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One of the biggest problems facing digital music and audio creation is high latency. Unlike acoustic instruments (e.g., a drum), in which you hear a sound almost instantly after it's produced, digital audio has to be processed by a computer before a sound emerges from a speaker. This delay causes musicians to perceive digital music instruments as unnatural, inferior, and simply not as enjoyable, according to research from the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London. To overcome this problem, in 2014, Andrew McPherson and Victor Zappi of Queen Mary's Augmented Instruments Laboratory developed Bela, an open source embedded computing platform for high-quality, ultra-low-latency audio.

Microsoft announced its acquisition of github for $7.5 billion in stock "subject to closing conditions and regulatory review".

Can a Chromebook really be worth $1,500? If it's Google's own Intel i7-powered Chromebook, the answer's heck yeah! This is the best Chromebook to date.

COPR is a collection of personal repositories for software that isn’t carried in Fedora. Some software doesn’t conform to standards that allow easy packaging. Or it may not meet other Fedora standards, despite being free and open source. COPR can offer these projects outside the Fedora set of packages.

Most likely your current Ubuntu system uses DHCP server to configure its networking settings. Hence, the configuration of your IP address is dynamic. In many scenarios, simply configuring your router or local DHCP server is a preferred way to set a static address to any host regardless of the operating system in use. Check your router manual and assign the static IP address to your host based on its MAC address using the DHCP service.

Avidemux, a popular free video editor, is now available on Flathub, making the latest version easy to install on most Linux distributions.

I know many of us have heard of VirtualBox but always been shy of trying it just because we think it is a messy task and it might harm our whole computer system. But it is the misconception and it won’t affect your computer system if you set it up correctly. We will find how to do that in this article.

How to install Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) persistently to a USB.

Ubuntu is one of the most popular and user friendly distributions of Linux, sporting a tweaked version of Gnome Shell as the default desktop environment

Craig Williams, director of Talos outreach, a leading member of the Cisco Talos research team that discovered the malware, says most SOHO users simply need to reboot their routers and do a firmware upgrade. “The good news based on our research is that VPNFilter used common hacking techniques on common vulnerabilities,” Williams says. “This was not a zero-day attack.

Viruses on Linux aren't all that common, but they do still exist. So, it's a good idea to set up an antivirus on your Linux desktop, and perform a scan every so often. It's also a good idea to scan any new files you bring on to your computer to ensure that they're safe.

Microsoft Corp. has agreed to acquire GitHub Inc., the code repository company popular with many software developers, and could announce the deal as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.

There are several great object systems for Perl, and Moose is one of them. But Moose comes with a compile-time penalty that smaller applications may not be willing to pay, particularly for certain CGI or command-line scripts. Moose is incredibly feature-rich, and you may not need all of those features all the time.

The open-source Helm project is now its own standalone project in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, providing organization with package management system of deploying applications into a Kubernetes cluster.

This tutorial will guide you through the process of changing a hostname on a Ubuntu 18.04 system.

US authorities have provided more details of two pieces of malware which, they said, are used by North Korean hackers to infiltrate computer systems and steal passwords and other data.

Powerful and easy to use desktop calculator – GTK+ version. Qalculate! is small and simple to use but with much power and versatility underneath. Features include customizable functions, units, arbitrary precision, plotting, and a graphical interface that uses a one-line fault-tolerant expression entry (although it supports optional traditional buttons).

There are many notebook implementations available today. This article selects the best open source solutions. They all offer a flexible coding and prototyping environment.

How to pivot a data table using arrays of arrays in GNU AWK 4.

Back in 1995, Toy Story wowed audiences with sophisticated computer-generated animation. That same year, games studio Parallax released Descent, blowing players away with some of the first truly 3D, omnidirectional gameplay. Things have moved on a lot since then, but the classic game's creators, Parallax co-founders Matt Toschlog and Mike Kulas, are ready to stage a revival. Today, they've released Overload, a spiritual successor that brings back the zero-G combat that redefined first-person shooters (FPS) two decades ago.

Looking for a way to change the notification bubbles position in Gnome Shell? The easiest way to do this is probably using the Panel OSD extension [...].