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Open Notebook is an open-source take on NotebookLM. Open Notebook can be installed and used for free. You do have to understand Linux and containers to deploy it. NotebookLM has become an incredibly ...

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Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Set up a free open source desktop that runs multiple agents, including Gemini and Claude, giving you private, fast task ...

I ditched Google Maps for a free alternative that doesn't track me (or drain my phone battery) ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ewan Spence covers the digital worlds of mobile technology. I’ve spent time with the Shiftphone 8, a smartphone pre-installed with ...

Vitalik Buterin outlines a 2026 push for “computing self-sovereignty,” replacing Google, Gmail and Telegram with encrypted, open-source and local tools.

GitHub hosts powerful open source apps you can use daily, from Immich for photo backups and Upscayl for image upscaling to VERT for file conversion, BC Uninstaller for cleanup, Mole for Mac storage, ...

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