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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…

Facebook Bans Surveillance Tools By Software Developers
Facebook relents under pressure from civil liberties groups and bans developers from using social networks to create surveillance tools. Facebook announced that it has stopped software developers from being able to access the social network’s data to create surveillance tools, finally closing off a dubious situation that has seen... Read more
MAC Randomization Isn’t As Secure As We’d Hoped
US Naval Academy findings reveal flaws in Media Access Control security. Anyone who takes privacy more than a little seriously should already be aware that cellphones were once a hide-and-seek nightmare. Between pinging your location on cell phone towers and checking in inadvertently over public Wi-Fi connections, carrying a phone with... Read more
Uber President Jeff Jones Quits As Company Turmoil Continues
Jones quits Uber six months after joining due to differences over ‘beliefs and approach to leadership’. The president of ride sharing app, Uber, Jeff Jones, has quit the company just under seven months after he was hired releasing the news through the press and apparently taking everyone at the... Read more
US Taxpayers Turn to Tax Prep Software
Security is a key consideration for those using filing software. In the US, tax return season is quickly drawing to a close, with now less than a month until the deadline to file most returns. While some savvy consumers like to get things done and off their to-do lists... Read more
Russian Spies Among Four Indicted by US Authorities For 2014 Yahoo Hack
Indictment claims Russian spies and hackers routinely collaborate to undermine US companies and government. Four people have been indicted by a California Grand Jury of the 2014 cyber security attack against Yahoo. U.S. officials have claimed the accusations are proof of a symbiotic relationship between Moscow’s security services and a... Read more
Googles Launches Family Link Parental Control
Parents can approve app purchases or downloads, monitor time spent on each app, and more. There’s really nothing quite like hearing a six-year-old girl with ribbons in her pigtails and a gap-toothed smile showing a few missing baby teeth tell you, “Just send it to my Gmail and I’ll... Read more
Intel Buys Driverless Car Tech Firm Mobileye For $15bn
Intel throws its hat into the ring and joins Silicon Valley’s race for self-driving cars. The US chipmaker, Intel, has taken a major step and some might say, gamble, on driverless cars with a $15 billion takeover of car technology specialist firm, Mobileye. The acquisition of Mobileye has jumpstarted... Read more
Samsung Galaxy S8 Photos Leaked
Elements of new model hint at complete departure from previous offerings. New mobile devices and hardware are the worst kept secrets in tech. With every major label product launch, there are dozens of websites devoted to sharing the strategically “leaked” news with eager critics and consumers. Sure, it could be part... Read more
3 Major Problems Facing The Internet Says Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor Of The Web.
The man credited with inventing the World Wide Web some 28 years ago, says it faces three major threats – and we should all be worried. In an open letter to the world, Tim Berners Lee, has said we are all losing control of our personal data, that the spread... Read more
Secure your PC, Mac, or mobile device with Norton WiFi Privacy
Take charge of your public Wi-Fi security and privacy with Norton WiFi Privacy. If you’re not using a VPN when you connect over public Wi-Fi, you’re simply playing with fire. (If you’re not using a VPN even when you connect over your own network, you might also be playing... Read more
Researcher Finds 200,000 Wi-Fi Cameras Wide Open To Hacking
Vast swathes of Wi-Fi IP cameras suffering from zero-day vulnerabilities, making them easy targets for hackers. What began as an everyday study of basic security issue in one IP camera quickly turned into seven major vulnerabilities that affects over 1,000 camera models and left nearly 200,000 cameras wide open to attack.... Read more
Political Winds Of Change Affect Tech Industry In Many Ways
Travel bans, import tarifis, and the impact on Silicon Valley. When the current US presidential administration first began releasing a series of executive orders in January, the public outcry was immediate and angry. One order in particular barred immigration and visitation from several Muslim countries, and the reaction from... Read more
Technology Could Kill Us All Without A World Government, Says Stephen Hawking
Advances in technology and innate human tendency for aggression could threaten survival chances of human race, but it might not come to that
 Stephen Hawking, the world renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist has said in an interview the UK Times newspaper that he thinks that rapid technological advances mixed... Read more
Save 65 Percent On System Mechanic or System Mechanic Pro
Take advantage of System Mechanic’s ‘March Madness’ deal. An award-winning PC optimization suite designed to fix, speed up and maintain PCs so they run like new. System Mechanic is used by more than 36 million consumers worldwide to keep more than 75 million computers running at peak performance. As the... Read more
Edge And Safari Use On The Decline
Dip in popularity of pre-installed Microsoft and Apple browsers. There’s a mindset shift taking place in the tech world, and it appears to be one that rebels against “forced” software and web browser choices. New reports have indicated that both the Microsoft Edge browser that came pre-installed with Windows 10... Read more
Firefox 52 Bans Plugins And Is First Browser To Use WebAssembly
Firefox 52 bans plugins except for Flash, warns users about logins on unencrypted websites, and claims to run processor intensive apps at nearly the same speed as native code. Mozilla have quietly released their latest browser, Firefox 52 into the wilds of the internet this week. In doing so... Read more
Toyota “Guardian” Software Leans Towards Safety Autonomy
Car maker’s software can detect imminent danger and take action. In the hotly contested race to get self-driving cars on the road, everyone from Uber to Google has a stake. But one company is quietly working on a less flashy option, one that only kicks in if the vehicle... Read more
Microsoft Closing Quasi Social Network Experiment So.cl
The social network you probably didn’t know ever existed, is closing due to a lack of users. Microsoft are pulling the plug on yet another one its projects. The So.cl experiment will be shut down at the end of the month joining other recent projects such as Windows Phone... Read more