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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…

BullGuard And The World’s First IoT Security Scanner
The internet of things is awesome…and BullGuard aims to keep it that way by keeping hackers out of your connected devices with its IoT Scanner. The Internet of Things has steadily taken off, perhaps not in the overnight world-changing manner that many people hoped, but in the ongoing rollout... Read more
Firefox 48 Beta Includes “Electrolysis”
The developers at Mozilla have a brand-new feature to incorporate in their latest Firefox update, one that has them calling it the single biggest innovation the browser’s team has made. Dubbed “Electrolysis,” the E10S feature will essentially split Firefox into two separate processes, one for UI and one for... Read more
SEC Hires Cybersecurity Expert
The SEC has brought on an expert in cybersecurity to advise its director and enact strict policies to prevent crime. The US Securities and Exchange Commission is the arm of the government charged with overseeing the buying and selling of securities. They’re charged with the oversight of major-name players... Read more
MEGABYTE Act Passes US House
The MEGABYTE Act has passed the House, and Congress hopes it will save taxpayers over $4 billion a year in software purchases alone. You know what sounds like the best job ever? Coming up with the acronyms for the government, as evidenced by the recent passing through the House... Read more
Mark Zuckerberg Social Media Accounts Hacked
Data breaches…the gift that keeps on giving. At least, that’s the way Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has been experiencing them lately. Thanks to (probably) the 2012 LinkedIn hacking event, the social media creation whiz had three of his online accounts breached. How does that add up? Data that was... Read more
Protecting Your Tech With BullGuard Antivirus
There’s an alarming trend happening in the world of technology, one that affects everyone from thirteen-year-old girls who use their iPhones for Snapchat to company executives running Fortune 500 companies. It’s the unfortunate finding that use of antivirus and antimalware software is on the decline, not because we no... Read more
TeamViewer Insists There Was No Hacking
When news of a data breach occurs, typically the company whose information was hacked issues a statement to the effect of an ongoing cybersecurity investigation, informs the affected users, and offers up whatever legal reparations are required, such as credit monitoring or free copies of the victims’ credit reports.... Read more
OMB: Stop Reinventing The Software Wheel
“Fraud, waste, and abuse” is a collective, catch-all term that the federal government uses as a cautionary highlight. It serves as everything from a justification as to why a change must be made, to a rallying cry to individuals to stop the drain of financial resources at every turn.... Read more
Has The Cloud Evaporated?
Cloud-based software, typically licensed via a subscription model, became all the rage in recent years, as an article by Jeff Bennion for Above The Law demonstrated. Bennion points out several obvious benefits to subscription-based software, as opposed to only a handful of negative aspects, not the least of which... Read more
Adobe’s Polite Reminder To Stop Pirating Software
Adobe’s taking a stand against pirated copies of its software. No matter what the form of media–film, music, software, books–there’s someone who stands to make a quick buck off a pirated version of it. Whether it’s bootleg movies actually filmed in the darkness of a theater or ebooks that... Read more
New Data In Racism Of Criminal Risk Software
Imagine a dystopian future in which you are assigned a number of key characteristics at birth, only instead of being assigned these labels by genetics or upbringing, the government assigns them to you based on arbitrary, uncontrollable factors. A child’s educational track is determined within moments of emerging from... Read more
Faception Recognizes Criminals Before They Act
In the Hollywood-esque world of facial recognition software, the good-guy-gone-rogue tries to hide in plain sight in a crowded airport or a metropolitan area while bumbling law enforcement operatives try to seek him out. The end result, of course, is that our hero gets away despite the high-tech algorithms... Read more
What Happened To Acadine?
If there’s one thing that drives the tech industry more than anything–more than innovation, even–it’s got to be competition. That might sound like common sense, but when so many tech companies are in bed together when it comes to design features, capabilities, and even the parts components suppliers, consumer... Read more
Tesla Plagued By Highest Number Of Software Glitches
New information found that Tesla and co-owned brands Jaguar and Land Rovers had more software glitches than any other automakers. The world of software that drives the automotive industry (pun totally intended) has faced a lot of negative press. From the emissions cheating scandal that put millions of cars... Read more
WhatsApp Gold Offer Is A Scam
The link to download WhatsApp Gold is malware that installs data mining software on your computer or smartphone. WhatsApp is arguably one of the most popular workload streamlining and communication apps, with more than one billion registered users worldwide. And the news earlier this month that WhatsApp was rolling... Read more
Chrome Stirs Controversy (Again) With Backspace Key
Sometimes, a tech company just can’t catch a break. Google’s unacceptable inability to please 100% of the tech users of the world has never been more apparent (and apparently, more poignant) than with the news that it will no longer allow Chrome users to use the “backspace” key on... Read more
Adobe Launches Spark For Dynamic Web Content
Adobe’s latest creation, an app called Spark, allows the creation of three different kinds of web-optimized content: Posts, Pages, and Videos. As a whole, software or apps that claim to produce professional results with nothing more than a drag-and-drop skillset have not always proven themselves to be trustworthy. After... Read more
LinkedIn Breach Results In Phishing Scams
Business-oriented social media platform LinkedIn posted an announcement this week that there’s been additional fallout from a four-year-old data breach. Back in 2012, the site suffered an unauthorized access attack in which the passwords of multiple accounts were compromised. Now, however, additional information that is believed to have been... Read more