Today, everyone is aware that Facebook, Google and Twitter, among many other free digital services sell their users’ personal data to advertisers. Many savvy users are protecting their privacy with additional software plugins to prevent this automatic data collection. Behind the scenes, however, is the real Read >
Electric vehicles are becoming mass market products in many categories during the next few years. Volkswagen is planning to manufacture millions of electric cars, pickup trucks like Rivian are powered by batteries, and European and Japanese van manufacturers have electric vans Read >
When the first open source software products were published, many IT businesses were terrified. For instance, Microsoft was so hostile to the concept of open code that the father of Linux, Linus Torvalds, still is suspicious of the company Read >
The annual hyperactive shopping season starts from Black Friday in late November and will continue to early January. News of hacked online stores that leak customers’ credit card and personal data to criminals are not welcomed by e-commerce merchants just now. Read >
It seems to be quite a common misunderstanding that ebooks downloaded from the Kindle Store can only be read on a Kindle e-reader or dedicated Kindle app on a tablet or phone. As this article describes it is easy to read Read >
The graphical user interface, or desktop as Linux users like to call it, of Windows 10 is probably the best piece of user-friendly software Microsoft has ever written. Still, it has a few minor annoyances that, especially, power users may want Read >
WordPress is the world’s most popular software for building web sites and for publishing on the internet. This fact makes it the number one target for hackers. Every self-hosted WordPress admin, even if only running a simple blog, should take security Read >
A number of governments in Europe have made a significant, long-term decision to move away from cloud services that may risk citizens’ privacy and security. Germany, France, Netherlands and Sweden have announced that the first steps have been taken to Read >
An effort to co-operate for a unified app ecosystem is a valuable long-term mission for the Linux desktop community. Make it happen (along with a unified App Store), and see how the popularity of Linux grows on personal computers.
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I have written about apps and services that let you do exactly the same things as services provided by Google, but with one key difference: those tools don’t spy on you like Google does. It is possible to find a good Read >
