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Thursday, 13 February 2020

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Samsung refreshed its Galaxy smartphone line, introduced a new foldable phone, and upgraded its wireless earbuds offering at an event held Tuesday at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Its three new flagship phones are all 5G ready.

Motorola's new foldable Razr phone has been garnering mediocre notices from early reviewers. Most found the Razr's performance underwhelming for a phone priced at $1,500.

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One of the old sayings is that there are "lies, damned lies and statistics," with the implication being you really can't trust most reported numbers. Still, we've often thought, at least with major vendors, that you could trust rankings. One current set of rankings involves cloud providers.

The hands on the iconic "Doomsday Clock" moved to just 100 seconds to midnight last month. That is the closest they have come to the final hour since its creation in 1947. The time displayed on the clock has moved closer to midnight in three of the last four years. The last time it moved was in 2018.

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With large companies increasingly embracing open source, what does it mean to be a part of the free and open source software, or FOSS, "community"? Why have consumers been so slow to adopt open source software? Our roundtable of industry insiders tackled those questions during their lengthy virtual conversation on technology trends.

After a long delay, a new MakuluLinux LinDoz release is pending last-minute finishing touches and is a week -- if not days -- away, according to developer Jacque Montague Raymer. Recently, LinuxInsider's Jack Germain discussed with Raymer the trials and tribulations he faced in maintaining and advancing his Linux line of distros. 

When it comes to cybersecurity, Congress is still in the dark ages. Efforts to pass a privacy law often are seen as addressing both data privacy and cybersecurity, but in reality, they do not. Companies and consumers have been forced to take matters into their own hands.

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