Practical Technology

SEATTLE–Odds are today that the smartphone by your side is now running 5G. For years, 5G wasn’t able to deliver on its high-speed, low-latency promises. Things have changed. Today, 5G is finally delivering on its performance promises. A big reason…Read More

Once upon a time, 2002 to be exact, Gregory Kurtzer started a Linux distribution called CentOS, a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It became really popular. Businesses that had Linux-savvy administrators used it to run their businesses.…Read More

If you haven’t switched over to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 family, and your company lives and dies with RHEL, then chances are you’re running RHEL 8.x. If that’s you, pay attention because the latest version, RHEL 8.7, has just arrived at…Read More

Opinion GitHub Copilot, Microsoft’s AI-driven, pair-programming service, is already wildly popular. Microsoft broke out GitHub’s revenue and subscription numbers in its latest quarterly report for the first time. GitHub now has an annual recurring…Read More

Even the oldest file-sharing services can fall to a good old-fashioned phishing attack. Back in 2007, Drew Houston, Dropbox’s founder, got sick and tired of losing his USB drive. So, he created the first individual/small business cloud storage…Read More

Earlier this year, when Akamai bought infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud platform provider Linode for about $900 million, it wasn’t clear how Akamai’s content delivery network (CDN) and security services would work well with Linode’s…Read More