An Australian company that manufactures and sells a "mod chip" for Microsoft's Xbox video-game console has released the design for the hacking tool under an open-source license. Hibana, which makes ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. Embedded systems are emerging as a go-to solution for many projects. This rapid uptake in embedded interest is due, in large part, to advances in ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

What if designing a sleek, professional-grade user interface was as simple as typing a sentence? Imagine describing your ideal mobile app or website in plain language and watching it come to ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Penpot is a web-based design and prototype platform built on open-source principles, meaning no subscription fees, no vendor ...

After trying out several alternatives, I finally stumbled upon Zen browser, a relatively new, fully open-source browser built ...

A quiet battle of sorts is taking place behind the scenes in thesoftware industry. Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing haveevolved, placing much more attention on Web-based applications.

At the recent Black Hat security show in Las Vegas, SaaS vulnerability management company Qualys announced a new open source security tool called Blind Elephant. The tool is open source and is used to ...

Open-source tools and multi-project wafer (MPW) shuttles democratize chip design for low cost. Small circuits, both analog and digital, are accommodated by embedding them as “tiles” or “clusters” into ...