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It’s Official — Consumer Reports Confirms EV Owners Spend Half As Much On Maintenance Over A 200,000 Mile Service Life

How to play Wolfenstein: the new order (and many other Windows games) on Linux

Unlike proprietary what3words, Google's Plus Code is open source and freely re-usable for addresses anywhere on Earth

Access Dots: Here’s How To Get iOS 14 ‘Orange Dot’ Privacy For Android Phones

Since Discontinuing Google Analytics and Disqus Comments on my website I've ditched over 30 trackers and 3rd party cookies, and seeing more visits as many users block Google and trackers

South African non-profit organisation Code for Change has launched a free-to-use coding and front-end web development training platform for South African high school learners

Watch this Space as we need freedom of choice: Google says Android 12 will make using third-party app stores easier

Highly sensitive information about South Africans from Experian breach now freely available online (21,263,393 unique records)

Calibre 5 Released with eBook Highlighting and Page Count Estimates, Switches to Python 3

Drone pilot develops app for Raspberry Pi to notify of nearby air traffic using a SDR dongle and ADS-B RF reception

Top 10 Best Earthquake Android Apps (2020)

When coffee makers are demanding a ransom, you know IoT is screwed! Although an example if a fridge lasts 17 years how long will you get firmware updates?

Environmentally friendly shaving - Moving from Cartridge to Safety Razor or to Straight Razor Helps, And Saves You Money!

Oppo smartphones officially launched in South Africa - A72 is R6,999 with 48MP camera and 5,000mAh battery

Ring launches security camera drone that flies around your house - It's a quick remote 'walk around' to check everything is in order

My Hubzilla and Main Gadgeteer Website Completed Migration and are Up and back at DigitalOcean

Tesla announces self-manufactured ‘tabless’ battery cells that will improve range of its electric cars with less cost per kWh

My Hubzilla and Main Gadgeteer Website Down For Migration

Manage knowledge with BlueSpice, an open source alternative to Confluence

My Hubzilla and Main Gadgeteer Website Down For Migration

Manage knowledge with BlueSpice, an open source alternative to Confluence

AMD launches new Zen-based Ryzen processors for Chromebooks - A game changer with up to 212% better performance for multitasking and content creation and 251% better graphics performance

Blacklight - New tool makes it easy to see which websites are in bed with Facebook especially which use Facebook Pixel

Starving Artists and Design Students Can Afford This Cheap $59 but Accurate Real-Life ColorReader EZ Color Picker from Datacolor

Tesla announces self-manufactured ‘tabless’ battery cells that will improve range of its electric cars with less cost per kWh

With Threema Instant Messenger Going Open Source It Will Be One Of the Most Secure Messengers Even Over Signal

Think Twice Before Using Facebook, Google, or Apple to Sign In Everywhere - So-called single sign-on options offer a lot of convenience. But they have downsides that a good old fashioned pass

How will geoblocking and censorship work on the Internet with Starlink satellites in orbit over all countries? Traditional controls fall away...

Concerned about Privacy and Facebook Control Over Instagram? My Video Highlights How Pixelfed Could Be A Worthy Alternative With Privacy, No Ads and No Feed Algorithms

Nuvve And Blue Bird Combine To Create Electric School Buses That Are V2G Enabled - Their Batteries Can Provide Services Such As Frequency Regulation And Demand Response Duties In Real Time To

Professional Chef On Her Love Of Cooking With Induction - It's Precise Temperatures, Safer, Cleaner, Energy Efficient, Better Air Quality

Give Your GNOME Desktop a Tiling Makeover With Material Shell GNOME Extension

Apart from DuckDuckGo there is also Swisscows (beyond the Boolean search) and SearX (aggregates 70 services) for better search privacy from Big Tech

New way to pay online in South Africa without an app, credit card, or using your data - Ozapp is a progressive web application that carries data cost

Highly Processed "Simple" Carbs are the Worst Carb to Eat if You're Trying to Lose Weight - Eat Complex Carbs Instead

Iranian Hackers Found Way Into Encrypted Apps, Researchers Say - Make Sure You Have 2-Factor Authentication Active On All Your Accounts Now

Linux Jargon Buster: What is a Rolling Release Distribution?

What Is A Double Edge Safety Razor? And Why Men LOVE Them

OpenKeychain is open source software for Android that enables OpenPGP encryption for various e-mail apps and helps manage and find OpenPGP keys

First Proof from Hiroshima University That a Safer UV Light (222 nm UVC also known as Far-UVC) Effectively Kills COVID-19 Virus

ASUS is sending the ROG Phone 3 to custom ROM developers from LineageOS, Paranoid Android, Dirty Unicorns, and others... Way to Go ASUS!

Someone Made The Bates Motel & Mansion Of Hitchcock's Psycho In Second Life And Hosts Karaoke Parties There

Thunderbird 78.2.1 (Windows, Linux, MacOS) finally implements integrated OpenPGP crypto feature for e-mail - no more Enigmail extension required

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo is growing fast as more users have begun to value their privacy on the internet

Purism's Linux-based Librem 5 phone can now run Android apps using Anbox emulator

Top 10 Instagram alternatives in 2020 according to Blog Waves... Because Instagram is getting very commercial and closer to Facebook

The StoryGraph - After years of complaints from users, Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be coming to an end