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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. After years of anticipation, Windows 10 has finally arrived. Although Microsoft will ...

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 ...

Reports surfaced this week clearly showing a huge drop in overall PC sales during the first quarter of 2013. As we have reported in a recent news article, expert analyst firms have placed this drop ...

The genome has often been called the operating system (OS) for a living organism. A computer OS is described by a regulatory control network termed the call graph, which is analogous to the ...

It might have been the tiny keyboard, the click wheel, and the ability to check email on the train that made the CrackBerry so addictive to business users, but it's the software that's kept enterprise ...