Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

The primary function of a client-server system is to create a division of labor between a centralized server and the individual computers that are running your software. This model has a number of ...

News this morning from storage vendor Scality that the company is announcing the general availability of its S3 Server Software. The offering is an open source version of Scality’s S3 API and allows ...

Digital technology can give you freedom; it can also take your freedom away. The first threat to our control over our computing came from proprietary software: software that the users cannot control ...

This week, Redmondmag.com talked with Microsoft about the Windows Server Software Defined (WSSD) program. WSSD is a fairly new Microsoft validation program for OEM hardware makers, with the first ...

A few days ago I heard about Jellyfin. This is mediaserver software not a world apart from Plex. So you run it on a local machine and it serves up TV shows and movies that are stored locally. The ...

A computer that runs a website. Using the HTTP protocol, the Web server delivers Web pages to browsers as well as other data files to Web-based applications. The Web server includes the hardware, ...

Apple may have embraced the pro market on the Mac hardware side with the recent release of the iMac Pro and forthcoming Mac Pro, but the software side, well, that’s a slightly different story. A quiet ...