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First Proof from Hiroshima University That a Safer UV Light (222 nm UVC also known as Far-UVC) Effectively Kills COVID-19 Virus

2020-09-19 Danie

An in vitro experiment by HU researchers showed that 99.7% of the SARS-CoV-2 viral culture was killed after a 30-second exposure to 222 nm UVC irradiation at 0.1 mW/cm2. The study is published in the […]

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ASUS is sending the ROG Phone 3 to custom ROM developers from LineageOS, Paranoid Android, Dirty Unicorns, and others… Way to Go ASUS!

2020-09-19 Danie

The Taiwanese OEM has already released an official bootloader unlock tool and continues to publish up-to-date kernel source code for the device, which should be useful in getting the ball rolling on making custom ROMs, […]

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Someone Made The Bates Motel & Mansion Of Hitchcock’s Psycho In Second Life And Hosts Karaoke Parties There

2020-09-18 Danie

SL artist Kaiden Tray made this faithful recreation of the classic cinema location, complete with four free motel rooms (date night, anyone?), and the Bates mansion on the hill. Impressively, he made it from scratch, […]

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Thunderbird 78.2.1 (Windows, Linux, MacOS) finally implements integrated OpenPGP crypto feature for e-mail – no more Enigmail extension required

2020-09-18 Danie

Mozilla’s mail reader, Thunderbird, has implemented a feature first requested 21 years ago. Whilst unfortunately we lose file sending and notes services. See Thunderbird implements PGP crypto feature first requested 21 years ago #technology #email […]

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Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo is growing fast as more users have begun to value their privacy on the internet

2020-09-17 Danie

While Google remains the most popular search engine, DuckDuckGo has gained a great deal of traction in recent months as more and more users have begun to value their privacy on the internet. DuckDuckGo saw […]

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Purism’s Linux-based Librem 5 phone can now run Android apps using Anbox emulator

2020-09-17 Danie

Purism announced that Anbox is now compatible with the Librem 5. Much like how Google does things on ChromeOS, Anbox runs Android in a container. That means users can access additional free apps built for […]

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Top 10 Instagram alternatives in 2020 according to Blog Waves… Because Instagram is getting very commercial and closer to Facebook

2020-09-17 Danie

Yes nothing replicates Instagram exactly and it depends on what you want to post and follow. But the Intagram I started out on many years ago was an independent upstart without tons of commercial adverts […]

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The StoryGraph – After years of complaints from users, Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be coming to an end

2020-09-17 Danie

There should be nothing in the world more benign than Goodreads, a website and app that 90 million people around the world use to find new books, track their reading, and attempt to meet people […]

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The StoryGraph – After years of complaints from users, Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be coming to an end

2020-09-17 Danie

There should be nothing in the world more benign than Goodreads, a website and app that 90 million people around the world use to find new books, track their reading, and attempt to meet people […]

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FairEmail for Android – open source, privacy oriented email that supports OpenPGP and works with virtually all email providers, including Gmail, Outlook (excl non-standard protocols)

2020-09-17 Danie

You may have OpenPGP encrypted mail that you use on the desktop with Thunderbird or with browser extensions such as FlowMail for GMail (did you know you can send and receive encrypted mail without Google […]

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