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A Shattered Collection of My Best Memories: An Immediate Solution Thanks to Stellar Photo Recovery
Desktop Jan 2, 2024
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…
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
Video Dec 8, 2021
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…
‘Nokia’ is set to release the first of its new Android based smartphones later this year, exclusively in China. “With over 552 million smartphone users in China in 2016, a figure that is predicted to grow to more than 593 million users by 2017, it is a strategically important... Read more
A Verizon executive has said the company is unsure whether it will be going any further forward with its $4.8 billion purchase of Yahoo. The announcement comes just weeks after the former web giant disclosed a second massive date breach had occurred. Marni Walden, a Verizon executive vice... Read more
Bitcoin Hits $1000 For First Time In Three Years
News January 9, 2017
Bitcoin, the world’s most well known cryptocurrency, has begun 2017 by rising above the $1000 mark for the first time in three years. The digital currency also performed better than any state central bank in the world, climbing 125% in 2016! While the currency has been known for its volatility... Read more
Zuckerberg To Visit Every State In The US: The Start Of A Political Career?
NewsSocial Media January 6, 2017
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, has given more credence to growing rumours that he is planning an eventual move into political life, by announcing that he intends to travel across the US in 2017, and meet people in every state. The news was released in a Facebook... Read more
IBM’s Watson AI To Replace 34 Employees At Japanese Company
News January 4, 2017
While the dust still settles on a White House report that warns about the future implications Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have on the US and global economy, one Japanese firm has announced that it will be replacing around 30% of its workforce with IBM’s AI, Watson. The Fukoku Mutual... Read more
Finland’s Nokia says it is suing Apple for breaching 32 technology patents. Yes, that’s right, Nokia… Despite what many people think, Nokia still exists as a brand, and if reports are to believed, is set to launch a whole new range of Android based smartphones in 2017. Of course,... Read more
2016: A Retrospective From My Point Of View
News December 30, 2016
So, that’s it, 2016 is pretty much over and 2017 is fast approaching. But before this year is finally gone and buried, I thought I might take the time to review the news stories of the year that caught my eye. A lot happened this year, and while not... Read more
Google, and what we as a species looked for from the World Wide Web in 2016… You may be surprised, but then again you probably won’t! Every year the Google search engine processes trillion of search requests using its custom-built algorithms. And last Wednesday the Californian based Mountain View company... Read more
Apple has filed an appeal against the European Union ruling that says it has to pay up to €13 billion in back taxes to the Republic of Ireland, and across the globe. The ruling centres on an adjudication by the EU in August that stated categorically that Apple’s tax... Read more
Facebook, WhatsApp, And The (Alleged) Misleading Of The EU
NewsSocial Media December 28, 2016
Facebook has found itself formally accused by the European Commission’s merger and anti-trust watchdog of misleading EU oversight regulators over its 2014 takeover of WhatsApp. The European Commission says it was misled when Facebook said it was impossible to match users’ Facebook and WhatsApp accounts. In August, this year... Read more
Your average piece of software can include hundreds or even thousands of files. I mean think of all the graphics files, templates, and fonts that are installed onto your PC install something as mundane as a word processing application. And when you think about how many different software apps... Read more
Russian Cybercriminals Fake Real People To Make Money From Real Online Ads
NewsPrivacy and Security December 26, 2016
And the 2016 prize for original cybercriminal thinking goes to… the hackers who created fake people so they could make real money from real online ads. Known as “Methbot,” alleged Russian hackers have taken a new spin on making money through illegal online means. That is according to White... Read more
Turkey has begun blocking direct access to the Tor anonymous browsing network as part of a continuous wide ranging assault on people within the country who attempt to bypass the government’s draconian internet censorship. The watchdog group Turkey Blocks has confirmed that Turkey is blocking the Tor anonymity network’s direct access mode for most... Read more
Well, here’s some Christmas cheer for you. Google is being sued by one of its employee’s over internal confidentiality policies which ban employees from writing about workplace concerns. According to information available at the time of writing, the lawsuit alleges that Google’s confidentiality policies are illegal under Californian state law.... Read more
As the days have rolled by, news has emerged that a recent Windows software update has been causing internet connectivity problems for Windows devices across the world. While the news seems to so far have been most widely reported in the U.K., and Europe, the problem seems to having... Read more
The parent company of the Ashley Madison extra marital affair (now ‘open minded’) dating website has agreed to pay a $1.6 million penalty over its July 2015 data breach that exposed personal and payment details of 36 million of its users. The Canadian parent company named Ruby agreed to... Read more
Obama Fingers Putin Over US Election Hacking And Criticises Media
News December 20, 2016
In his final press conference of 2016, President Barack Obama pretty much accused Russian President Vladimir Putin as the mind behind Moscow’s alleged attempts to meddle in the US election. The outgoing president, who leaves office on January 20th, also used the opportunity to criticise the media for its... Read more
More than 1,200 software engineers and tech workers from a veritable who’s who of the tech world have signed an on-line pledge not to participate or help any Donald Trump administration initiative to design or build a proposed database to track people in the US based on their race, religion... Read more