Murena is out with a new major release of its deGoogled and improved version of Android — /e/OS 3.O
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After Google removed needed permissions from the Nextcloud app, it refused to return them for months — which quickly changed when the press got involved.
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As you might expect from the folks at the eFoundation, the new Parental Controls do a better job of protecting child users than the controls that Google ships with Android.
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As Paris attracts crowds sports tourists for the 2024 games, mobile apps marketed to attendees are tracking them, collecting their private data, and then hawking it to advertisers and big tech.
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Fairphone, the Dutch-based company behind the eponymous branded mobile phone, has announced that it’s received the highest ranking for sustainability that any mobile phone maker has ever received.
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Are you afraid that someone’s out to steal your passwords from your phone? Well, they might be, but they’re probably not. Ars has published an article that explains it all.
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In this week’s news roundup we look at the release of three Linux-based operating systems — one focused on privacy, one on the desktop, and the third for going mobile.
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GNOME’s Phosh 0.29 Mobile UI improves the lockscreen notifications to use more vertical space. Learn about more new features.
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India’s new Android-based mobile operating system, BharOS, was publicly tested on Tuesday. It’s part of a project to make India less dependent on technology developed outside the country.
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Unveiled in mid-October 2021, the PinePhone Pro features a custom-made RK3399S Rockchip Hexa-Core processor that runs at at 1.5GHz, an ARM Mali T860 GPU, a gorgeous in-cell 1440×720 IPS display with 18:9 aspect ratio and Corning Gorilla Glass 4, 4GB of dual-channel 800MHz LPDDR4 RAM, and 128GB of internal eMMC flash storage. The Linux phone […]
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The proposed legislation, which would regulate “gatekeeper” platforms in the EU, doesn’t go far enough, according to the FSFE.
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Still based on the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system series, Ubuntu Touch OTA-20 is a maintenance update that introduces support for the notification LED and vibration for incoming notifications on Halium 9 devices, such as OnePlus 6, OnePlus 6T, Xiaomi Mi A2, Xiaomi Mi 6, and others. However, the devs note the fact […]
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There are Linux laptops, Linux mini PCs, and Linux Phones. What about Linux-based tablets? What if you want to use a real Linux on a tab? Here are your options.
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Still based on the Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) operating system series, Ubuntu Touch OTA-19 is slated for release this Friday on September 17th, 2021, packed with some minor improvements to the App framework, compatibility with QtWebEngine apps, as well as keyboard improvements in the messaging app. For Halium 5.1 and 7.1 devices, the Ubuntu Touch […]
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