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Straight Razor Shaving - What You Need It's more than just a razor and a strop

Google launches Plus Codes for Maps - But we already had broadly supported what3words so why did they not support that?

'Transcendentally boring': the joy of job simulation games - From farming to trucking to bus driving, why do millions play games that replicate regular jobs in forensic detail?

How Assetto Corsa HUD apps kill the Frame Rate Per Second in the Game

This is the giant Wraith Prism cooler on my AMD Ryzen 7 3700X CPU - it comes standard with the AMD 7 and 9 CPUs

Ardour goes harder: v6.0 brings 'huge engineering changes' to open-source cross-platform digital audio workstation

Vodacom zero-rates What3words (no street address required) for emergencies

Algeria Plans 4 Gigawatt, 5 Year Solar Power Initiative - Sun will be the new 'oil'

Open Source Peer-to-Peer YouTube Alternative PeerTube Needs Your Support to Launch Version 3

The little electric cars used for ecommerce deliveries in South Africa - Around ZAR0,15 per kilometre

Ford heats police cars to 56,1 degrees Celcius to break down coronavirus - it's simple but is it hot enough to be effective?

Choosing 2FA authenticator apps can be hard - Yes Authy still beats Google Authenticator

If AMD is good enough for Linus Torvalds its good enough for me - Now on an AMD Ryzon 7 3700X CPU

Building a Facial Recognition Lock Client With Raspberry Pi - A guided tour featuring Express.js, WebRTC, React and a dash of automation

Krita, a FOSS digital drawing app, is now available for Android tablets and Chromebooks

Old water tunnels under Table Mountain in Cape Town

Finally a Raspberry Pi 4 can boot from an external SSD or USB drive without any SD card required

MangoHUD - Linux Has This Awesome Gaming Benchmarking HUD Tool You Probably Haven’t Heard Of

GoAccess is an open source real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser (no Google Analytics)

26 Fascinating Facts About the Human Body

Wife's FIRST TIME using VR in the Sim Racing Rig! A taste of what someone experiences the first time

Best Straight Razors in 2020 — Top 8 List and Guide

Good news for software developers in South Africa - Good news for software developers in South Africa

How to Install Kernel Updates On Ubuntu without Rebooting - Because Linux is not Windows!

Microsoft Has Now Open-Source Their GW-BASIC Code From 1983 For Historical Purposes

How to use Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, WhatsApp, and Facebook on the Huawei P40 Lite

Fitbit hopes to detect COVID-19 infections earlier via fitness data - invites volunteers to participate

Video Showing City Car Driving Simulator Using Your Webcam For Head Movement Tracking

Cape Town to get drive-in cinema - After the last one closed in the 1990's

EA To Open-Source Part Of Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert To Help The Mod Community

We Had No Idea You Could Make An Audio Recording Just Using A Cup - Retro Phonograph Tech In Action

In the beginning there was no Internet or even computer courses... we learnt programming on our own from books we bought

First steps with the Nano text editor

Teach kids Python by building an interactive game

New SD Express card standard boasts insane transfer speeds up to New SD card standard boasts insane transfer speeds

Zimbabweans in South Africa use app called Malaicha to send food home in lockdown

EU Parliament Strongly Recommends Developing and Using Open Source Software

Working from home permanently could damage your mental health says Microsoft CEO - I say 'and so do open-plan offices'

Collectively we as South Africa failed the 3IR test

Stress benchmark test your GPU with Superposition for Windows and Linux

How to install the Google Play Store on any Android device - These steps 'might' work for you

Sanitise large surfaces in minutes with a cordless sprayer and Virol-Oxy

Watch my quick look at City Car Driving sim

Huge if true... Trump explodes as he learns open source could erode China tech ban

Le Mans 24 goes virtual with rFactor 2 for its 88th annual race on June 13 at 15:00 French local time

For the First Time Ever, You Can Watch the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge via Livestream - Sat 20 June 2020 from 20:30-05:30 UTC+01

Why wet shave with a safety razor?

My New Logitech G29 Racing Wheel Arrived Yesterday

Why European universities are choosing open source software - Open source tools give students around the globe the freedom to learn without restrictions

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) V is now free on PC – Here is how to get it