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Announced by Improbable CEO Herman Narula at the Slush event in Helsinski, Spatial OS is essentially an operating system for developing advanced and large scale data simulations.

These desktop and mobile OS are also increasingly integrated with distributed system frameworks that control resources in the cloud. These frameworks can be thought of as “cloud” operating systems ...

The need to build security in at every level of a system is clear given how many networks have been penetrated, as well as the ever increasing frequency of complex and sophisticated cyber attacks.

At the Huawei Developer Conference today, Huawei launched HarmonyOS – a new microkernel-based, distributed operating system designed to deliver a cohesive user experience across all devices and ...

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the launch of a top-level project to develop a new open-source, vendor-neutral OS designed to provide an alternative to existing IoT and edge operating systems.

Amazon's service architecture. Image courtesy Amazon. The idea of a distributed operating system has been around in academia for a long time.

Microsoft has applied for a patent for a distributed operating system that matches the description of one its researchers have been developing, known as Helios.