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Eyüpsultan Municipality in Turkey gained flexibility, cost savings, performance, and independence by transitioning its entire workforce to GNU Linux and other open source software

What is an algorithm, anyway? Simply explained - They are rules that humans define which can influence social media streams, spacecraft or even Machine Learning

Watch – Toyota-backed flying car passes first flying test - Hoping to export 60km/h for 30 min versions

CrimeSpotter app - Uniquely tailored for South Africa to help provide instant crime stats and alerts for your area - Using the power of community to gather and share data

Pulp is an open source platform for managing repositories of software packages and making them available to a large number of consumers

The South Africans who have taken the global tech industry by storm - Ironically South Africa does not fully utilise the products they produced!

Distributed Energy Helped Fight California’s Grid Outages, But It Could Do Much More

The Unity Distribution Portal helps developers launch Android games on alternative app stores with just one build managed from a single dashboard

With the internet outages in Belarus (Europe), we see just what can happen when an over-dependence on centralized internet and a select few major companies meets national censorship, and what

Fairphone users can buy new camera without replacing the phone itself - Still has its iFixit perfect 10/10 repairability score too

Although Vivaldi Browser is built on open source Chromium, but they have only open sourced 38% of their own code... in case someone forks it

Configuring Nano editor on Linux for Colour Syntax Highlighting and Bracket Matching for editing Config Files

FINALLY... a Ryzen Mini PC from MinisForum! With Dual Ethernet and WiFi 6

ActivityPub Conference 2020 - A conference about the present and future of ActivityPub, the world’s leading federated social web standard for decentralized social networks

Glances – A Versatile System Monitoring Tool for Local and Remote Linux Systems

Connected Devices is a South African online retailer which specialises in importing smartphone models and configurations that are not commonly available in the country

Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing - IT hype around blockchain, cloud, AI and 4IR won't make today's problems go away magically but it will sell more consulting services

8 podcasts that talk honestly about mental health

Elon Musk promises demo of a working Neuralink device on Friday - There is huge potential of BMIs to help paralyzed individuals and those with neurological disorders

Fitbit’s 3 new trackers want to destress you and eventually diagnose you- ECG (to be activated pending FDA clearance), skin temperature, and electrodermal activity (EDA) for quantifying stres

There Are Alternatives to Amazon Owned Goodreads

Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades black... Still far fewer than from colliding with electrical power lines (or windows or cats) but Research brings good Improveme

Google confirms overscan is gone in Android 11, crippling third-party gesture apps - Further removing choices for Android users - Maybe a global independent Android App Store is needed?

Bridgefy, the messenger promoted for mass protests, is a privacy disaster - Rather use open source Briar or Jami

Cape Town-based DataProphet, a major provider of artificial intelligence solutions that enable manufacturers to implement autonomous manufacturing, has raised US$6-million in a new funding ro

Flight sticks are selling out after the release of Microsoft Flight Simulator - Innovation drives hardware sales

OnionShare is a free, cross-platform and open-source tool that utilizes the Tor network to share files securely and anonymously

A new residential grid flexibility service available in parts of the U.K. will combine energy storage, vehicle-to-grid and smart EV charging for the first time

Don't let Google or Bing dictate mapping to you - Get involved in OpenStreetMap and contribute indigenous languages and your local points of interest

A summary of some useful JS8Call message formats for amateur radio exercises, operations or emergencies

OpenWebRX is a Swiss Army Knife for SDR receivers on all bands and all modes including DMS, DSTAR, FT8, APRS, C4FM and many more

How To Properly Wet Shave With Any Type Of Razor - A Collection Of Guides

Veedo Live is a South African video conferencing solution built on open source Jitsi with reverse billing to an organisation for #datafree access

Sensibo Air and Room Sensor - Makes your existing air conditioner smart by replacing the infra-red remote control and connecting to WiFi

Drew Shindell, a professor of Earth science at Duke University: Cleaning Up Our Polluted Air Would Save More Money Than It Costs - Could Humans Themselves Actually Be A Form Of Virus?

Onyx Poke2 Color Video Review: It's the best color E Ink reader right now but text is not as crisp as a binary colour version

Bosch’s new sensor-packed Spexor: a self-contained security system that can remotely alert your phone in the event of a break-in but it may be proprietary cloud-dependent

Is Your Browser a Good Enough Password Manager? It really depends on what you want to Do and Where

How To Use Many Sony, Canon, Fujifilm, GoPro, Nikon, Olympus and Panasonic DSLRs as a good quality Webcam

Google Has a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree - New certificate program takes only six months to complete, and will be a fraction of the cost of college but will it carry a similar weight?

Lucid Air Will Be Fastest Charging Production Electric Car In The World - able to add 300 miles of range in as little as 20 minutes using a Level 3 DC 350 kW fast charger (and it can power a

This Reddit Thread About Simple 'Life Hacks' Everyone Should Know Might Change The Way You Live

Mobvoi’s new TicWatch GTX smartwatch offers fitness tracking, 10-day battery life for $60 but NO Google Wear - Used to be 2-day battery life with Google Wear