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A Shattered Collection of My Best Memories: An Immediate Solution Thanks to Stellar Photo Recovery

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…

Adobe Acrobat Pro is the ultimate solution for increased productivity

Adobe Acrobat Pro is the ultimate solution for increased productivity

Business Sep 1, 2022

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 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…

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Yahoo Admits To World’s Biggest Hack affecting 1 Billion Users

Yahoo Admits To World’s Biggest Hack affecting 1 Billion Users

BusinessNewsPrivacy and Security December 16, 2016

Yahoo has admitted that more than one billion of its user accounts may have been affected in a hacking attack dating back to 2013. Yahoo said the data stolen included names, phone numbers, passwords and email addresses, but crucially no credit card or bank payment details. Yahoo claims to... Read more
Malwarebytes 3.0: Faster, Better, Free

Malwarebytes 3.0: Faster, Better, Free

AntivirusSoftware Reviews December 14, 2016

Malwarebytes 3.0 is here. I won’t lie to you, I’ve always been a big fan of Malwarebytes, and I’ve been looking forward to testing (playing with) the latest version for a while… …But it has been worth the wait? Well yes, yes it has. It may have taken a... Read more
Google Engages With Cuba In Internet Deal

Google Engages With Cuba In Internet Deal

InternetNews December 14, 2016

Google has signed an agreement with the Cuban government giving the small communist-governed island faster internet access. As part of the new deal, Google will install its own servers in Cuba to vastly improve connection speeds to both Google services such as Gmail and YouTube, but also the internet... Read more
Google Data Centres Will Be 100% Renewables Powered In 2017

Google Data Centres Will Be 100% Renewables Powered In 2017

BusinessNews December 13, 2016

Google has confirmed that it will make good on its 2015 promise to go as green as it can go. The company has said it will hit its target of offsetting 100% of the energy used at its data centres and offices against power from renewable sources, and will... Read more
U.S. Supreme Court Sides With Samsung In Apple Smartphone Battle

U.S. Supreme Court Sides With Samsung In Apple Smartphone Battle

BusinessMobileNews December 12, 2016

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled with a whopping 8-0 majority on Tuesday in favour of Samsung in its big-money long running smartphone feud with Apple. The court rejected an earlier ruling that Samsung must pay $399 million to Apple for copying some parts from earlier model iPhone designs. In... Read more
Tech Giants To Digitally Fingerprint Extremist Content

Tech Giants To Digitally Fingerprint Extremist Content

InternetNews December 12, 2016

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and You Tube have jointly teamed up to try and prevent the spread of extremist and terrorist content through their sites. Extremist and violent content shared on social media will be digitally fingerprinted by the four tech giants to try and prevent it going viral. The... Read more
US Tech Giants Not Doing Enough To Combat On-Line Hate Speech

US Tech Giants Not Doing Enough To Combat On-Line Hate Speech

NewsSocial Media December 9, 2016

According to new research by the EU, US tech firms only manage to remove less than half of all confirmed reports of hate speech within one day. The news comes as the European Commission decided to investigate whether the tech giant companies were delivering on the promise they made... Read more
Uber: Illegitimate Taxi Service Or Just Software?

Uber: Illegitimate Taxi Service Or Just Software?

BusinessNews December 8, 2016

“Ridesharing” uber company Uber has denied accusations that it should be regulated like a taxi service in Europe, claiming its product is nothing more than smartphone software that connects drivers and customers. Uber made this argument at the highest court in the European Union, the European Court of Justice.... Read more
Google Changes Anti-Semitic Auto-Complete Results

Google Changes Anti-Semitic Auto-Complete Results

InternetNews December 7, 2016

Google has taken action to alter some autocomplete suggestions in its search engine after it was alerted to anti-Semitic, sexist and racists entries by UK newspaper, The Observer. The autocomplete suggestion that was the focus in this case was “Are Jews
.”  The Google algorithm’s first result was, up until a... Read more
Nokia Rises Again: New Android Phones To Debut 2017

Nokia Rises Again: New Android Phones To Debut 2017

MobileNews December 6, 2016

Nostalgia may be about to make something of a comeback if former executives of former global phone titan manufacturer, Nokia, get their way. Yes, that’s right, Nokia is coming back in to the market and are to launch a new Android smartphone in early 2017. HMD Global, the company... Read more
Windows 10 Sales Up but Windows 7 Still Dominates

Windows 10 Sales Up but Windows 7 Still Dominates

NewsWindows December 5, 2016

Windows 10 adoption by the global public took a bit of a hit earlier this year when the ability to download and use the OS for free came to an end and new users found themselves having to buy the Microsoft OS or have it come bundled with a... Read more
Deutsche Telekom Hack Leaves Almost 1 Million Broadband Customers Without Internet

Deutsche Telekom Hack Leaves Almost 1 Million Broadband Customers Without Internet

InternetNews December 1, 2016

Hundreds of thousands of Deutsche Telekom customers in Germany had their broadband service cut off, or severely slowed, on Sunday following a Mirai-bot hack-attack on its hardware. As Sunday turned into Monday, the scale of the widespread attack on the maintenance interfaces of certain types broadband routers owned by Deutsche... Read more
WinX DVD Ripper Platinum: Great For DVD Backups!

WinX DVD Ripper Platinum: Great For DVD Backups!

Software ReviewsVideo November 29, 2016

WinX DVD Ripper Platinum edition: Is it as good as previous incarnations?   In a word, yes, and then some! In fact, it is the best version yet by the people at Digiarty. And that’s quite an achievement. But just what does this version of WinX DVD Ripper Platinum... Read more
US NAVY Sailor Data Hacked

US NAVY Sailor Data Hacked

NewsPrivacy and Security November 29, 2016

So, who would have thought there would be two stories about the US Navy in less than a week on this site? (Not me anyway!) In the same week that the US Navy has had to defend itself against claims of Piracy (Software Piracy) it is now also finding itself investigating... Read more
US Regulators Look To Reduce Road Deaths With ‘Driving Mode’ For Smartphones

US Regulators Look To Reduce Road Deaths With ‘Driving Mode’ For Smartphones

MobileNews November 28, 2016

New Smartphones may soon come with a ‘Driving Mode,’ if US authorities can get manufacturers to agree to it
 The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will shortly be issuing ‘voluntary guidelines’ for makers of smartphones, which will limit distracting apps and services accessible on smartphones when their... Read more
Facebook Details How It Will Fight ‘Misinformation’ And Fake News Stories

Facebook Details How It Will Fight ‘Misinformation’ And Fake News Stories

NewsSocial Media November 25, 2016

With controversy still rampant over how big a role fake Facebook news stories played in the US Presidential election, company founder Mark Zuckerberg has publicly laid out new options for how the social network could handle ‘misinformation.’ Current President, Barrack Obama singled out Facebook and websites for the impact... Read more
Obama Says He Is Unable to Pardon Edward Snowden

Obama Says He Is Unable to Pardon Edward Snowden

News November 24, 2016

Outgoing US President Barack Obama has said that he cannot pardon 33-year-old former NSA contractor Edward Snowden currently in exile from US authorities in Russia. The statement came in response to mounting pressure from vocal advocates of Snowden, including prominent privacy groups, civil libertarians, and well known writers. While... Read more
VR Aids In Auschwitz War Criminal Hunt

VR Aids In Auschwitz War Criminal Hunt

News November 23, 2016

It has been more than 70 years since the liberation of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camps. But the search for Nazi Germans and their collaborators still continues. German experts and prosecutors are now using Virtual Reality and 3D modelling to aid them when the suspected perpetrators are brought... Read more
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