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Apple Watch uncovers deadly hidden tumour, saves Maine woman’s life

Don’t believe the hype: Bluetooth LE and the LC3 codec won’t improve audio bit-rate quality

A simple, inexpensive meter retrofit from Siemens and the startup ConnectDER could blow the home EV charging field wide open, especially for 110 V homes

Commodore 64 finally gets an OS upgrade after 40 years, known as C64OS

The Council on Foreign Relations has issued a report, titled Confronting Reality in Cyberspace: Foreign Policy for a Fragmented (Decentralised?) Internet, and it applies to all Countries

Minuimus is an open source program for Linux, used to reduce PDF storage space by 10% to 20% without altering the data

CAPod is an open-source companion app for AirPods users on Android

Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you keep parts of your online life separated into colour-coded tabs that preserve your privacy

Kdenlive is a powerful free and open source video editor, and this is how I edit all my videos

AMD Debuts Noise Suppression Tech and Up To 92% OpenGL Performance Boost In Latest Drivers, to compete with NVIDIA’s RTX Voice

6 Tips and Tools to Enhance Your Flatpak Experience in Linux

Adam Mosseri confirms it: Instagram is over (as it Facebookized it just got messier)

Quickly activate voice dictation when you can’t spell a word (macOS, iOS, Android, and Windows)

Koodo is an All-in-one Open Source eBook Reader App, with private cloud sync, for Windows, macOS and Linux

Machine Learning Baby Monitor Prevents The Hunger Games – A High Tech Solution To Baby Monitoring

Seems real cats also appreciate watching the game Stray, and trying to interact with the virtual cats

My new Corsair Virtuoso RGB Wireless XT Headset

‘Walk The Distance’ app makes exercise fun, with a social element, for those who’d rather be hiking

Hunt the Lunpus (based on Hunt the Wumpus) is an ATtiny-based minimalist game console

Your software development job was probably outsourced for exactly the reason you suspected – Great opportunities for developing world countries

Top 10 Best Music Players for Linux in 2022

The Roam Air launches in Kenya – An electric motorcycle designed for Africa, priced at $1,500

KFC launches their first high-tech restaurant in Pinelands, Cape Town, South Africa

Nala is way faster, with powerful history control and information, than APT for Debian based Linux distros

Discord Voice Chat coming to Xbox consoles, available now for select Insiders

A Defensive Computing Checklist by Michael Horowitz

Should You Upgrade From Your 1080p PC Monitor to 1440p (2K) or to 4K?

Critical flaws in $20 Micodus MV720 GPS tracker enable “disastrous” and “life-threatening” hacks

Alaska Airlines will let flyers use digital e-paper bag tags to save time and paper

One of the best 3rd party Android launchers, Nova Launcher, has been acquired by analytics company Branch

Researchers at University College London make touchless computing tech on the cheap – No special hardware or cloud service needed, just a regular CPU and webcam

Amazon finally admits giving cops Ring doorbell data without user consent – Amazon Ring gave police data without user consent 11 times so far in 2022

Dashy is an open source, highly customisable, easy to use, privacy-respecting dashboard app

60 million in the Matrix, as users seek decentralised messaging. Slacked off and fed up with Teams? Want to escape the clutches of big tech? Element thinks so

Three Ways to use the Epic Games Store on Linux, instead of Steam Games, to play Epic’s Games

Red Dead Redemption 2 Mod Makes the Game Look and Feel More Realistic

Bluetooth audio’s biggest upgrade in years is coming soon to headphones – LE Audio spec completed and can connect an ‘unlimited’ number of devices to a single source

OpenWrt, an open source alternative to firmware for home routers, because your existing router could be out of date

Airport app for South Africa — with flight updates, parking payments, and navigation to your car

The Least-Awful Social Media Sites for Anyone Who Wants to Be Less Unhappy – There is no law that says you have to use Twitter