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By Paul Krill Canonical has released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, aka “Noble Numbat,” a new Long Term Support release of the popular Linux distribution that brings performance enhancements and toolchain updates for developers. Announced April 25 and downloadable from ubuntu.com, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS offers Linux 6.8 kernel capabilities with improved syscall performance, nested KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) support on ppc64el (IBM PowerPC), and access to the new beachefs file system. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS has merged low-latency kernel features into the default kernel, reducing kernel task scheduling delays, C...
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By Anirban Ghoshal PostgreSQL pioneer Mike Stonebraker and Spark creator Matei Zaharia, along with other computer scientists at MIT and Stanford have come up with a new database-oriented operating system (DBOS) to help development of greenfield web applications. They have set up a company, DBOS Inc., to make the OS available to developers. Its first product, DBOS Cloud, launched Tuesday, is a transactional serverless application platform, also sometimes defined as functions-as-a-service (FaaS). It is offered via Amazon Web Services (AWS) using the open-source virtual machine monitoring service...
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By JR Raphael We've been exploring unconventional ways to control your favorite Android device with physical gestures — y'know, real-world movements like shaking and flipping the thing in a variety of specific ways. But get this: Android also has the ability to let you interact with your phone by simply moving your face. I kid you not: A cursory glance to the left with your pretty little peepers could take the place of the typical Android Back gesture. An upward glance could open your notifications. And a coy-looking eyebrow raise could take you back to your home screen (as well as make anyone...
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By JR Raphael Ever have one of those moments where you see some new tech twist — an app, a feature, an idea of some sort — and you just stop in your tracks and think: "Whoa. Now, that's clever"? I won't lie: Those moments come up far less frequently for me than they once did. By and large lately, we just haven't been seeing the same sort of awe-inspiring advancements in the mobile-tech arena that we did a decade ago. And most companies — Google very much included — are currently obsessed with chasing a very specific flavor of AI that's overhyped, frequently impractical, and awkwardly out of pl...
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By JR Raphael Holy leapin' lizards, Larry! It may seem like Google's Android 14 update is still sizzling and fresh out of the fryer, but we're officially on our way toward 2024's Android 15 release — with the first developer preview now out in the wild and in front of us. To be clear, we're far from the finish line still, and what we're seeing right now is almost certainly not the complete picture. But, oh yes, Le Googlé let loose on its first public Android 15 release the other day, and that means we're getting our closest look yet at some of what the company's got cookin'. This is only the f...
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By JR Raphael When we talk about Android gestures, we're typically talking about the on-screen variety — y'know, the assorted swipes, swirls, and swivels that help you fly around your phone faster than a flamingo on ice skates. Here's a little-known secret, though: You can also control your Android device and make it do all sorts of useful stuff by shaking it, flipping it, or even throwing it across the room. (For full disclosure, the throwing part is mostly just if you want to break the thing. But the other two actions are much more practical.) And all you need is the right off-the-beaten-pat...
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By JR Raphael I'll be honest: I was really hoping for an "aha!" moment over these past few days. Ever since Google made it clear that it was working to bring its next-gen generative AI chatbot into Android as a replacement for Google Assistant, I've been skeptical. And ever since I installed the new standalone Gemini Android app and allowed it to take over my phone's assistant function, that initial skepticism has only grown into a grumbling sense of us being ushered in the wrong direction. Now, let's be clear: None of this is to say that Google Assistant in its current form is perfect — far f...
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By JR Raphael Has there ever been a feature as packed with potential and simultaneously easy to forget as Android's screen-splitting system? On the surface, splitting your screen to see two apps together at the same time seems like a stunningly splendid feat. Two apps at once? Easy drag and drop between 'em? No awkward flipping back and forth to reference info while you're writing something or access your calendar whilst chatting? That's desktop-style multitasking, baby! And yet, best I can tell — anecdotally speaking — hardly anyone actually seems to use screen-splitting on Android on a regul...
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