Linux creator Linus Torvalds has released Linux 4.9, a bulky release that contains a larger number of commits than usual, two-thirds of its code consisting of drivers. Currently, Linux 4.9 code in the Git repository contains 56,233 files made up of 22,345,566 lines of code, according to gitstats by Michael Larabel, an engineer and writer … continue reading
Samsung may or may not be in talks to buy BlackBerry. According to a Reuters report, Samsung recently approached BlackBerry with a buyout offer of as much as US$7.5 billion. The report stated that executives met last week to discuss the proposed deal. BlackBerry announced a security partnership with Samsung this past November, but for … continue reading
Members of the Future of Life Institute, a “research and outreach organization working to mitigate existential risks facing humanity,” has signed an open letter pledging to protect humankind from the dangers of artificial intelligence. The signatories, including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, consist of programmers, scientists, and artificial intelligence researchers from universities and tech giants … continue reading
Google announces second Project Ara developer conference Project Ara, Google’s smartphone project allowing users to change physical components of their smartphone as easy as downloading an app, is getting a second developer conference. The first Project Ara conference took place in April. The second conference was expected to take place in July, but after months … continue reading
Google releases Google I/O 2014 app source code Google’s source code of its 2014 version of the Google I/O app is now available on GitHub. “If one of the goals of the app is to be useful to conference attendees, the other primary goal is to serve as a practical example of best practices for … continue reading
Google outlines the next development kits for Project Ara, and announces when it expects to bring the first phone to market … continue reading
Google plans on walking developers through the MDK at a conference next week … continue reading
Google announced its developer kit for Project Ara will be introduced at its first Ara Developers’ Conference in April … continue reading
