Stephen is an author at Android Police who covers how-to guides, features, and in-depth explainers on various topics. He joined the team in late 2021, bringing his strong technical background in ...

Open-source refers to the practice of making source code freely available to the public, allowing anyone to view, modify and distribute the code. In computer science and software development, open ...

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...

In Part 1 of this article, I wrote about how Artificial intelligence (AI) can advance open-source software. But is the converse true as well? Can the open-source world advance the progress of AI?

QWinFF is a free open source video converter for Windows 11/10. It is also available for other operating systems including Ubuntu, FreeBSD, and Fedora. It is based on FFmpeg which is a command-line ...

The Steam Deck was a revolution in mobile gaming for PC, but it was also one for a reason most people weren't aware of: bringing Linux to the masses. The Steam Deck runs SteamOS, its own custom ...

In the intricate landscape of software development, the question of whether open source software provides superior security compared to proprietary alternatives has sparked a longstanding debate. The ...

Open-source software is an increasingly popular software development and distribution model that may spread further in the face of financial constraints in our current economy. With publicly available ...

The use of open source software has been cited in a number of big security vulnerabilities in recent years. But there are ways to minimize that risk and gain the full benefits that open source offers.

Two of the scientists who won this year’s Nobel Prize for cracking the code of proteins’ intricate structures relied, in part, on a series of computing models that anyone with a computer and the right ...