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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…

Russian Hackers Hide Malware Links In Britney Spears’ Instagram Page
Links were hidden in comments on the photo-sharing site. As Instagram marches relentlessly forward to achieving 1 billion users later this year, Russian hackers have found to have been using the comments section of Britney Spears’ Instagram account to communicate and co-ordinate malware attacks. Research by Security firm Eset found... Read more
Apple Launches VA Music Speaker HomePod
HomePod combines Apple Music and natural voice interaction with Siri. As consumers, we can argue that a lot of the “new” technology launched in competitive retail isn’t really all that new. Certainly some eye-opening innovations come along every few years – many of us still remember the first time we held... Read more
35 Million Android Users Infected With Malware
Number of Judy malware victims hits staggering total.  Google Play customers, beware: more than 30 million Android devices are believed to have been infected with Judy Malware, a seemingly benign virus as far as bad guys go. A new report found that a lone company has 41 apps up on... Read more
Top 5 HR And Employee Management Apps
Take the stress out of human resources and employee management. From advertising jobs and candidate recruitment, through to time-management, training, and reward and recognition, human resources and employee management are time-consuming, often complex, elements of running a business. So, wouldn’t it be great to have a choice of quality... Read more
Save 13 percent on Adobe Acrobat Pro DC
Enjoy 13% off Acrobat Pro Document Cloud with Adobe and FileHippo! We’ve teamed up with Adobe to bring you this this fantastic offer – which is available NOW and is open to new subscribers. Promising to ‘change the way you work with important business documents forever’, Adobe Acrobat Pro Document Cloud... Read more
Reviewed: SUPERAntiSpyware
One of the most thorough security threat scanners available. There are a wide variety of threats that can invade even the most basic home computer network, let alone targeted attacks against corporate or government networks. In the current clime at of record-setting data breaches, hacking, Big Data trading, and... Read more
Kaspersky Launches Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft To EU
Claim centres on its anti-virus being disabled by Windows 10 upgrade. The Russian security software maker Kaspersky Labs, has filed antitrust complaints against Microsoft with the European Commission, the German federal cartel office, and the Russian anti-monopoly office. Kaspersky claims that Microsoft is exploiting its dominant market share with... Read more
Google’s AlphaGo Retires From Beating Human Players
AI bows-out after comprehensively defeating the world’s greatest human Go players. The AlphaGo Artificial Intelligence developed by Alphabet (Google) owned DeepMind, beat Chinese grand-master Ke Jie 3 games to 0 at the Future of Go Summit in the Wuhzen province of China earlier this month. Ke Jie was merely the... Read more
New York: Now Accepting Applications For Self Driving Cars
Added to list of US states where autonomous self driving cars could soon be navigating the streets. Current Governor  of New York, Andrew Cuomo, has announced that the New York Department of Motor Vehicles is now taking applications from companies that wish to test self-driving tech on the state’s public... Read more
Charge Your Smartphone In 5 Minutes By 2018?
Chief executive of StoreDot, Doron Myersdorf, says you will. Thr technology required to fully charge your mobile phone in just 300 seconds could be on the market and in the smartphone in your hand by 2018. That is at least, according to the boss of Israeli firm behind the technology,... Read more
Beware The Global Domination Of Virtual Assistants
Virtual assistants will surpass human population by 2021. Okay, we promise… no Will Smith I, Robot references. Well, maybe just a couple. A new report has brought us to the precipice of the dystopian sci-fi future in which fragile humans are easily bested – and vastly outnumbered – by... Read more
Hacking The Galaxy S8 Iris Scanner
Three every-day items hold key to smartphone hack. Just when you think researchers have finally come up with a foolproof security scan method (and what could possibly be more secure than the eyes in your skull?) some fancy hackers have to go and prove it can be beaten. Even... Read more
German Court Rejects Parents Appeal To Access Dead Daughter’s Facebook Account
Berlin judge denies insight into 15-year-old’s social media activity. The parents of a dead 15-year-old who asked  Facebook to allow them access to her account to see if she was being bullied before she died, and whether that may have played some role or not in her tragic death, have lost their claim... Read more
DocuSign Breach Led To Phishing Attacks
Convincing emails contained Word doc attachment that installed malicious software upon opening. When digital signature platform DocuSign suffered a data breach last month, the information that the hackers gained was pretty meaningless. While no data theft is without consequence, this one was minor when you compare it to hacking... Read more
Microsoft Working On New Windows Based Phone? Set To Release In 2018? Maybe!
Rumours circulate of new Windows Mobile operating system (OS) and possible handsets and hardware to go with it. While Microsoft has all but given up on its current ‘Windows Phone’ support and development, the tech firm is reportedly working on yet another mobile experience. The news, if the normally... Read more
Cloak And Dagger Attack Can Infect Every Android Device
New attacks allow malicious app to completely control UI feedback loop and take over your device. First, the good news: this particular attack is somewhat theoretical at this point, since the good guys were the ones who discovered it. The bad news, though, is manifold. Anyone with the right know-how... Read more
Top 5 Finance and Accounting Apps
Keep on top of invoicing, expenses, transfers and more with these must-have business solutions.  Wouldn’t it be nice to have powerful, yet easy-to-use, app that helped you with invoicing, accounting, and your general business finances? Of course it would! So we’ve complied our Top 5 Finance and Accounting Apps,... Read more
You Can Now Buy Zero Day Vulnerabilities For The Right Price
Shadow Brokers launch zero-day exploits subscriptions for monthly fee. Internet consumers are obsessed these days with subscription retail services. The original concept behind things like subscription DVDs or games has given rise to things like subscription grocery delivery and meal prep, subscription razor “clubs,” even subscription deodorant and feminine supplies.... Read more