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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…

Verizon Rebrand And Relaunch Yahoo and AOL Into Oath
No, it’s not a late April Fool’s day joke, Verizon intend to combine Yahoo and AOL into a new company and call it ‘Oath.’ The news comes as Verizon completes its $4 billion plus takeover of Yahoo. ‘Oath’ was announced by AOL boss Tim Armstrong, Tuesday, ahead of a... Read more
Facebook Releases New Tools To Tackle Revenge Porn
Photo-matching tech will allow users to easily report intimate images, posted without consent. Facebook is acting in a new bid to limit the amount of ‘revenge porn’ being shared and reposted across its contingent of social media platforms, in a move praised by campaigners and advocacy groups. The new measures... Read more
Best Free Data Recovery Software
Lost or deleted files or data? You need our Top 5 free file recovery tools. Whether it’s due to a virus, hardware failure, or just good old human error, it’s all too easy to lose vital files. That critical report you’ve got to deliver tomorrow; the huge end of year... Read more
Google Invests Heavily In Canada For AI Lab
Google Brain setting sights on ever-increasing tech talent pool in Toronto. AI has been a longtime dream that is finally coming into its own, thanks largely to 21st century computer innovations and a better understanding of how the human brain works. The bygone era of “what if” 1960s and beyond... Read more
Tech Aims To Replace Animal Testing
Software from global safety science company UL, is leading the way. In the current tech age, software is replacing a number of “old” methods, sometimes for cost effectiveness or for efficiency. In some cases, though, software can step in for ethical reasons, such as when public school science classes... Read more
Android Beats Windows To Become Most Used Operating System
Android has nudged ahead to become the world’s most popular OS. OK, so it might have only squeaked ahead by just 0.02%, but Android usage has beaten all other combined versions of Microsoft’s Windows into second place, for the first time. That is, at least according to Irish analytics firm StatCounter.... Read more
Smart TVs Hacked Through The Airwaves
Hack embeds attack code into broadcast signal, with no access required. It might be time to ask your crazy uncle for some spare tinfoil, and the instructions to make yourself a hat. New information from security researchers has found the smart TVs are the latest connected devices to potentially... Read more
LastPass Password Manager Has Major Hackable Security Issue
New vulnerability could allow hackers to steal passwords or use remote code execution. For the second time in as many weeks, LastPass password employees are allegedly frantically scrambling to try and fix a major software vulnerability that could allow sufficiently technical malicious websites to bypass LastPass code and infect... Read more
New Mirai Botnet Bombards US College With 54 Hour DDoS Attack
New botnet variant strikes using 10,000 connected devices. Since the Mirai malware was discovered last August, it’s been used to front several high-profile DDoS attacks, including last September’s assault on cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs. But now a new variant of the Mirai botnet malware has been found to behind... Read more