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A 10-Year Study of Longitudinal Growth of Violent Video Game Play in Adolescents Shows Violent Games Don't Make People More Violent

The Beginner’s Guide to Git - It's Software Version Control

No Native Mobile App for a Website or Social Network? Create a Web App Quickly Yourself Instead!

Dentists Debunk 14 Teeth Myths - Scary Part is some are from Advertisers pulling Gillette Marketing Moves on Us

Google’s Adaptive Charging feature only works during certain hours and does not optimise automatically

Honda Petitioned to Bring Android Auto to Africa Twin Bikes

Diesel Dies A Decade Earlier: Europe's Seven Largest Commercial Truck Makers Agree To End ICE Production By 2040

South African Police Stop A Police Impersonator in GTA V FiveM - Good to see South African branding in games!

FiveM is a modification for Grand Theft Auto V enabling you to play multiplayer on customized dedicated servers - Some really realistic police role-play for different countries

American Truck Simulator: Preview of upcoming State of Colorado - Million Dollar Highway Gameplay (4K)

Beston 2800mAh AA batteries only clocking 2200mAh capacity

4 ways open source transformed education in 2020 - Open source tools fuelled innovation in teaching and learning in 2020, as schools moved online to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic

The Maroon Berets - South Africa's Best!

Dust3D is cross-platform open-source 3D modelling software that creates 3D models very quickly from scratch

Mtr : Combines ping and traceroute and even includes StdDev on pings

Someone wrote an open source virtual reality server because the VR industry is all proprietary and locked-in

Moxie Marlinspike clarifies: No, Cellebrite cannot 'break Signal encryption' and that was not what was being claimed

Buying and using a eSIM cellular smartwatch in South Africa - Don't just assume it will work with your network

KiCad is a cross-platform open-source software tool for the creation of electronic schematic diagrams and PCB artwork

My list with hundreds of open source alternatives to proprietary software has been updated with even more options

Sounds of the Forest is an open source collection of forest sounds from around the world, and you can contribute too

This may be a mistake but right now Assetto Corsa Ultimate Edition is 90% off on the Steam Store

Free Open Source Kdenlive 20.12 Video Editor Released, Adds Several New Features, New Video Effect Called PIllar For Portrait Mode Mobile View

How To Easily Install A New Desktop Environment Using Raspberry Pi OS And tasksel

Heavy Raspberry Pi User? Keep An HDMI-TO-USB Capture Device Around Instead Of Lugging A Monitor And Power Supply Around

Introducing the HP-200LX, the first real palmtop computer dating back to 1994 ran MS-DOS

What a Decentralized Web Means for Digital Advertising, The prognosis for ad tech is not good for advertisers as they can't Push adverts into Feeds

The Introvert Advantage During Lockdown

How to delete your Instagram account... Pixelfed is a better alternative giving a similar experience

The World's First Death Attributed to Air Pollution Could Spark the Change We Need... The symptom is not always the Cause of Death

RPI-Retrofit-Smart-Thermostat works on a Raspberry Pi Zero W (or bigger) to control an older non-smart thermostats

How to use KWrite KDE Plasma text editor... But Kate is still the more powerful big sibling

Bundled Notes is an innovative freeware alternative to Google Keep which shows Big Tech is not always so sharp on innovation over time

27 Super Cool Raspberry Pi Zero W Projects for DIY Enthusiasts, Some of which I've not seen Before

New Zealand Requires ALL Government Agencies To Buy Electric Vehicles

Movim is a federated open source social media platform based on the open XMPP protocol

EV Battery prices have fallen 88 percent over the last decade and sales volumes as well as research has been increasing indicating a continuing trend

All the privacy apps you should have downloaded in 2020

Remap Keyboard And Mouse Buttons On Linux With The New Key Mapper GUI (Supports X11 And Wayland)

A DIY 900-degree racing wheel is way better than a cheap 180-degree racing wheel

Sygic (with TomTom Maps) now available on Android Auto as an alternative to Google Maps and Waze

'Allow Google login Third Parties and Extensions' because Brave Browser allows you to block Big Tech Social Media from gathering cookie data

E Ink eReaders: The Best Screensaver is No Screensaver