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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…

Shine Ad Blocker Re-Brands as Rainbow, A Platform For Ads

‘Rainbow’ will stop selling ad blocking services, to make money selling ads instead. Israeli company Shine has abandoned its market leading ad blocking roots which offer ad blocking solutions at a network level to mobile carriers, and has changed its name to Rainbow. Rainbow says it has “quietly” been... Read more
Nokia 3310 Relaunches 17 Years After Original Release
The legendary Nokia 3310 brick is back, and don’t panic, it still has Snake. The new and updated version of Nokia’s iconic handset, which was famous for being as indestructible as it was useful, was re-unveiled at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on Sunday. More than 126 million... Read more
Russian Military Announces Significant Cyber War Effort Increase
Russia has announced plans to increase spending on its armed forces, and the creation of a new branch of its armed forces to focus on information warfare, the country’s defence minister has said. Declaring increases to spending on more troops, missiles and planes, the Russian defence minister, Sergey Shoygu,  said... Read more
Windows 10 Privacy Still Cause For Concern, Says EU
New update changes are welcome say European Union privacy watchdogs, but still do not go far enough Microsoft has found itself facing an investigation by European privacy regulators over concerns  done enough to address issues surrounding the collection and processing of user data, despite a series of changes to... Read more
Yahoo and Verizon Agree $350,000,000 Price Cut
US telecoms giant Verizon has reached a deal with Yahoo to buy the company’s core internet business for $350m less than originally agreed. Verizon announced on Tuesday that it had agreed to buy Yahoo’s core internet business for a final figure of $4.48 billion. This is lower than the... Read more
Google And Microsoft To Relegate Piracy Search Results In The UK
Two of the world’s leading search engines, Google and Bing have pledged to make it harder for internet users to find pirated content. Both Google and Microsoft have entered the voluntary agreement with the British government that will see their respective search engines make piracy websites harder to find... Read more
Avast Premier Anti-Virus 2017 Reviewed
Ultimate PC security that doesn’t give your PC performance issues. Avast Premier Antivirus is a premium offering from one of the world’s most trusted and well-known brands who have a reputation for excellence. This latest security offering from Avast represents the cutting edge in the fight against malware and... Read more
Property Management Company Sues Airbnb
Airbnb under fire for incentivising tenants to break the terms of their leases US based Apartment Investment & Management Company (Aimco) responsible for the management and ownership of around 50,000 properties, is suing Airbnb, claiming that the company is wilfully incentivising people to breach their lease agreement. Aimco filed... Read more
Microsoft Says World Needs Digital Geneva Convention On Cyber Attacks
Microsoft president, Brad Smith, has called for a new international body to protect civilians from state-sponsored government hacking. The original Geneva convention is a set of global agreements designed to protect and regulate the treatment of prisoners of war and civilians during international conflicts. Current Microsoft president, Smith, thinks... Read more
Ford Pledges $1bn For AI Start-Up
Investment in Argo hopes to see autonomous vehicles on the road by 2021. The Ford motor company has  announced that it’s to invest $1 billion in the next five years to artificial intelligence (A.I.) startup Argo. The company was created by former Google and Uber employees. Ford is hoping to... Read more
Disney Drops YouTube Star PewDiePie After Anti-Semitism ‘Joke.’
Disney severs ties to world’s highest paid YouTuber over allegations of anti-Semitism. PewDiePie, one of the world’s most popular and enduring social media stars and who has 53 million subscribers on YouTube has landed himself in hot water over ‘humorous’ content he released in January, that he says has... Read more
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free – The Definitive Free Data Recovery Software
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free: Recovering lost or broken data quickly and efficiently. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free is the definitive free data recovery software anyone can install and use for when you need to recover deleted, formatted or lost data quickly and effortlessly from your machines. There are... Read more
Trump Given Credit By Intel For $7bn US Factory Started Under Obama
Intel CEO’s statement that Arizona plant is because of Trump’s policies skews truth
 Intel’s CEO, Brian Krzanich, used a meeting with President Donald Trump to announce it would invest approximately $7bn building a factory in Arizona and create 3,000 jobs. The densely packed Oval Office meeting, filled with members of... Read more
1.5 Million WordPress Sites Defaced By Hackers
WordPress software security flaw allowed hackers to vandalise thousands of domains and websites. The internet-wide defacement of the WordPress blog websites was caused by a now patched security flaw. Experts have said that anywhere between 1 million and 1.5 million web pages have been affected. Web security company Sucuri... Read more
Twitter Releases New Anti-Abuse Tools
Twitter has announced more changes intended to limit the amount of abuse on its network, but is it too little too late? Twitter has announced three main changes to its platforms to challenge online abuse at some point in the “coming weeks”. The move comes as the platform continues to... Read more
Security Firm To Buy Old Exploits From Hackers
San Francisco-based Zimperium will acquire undisclosed code for vulnerabilities that have already been fixed. The company’s new N-Days Exploit Acquisition Program aims to pay security researchers from a $1.5 million pool for exploits targeting vulnerabilities in software that has already been patched. This is major a departure from most other similar... Read more
Facebook And Google Join With French Media To Fight ‘Fake News’
Google and Facebook have announced partnership ahead of French presidential elections in April. Both Facebook and Google will work with French media brands to fact check and flag hoaxes, conspiracy theories or propaganda; more commonly referred to as “fake news”, in a move that mirrors similar efforts already under way in the... Read more
US Judge Rules Google Must Hand Over Foreign Emails
A top U.S. judge has ruled that Google, unlike Microsoft, must comply with FBI search warrants for emails held on its servers outside the United States. The decision diverges from a federal appeals court that came to an opposite conclusion in a similar case involving Microsoft. The law that... Read more