The Chrome OS has a Developer Mode that gives you root access to the operating system of your Chromebook. To enable Developer Mode, restart your laptop pressing the Esc, Refresh, and Power keys, then ...

Google is introducing a new version of its smartwatch operating system, Wear OS 5, into developer preview. This latest release, one of many announcements from the Google I/O 2024 developer conference, ...

Wear OS 5 will bring the long-awaited grid-based app launcher to the Pixel Watch and Pixel Watch 2. Many Wear OS smartwatches already offer a grid view for their app launcher, but this feature isn’t ...

Mainstream customers need not apply, but programmers who like the openness of Mozilla's browser-based Firefox OS will soon get a chance to help make it a reality. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Google is launching the first preview of Wear OS 5, which is set to significantly improve battery life for smartwatches. While there are certainly outliers, like the Galaxy Watch 6 series and TicWatch ...

Intel is firing on all cylinders with its Clear Linux OS Project. Earlier this week I covered the drastically improved new installer, highlighted some interesting performance benchmarks and outlined a ...

Google is bringing Android P to the wearable market. The company has announced the first developer preview of Android P for Wear OS, which adds a number of new features — including a dark theme, ...

Apple has seeded a new beta build, dubbed Developer Preview 3, of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, the next major update to the company's flagship operating system, enabling the Reading List feature and adding a ...

Included in the new Wear OS preview are battery saving features for Android wearables. Google detailed in a blog post: To improve power, apps will no longer be allowed to run in the background unless ...

During his keynote address opening Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose yesterday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs put to rest any uncertainty developers had about the status of Mac OS 9 — the ...

Cross-platform software is the norm today. In many cases, developers don't have to consider what operating system their apps will be deployed on, because apps tend to be more or less platform-agnostic ...