Despite Android's presence in nearly every corner of the tech industry, it has yet to truly establish a foothold on PC platforms. Google has had ChromeOS for years, but the ubiquity of Android — paired with its lack of a meaningful foothold in traditional computing — made it clear something had to give.

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AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to insights, and supporting a growing range of workloads.

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Finally, Google’s project to merge ChromeOS and Android into a next-gen PC platform has a name (or at least a codename) — Aluminium OS. I’m cautiously excited about the prospects of my favourite mobile OS on bigger screens, though we won’t see it ...

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