I tried a Claude Code alternative that's local, open source, and completely free - how it works

I was curious if Block's Goose agent, paired with Ollama and the Qwen3-coder model, could really replace Claude Code. Here's how I got started.

I replaced Google's core apps with open source alternatives, and I'm never going back

Compared to Google's Clock app, there is no weather app integration, no bedtime mode, and no screensaver. In return, you get the ability to check the time and set alarms, stopwatches, and timers ...
GitHub

Android OCR Text Recognition Scanner – Optical Character Recognition for Android (ML Kit, Tesseract, Cloud Vision)

Whether you want to build a document scanner, digitize receipts, or add text recognition to your mobile app, this project is a perfect starting point. This project is provided for educational and ...
Android Authority

Breaking: Google will now only release Android source code twice a year

The operating system that powers every Android phone and tablet on the market is based on AOSP, short for the Android Open Source Project. Google develops and releases AOSP under the permissive Apache ...
TechCrunch

Nvidia launches Alpamayo, open AI models that allow autonomous vehicles to ‘think like a human’

At CES 2026, Nvidia launched Alpamayo, a new family of open source AI models, simulation tools, and datasets for training physical robots and vehicles that are designed to help autonomous vehicles ...