Practical Technology

I know many people who are twitchy about AI taking their jobs away. I hear you, and I understand. But AI is also opening the door to new jobs. While the top positions demand esoteric skills, such as knowing how to program with OpenCV, PyTorch, and…Read More

Canonical has officially launched Ubuntu Core 24, a special-purpose Linux for the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing. If you want an operating system that ensures long-term reliability and security for embedded systems, Ubuntu Core 24 is for…Read More

If you did away with Linux, the cloud, containers, or Kubernetes, you wouldn’t recognize today’s technology world. Linux is the operating system foundation for all of it; the cloud gives us access to all its applications and resources; containers are…Read More

We all know that some perfectly good Windows 10 PCs can’t be upgraded to Windows 11. But did you know that Canalys Insights estimated there are 240 million Windows 10 PCs doomed to the trash heap because they can’t be upgraded to Windows 11 after…Read More

I’ve been playing with artificial intelligence (AI) since Lisp was the state-of-the-art (that is to say, a while). Lately, like everyone else, I’ve been looking at AI a lot more closely. While it’s nifty, I’m not that impressed — but not because…Read More

Many people were surprised to hear recently that ICQ — the once-popular instant messaging (IM) client — will shut down on June 26. I suspect more people were surprised to hear that ICQ (supposedly short for “I Seek You”) was still around. Back in…Read More