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How to bind keyboard controls to controller on Linux for games designed for keyboard and mouse only

This site allows you to check the status of a phone's IMEI information and even report or check if it was stolen, lost or blocked

Criminal summons served on Eskom (South Africa's power utility) in respect of air pollution by their Kendal Power station

Google to land its new R2.2 billion cable in Melkbosstrand near Cape Town 20 with times more capacity than the one currently linking to Europe

My new XP-Pen Deco mini7 Graphics Tablet running fine on Linux with multiple monitors and no driver installation required

8 best casual Linux computer games because not everyone wants to play first-person shooters or sims all the time

Open hardware GPS tracker works on your terms without 3rd party trackers

Zimbabwe’s Energy Regulator, ZERA, Adds Nissan Leaf e+ To Its Fleet, Which Makes Sense As They Sell Electricity

Use 2FA to Stop This New WhatsApp Account Attack, But Enable 2FA (Not SMS) For All Accounts That You Can

5 open source alternatives to GitHub because GitHub is not open source, and conditions of service can change

Discovery Bank in South Africa has also launched a Virtual Card but apparently only on their Mobile App and not the Website

Five Excellent Cross-Platform Open Source Free Animation Applications For Presentations Or Videos As Alternatives To Adobe After Effects

Google Silently Adds a New Button on Android Auto That Will Show All Songs Matching the Search You've Just Performed

My Green Technology And Environment posts on YouMe Social can now be filtered by category of post

Cross-Platform Luminance HDR is an open-source GUI tool that provides an easy-to-use toolkit for HDR imaging

Jeff Bezos invests in Africa-focused fintech start-up called Chipper Cash for transferring cash between African countries and abroad

WhatsApp Soundly Beaten As New Facebook Messenger Alternative Goes Live but FB Messenger is not most secure platform and neither is Google Messenger E2EE... But we still have Signal

Linux KDE users can easily display any webpage as a live updated desktop wallpaper

Profile-sync-daemon (psd) is a utility designed to manage your browser's profile in RAM to speed it up, and to periodically sync it back to your physical disc

Watch out South Africa You're Being Left Behind... The All-Electric Hyundai Kona Is Now Assembled In Nigeria!

Douglas, the latest step toward realistic AI, is unsettling - He may not match expressions and voice perfectly, but he can adapt and learn using AI

Nine Practical Tips for Traditional Wet Shaving - You Decide How Quick or Relaxing You Want To Make It

Things to Consider When Buying an EV Charger for Your Home as You Very Likely Don't Need the Most Expensive or Fastest One

Haven is an open source security app that uses all a phones sensors to watch over anything and send alerts via Signal messenger

RCS messaging is now available globally - A global standard is good but it must work everywhere across all devices and be true E2EE

Video: Edward Snowden recommends Tails and QubesOS as secure operating systems

Electric cars will take off in SA when the State incentivises them, says report - Instead, buyers of EVs are hit with a 25% import duty vs only 18% for ICE vehicles

YouTube can now make money off your videos even if you can't... Alternatives such LBRY do exist but the viewers are fewer

How to install Etherpad on Ubuntu 20.04 as a perfect alternative to Google Docs which can be hosted onsite

How To Make Your KDE Plasma Desktop Look Aesthetic

Turn Off Gmail's 'Smart' Features to Avoid Tracking... Well it'll make you Feel better Anyway

Twitter rolls out its Instagram Stories-like 'Fleets' to everyone and everyone is asking why they are called Fleets

Could Agri-PV Be Africa’s Next Big Solar Market Trend? ‘Exponential growth’ predicted for solar on farms, as growers seek cheaper, more reliable energy

PinePhone KDE Community Edition will run Plasma Mobile out-of-the-box

How Virtual Worlds Can Benefit Senior Citizens and being Einstein in VR seems to improve a user's IQ

Capitec in South Africa launches virtual debit card

After 6 Months With An Electric Motorcycle, This Kenyan Boda Boda Rider Says He’s Not Going Back To ICE!

A New Podcast from EFF Introducing 'How to Fix the Internet'

An EV Conversion Engineered As A Drop-In Replacement from £8,850 + VAT For A Classic Mini

How to create trust in artificial intelligence by using open source software - Opening up the 'black box' helps remove uncertainties about AI outcomes

Android without Google – The Reg talks to founder about the /e/ smartphone and how it runs free apps from Google Play Store with Location Services