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VirtualBox Guest Shared Folder Support Coming To The Mainline Linux v5.4 Kernel

New Battery Design Can Charge an Electric Car in 10 Minutes - We'll See More Improvements As Funds Are Pumped Into Battery Research

If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely, you shouldn’t have hired them in the first place

War Thunder Update 1.93 has a new naval location called 'South Africa'

Your iPhone 5 Will Become a Paperweight If You Don't Update iOS Now before 3 Nov 2019

6 signs you might be a Linux user - If you exhibit thesde signs you may want to be using Linux

Android 10 custom GSI brings the latest Android OS to any Project Treble-supported device without modifying the boot or vendor image

VGrive is a Google Drive Linux Client Written in Vala, Designed for elementaryOS but works with other distros

5 alternative desktop panels to try out on Linux - Because you have lots of options

Apple AirPods Pro - Finally in-ear and with active noise cancelling, but cost $249 and seems to still be one colour only

Google Camera 7.2 mod enables astrophotography and Super Res Zoom on older Pixels [APK Download]

The Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act is designed to make “large communications platforms” loosen their hold on user data

Want RCS chat on your phone right now? Here's a workaround to enable it on Android phones

Pipistrel ALPHA Electro - An All-Electric Trainer Plane Takes to the Skies with a 55-minute flight time

How RCS (Rich Communication Services) may ‘replace’ WhatsApp soon in Android phones... or Not

Netflix has a new rival and you can try now for FREE in the UK - thereafter £5.99 a month for BritBox

Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is a free, professional-grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes

Here’s Why Ubuntu Linux 19.10 Feels Insanely Fast And Responsive - Canonical Has Made Dramatic Key Improvements To GNOME Desktop

Big News! Gillette releasing a Heritage-Inspired Double Edged Safety Razor form 1 Nov for $35 - First time in over 30 years!

Control Your Smartphone Addiction With Google's Experimental Apps - Some radical ways to manage Interruptions and Notifications

The first South African (and Rwandan) smartphone – How the Mara Z compares to the Huawei Y7 2019 and the Samsung Galaxy A30

Oil behemoth Exxon starts trial for alleged climate fraud - A bit like tobacco companies for a similar denial

Study finds insufficient evidence of gaming as a clinical disorder - Research suggests obsessive gamers likely to be suffering from wider issues

Euro data watchdog has 'serious concerns' as to whether EU deals with Microsoft obey GDPR - Dutch agreement should be extended to entire bloc, says statement

How to Tell Google What To Do With Your Data When You Die - Set The Inactive Account Manager

Air pollution is now a ‘health emergency’, head of NHS England warns

What happens if your mind lives forever on the internet?

Ubuntu 19.10 Debuts With Raspberry Pi 4 Support

How Pebble smartwatches are getting a second life all thanks to the Rebble Alliance

Ubuntu 19.10 Has Two Outstanding New Features For Linux Users - ZFS file system and better GPU support

Learn All About Double Edge Razor Blades - History, Developments, Advantages

Tchap - Open Source Software powering the newly developed internal encrypted messaging service of the French government

Plumbing is the glamorous new IoT frontier especially in water-scarce cities - Much like electricians adapted to green energy

New "waze" to report driving incidents on Google Maps including disabled vehicles, objects on road, etc

New "waze" to report driving incidents on Google Maps including disabled vehicles, objects on road, etc

Yahoo will delete all Yahoo Groups content on December 14th - Because NO Digital Cloud Services is there Forever

Open source interior design with Sweet Home 3D - Try out furniture layouts, color schemes, and more in virtual reality before you go shopping in the real world

A series of mysterious bleeps and bloops defined the early days of the internet - A familiar sound to many from the 1980's

The Best RSS Readers and News Aggregation Apps as Voted by Lifehacker Readers

Is it time to upgrade from the Pixel 2 XL to the Pixel 4 XL - Not for me, it isn't!

How well has China’s ultra low-emissions policy worked? Well by drops of 65% to 72% in just three years!