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How Linux Helped Me Become an Empowered Computer User

2017-02-08 00:02:19| TechNewsWorld

If asked, my friends could readily attest to my profound passion for Linux, so it might surprise you to know that hardly two years ago, I barely knew what Linux was, let alone had any earnest interest in switching from Windows. Although a shift as dramatic as this seem astonishing when considered in hindsight, analyzing my path from one push or influence to the next paints a more telling picture.

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Newly Empowered Black Farmers Ruined by South Africas Drought

2016-07-30 21:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: Almost half a decade of drought across most of South Africa has led to small towns in crisis and food imports for the first time in over 20 years, as well as severely hampering the government's planned land redistribution programme. It's the cost of food in an economic downturn that has been the immediate effect. But hidden from view is a growing social crisis as farmers retrench their workforce and the new class of black commercial farmers has been rocked by the drought. Also hidden from many...

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Gadget Ogling: Lingering Echoes, DIY Scanner Projects, and Empowered Pitchers

2016-03-08 23:33:14| TechNewsWorld

Amazon is doubling down on its Alexa personal assistant with two new models of the Echo speaker: Echo Dot and Amazon Tap. The Dot is a more compact version of Echo. While it does have its own speaker, it apparently has nowhere near the quality of the Echo proper. As a standalone device, it looks more suited to standing in as an alarm clock and delivering the day's headlines than playing music.

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