Is going from today’s Google Glass to nanobots communicating between your brain and a Google cloud that is indistinguishable from a human in the next 15 to 30 years far fetched? [Read more]
This May I started my internship at Red Hat with the Pulp team. Since it was my first ever internship, I expected I would spend the summer working in a closet somewhere, on nothing of importance, and that what I worked on would be tossed out the second I left.
My first afternoon with the Pulp team, several members sat down with me and walked me through setting up my development environment and gave me a rough idea of what I would be doing. After only about 30 minutes into my first full day, I realized I was not going to spend the summer in a closet somewhere.
Does no-cost software harm consumers? The FairSearch coalition thinks so, at least when it comes to Google: They say Google engages in predatory pricing when it distributes Android – a Linux-based mobile operating system – without charge. Recently, FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe) responded in a letter to the European Commission, labeling as “wrong” and “dangerous” FairSearch’s claims, and saying further:
Lenovo is seeing huge growth in smartphones and tablets as the PC market continues its decline. [Read more]
Jos Poortvliet today announced the release of KDE Plasma 4.11 on dot.kde.org. He wrote this release is dedicated to Atul ‘toolz’ Chitnis, KDE contributor who passed away June 3. The rest of the announcement outlined all the wonderful improvements this release.
New Taskbar
The KDE task manager and taskbar were ported to QtQuick for Plasma 2 yet remains very much familiar to end users, as reported earlier. It should behave more like the rest of the KDE desktop elements now. In addition, a lot of annoying and long-standing bugs were squashed. The Kickoff menu now displays recently installed application for a few days and users can now configure some options for desktop notifications.
