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In the past week, the conversation about encryption has reached fever pitch. Encryption, Apple, and the FBI are in headlines around the world.

Cloud Explorer is a open-source Amazon S3 client that works on any operating system.

Details of the next member of the successful Raspberry Pi family have become available as part of FCC testing documents. The Pi 3 finally includes WiFi and Bluetooth LE.

Getting started, learning more, or even just finding the solution to your particular problem within the OpenStack universe can be quite an undertaking. The good news is that there are a number of resources to help you out....

The history /etc folder in Linux/Unix

The first photos of the Raspberry Pi 3 single-board computer (SBC) have been leaked earlier in a recent FCC (Federal Communications Commission) filing by Raspberry Foundation.

From kiosks to Windows NT clones

With the recent discussion on the official support for ZFS in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, another interesting piece of information has come to light. Debian developers and maintainers have just realized that they were shipping the ISO of the distribution with the a pre-compiled non-free Nvidia kernel module, which technically should be a violation of the Linux kernel.

2 bridges was 'unnecessary' says dev platform VP. Microsoft has officially scrapped its Android to Windows 10 bridge, codenamed Astoria, but is forging ahead with its Objective C Windows compiler and tools for porting iOS applications.

This week's Top 5 we highlight an open source project management solution, Vagrant and Ansible for web development, how to add open source experience to your resume, tips for growing on GitHub, and how to choose a brand name for your project.

Apache Solr is an enterprise-class open source search platform written in Java which enables you to create custom search engines that index databases, files, and websites. This tutorial will show you how to install the latest Solr version on Ubuntu 14.04. The steps will most likely work with later Ubuntu versions as well.

Apple's second high-profile patent win against Samsung was appealed, just as the first was. And in an opinion (PDF) published today, a panel of appeals judges entirely wiped out Apple's victory and its $120 million verdict. The new decision found that out of three different patents Apple became famous for winning with, one wasn't infringed and two of them are invalid.

I'm a space nerd. That's probably not a surprise, but just how deep my nerdery goes might be. I have just about every space photo NASA has ever released. I schedule NASA.tv mission briefings on my Google Calendar as if they were specifically for me. I used to make my kids watch Shuttle launches on our TV, even if they were doing homework!

Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to keep up with everything. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links to each.

Intel demoed at the Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona an Android phone that turns into a desktop once it’s connected via HDMI to a monitor. It turns out that not only Canonical and Microsoft are interested in this concept, and now even Intel is working on a similar project.

Root methods for increasing battery life on Android phones and tablets

Learn to work with word signatures, and tackle programming problems by identifying simpler sub-problems

Sweet 127.0.0.1 Chicago The Chicago Public Schools district has become the first in the nation to make computer science training a requirement for high school graduation.…

One of the last best things that happened this year at MWC (Mobile World Congress) for Canonical and Ubuntu, which took place in Barcelona, Spain, is the following interview with Mark Shuttleworth.

The Eclipse Advanced Scripting Environment (EASE) project is a new but powerful set of plugins that enables you to quickly hack your Eclipse IDE. read more