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Watch – Toyota-backed flying car passes first flying test – Hoping to export 60km/h for 30 min versions

2020-08-31 Danie

Japanese startup SkyDrive has released a video showing the first successful piloted test flight of its SD-03 flying car. The SD-03 is punted as the world’s smallest electric VTOL (vehicle take-off and landing) vehicle. For […]

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CrimeSpotter app – Uniquely tailored for South Africa to help provide instant crime stats and alerts for your area – Using the power of community to gather and share data

2020-08-30 Danie

CrimeSpotter is a communication platform that connects active citizens, residents, security companies, CPFs and the police. It is designed to allow open sharing of local incidents for crime prevention and planning. It is a data […]

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Pulp is an open source platform for managing repositories of software packages and making them available to a large number of consumers

2020-08-30 Danie

You can use Pulp to mirror, synchronize, upload, and promote content like RPMs, Python packages, Ansible collections, container images, and more across different environments. If you have dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of software packages […]

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The South Africans who have taken the global tech industry by storm – Ironically South Africa does not fully utilise the products they produced!

2020-08-29 Danie

South Africa is already the technology hub of the continent, but several South Africans feel the need to move overseas to extend their tech influence on a global scale. The country’s most notable export of […]

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Distributed Energy Helped Fight California’s Grid Outages, But It Could Do Much More

2020-08-29 Danie

During last week’s heat-wave-driven grid emergency in California, grid operator CAISO and the state’s utilities sent out desperate calls to demand response providers, behind-the-meter battery aggregators, electric-vehicle charging providers, microgrid operators and backup generator owners, […]

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The Unity Distribution Portal helps developers launch Android games on alternative app stores with just one build managed from a single dashboard

2020-08-29 Danie

While the Google Play Store is the biggest mobile game market on Android, there are several other third-party app stores where developers can publish their games. By publishing their games on these third-party app stores, […]

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With the internet outages in Belarus (Europe), we see just what can happen when an over-dependence on centralized internet and a select few major companies meets national censorship, and what

2020-08-29 Danie

In early August, Belarus—sometimes called Europe’s last dictatorship—went almost entirely offline for 72 hours. On Wednesday, Aug. 26, for approximately one hour, Belarus shut down key parts of the capital’s internet once again; allegedly, the […]

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Fairphone users can buy new camera without replacing the phone itself – Still has its iFixit perfect 10/10 repairability score too

2020-08-28 Danie

Last year, repair guide site iFixit tore down the Fairphone 3 and gave the modular-designed phone a rare perfect 10/10 repairability score. Today, Fairphone demonstrated just how far its philosophy of modular phone design can […]

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Although Vivaldi Browser is built on open source Chromium, but they have only open sourced 38% of their own code… in case someone forks it

2020-08-28 Danie

I only really realised this yesterday after someone sent me an article about issues with Firefox’s heavy resource usage. I suppose it was a lazy assumption on my part that because Vivaldi was based on […]

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Configuring Nano editor on Linux for Colour Syntax Highlighting and Bracket Matching for editing Config Files

2020-08-27 Danie

Nano editor is always installed by default on any Linux distro, including Raspberry Pi’s, and is probably the most used editor for simple config file editing. By default though it is black and white plain […]

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