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Got Torque Pro ODB2 gauges to display on my Android Auto on dashboard but why does Google ban gauge apps on AA if a car has gauges already?

Europeans Bought More Electrified Vehicles Than Diesels In September — For The First Time In History

An Overview of the 7 different scan modes on the Kenwood D710 radio

Cleantech Creates Higher Paying Jobs — Millions Of Them in the USA alone and now we can see actual numbers which should motivate other countries

Top 10 simulation games to learn real world skills from off-road driving, farming, flying, cooking, computer building, repairing cars and more

Community rallies behind Youtube-DL after DMCA takedown but it is open source so of course it's everywhere and more popular than ever before

Zoom finally adds full end-to-end encryption for all, for free – though there are caveats due to the nature of full E2EE

Smartphone camera showdown: Pixel 5, Galaxy Note20 Ultra, Mate 40 Pro, OnePlus 8T, Galaxy S20 FE, iPhone 12 Pro compared

SpaceX's Starlink satellite broadband will cost $99USD (ZAR1,600) monthly, but in SA the Ka-Band is $80 (ZAR1,299) pm for 20Mbps uncapped

Delta Chat is a secure instant messenger app with no central account as it transparently uses encrypted mails via your existing mail account so everyone is potentially a user

A good video explaining some insights about using a de-Googled phone as a daily driver

For just over an hour on 11 October 100% of energy demand was met by solar panels alone for the entire South Australia (77% from rooftops remainder from solar farms)

Fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family with lots of built-in features

Kerbal Space Program is full of technology and science to build and fly rockets... This is a good intro for complete beginners

GameGuru helps you create your own 3D video games without the need to code and is 85% off right now

Ham Radio Remote Control Via A Raspberry Pi And HTML5 Web Interface With Two-Way Audio

Bpytop is an advanced, terminal-based control center for Linux that includes even CPU temps and can even terminate running programs

My solar installation generated just over 5 Megawatt hours of power over the last 15 months

Ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is useful to find space hogs on a remote server without a full graphical interface

Tesla full self-driving Beta test drive - Seriously humans' erratic unpredictable driving days are numbered, as are traffic violation fines

ClipDrop finally makes AR practical - Copy from physical world to the digital world (at a price)

New open source project called CrowdSec crowdsources internet security... A bit like a crowd-sourced Fail2Ban

Battery Swap (and Upgrade) Gives Nissan LEAF New Lease On Life For A Net $2,500 USD

Googlefier lets you easily install Google apps on Huawei and Honor devices (if you still need Google apps)

Looking At Six Flavors of newly released Ubuntu 20.10 'Groovy Gorilla'

Free online tech courses aimed at 4IR launched for unemployed South Africans - closes 31 Oct 2020

Big changes coming to WhatsApp, including in-app purchases - NOW is a good time to install alternative messengers so your friends can move away from Whatsapp

I'd jump at a chance for a Renault Kwid electric car (cheapest EV in Europe) but here's the problem South Africa charges 40% plus import duties

See Hummer EV do its CrabWalk move on video - It is now environmentally friendly but does some unique stuff too

Fit More Podcasts Into Your Day With This Calculator - Also makes you realise how much 'wasted' time you have to utilise

5 steps to learn any programming language - The essential concepts to grasp for any new language

Revov South Africa Goes Big On Second-Life Batteries For Stationary Storage Applications

PowerToys tool for Windows 10 is now available and is open source software

Leveling up: Can video games treat mental illness? I believe they can be better than sitting on a couch watching TV all day...

Microsoft releases a Dev version of their Internet browser in native Linux .deb and .rpm files

The European Commission adopts its new Open Source Software Strategy 2020-2023 - It's about digital transformation, enabling innovation, and an inclusive digital environment

You can Surf Internet in Linux Terminal With These Command Line Browsers... They'll confuse the heck out of advertisers

Behind the scenes with Dovetail Games to see how they make very realistic simulators such as Train Sim World and Fishing Sim World Pro Tour

Huawei is leading openEuler community, which focuses on open source operating systems, and includes more than 2000 contributors, 60 Chinese enterprises, and six Chinese operating system vendo

On the Cutting Edge of Vehicle to Grid in the USA with school buses: Seems manufacturers are fine with warranties on batteries for V2G too

Kerbal Space Program is one of Elon Musk's favourite games and it's 75% off on Steam Games right now

To Mend a Broken Internet, Create Open Online Parks, instead of having Private Walled Gardens

Got Kids? Limit Computer Usage Per Account in Linux With Timekpr-nExt

Researchers in Ireland start open source programme offices: "rising awareness of the need to return more value to the public from publicly funded research"

Train Sim World 2 Bakerloo Line Walkabout - From Embankment to Waterloo showing off the realism

'God mode' folder from Windows 7 still works in Windows 10

I had no idea the London Routemaster Bus was brought from Matjiesfontein to Cape Town for open top-tours

The Best Safety Razors For Sensitive Skin - Say Goodbye To Skin Irritation