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This Cadillac Is Powered by Linux [Cars]

The brand once known as the "Standard of the World" has fully embraced the Standard of Geeks for it's latest play for the hearts, minds and cash of the upwardly mobile. This is the all-new 2013 Cadillac XTS, and while it certainly isn't your great-great (great) grandfather's Cadillac, it's design...

Linux Creator Linus Torvalds: I Love My MacBook Air!

Sure, Linus, you can run Linux on a MacBook Air, but why would you want to? Linus Torvalds is not a huge fan of Apple products. He is, as he describes himself, a socks and sandal kind of guy, a tinkerer. Even so, the Linux creator is absolutely in love with the MacBook Air… and wonders why ...

Ticket To Ride Makes The Leap From iOS To The Mac App Store

Ticket to Ride for Mac allows you to compete with players on PC and iPad. Ticket to Ride has become one of the most popular board games adapted for iOS devices, selling 800,000 copies and picking up a whole host ofaccoladessince its debut back in November 2011. It has now made the leap from iOS t...

The Peek Email Device Goes Open Source

If at first you don’t succeed, open source the sucker. Peek has released an open source version of their Peek Mobile operating system, allowing hackers to use the all-but-obsolete little email device as a hacker platform. The Linux release is available the PeekLinux wiki and hackers are alr...

When Steve Jobs tried to hire Linus Torvalds

In a profile on Linus Torvalds, you know, the creator of Linux, Wired relays an interesting piece of information, namely that Steve Jobs many years back tried to recruit Torvalds to work at Apple.Torvalds has never met Bill Gates, but around 2000, when he was still working at Transmeta, he met St...

Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Was Asked By Steve Jobs To Help Build OS X In 2000

The Father of Linux, Linus Torvalds, could also have been the godfather of OS X Built upon the DNA of NeXT OS, OS X is already one of the most well known Unix-based operating systems, but it could have been supercharged if the father of Linux, Linus Torvalds, had accepted a job offer from Steve J...

Steve Jobs tried to hire Linus Torvalds

If you meet Linus Torvalds, he comes off as a mild-mannered, down-to-earth...

Is Anonymous Spinning Out of Control? [Hackers]

Yesterday, we learned Anonymous put out their very own hackeriffic OS—a tricked out version of Linux filled with tools for mischief. Oops! It's filled with trojans instead. Get used to more of this.More »

The Tablet That Every Linux Lover Has Been Waiting For [Tablets]

While most people just want their devices to work so that they can do stuff, some people love tinkering with operating systems. Until now, the tablet sector's been ripe for hacking, but there hasn't been anything that's truly open-source and easy to fiddle with from the get-go. This Spark tablet ...

It's about time for Apple to dramatically improve graphics card driver performance

For years, Apple never really spent time and resources for improving performance...