Spark has designed their own Nest style thermostat and it did not even take them a full day to do so. While it certainly doesn’t look as appealing as the Nest original, all the functionality is still there. Spark’s the...
Last year, Linus Torvalds cited NVIDIA as the single worst company developers have to work with when it comes to Linux. In the end, Torvalds bestowed upon NVIDIA the middle finger, which got Linux fanboys up in an excited frenzy. ...
Google is about to make some changes to its Hangout service, which should make for a more pleasing experience. According to the company on its Google+ page, Hangouts will have the option to make video calls in full 720p HD with up...
As regular users of the Internet, we all expect to have a high level of privacy, so no one should know we signed up for some of the most disgusting pornography websites known to man nor should unauthorized personnels know the cont...
An open source airplane is being developed in Canada and it could possibly cost as little as $15,000. The Maker Plane team plans to develop an airplane classified as a light sport aircraft which, in addition to being affordable, w...
When Google announced that it would be shutting down Reader, most RSS-users went out and began a search for a replacement. But instead of going to the many services that sprung to the rescue, one developer decided to just create h...
"By running free and open source software, I'm sticking it to the man!"
Mozilla, who is best known for its free and open source browser, Firefox, just showed off its new headquarters in Japan. In collaboration with design company NOSIGNER, they’ve created an “open source office.” If ...
In the midst of ongoing legal battles in the tech industry, there has arisen what some may consider to be a beacon of hope: ‘Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge’. Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge (OPN) is an initiative re...
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is teaming up with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, to create the country’s new “open and standardised operating system.” The new version of Ubun...
App.net is slowly but surely becoming a success, and Dalton Caldwell is showing people that even though you are forking out some money, it is worth it for an ad free, API open source microblogging site. The general public are mixe...
If you have been following Mozilla or Firefox closely, you might have already been familiar to the “Boot to Gecko” project by Mozilla. Mozilla has been working on a mobile operating system that is intended to be synony...
It’s been a long time coming. Users of the popular GIMP image manipulation program may know what I’m talking about: GIMP 2.8 has been released. It’s three years in the making, and it brings may oft-requested feat...
We all have security software on our computers. Ideally those security software will protect us against malware but sometimes that doesn’t work so well; either the software don’t detect malware or they can’t prop...
Anyone that has used a laptop with a touchpad and external mouse knows using the same pointer speed (“sensitivity”) for both is not ideal. Unfortunately, Windows does not allow users to customize different speeds for t...
