Announced at Google I/O 2018 as part of Jetpack, it provides a new, straightforward way to handle background tasks — by doing all the hard work for you.

Task Scheduler is a built-in Windows utility that lets you schedule and automate tasks to run at specific times or under certain conditions. Whether it's launching an app when you log in or running ...

Apple's Background Task Management tool focuses on watching for software “persistence.” Malware can be designed to be ephemeral and operate only briefly on a device or until the computer restarts.

When Background Task Manager first debuted, Wardle discovered some more basic issues with the tool that caused persistence event notifications to fail. He reported them to Apple, and the company ...

The Background Task Manager in macOS Ventura isn't as effective as it could be, as a security researcher claims it can be easily bypassed. Apple introduced the Background Task Manager as part of ...

Long-term tasks: Suitable for tasks that run in the background for a long time and are perceptible to the user. This includes playing music in the background, navigation, device connection, etc.

With the dependency problem averted, we then focus on queuing tasks for background calculation. In MultiCalc, a queue serves as a communication and synchronization mechanism between two threads.

The macOS Background Task Manager tool was introduced with macOS Ventura in October 2022. It’s supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine, but a researcher says it has troubling ...