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The Largest Autocracy on Earth - Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power without allegiance to any nation; it’s time we treated it that way

A space startup says it has successfully demonstrated the ability to use ordinary, unmodified mobile telephones to connect to satellite Internet services

Steam Beta Improves Its Vulkan Pre-Caching System, and PipeWire Capture is Now Opt-In

OBS Studio 27.1 Released with YouTube Integration, 18-Scene MultiView Option, and More

Kickstarter Project: Bangle.js 2 is a Hackable, Open Source Smartwatch runs on JavaScript with two weeks standby time

LOL! The Rivian R1T electric pickup truck is looking more attractive than most combustion-powered trucks in many respects

Amazon's Ring Always Home Cam home surveillance drone will have it's cameras physically shuttered unless it's actually in flight

Amazon’s Astro home robot is a home assistant on wheels

Blink’s first doorbell is finally released for $49.99 with 1080p HD video and choice of local storage or cloud subscription

Ventoy is an open source tool to create a bootable USB drive for multiple ISO and similar images, with optional persistence

DisplayPort vs. HDMI: Which Is Better For Gaming? Don't Just Stick With What You've Always Known

Japanese Esports Team Is Filled With Senior Citizens Ranging From 66 To 73 Years Old

REDMAGIC 6S Pro's 165Hz display and advanced cooling system are enough to make even PC gamers drool

Why non-profit organizations choose open source software - It's increasing in importance as more European non-profits shift to products like Nextcloud and ONLYOFFICE

Drupal CMS now has an ActivityPub Protocol module for its websites - It's like a 'Facebook Follow' for the Fediverse

How to Install Ubuntu Linux on an External USB Drive to Make an Actual, Portable Linux System on USB (Not a Live CD or USB)

The Simplest FT8 Transceiver You’ll Ever Build - It may only be 100mW Output But FT8 Is Designed Specifically For Weak Signal Modes

This Site Can Tell You If Anyone Else Has Taken Pictures With Your Lost or Stolen Camera, Or You Can Report A Found Camera

The makers of the Fairphone are reportedly making sustainable wireless earbuds

This (Obsolete Technology) Museum is (Not) Obsolete

Ride 4: An extremely realistic looking first-person motorcycle racing game

Apple’s Foundation starts out big, lavish, and a little boring

The grommunio project is an open source drop-in replacement for Microsoft Exchange

The first Android phone was announced 13 years ago today

Epic Games Officially Announces Easy Anti-Cheat For Linux - Including Wine/Proton

JingPad Review: A Real Linux ATM based tablet with 11" AMOLED screen, detachable keyboard and stylus running JingOS for about $899 (free international shipping)

Google ARCore: Everything you need to know about the Augmented Reality platform from Android that does not require special hardware sensors

Some good Backup Tools to consider on Linux

FiberSense: Fiber optic cable that can sense it's about to be dug up and send a warning, or measure earthquakes or even leaky pipes

Bash Scripting – Functions Explained With Examples

You Need to Supercharge Safari by Enabling Extensions for iOS 15 or iPadOS15

AllTrails and Wikiloc are two good global hiking trails apps for Android and iOS

How to do systemd journal maintenance on Linux to save space with log files

Pensela: An Open-Source Tool for Windows and Linux which is Tailored for Screen Annotations and Streaming/Screencasting

How to Prevent Ransomware: 18 Best Practices for 2021

Why smartwatch-measured blood pressure still isn't ‘ready for primetime’ - Cardiologists are looking forward to the future of blood pressure tech — but the field still needs to catch up

Shredder (rmlint) is a Linux utility that finds space waste and other broken things on your filesystem and offers to remove it

9 Best Shaving Soaps for Men [All Skin Types] – 2021 Review

Why the Crawford County Federated Library System chooses Linux and open source - An organisation needs to make a conscious decision on their software choices

Conduit is an efficient lightweight Matrix server implementation for home use and will even run on a Raspberry Pi

Kerbal Space Program creator's new game launches onto Steam Early Access - Balsa Model Flight Simulator is a much smaller-scale game than Kerbal, but carries the same spirit

The German Government funds The Prototype Fund which funds software development of innovative public interest technologies under an open source license