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Raspberry Pi Robots!

Supervillain Jonni Bidwell is constructing an army of Pi robots. Sneak into his lair and steal his techniques!

AMD Ryzen 5 - 2400G

Finally, next-gen integrated graphics performance arrives inside a CPU worthy of your main desktop system. Jarred Walton is suitably impressed.

Dirt Rally

You don’t have to be a loud-mouthed, producer-punching, overly-tall Amazon  employee to enjoy driving cars, but it does help.

Beelink A1 TV Box

A good thing in a small package? “Witchcraft!” screams Desire Athrow, before calming down and having a nice cuppa once he knows it has Netflix.

Iconoclasts

Being repressed by zealots is just another normal day in the office for Andy Kelly at the fanatical Linux Format Towers.

Inkyphat

Les Pounder loves a good book and can be found reading on his e-ink enabled e-reader, but now he’s the able to create his own e-ink display!

Preston Hackspace

Get your hands on maker tools a-plenty!

Floating The Jolla Dream

Navigate the choppy waters of Jolla’s titanic Sailfish OS voyage with the help of Sean Cameron.

Monitor Your Network Using A Raspberry Pi

Christian Cawley scans his network for intruders and unsafe hardware using little more than a Raspberry Pi and Nagios.

Gameshell Kit

Need to take your love of retro gaming everywhere you go? Check out the open source handheld ClockworkPi GameShell, says Christian Cawley.

Protect Your Privacy

The government wants your data, but they don’t understand tech.  Facebook and Google want your  data – and they do. Jonni Bidwell  tries to disappoint them all.

Storage Wars

Allen Samuels is a veteran of the storage industry, having worked for Citrix and Weitek before moving to Sandisk in 2013.

Quantum Computing

Mats Tage Axelsson introduces you to quantum computing, the coolest tech around. Learn how it works and how you can get started.

Ubuntu 18.04 Gear Up!

There’s a new Ubuntu LTS in town, with a whole new desktop to entice and amaze you. Jonni Bidwell rolls out the orange carpet…

ProgressIve SessIons

Jonni Bidwell talks progressive web apps with Enonic’s co-founder Thomas Sigdestad.

ExaGear Desktop

In his eternal quest for more Pi power, Les Pounder would give an ARM and maybe a leg to run x86 code on his Raspberry Pi.

Google Pixelbook

Hand on heart, this is the best Chromebook to date that Joe Osborne has ever used – or indeed paid for.

Intel Core i5-8400

After months of endless AMD praise, Jarred Walton finally has some good news for Intel and the Blue processor team.

Knoppix 8.1

Years after its first release, the distribution is still as fresh and reliable as ever. Take a bow, Knoppix, you’ve impressed Shashank Sharma.

LibreOffice: Spreadsheets

Whether you’re puzzling out pivot tables or building bar charts, Bobby Moss is determined to make you a cell-wrangling ninja.

MotoZero

Evil genius Les Pounder takes a look at an entry-level motor controller that offers four-wheel drive! No terrain is safe from his nascent robot army!

Ledger HW.1

An affordable and highly portable ‘hardware wallet’ for your bitcoins, a better bet than your puny UK pounds 

Daydream View

We say Matt Swider is lost in his own world, he says it’s actually Android VR that has finally become a reality.

Deus Ex: MD

Being a game journalist Andy Kelly is used to people not liking him, he just wished he had super-human implants too, so he could punch them in the face.

Crucial MX300 2TB

The only writer we know who’s owned multiple Porsches, Jeremy Laird  sullies his hands with the cheapest 2TB SSD in town.

4MLinux 21.0

Ambitiously minimalist distros can be quite a tempting bait, but will Shashank Sharma bite on this occasion?

Civilization VI

Gather around children as holographic great, great granddaddy TJ Hafer describes how all this here rocketport used to be fields.

Picture In A Mainframe

Jonni Bidwell wants to know if he could install Linux on the mainframe at Future Towers. The Open Mainframe Project’s John Mertic has all the answers.

MSI GeForce GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G

Nvidia’s new GPU brings merely a modest boost in performance, thinks Jarred Walton.

Robolinux 10.5

Mayank Sharma isn’t too gullible in real life, but has an uncanny tendency to fall for distros that then don’t deliver on the claims they make.