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GNOME Shell on Mobile is Shaping Up Nicely

These top games have servers in South Africa

Ardour is an open source DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) for Windows, macOS and Linux

How to use Android’s AirDrop-like Nearby Share feature – Get started with Google’s AirDrop alternative

This Hidden Apple Setting Makes You Sound So Much Better on Video Calls – Can Only be Accessed Whilst in a Call

Why You Should Use an existing embedded eSIM Card the Next Time You Travel

The Return of Gopher: Pre-web hypertext service is still around

Lotus 123 for Linux is like a Digital Treasure Hunt – Back then no Office Suites or GUI interfaces

The Big Fat Lie of the Fat-Free Food Movement, thanks to Advertising by the Dairy Industry

Deepfake attacks can easily trick 9 out of 10 live facial recognition systems online, fooling even ‘liveness tests’

Mojo Vision’s next iteration AR smart contact lenses with Eye-Tracking is demoed to CNET

Spinlaunch Throws A Camera Toward Space With Electric Power – Good For Launching Small Satellites

PiKVM is a more community based, and fuller featured, remote Keyboard-Video-Mouse (KVM) over IP management solution

South African government has launched its own official app store and is inviting local developers to register

TinyPilot is open source software to allow you control a remote computer giving you a virtual console during BIOS and boot

iSinkwe app, developed by CSIR in South Africa, can help children with their reading and listening skills in all 11 official SA languages

Odysee video platform seems to have sorted out their buffering problem, and livestreaming is available to all

eLEAP OLED TV breakthrough (Brighter OLED screens with lower power consumption) fixes all the tech’s problems, and it’s coming soon

NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) is a free, open source accessibility screen reader for Microsoft Windows

How to set up Emergency SOS on your smartwatch – Makes me realise I should have maybe bought a SIM enabled watch option now

The history of the internet is repeatedly reduced to the story of the singular Arpanet, but BBSs were just as important, if not more

Hydrovolt, The Largest Battery Recycling Facility In Europe, Begins Operations – Where There Is An Economic Demand, Then Industry Supplies It

Could Zimbabwe’s Public Transport Chaos Catalyse The Adoption Of Electric Scooters For Personal Mobility?

Facebook rated the least safe e-commerce option in government rankings – Singapore’s safety scheme measures scam-combatting capability

Cheapest electric bicycle in South Africa costs R10,000 and has a 30km – 40km range

Erase.bg is a free iOS and Android app that removes any photo background without ads, watermarks, or in-app purchases

An iPhone now has the ability to perform visual look-ups on photos to identify plants, like Google Lens

ONLYOFFICE 7.1 is Out With New PDF Viewer, Slideshow Animations + More, as an open source alternative to MS Office and LibreOffice for Windows, macOS and Linux

CUBE Preshave Soap – Better than Preshave Shaving Oil for Traditional Wet Shaving?

How to use Shizuku to batch restore your Android apps after a factory reset – No root access needed

MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit that can remove particles and salts to generate drinking water

Tesla’s Recycled Batteries: Almost 92% Reuse Of Raw Materials

Immersive AI-powered view coming soon to Google Maps will raise the realism bar for mapping

Why is the open source driver release from NVidia so important for Linux?

BYD K6 Electric Minibuses Being Piloted In Kenya’s Matatu Industry

DuoVox Mate Pro: Turn Night Into Day With The Most Advanced True-Color Night Vision Camera, Kickstarter Project and reviewed by Engadget

14 of the best indie Android apps you may have never heard of

Open Source JobHub: A new job site just for open-source jobs opens its doors

Group14’s Silicon-Lithium EV Batteries Deliver Next-Level Performance, having solved the previous Silicon anodes expansion issue

Sharp’s Aquos R7 packs a bonkers 1-inch 47MP and f/1.9 aperture camera, but you can’t buy one outside of Japan

KDE Connect is Now Available for iPhone and iPad but…

Disney+ vs Netflix — South African libraries and features compared

Debunking Common Anti-EV Myths: Responsible Sourcing Of Raw Materials

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