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

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

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

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…

Crouching Tiger Actress Proposed To With A Drone
You may remember actress Zhang Ziyi for her role in the hit movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Today, though, she’s making the news headlines thanks to her engagement to Chinese musician Wang Feng. (Many congratulations to the happy couple!) It’s not the fact that she’s engaged that’s making the news though,... Read more
Netflix Working On Live Action Legend Of Zelda Series
According to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, streaming media company, Netflix, is currently developing a live-action series that is based upon Nintendo’s famous The Legend of Zelda gaming series. The show has been described as “Game of Thrones for a family audience.” The Legend Of Zelda games... Read more
How To Get The Most From Your Smartphone Battery
Most of us use our smartphones so much that they will use up all of their juice by the end of the day. Likely you will plug your smartphone in at night and then forget about it and fall asleep, knowing that you will wake up to a fully... Read more
GOM Player Updated
GOM is a free media player, which has popular audio and video codecs built-in. The application will play almost any type of media that you may have on your system. The user interface is easily navigated and GOM Player has lots of advanced functions. Codec Finder GOM Player includes many... Read more
Pope Francis Doesn’t Know How To Use A Computer
Pope Francis is a man capable of many things: Inspiring people worldwide, reforming the Catholic Church, interacting with the “least of these” on a regular basis, breaking all the former papacy “rules” – but he’s at a loss when it comes to using a computer. He is currently 78-years-old,... Read more
US Navy’s SAFFiR and DC-21: The Future of Fire Fighting
US Navy and Virginia Tech engineers have been developing SAFFiR, the humanoid firefighting robot, for an number of  years now. It looks like SAFFiR is now a few steps further than the initial prototype stage of development as the military division has demonstrated what SAFFiR is capable of doing... Read more
Schools Are Now Banning All Watches From The Classroom
Things seemed so much easier when I was in school. I graduated at the time when some students were just starting to have cell phones (not smartphones) on a regular basis. Texting wasn’t all that popular, there was no Facebook, people weren’t Snapchatting each other – and it seemed... Read more
Apple Working On Internet TV Service
Apple is reportedly working on an internet TV service similar to Dish Network’s recently announced ‘Sling TV’, a $20 per month TV platform with 20 cable channels available, including ESPN. Several executives have been showing demos of the service to network programmers, looking to grab as many high-profile channels... Read more
YouTube Trials Multi Angle Videos
YouTube are testing a new feature that is basically a multi-camera setup. The new service is still in its beta stage, but YouTube are testing it out on the public now. The new service is in its rudimentary testing form, but it allows you to choose the angle from... Read more
Man Turns To Kickstarter to Crowdfund 3D Printed Parts For His Prosthetic Leg
3D printing of prostheses is a big thing. There are literally thousands of individuals who are having their lives made a little bit easier, thanks to the use of 3D printing technology. There are wonderful stories from around the world that touch our hearts when we hear of them. ... Read more
Our Pick Of The Best Fails On The Net
It’s inevitable that if you fail badly enough, it will have been caught on a camera somewhere, either by your not-so-best friend or worse a security camera. It is also inevitable that the footage will end up on the Internet for the whole World Wide Web to see. Rather... Read more
NASA Announces A Mission To Europa
Senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Robert Pappalardo, informed New Scientist of a planned mission to Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Europa is the sixth largest moon in the solar system. Pappalardo said, “This is a big deal. We’re moving forward to the next phase, where you’re a real mission. It’s... Read more
This Woman Wants To Have The First Baby On Mars
We all have ambitions – they’re what keep us going. Without some kind of a dream, it’s easy to lose hope and to just feel like quitting as life doesn’t seem worthwhile. Some dreams are smaller in scale, such as getting out of debt or landing that dream job;... Read more
Twitter To Show Ad Tweets Across The Net
Twitter isn’t just another social network and hasn’t been for some time time now. The microblogging site has proven it’s capability to work across the planet in numerous countries. So what’s the next logical step? Advertising of course. Twitter is going to make stacks of advertising revenue and not in... Read more
Man Duped By Photo of MacBook On eBay
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but one eBay user has learned the hard way certain pictures aren’t even worth the paper they’re printed on. eBay member Paul Barrington decided to buy a MacBook on the auction site for what he thought was a good price... Read more
Roku Announces GoPro Channel
The action camera that all sports and high adrenaline junkies carry, GoPro, have just announced that they would be soon expanding their current platform and will be branching into media. GoPro are collaborating with Roku and they will be launching their very own Roku channel soon. The GoPro streaming channel... Read more
Grand Theft Auto V Sells 45 Million Copies Before PC Launch
Grand Theft Auto V is the bestselling game of all time, following a new announcement by Rockstar Games’ parent company Take Two Interactive, confirming it has shipped 45 million copies since launch. Wii Sports technically still holds the title with 82 million sold copies, but considering Nintendo bundled the... Read more
Uber To Add In-App Panic Button In India
In December 2014, ride sharing service Uber, announced plans for much tighter safety measures in India, following the rape of a passenger who was using the service. Uber have now confirmed that two new security features, an in-app panic button and journey/location sharing, will be rolled out to users in India... Read more