Reglue is a non-profit whose main aim is to put working computers into the hands of kids from families that can’t afford them. To do this, they rely on donations of hardware, Linux as the operating system, and many pre-installed free software apps to help the children get started right away. The road Reglue followed…
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The Free Software Foundation has opened their calls for nominations for this year’s Free Software Awards. There are two categories for the awards: Award for the Advancement of Free Software, presented to an individual who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software; and Award for Projects of Social Benefit,…
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Whether you’re a budding indie director or just want to make your home videos much more interesting, you should check out Ritwika Mitra’s YouTube Channel. In her videos, Ritwika explains how to create dollies and rigs, record high quality audio outside, and get the best out of your video equipment, always using stuff you can…
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OpenCulture.com, apart from serving up engrossing daily articles and videos on art, literature, and culture in general; contains within its sidebars a true treasure trove of links to free books, films, courses, language lessons, and lectures. WARNING: Visiting this site can seriously impair your work productivity. Do you run a site like OpenCulture.com and would…
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Mozilla is seeking applicants for its Open Web Fellowship 2015 programme. Successful candidates will work with organisations such as ACLU, Amnesty International and Free Press, developing technologies, drafting policies, organising communities, and running campaigns, all oriented towards protecting the free flow of information over the Internet. If you think you should belong to the “band…
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You can’t get a more politically correct foodstuff: a group of volunteer researchers in California are working on method to produce cheese directly in a lab, without any intervention of cows. The trick is to identify the “milk protein” in animal DNA and then recode the DNA of yeast to produce milk and, finally cheese.…
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A new restrictive copyright legislation, ready to be passed into law in Spain, may very well hinder the interchange of ideas and render all Creative Commons and other copyleft licenses useless. Known as the “Google Tax”, the law establishes that news aggregation sites (such as Google News, Menéame, Reddit, Digg, and others) should pay a…
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Edx and the Linux Foundation have teamed up to bring a free online “Introduction to Linux” course to users worldwide. No previous knowledge of Linux is necessary to be able to attend the course, so it is ideal for beginners who would like to understand what all the Linux fuss is about, see if Linux…
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Or why copyright law so often sucks. If you caught Nick Park’s “The Wrong Trousers”, a claymotion adventure with Wallace and Gromit and one evil penguin, when it was first shown on TV you may have noticed that when Gromit opens his card at the breakfast table, it plays “Happy Birthday to You”, which is…
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The makers of the documentary “Raras, pero no Invisibles” (“Rare but not Invisible”) have joined Pling. “Raras…” is a documentary that explores the plight of patients with rare illnesses. While diseases such as cancer and coronary illnesses receive billions in donations and funding for research and treatment each year, conditions such Tarlov Cysts, Dravet Syndrome…
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It’s been almost year since Elon Musk showed his idea for a supersonic fully electric and solar form of transportation. The famous hyperloop caused much hype around the world, reminiscent of the good old days when the space race was going over and there were articles after articles discussing the future of humanity and technology.…
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Universidad Quantum is an online teaching portal that offers all kinds of courses for free or for very low fees. Quantum lists quite a few tech courses (such as Moodle for teachers, or the use of QR codes in education) in its roster, but also offers languages (they are currently running a free course to…
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