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Civilization VI

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

Floating The Jolla Dream

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

Building Better Devices

Les Pounder explores the new Raspberry Pi Zero W as a platform for the Internet of Things.

OnePlus 5T

Dual-lens camera and top dog for performance has James Peckham ditching his other smart phones

Intel Optane 900P

Feeling the need for speed, Jarred Walton takes Intel’s latest storage technology for a Tokyo Drift around the server farms to see what it can do.

F1 2017

Sick of Linux Format Tower’s underpaid prima donnas and constant queuing, Phil Iwaniuk escapes to a world of overpaid prima donnas and queuing cars.

Liberate Windows Programs With Wine

Jonni Bidwell can’t afford to buy Central Otago Pinot Noirs, but Wine at least enables him to run programs from the other side.

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!

Storage Wars

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

Community Relations

Jonni Bidwell meets Kara Sowles, Puppet Labs’ Community Manager, to learn about the perils of organising tech events.

MAX30105 Multi Sensor

Nothing gets Les Pounder’s heart racing like a new toy. But how can we monitor his excitement? For that, we need the MAX30105!

Extix 19.3

The promise of a user-friendly distro lures Mayank Sharma into testing one based on beta software – and then suffering the consequences.

Solus 4.0

A user-friendly rolling release distro written from scratch sounds more like marketing hype than a usable product – or so Mayank Sharma thought.

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!

The Foss

In a deliberate act of provocation, Jonni Bidwell road-trips to Microsoft’s UK HQ to talk open source with the most hospitable Martin Woodward.

Escape The Cloud

Join Mayank Sharma as he declares enough is enough, and stops seeding his data to popular cloud services where it’s ripe for harvesting.

Transforming The Kernel

Jonni Bidwell meets kernel refactoring guru Julia Lawall and learns that Coccinelle is French for ladybug…

Disk Station DS418 Play

While enjoying his extensive collection of 4K media, Lindsay Handmer wonders if there’s more to life than streaming moving pictures?

Surviving Mars

We often say management is trapped in its own sealed-off bubble. Little did we know Fraser Brown had them trapped on Mars…

Ubuntu 18.10

Leaning back in his chair while testing the latest iteration, Mayank Sharma wonders if it’s time Ubuntu should only put out LTS releases?

Elementary OS 5

As a major update of the trendy distribution parades down the Linux ramp, Mayank Sharma wonders if he can use it as his everyday desktop.