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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…

Hubble Telescope Has Seen Water Plumes On Jupiter’s Moon
The Hubble Space Telescope has observed water plumes coming from Jupiter’s moon, Europa, for the very first time. Lorenz Roth, whose team made the discovery said: “this is tremendously exciting.” Roth explains that they had some evidence that “pointed to the existence of an ocean located under Europa’s icy... Read more
Keep Your Coffee At The Perfect Temp With Temperfect Mugs
All coffee lovers have taken a sip of their favorite brew while it was way too hot and scorched their tongues as a result. Swearing never to do that again, we decided to let it cool just a bit before we put it back up to our lips only... Read more
Google Steals Microsoft’s Top Engineer
The distinguished engineer Agüera y Arcas will be leaving Microsoft and joining Google. He has been with Microsoft since 2006, when the company acquired his Seadragon startup. Agüera y Arcas went on to become a key software architect, helping develop and build Microsoft’s Bing Maps and the image-stitching Photosynth software.... Read more
Norway To Digitize ALL Norwegian Books
This kind of news makes me want to go and live in Norway. This Scandinavian country is known for many awesome things – from fjords to salmon to the midnight sun – and now, there is another thing to add to the list: by the mid-2020s, all the books... Read more
Cross Platform Malware Increasing at Alarming Rate
As the advance of computer technology and its wide reaching applications continue to grow, unfortunately so do the threats.  The newest forms of malware have advanced and increased in adaptability and strengths; they attack without prejudice or warning and they have cross-platform power. The same strain of a particular... Read more
Scientists Create The First Sperm-Based Biobot
Metal cybernetic microorganisms and bull’s sperm cells have been used by scientists to create the first sperm-based biobots. The scientists from the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences in Dresden, Germany say that this spermbot can be remote controlled and used to impregnate an egg or deliver a drug to a... Read more
Record Everything With 360 Bublcam
A new kickstarter project called Bublcam uses a 360º camera technology hardware with compatible software, which can share everything around you through spherical photos and videos.  The Bublcam creators claim that it is the world’s most innovative 360º camera.  The camera itself has been developed to be light and... Read more
Make Your Smartphone Smarter With Agent
I love my smartphone, but I’ll be the first to admit that for a smartphone, it can sometimes be rather dumb. For example, when my battery is on the fritz, the phone will exert an endless amount of energy telling me that it’s about to die. It will beep,... Read more
Space Cowboys: NASA Want To Lasso Asteroids
NASA has big plans to lasso an asteroid and then land an astronaut on to it. As a result it is working on a spacesuit that would be suitable for such a mission. Near to the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, engineeers are testing a modified version of... Read more
Whiteclouds Brings 3D Printing For Everyone
At International CES 2014, one of the key aims of the companies who are to exhibit at the 3D Printing TechZone, is to capture the imagination of the general public, just ordinary people with no skills in design or other technical backgrounds.  It is this wider audience that all the... Read more
Google+ & Auto Awesome Adds Extra Twinkles To Your Photos
Google+ and their Auto Awesome feature for photos really surprised me last week. During one night last week, we had received a pretty big snow storm. Like any good parents, my wife and I took our 2 year old daughter outside to play in the snow. Since this was... Read more
LG And Wuaki.TV Team Up
The ability to stream content to your home television is a wondrous thing isn’t it?  With online services such as Netflix and LOVEFiLM paving the way for the masses to consume all the entertainment they will ever need, is there room for other services to get a look in? ... Read more
iVoizer: Private Phone Call Recorder
Ivoizer is a new Indiegogo project from the mind of Ruslan Pavlenko, a hardware developer from the Ukraine. He claims to revolutionize your business and private life, by being able to record and store all of your calls, whether incoming or outgoing, on a single device. iVoizer is a... Read more
Is America’s Internet Ready for New Consoles? Probably Not
Microsoft and Sony have released new consoles, the Xbox One and Playstation 4 respectively. It’s been seven years since the two companies released new boxes, and a lot has changed. The last systems, the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, launched in a world pre-iPhone, pre-Netflix streaming, and pre-tablets. Systems... Read more
Agomo: Cloud Based Multi-PC Optimization From the Makers of CCleaner
Yesterday was an important day in the tech world.  It marked the launch of a new and unique product called Agomo. This software allows the user to manage and optimize multiple computers via a cloud-based platform, from directly within their web browser.  You can simply download and install Agomo... Read more
Next iPhone Can Unlock & Hide Messages By Looking At Your Face 
Every time Apple releases a new iPhone, we hold our breaths in anticipation of what we are going to get. With the fingerprint sensor on the iPhone 5S, I suppose that facial recognition is the next logical step; and it seems that that is going to be the case... Read more
Are Your Internet Passwords Secure?
We might as well just go ahead and admit it: sometimes, we get lazy with our internet passwords. After all, it seems like anymore we have way too many passwords to remember. There’s the email password, the online banking password, the Facebook password, the work email password, and on... Read more
Introducing Instagram Direct: Keeping Those Private Moments Private
At an event in New York, Facebook owned Instagram announced a new private messaging feature called Instagram Direct. This new feature will allow you to send videos and photos privately to specific friends, who can then discuss the image and also use the already existing like button. Instagram Direct... Read more