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“Although the company’s own proprietary Windows Phone operating system was a complete commercial flop, it was reported in 2013 that Microsoft was in line to make as much as USD 3.4 billion from patent licenses relating to Android phones.”

While Chrome and other web browsers do block harmful ads but do not worry about users’ privacy. Information such as online activity and behavior is sold to advertisers and other third-party companies. Brave stops it entirely by blocking intrusive ads & trackers that collect users’ data. As a result, users get safer and faster internet.

The main motivation behind the creation of AlmaLinux was to be a viable replacement for CentOS Linux at the time of its shift from an enterprise-stable operating system to an upstream development branch of RHEL. Now that AlmaLinux is released, it still leaves CentOS users wondering how to switch operating systems. Ideally, this should be done as seamlessly as possible, to prevent downtime, loss of data, etc. In this guide, we'll show you the step by step instructions to migrate from CentOS to AlmaLinux with just a few commands.

Here is the DebugPoint.com review of the awesome KDE Plasma 5.21 desktop, released recently. We take a look at the features that it brings while looking at the improvement areas.

Here's how to extract data from a text file such as reading in a list of servers to test connectivity to them.

Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) now officially supports Widevine, allowing its users to stream content from popular websites such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Go, Disney+, Spotify, Pandora and more, using its default Chromium web browser.

It's all about developers Ahead of its release next month, the Fedora community has posted details of what is coming in Fedora 34, Red Hat's bleeding-edge Linux distro.…

The ongoing COVID-19 situation has many more people working from home than ever before. Apache released OpenMeetings 6.0, a popular and free alternative for web conferencing software.

The Audacity 3.0 open-source and cross-platform multi-track audio editor has been released today as a major update that introduces a new save file format, as well as numerous improvements and bug fixes.

As we all know nothing is perfect. Things can go wrong if proper precautions are not taken. Once in a while, Linux tools encounter serious vulnerabilities and due to the nature of these tools (open-source), all tools quickly receive security fixes.

Seeed and Mcuzone have launched compact Raspberry Pi CM4-based carrier boards for $45 and $109, respectively. The Seeed board features dual GbE ports and the Mcuzone entry has GbE and 10/100 ports plus 4G LTE. As promised last October, Seeed Studio has launched a carrier board for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. Seeed’s Dual […]

When you write a program, your application may need to read from and write to files stored on the user's computer. This is common in situations when you want to load or store configuration options, you need to create log files, or your user wants to save work for later. Every language handles this task a little differently. This article demonstrates how to handle data files with Java. read more

Aaeon has launched a $169-and-up, community-backed “UP Squared Pro” SBC based on Apollo Lake. Compared to the UP Squared, it adds two more M.2 slots for SSDs, 5G, or Myriad X AI, plus wide-range power and TPM 2.0. In October, Aaeon teased an Intel Elkhart Lake based UP Squared Pro 2 board that has yet […]

Projects like building a satellite, developing a robot, or launching a new product are all expensive, involve different providers, and contain hard dependencies that must be tracked.

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XII: Foreign Corrupt Practices, Bid Rigging and “Slush Funds”

Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service that translates text and websites from one language into another. What if you are looking to move away from Google and embark on a new world of online freedom, where you are not constantly tracked, monetised and attached to Google’s ecosystem. In this series, we’ll explore how you can migrate from Google without missing out on anything. We’ll recommend open source solutions.

Tracking disk usage information is a day-to-day task of any system administrator. Linux has some built-in utilities that help you find the disk space of your system. In this post, we will show you how to check disk space on Linux using multiple ways.

A quick look at two common terms kicked around in modern drive storage and what you need to know.

This article shows you how to take a screenshot of your Lock screen and login screen.

A Bloom filter efficiently tests if an element is a member of a set. It was first proposed by Burton Howard Bloom all the way back in 1970. Although a little unknown, they have become ubiquitous, especially in distributed systems and databases. Bloom filters are an excellent time and memory saver. This article explains why Bloom filters are, and how they work. With Python example code!