Systems Development Methodology) trainer. DSDM was a precursor to agile, a response to the slow, rigid structures of waterfall methodologies. With waterfall, […]
There’s a lot that’s new in iOS 18, and with the software update now rolled out to millions of iPhones worldwide, it’s going to take you a while to check out all of the new features Apple has included. The changes are found not just in iOS itself but in the apps Apple bundles with […]
MacOS Sequoia, also known as macOS 15, is officially here. The new OS packs a ton of new capabilities onto the desktop, including a password management app, videoconferencing tools, and updates to Safari as well as all the features that come with Apple Intelligence—the company’s new artificial intelligence-powered system. Below, we break down how to […]
Data from hundreds of thousands of browsing sessions is revealing how people navigate Wikipedia. Credit: Sascha Steinbach/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock An analysis of the searching patterns of nearly half a million people browsing Wikipedia suggests that the site’s users demonstrate three unique styles of curiosity. There’s the ‘hunter’, who pursues specific answers, the ‘busybody’, searching for diverse nuggets […]
It tends to really be used only by developers, but the address bar and search box up at the top of the Google Chrome interface has an official name: the omnibox. It reflects the multipurpose capabilities of this little text field, as it’s able to do much more than look up web addresses and run […]
Actually getting the GPU working required patching the Linux kernel to include the open-source AMDGPU driver, which includes Arm support and provides decent support for the RX 460 (Geerling says the card and its Polaris architecture were chosen because they were new enough to be practically useful and to be supported by the AMDGPU driver, […]
When Charlie Kelly first messaged saying he wouldn’t make it home that night, his partner wasn’t happy. It was September 6, 2023, a Wednesday, and the 56-year-old, a keen hillwalker, had left the house that he shared with Emer Kennedy in Tillicoultry, near the Scottish city of Stirling, before she went to work. His plan […]
