Practical Technology

Software updates can be tricky at the best of times. Now, imagine updating legacy technology on a device that’s millions of miles away in space. That was the scale of the challenge facing IT professionals at NASA. More than 10 years ago, NASA’s…Read More

Opinion When you turn 30, you’re not a kid anymore. For some of us, 30 is a traumatic birthday. For Red Hat, which turned on March 27, it was a cause for celebration. From a business that got started in one of its co-founder’s wife’s sewing room, it…Read More

In December 2020, Red Hat, CentOS’s Linux parent company, announced it was “shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release.” CentOS users had…Read More

It took him a while, but Elon Musk, owner and CEO of Twitter, finally kept his promise to open source some of Twitter’s code. This came even though he’d fired Twitter’s open source staff. Color me surprised. Without his developers, I didn’t think…Read More

We’re not spending as much time watching TV, but at an average of three hours a day, we’re still watching a lot. You might think that would be good news for the cable companies. Nope. More people than ever are dumping cable and satellite TV for…Read More

Features: 3 package options | Sports channels | AirTV 2 and AirTV Mini streaming devices Sling TV has an à la carte approach to channels that separates it from its competitors and makes it our top overall pick. While the others tend to offer only one…Read More