From InfoWorld: Git 2.0, the latest release of the popular open source distributed version control system, debuted this week, featuring improved default settings and "low-impact" implementation.

Notice of version 2.0 was posted on the Linux kernel mailing list on Wednesday by Git maintainer Junio...

From PC World: Acer has disclosed a few more details about its first wearable: The wristband is called the Liquid Leap, and it will ship as a package deal with the high-end Liquid Jade Android smartphone starting in the third quarter.

Liquid Leap is primarily a fitness tracker set on a rubberized...

From CNET: If you're a Netflix superfan, Chief Executive Reed Hastings may have just burst a couple of your bubbles: dreams of a Netflix-made streaming-media box and live sports.

In a Q&A session at the Recode technology conference in Palos Verdes, Calif., Hastings said Thursday his subscription...

From DailyTech: Samsung launched its first generation Galaxy Gear smartwatch back in September 2013. The $299 smartwatch launched with a heavily customized version of Android and wasn’t exactly well received by customers.

When Samsung launched the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches — sans Galaxy...

From InfoWorld: Amazon Web Services is making a pitch for enterprises' high-performance databases to run on its infrastructure, launching new instances optimized for the task.

The R3 instance family has been added to Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service), which takes care of the administrative...

From PC World: Samsung has raised the stakes in flash storage with a new 1TB solid-state drive based on its newest memory technology.

The SSD is targeted at high-end PCs, and the drive is based on Samsung's second generation V-NAND technology, in which storage chips are stacked vertically. Samsung...

From CNET: Regular readers know my advice when it comes to videogames: wait, wait, wait. The longer you hold out, the cheaper the game will be. In fact, if you wait long enough, it might just be free.

Case in point: For the next few days, Origin is offering Battlefield 3 (PC) for $0. The game...

From DailyTech: Mozilla is now taking pre-orders for its unlocked “Flame” smartphone, which runs the company’s Firefox OS. Flame is aimed squarely at developers and will be available globally.

“We worked with the manufacturer to keep the price as low as possible,” explained Mozilla when talking...

From InfoWorld: Oracle has released a framework that allows multiple copies of the MySQL database to work in tandem, making it easier for organizations to easily run live backup databases and scale MySQL across multiple servers.

"The Fabric manages a farm of MySQL servers," said Tomas Ulin, Oracle...

From PC World: The age of sideloading extensions is over for Chrome users on Windows PCs. After announcing Chrome would become a walled garden in November, Google followed through with its promise on Tuesday.

Chrome for Windows will no longer allow you to install browser extensions originating...