Wondering what the lawyers and programmers are talking about in the highest-profile tech trial in years? Here's a guide to the ties between Android and Java -- and the history leading up to the case.

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is a features editor who publishes award-winning stories about law, tech, and internet subcultures. A journalist trained as a lawyer, she has been writing about tech for 10 years. The litigation has ...

Ten years ago, Oracle desperate to monetize its failed Sun purchase sued Google to squeeze profits out of its use of Java APIs in Android. Oracle won its point, that application programming interfaces ...

Port of the JVM to the open-source licensed instruction set architecture could be ready later this year, if project gets approval to proceed. The RISC-V hardware instruction set would get a ...

The Supreme Court wants the U.S. government to weigh in on the closely watched Google v. Oracle copyright infringement lawsuit the high court has been asked to review. In a memo (PDF) issued on Monday ...

TornadoVM is an OpenJDK and GraalVM plug-in that uses JVMCI and Graal to compile and offload Java code to accelerators, targeting OpenCL, NVIDIA PTX and SPIR-V devices. li> 1. The 2.0 release adds ...