Last night I was playing around with some of the Sysinternals tools and rediscovered a tool called Bginfo. For those who might not be familiar with Sysinternals, it is a collection of free tools ...

Mercedes-Benz has been working on a major overhaul of its MBUX user interface software and hardware—all the goodies that control your vehicle's navigation, radio, and climate controls these days—with ...

Chromebook's low price comes from a basic hardware set that supports a bare basics operating system. This configuration gives you a responsive computer at a bargain, but has one major downside, you ...

Tyler Lacoma has spent more than 10 years testing tech and studying the latest web tool to help keep readers current. He's here for you when you need a how-to guide, explainer, review, or list of the ...

Doing the rounds this week is a new operating system for ESP32 microcontrollers, it’s called Tactility, and it comes from [Ken Van Hoeylandt]. It provides a basic operating system level with the ...

The computer's master control program. When a computer is turned on, a small "boot program" loads the operating system. Although additional system modules may be loaded as needed, the main part, known ...