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Pine64’s PineBuds: Hackable high-end in-ear wireless headphones on the horizon

Moku:Go – Replace 11 measurement instruments with a single software-defined instrumentation device that has everything you need for a fraction of the cost

It’s now possible to run a Radeon HD 5000/6000/7000 card on the Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module (with some glitches)

Cider is an open source and community oriented Apple Music client for Windows, Linux, macOS, and more

Obsidian Markdown Notes Editor to Build Your Personal Knowledge Base Into The Future

Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document

LineageOS 19 based on Android 12 is now officially available for 41 Officially supported devices

Linux Mint’s New Upgrade Tool for GUI driven Major Upgrades – Here’s How it Works

Netgear’s Nighthawk M6 Pro: The most advanced mobile hotspot yet has C-band 5G, Wi-Fi 6E, and 2.5 Gbps Ethernet

Apple’s grip on iOS browser engines disallowed under latest draft EU rules, in the interests of true competition

Enable Windows 11’s God Mode to access all settings in one screen

Massive DNA study of human cancers offers new clues about their causes – UK scientists analysed the complete genetic makeup of 12,000 tumours from NHS patients

WKRP-Cast is a episode-by-episode re-watch podcast spending time with America’s Favourite Radio Station: ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’

Instant Long Duration Energy Storage: Just Add Carbon Dioxide

This video animation is one of the best explanations I’ve seen of the technology of London’s Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower) Clock Tower

EyeMU Interactions: Experimental Gaze Tracking and Gesture Control for Mobile Devices

Teenage Engineering’s latest TX-6 audio device invites you to turn its knobs, but at $60 per knob I’d imagine we’ll be seeing cheaper copies of it

Batteries are the new oil — The race to dominate the new battery economy

Good Morning Shortcut Routine for iOS

How Linux rescues slow computers (and the planet) – And why standardisation is important for ease of replacement parts

It’s a myth that using a VPN somehow makes everything private, and protects from malware and hackers

Popular Twitter alternative Mastodon now has an official Android app, but don’t ignore excellent 3rd party alternatives

Android Developer Options (No Root Required) Explained: Here’s everything you can do with these settings

A camera battery with a USB-C port is a gadget whose time has come – Glad 3rd parties are helping bust proprietary vendor lock-ins

Wi-Fi signal interference test — simple trick to speed up your connection

Understanding The Linux File Permissions

Logitech’s Lift is a vertical mouse that’s ‘easier’ to grasp

Insteon looks dead – just like its users’ smart homes – Always try to use open standards for cloud based IoT, so you’re not left stranded

These are the best power supply units you can buy for your PC in 2022

Reticulum is a cryptography-based networking stack for wide-area networks built on readily available hardware, that can operate even with very high latency and extremely low bandwidth

OPNpool integrates the functionality of a traditional Pool Controller into the modern smart home

SDR-Control for iOS is a Software Defined Radio client app for remote DX’ing with some Icom Transceivers

You can now read your old punched paper tape through USB with self-calibration

The best co-op games on Android in 2022 – Tired of competitive games? Here’s more than a few quality co-op titles

How to Install Steam Launcher on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

BCI (brain-computer interface) lets completely “locked-in” man communicate with his son, ask for a beer

City of Cape Town has its own Load Shedding apps for Android and iOS

Staybl is a new free app makes using iPads easier for people with hand tremors – Its creators want to expand the tech to other devices, too

How to use Google’s built-in shopping list (and why you probably should NOT use it)

Why the Linux desktop is the best desktop – Anyone who tells you Linux is hard to use wasn’t paying attention – and here’s why

Apple Watch to Eventually Gain Satellite Connectivity Feature for SOS and Emergency Contacts?

CiviCRM is a powerful, web-based constituent relationship management (CRM) system built by and for nonprofit organizations and NGO’s

Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story