GadgeteerZA's Blog

Government Encryption Backdoors Still Impossible and Pointless, Experts Say - They would end up being backdoors for everyone else

Top 10 wireless tech trends right now according to Gartner

Google Station - Google planning to bring ad-based “fast Wi-Fi for everyone” to South Africa

What made KFC's Colonel Sanders truly great is that he wasn’t just a victim of creative destruction, he was an architect of it as well - And he was a sort of real Colonel

TAILS and Qubes OS are probably two of the best Linux distros for privacy

These headphones will support Google’s new Fast Pair features, Find My Device, and Android Q

The government of Belgium considers the source code of software solutions created for or by its public services to be public information that must be made available on request

Rice University Researches Develop Nanotubes That Can Increase Solar Panel Efficiencies from the current 22% to a potential 80%

Bethesda just released official ports of DOOM and DOOM II on the Android Play Store

Mind-boggling savings I've made with traditional wet shaving (R16pm) vs Gillette Fusion (R250pm) is 15x cheaper

How to fix a non-working Windows hard drive on Linux - Why? Because Windows can't fix a non-working Linux drive!

How to Enable Canonical Kernel Livepatch Service on Ubuntu LTS System (apply most kernel security patches without rebooting)

Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-source router firmware (inc new build compatible with Raspberry Pi 4)

Downgraded from macOS Mojave to High Sierra again after seeing battery go down 17% overnight in sleep mode

Best Linux Distro for Windows 7 Refugees: Manjaro KDE

Hydrophilic disc uses solar steam generator to separate salt from water

How much car do you really need? - the tiny Microlino EV hopes to drive future mobility

FTC fines Facebook $5bn for making users believe they actually had control over their data - Those repeated promises were deceptive

IBM just made its cancer-fighting AI projects open source

With Android Sound Amplifier, more people can hear clearly (with wired headphones only)

FaceApp vs Facebook - which do you trust more with your personal data?

WhatsApp has arrived on KaiOS, the OS used by the Nokia 8110

Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch Active will have ECG heart rate tracking (from H1 2020), report claims

My 2,6kW solar installation running at up to 2,4kW so far in mid-winter and providing 11kWh for the day

See-Through Solar Panel Breakthrough Could Lead to Self-Powered Smartphones - Researchers in South Africa and Belgium want solar panels everywhere

Sweden’s newly created public sector digitalisation hub adopts open source policy

Prism is an open source app which accelerates the design process for precision-manufactured housing (PMH) and modular housing for London

WeNote is an Android Google Keep alternative with a built-in calendar and Google Drive sync or offline storage for privacy

Another Electric Vehicle Benefit: No Direct Exposure To Cancer-Causing Benzene - especially for workers at gas stations

Physicians make a strong case for official low-carb advice to the advisory committee for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans

Mozilla Firefox Tor Mode Likely to Start as a Browser Addon

Control your Android Smartphone from your PC for free with scrcpy

Use HackMD to collaborate on open source projects using markdown editing

Microsoft demos end-to-end open source voting verification system ElectionGuard, code will be on GitHub

Cellphones can pose a crash threat on some Boeing 737 and 777 airplanes

Get going with EtherCalc, a web-based alternative to Google Sheets for real-time online collaboration

California replacing 200 polluting diesel school buses with all-electric buses - study published in Economics of Education Review last month showed diesel retrofits had positive results on bo

Drupal Patches Critical Bug That Lets Hackers Take Over V8.7.4 Sites

Afrihost launches Pure Fibre in South Africa – No shaping, throttling, or usage limits but at older Home package prices

Afrihost launches Pure Fibre in South Africa – No shaping, throttling, or usage limits but at older "Home package" prices

Office 365 declared illegal in German schools due to privacy risks - no way for the German government to monitor cloud access by US authorities