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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…

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
Word From Our Editor: National Cyber Security Centre Highlights Scale Of Threat
New centre is the public face of the government’s online security efforts. On February 14, the Queen officially opened the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Based in central London, it can be viewed as the public face of the UK Government’s fight against cybercrime. All the sexy, top-secret, national... Read more
University Network Crippled By Its Own Hacked Vending Machines
Hackers flooded the network with a botnet-style attack. In one of the weirder hacking events in recent months, an unnamed university’s network was hobbled to the point of uselessness by hackers. That’s not really all that shocking, but what is humorously surprising is the breach mechanism: vending machines. A... 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
Popular iPhone Apps May Lead To Data Breach
Security expert’s report highlights over 70 app vulnerabilities. Apple’s tight control over its products combined with its strict policies regarding the App Store might annoy some consumers, but in the end, they are solid reasons as to why Mac and iOS hardware have been less of a target for... 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
MacOS Threat Proves You Can Teach An Old Virus New Tricks
New macOS malware exploits old Windows tricks to get into your system. One of the many things that Apple devotees tout about their preferred technology is the perceived lack of malicious software targeting various operating systems in their biosphere. Whether it’s for Mac or the mobile App Store, the... 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
Five Arrested In ‘Fully Loaded’ Kodi Streaming Box Raids
Five people have been arrested, accused of selling set-top boxes modified to stream subscription football matches, TV and films for free. As reported by the BBC, the sale of so-called “fully loaded Kodi boxes” has been called a “top priority” by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT). The five... Read more
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Word From Our Editor: Flying Cars Might Just Happen After All
The stuff of fantasy for decades, are flying cars to become reality at last? It’s easy to think that our fascination with flying cars is a recent phenomenon. However, way back in 1940, Henry Ford famously predicted: “Mark my word: a combination airplane and motorcar is coming. You may... Read more
Elon Musk: PayPal Then SpaceX, Now A Tunnel Under LA
Is the tech entrepreneur serious about his solution to traffic congestion? While necessity is the mother of invention, sometimes the greatest inventions are borne out of pure irritation and access to Twitter. Famed game-changer Elon Musk, frustrated at sitting in dead standstill Los Angeles traffic, tweeted an innocuous and humorous... Read more
UK Tries To Stop Piracy By Asking Nicely
Instead of threats and suspended service, ISPs are appealing to peoples’ sense of decency. Internet service providers in the UK are switching gears when it comes to fighting file sharing and piracy, especially of high-dollar entertainment content. Instead of threats and suspended service, ISPs are appealing to the perpetrators’... Read more
Reason Core Security Removes Malware, Adware And Much More
Reason Core Security is a Windows-based antivirus that protects and removes malware, adware and much more. Hacking, data breaches, and zero day flaws keep making headlines every day, and new forms of cyberattack are a constant threat to government agencies, businesses, and individual users alike. With the current debate about... 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