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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…

GOM Player Plus – the all-purpose video player from GOM Labs
We review GOM Player Plus – the media player built specifically for 64bit computers. While most off-the-shelf tech purchases will include some form of media player with its operating system, that’s not always the case. More importantly, for a growing number of tech users, that pre-packaged option isn’t going... Read more
US Navy To Use Xbox Controllers To Operate Submarines
Legacy Microsoft controllers to operate periscopes aboard next gen subs. The U.S. Navy has revealed that after an extensive two year training program, it has officially adopted last generation legacy Xbox 360 controllers to operate the periscopes aboard its next generation submarines. The idea that the submarines would even... Read more
Your Flying Taxi Is Finally Here
Lilium secures $90m next-stage funding to make concept a reality. Ah, the 21st century, the long-promised age of jet packs, self-driving vehicles, and flying cars. While the recent unveiling of the iPhone X shows we’ve come a long, long way in the technology space, one of the more exciting... Read more
China To Shut Down Domestic Bitcoin Exchanges?
News has emerged that regulators in China have definitive plans to force closure of all its domestic Bitcoin exchanges. According to the Wall Street Journal, anonymous sources have said that the decision has been made and it’s now only a question of when and not if, Chinese Bitcoin exchanges... Read more
Hackers Are Targeting Universities
Stealing research may be primary aim. In the US, cyberattacks on colleges and universities have seen a noticeable increase in the past year or so, and with the abundance of data the schools store on their students, it’s not hard to see why. Across the K-12 public school spectrum... Read more
Verrit Hacked After Hillary Clinton Endorsement Tweet
Site hit with DDoS attack within an hour of tweet. Hillary Clinton is like the awesome grandma you no longer get to see because she was your stepdad’s mom. Things didn’t work out and your stepdad is no longer around, so somehow, you lost custody of this grandma, too.... Read more
Kremlin Responds To Ban On Kaspersky Antivirus Software
Response follows 90-day deadline for US federal agencies to remove the security software. When you’re desperately trying to get people to believe that your Russian tech company has no ties to the Russian government, maybe it’d be a good idea to not have a statement of support from that... Read more
Ted Cruz Liked Tweet Breaks The Internet
Republican Senator+porn tweet ‘like’=internet gold. Social Conservative Senator and former Republican US Presidential candidate, Ted Cruz, found himself trending during the middle of the night, Monday, and found himself facing major backlash after his Twitter account ‘liked’ an online pornography video. The Texas senator’s verified account, which has more... Read more
Cassini Spacecraft To Live Stream Final Mission Diving into Saturn’s Atmosphere
NASA’s school bus-size orbiter is to finally flame out and end its 14-year mission of revealing Saturn’s secrets. On Friday September 15, just hours before the Cassini spacecraft sends itself plunging into Saturn’s atmosphere, the spacecraft will live-stream a torrent of final data back to Earth in one last... Read more
PewDewPie Says Sorry For Use Of Racial Slur
YouTube star PewDiePie has apologized for using the N-word online saying that “I’m just an idiot” and that he is “disappointed in himself”. The world’s most popular YouTuber used the offensive term while live-streaming during a round of popular game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds last week. The fallout was inevitable and... Read more
Radmin VPN – a new virtual private network solution for PCs
Reviewed: The new online privacy tool from the makers of Radmin and Advanced IP Scanner. These days, if you’re not deploying a solid VPN when you go online, you could be tossing your privacy out the virtual window. Whether it’s a laptop, desktop, tablet, or smartphone, any traffic you... Read more
Google Appeals EU’s €2.4bn Search Engine Results Fine
Tech giant lodges appeal against massive fine by European Commission. Back in the middle of summer, the regulator ruled that Google’s positioning its own shopping comparison service at the top of Google search results, ahead of competitors, such as Amazon, was an abuse of power. The €2.4bn fine was, and... Read more
AI A Bigger Threat Than North Korea Says Elon Musk
Tesla and SpaceX boss says Artificial Intelligence (AI) could lead to third world war. Billionaire and serial entrepreneur, Elon Musk, has warned that the most probable result of an international military artificial intelligence race is more likely to cause World War III than any real conceivable conventional threat such... Read more
New Tech Uses Selfies To Detect Cancer
BiliScreen uses a smartphone camera, computer vision algorithms and machine learning tools. A team of researchers at the University of Washingtonhas developed a mechanism called BiliScreen that relies on analysis of a selfie the patient snaps in order to detect pancreatic cancer by looking for traces of jaundice. According... Read more
Equifax Data Breach Exposes 143M Identities
Breach hits huge consumer credit reporting agency. Giant US credit agency Equifax, has reported a data breach of its servers, one that compromised the information of 143 million consumers. The breach was discovered July 29th and is only just now coming to light; the company has just begun sending... Read more
Man Jailed For Selling VPNs that Bypass China’s ‘Great Firewall’
Sale of virtual private networks carry serious penalty, rules Chinese Supreme People’s Court.  News  has emerged that authorities in China sentenced a man in March, to nine months in jail for selling virtual private networks (VPNs) aimed at circumnavigating the Great Firewall of China. According to court documents posted on... Read more
Apple Watch Helped Red Sox ‘Cheat’
Boston baseball team accused of using tech to beat New York Yankees.  Major league baseball  – like mot other professional sports – has its ups and downs when it comes to scandals, but this one might be the most ridiculous one since the infamous New England Patriots “deflategate” fiasco. The... Read more
Radmin VPN launched
New virtual private network online security tool for Windows PC users.  From the authors of Radmin and Advanced IP Scanner, Radmin VPN is a free and easy-to-use software product which creates a virtual private network (VPN), creating a secure connection between computers over the Internet – as if they... Read more