February 2018

The HomeComputerMuseum that tweaker WHiZZi has set up will open its doors to the public on Saturday 17 March. From then on, the museum's collection of home computers can be viewed every Wednesday through Sunday.The opening will take place…

Vodafone wants to station a Nokia LTE base station on the moon next year to be able to transmit live HD video to Earth, among other things. Furthermore, the network must connect two Audi rovers.Setting up the 4G network is part of a…

After March 8, 2019, PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Vita owners will no longer receive new monthly games as part of their PlayStation Plus subscription. Sony will focus exclusively on the PS4 from that date.Sony has announced the change via…

Twitter is making a Bookmarks feature available to users who want to save messages for later viewing, forwarding or commenting. Only the user sees what is in their list of saved tweets.Until now, users who wanted to mark tweets to review…

Google pulled its business chat service Hangouts Chat out of beta a year after its announcement and is making it widely available to users of the G Suite platform. The chat app integrates with other G Suite apps.Hangouts Chat was…

MSI has unveiled the Vigor GK80 and Vigor GK70 mechanical keyboards for gamers. Both keyboards feature an anodized aluminum housing and Cherry MX RGB LED switches.The Vigor GK80 is a standard keyboard with dedicated multimedia keys, while…

The company Purism, known for its Librem laptops and smartphone, has announced that it will provide its laptops with firmware and OS verification via the open source firmware Heads, in collaboration with security researcher Trammel…

Synology has released an update for version 1.1.6 of Router Management. SRM is the firmware that runs on the RT1900ac and RT2600ac routers and is similar in a way to Disk Station Manager, the firmware for the same company's NAS. These…

Version 3.0.1 of VLC Media Player has been released. This open source and cross-platform media player can play various audio, video and streaming formats without having to install the appropriate codec. In version 3.0, support for…

Bosch announces that its new smart thermostat, developed by Nefit, will be on the market in April. According to the makers, the EasyControl offers an open interface 'in time' and will later receive support for Amazon Alexa and Ifttt.It is…