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A Shattered Collection of My Best Memories: An Immediate Solution Thanks to Stellar Photo Recovery

Desktop Jan 2, 2024

Who doesn’t love creating new memories and saving them as photos on a smartphone, PC, or any other digital media? While many of us share some on social media, we keep the most precious and private ones to ourselves. Sadly, my hard drive of photos became corrupted, which held images…

Adobe Acrobat Pro is the ultimate solution for increased productivity

Business Sep 1, 2022

Disclosure: Our team is always looking for things we think our readers will value. We have received compensation for publishing this article. Despite our many technological advances today, we still sit with situations where we open several apps for a task. You use one to compile a document, another one…

GOM Mix Max’s Big Launch

Video Dec 8, 2021

GOM & Company is releasing its newest video editing software, GOM Mix Max, with a big launch celebration. Focused on balancing high-quality and plentiful features, GOM Mix Max will be a powerful tool for new editors and veterans alike. Users who sign up now can get GOM Mix Max for free for…

Universal Laptop Charger Standard To Come Next Year

News December 24, 2013

The average household today has more than one laptop, and it is always such a pain to have to find the appropriate charger, isn’t it? It’s a different story if family members have the same laptop, but that is not always the case. Then there’s the other story of going... Read more

Wink To Take A Photo With Google Glass Update

Internet December 23, 2013

Google has announced a new feature for Google Glass allowing users to take photos by winking. The company has said that this feature is faster than a camera button or a voice command and can work even when the display is turned off. Google think that this wink feature... Read more

Cut The Rope 2 Released On iOS

Mobile December 23, 2013

If you like the original Cut the Rope, you are going to love this! Your favourite green monster Om Nom is back in Cut The Rope 2 and obviously he is still hungry for more candy. Software developer, ZeptoLab, on Thursday, gave iPhone and iPad gamers a treat by... Read more

Increase Your Arm Strength With A Titan Arm

News December 23, 2013

A group of college students in Pennsylvania really want to lend you a hand an arm in the near future. Or, to put it more accurately, they want to provide you with a way to increase the strength of your current arm. For their senior capstone project, 4 engineering students... Read more

Tomb Raider Launched On iOS

Mobile December 23, 2013

The original Tomb Raider game was released over 17 years ago, way back in October 1996, for the PC and PlayStation. It was an action-adventure game, developed by Core Design and was published by Eidos Interactive. The main character was a female Indiana Jones type of adventurer, called Lara Croft.... Read more

Carmat Implants its First Artificial Heart in A Human

Internet December 23, 2013

A “bioprosthetic” artificial heart, created by Carmat, was successfully implanted in a patient at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in France last week, marking the first effective human implant for the company. According to Carmat the patient is in the intensive care unit but is doing well and able... Read more

Forget About Passwords…How About Passwatches & Passrings?

News Privacy and Security December 23, 2013

If you’re a person who is tired of having to remember password after password, there may be good news on the horizon for you. Anymore, it seems as if there is a password (or multiple passwords) for everything. After a while, all of those different passwords can get ridiculously... Read more

Vuzix M2000AR To Fit Standard Glasses Frames

News December 22, 2013

Smartglass designer and video eyewear maker Vuzix have announced what they say is a “major optical breakthrough that will dramatically improve glasses-based wearable technology.” The new optics engine, called Waveguide, was jointly developed with Nokia. This enables smart eyewear technology being able to fit into standard glasses frames, as... Read more

The Crowd-Funded Car Made From Lego, That Runs On Air

News December 22, 2013

What do you get if you take an Australian entrepreneur, a technologist and more than 500,000 pieces of Lego? The most amazing Lego car that runs on compressed air! Steve Sammartino and his friend Raul Oaida had the idea to build a zero-emissions car made from Lego but unfortunately... Read more

The Kano Build-It-Yourself Computer For Kids

Internet December 22, 2013

Kickstarter project Kano has managed to raise funding in excess of $1.5M on the crowdfunding website. The Kano is built on top of the Raspberry Pi and is a build-it-yourself computer which was launched on Kickstarter with the aim of raising $100,000 in crowd-funding to push 1,000 of its Kano kits to the... Read more

US Army Shoot Down Drones With Lasers

News December 22, 2013

So far the U.S Army has never used lasers in combat but it now has a new target, drones! For the first time last week, soldiers used a vehicle-mounted laser to successfully shoot down drones and incoming mortar shells. Terry Bauer, who is the program manager for the weapon... Read more

AT&T Subscribers, The CIA Has Your Phone Records

Mobile December 21, 2013

And you thought the FBI and the NSA have been involved in too many domestic surveillance issues! If the reports are accurate, then even the CIA is part of this privacy mess. Then again, it’s the Central Intelligence Agency. It’s not like they would allow themselves to be left... Read more

University Researchers Print 3D Speakers

Internet December 21, 2013

There have been numerous reports in the media regarding really useful and clever designs and applications for 3D printing. So it was only a matter of time before the use of 3D printing stretched into the music world. Researchers at Cornell University in New York have successfully designed and... Read more

NASA Creates Superhero Robot Named Valkyrie

Internet December 21, 2013

For the DARPA robotics challenge, NASA has decided to go all out this year. They have effectively designed and created the first robotic superhero, and even if it doesn’t win them first place in the challenge, it will hopefully save some lives one day down the road, as long... Read more

London Gets First Pure Electric Buses

Internet December 21, 2013

Transport for London has started to incorporate its first zero emissions pure electric buses. The single deck buses will run a trial period connecting Victoria, Waterloo and London Bridge from Thursday 19 December, along the central 507 and 521 routes. Two buses will be trialed in December, with a... Read more

Facebook Officially Releases Video Ads

Internet December 20, 2013

Facebook has announced that it will now be placing video advertisements into the news feeds of its users. In a blog post the company said: “Marketers will be able to use this new format to tell their stories to a large number of people on Facebook in a short... Read more

Torrent Uploader Fined $652,000 For Uploading 1 Movie

Internet News December 20, 2013

In spite of the heat on torrent sites, as well as uploaders and downloaders, it seems that people are not really deterred from carrying on. Even The Pirate Bay, the world’s most resilient torrent site, continues to operate. Of course, we don’t know how much longer they can resist... Read more

Amazon Kinesis Hits Public Beta

Internet News December 20, 2013

Amazon has a new data streaming analytics platform, called Kinesis and it is now in public beta. The service allows developers to build real-time applications without managing the complexity of multiple clusters. But though it has been regarded as a new type of real-time app platform, it also has a few... Read more