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Librem 5 Now Shipping, Backers Share First Impressions - Also A Comparison With The Pinephone Specs

Kali Linux Adds 'Undercover' Mode to Impersonate Windows 10

World’s Second-Largest Ferry Operator Switching From Diesel to Batteries

4 best Slack alternatives on Linux

Scientists turn undersea fiber optic cables into seismographs using Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Your Own WiFi Signals Are Revealing Your Location

After nearly 35 years in full time government service I retired today and have a new long road ahead of me - my road

'We Quit Sugar For A Month, Here's What Happened' - A Real Human Experience Much Like I Experienced

Pour one out for the Steam Controller, now on closeout sale for just $5 plus shipping - An amazing gadget bites the dust

How to Preserve the Tweets of Someone Who Has Died Before Twitter Purges Them after Dec 11

Lime Electric scooter service to launch in Cape Town CBD

We can use our smartphone without any other wearables to detect mental, physical stress

Everything You Like Is Propaganda - especially if those posts confirm your current beliefs and biases

How to update computer firmware in Linux using Fwupd

Honor announces the Magic Watch 2 smartwatch with the Kirin A1 and LiteOS - a 800-nit display and VO2 sensor

How to automatically wake Linux up from sleep using RTCWake

Video Documentary - The SInclair ZX80, ZX81, and Timex Sinclair 1000

Checkers launches 60-minute grocery delivery service in South Africa that shows where the delivery driver is in real-time

NextCry Ransomware Targets NextCloud Linux Servers and Remains Undetected - Make Sure PHP and NGINX Is Up To Date

Keep Your Book Club Organized With The Free Bookclubz App for iOS and Android

25 Raspberry Pi Project Ideas to Put Your Pi to Some Good Use

Google Earth gets new map-based storytelling creations tools

uBITX - A compact 10 watts, easy to build, general coverage SSB/CW amateur radio transceiver for HF bands

South Africa’s big government IT mess - It's time to relook at OSS for speed of delivery, cost savings and 100% local investment

Unboxing and First Shave with the NEW Gillette Heritage Safety Razor

Camera PX - Google Camera mod brings manual/forced Astrophotography mode to older Pixels for Light Painting shots

South Africa’s first Micro-USB rechargeable AA and AAA batteries - no bulky Ni-MH charger required

Google Photos adding mark-up tool that will let you doodle on your images

Goldman Sachs is planning on giving some of its most valuable software to Wall Street as free and open source software

How to Obtain Free Wildcard SSL Certificates from Let’s Encrypt

Watch this electric motorcycle ride completely submerged in water (seriously) - electric motors have no air intake and are generally sealed

Moving the Home folder to another partition in Ubuntu

Desktop Linux Apps Running on the PinePhone [Video]

BONDIC pocket welder - If you're going to buy one thing this week, make it this plastic welding kit

A rather satisfying video on how a scam call centre in Delhi was destroyed

Arcimoto’s electric three-wheeler test driven through New York City traffic - $19,900 gets you 100 miles (160 km) range at up to 75 mph (120 km/h)

Switched to open-source LanguageTool as Grammarly has been undoing my grammar and spelling corrections

Planes Are Ruining the Planet - New, Mighty Airships Won’t - Some scientists are serious about resurrecting Zeppelins for Low-Carbon Travel

Optical Switch Keyboards Are Good For 100 Million Keystrokes And Have Faster Switching

Open Source game engine Xenko 3.1 ships - It is an open-source alternative to Unity

Catalogue retailer Argos has digitised all their catalogues since 1975 and put them online showing off old retro technology

The Huawei FreeBuds 3 with Intelligent Noise Cancellation, Dual-Channel Synchronous Transmission, and Bone Voice Sensor Microphone

How Do You Choose a Double Edge Razor Blade? By Ordering a Sample Pack to Test Different Blades