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Opera fights back, says that its browser has the best battery life

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Earlier this week, Microsoft made some bold claims about the battery life of its Edge browser, saying that laptops running Edge lasted much longer during video playback and used less energy during normal browsing operations than Chrome and Opera.

Opera, however, disagrees. The company has run its own tests and written up the results: with...

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Docker use up 30 percent in one year, says survey of 10,000 companies

dockerAbout 10.7 percent of 10,000 firms surveyed by cloud monitoring firm Datadog have adopted technology from containerized-software vendor Docker as of this month — a 30-percent increase from last year’s 8.2 percent, according to a newly released study titled “Eight surprising facts about real Docker adoption.”

The results come as the Docker community gathers...

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Op-ed: Oracle attorney says Google’s court victory might kill the GPL

Annette Hurst is an attorney at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe who represented Oracle in the recent Oracle v. Google trial. This op-ed represents her own views and is not intended to represent those of her client or Ars Technica.

The Oracle v. Google trial concluded yesterday when a jury returned a verdict in Google's favor. The litigation began in 2010, when...

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GM says it misstated fuel economy, Opel denies emissions cheating allegations

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This week brought confusion for General Motors and its German subsidiary Opel.

US-based General Motors told the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that it had misstated the fuel economy on some 130,000 Chevy Traverses, GMC Acadias, and Buick Enclaves from 2016, overestimating the cars' mileage by 1-2 miles per gallon. GM has said it will...

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