Xiaomi just used an internal awards ceremony to make a very public statement about where it thinks its future is headed. At a company-wide technology awards event held in China yesterday, Xiaomi ...

Amazon made significant changes to Fire TV’s design to make it a viable OS competitor to Google, Roku, and Apple. Amazon made significant changes to Fire TV’s design to make it a viable OS competitor ...

It’s never fun to be in last place. Google has been coasting along with its Android tablets and Chromebooks for years, playing second fiddle to the bigger players in the game. But the company has a ...

elementary OS and Ubuntu Budgie are Linux distributions. Both of these distros are beautiful and user-friendly. One of these desktop distros is more flexible than the other. I have a soft spot in my ...

For years, tech enthusiasts have dreamed of running Android on a PC as a full desktop operating system. We’ve seen ambitious attempts in the past—Remix OS, Phoenix OS, and other short-lived ...

Ahead of Microsoft's next Ignite event, which kicks off in San Francisco (and online) next Tuesday, November 18, the company's president of Windows and Devices shared a message on X about the ...

Oxygen OS 16 packs several hidden gems that make OnePlus phones even smarter. From built-in video downloading, real-time call translation, and AI captions to lock screen shortcuts, dark icons, smart ...

Vivo has officially confirmed the global rollout of OriginOS 6, marking the end of Funtouch OS for international markets. The new system, based on Android 16, will debut with the Vivo X300 and X300 ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

CNET spoke with Google's Sameer Samat and Qualcomm's Alex Katouzian about why they're combining a phone and laptop OS and how they'll do it. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming ...

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