Euan McKenzie

US Users Hit By Google Docs Outage

News November 16, 2017

Los Angeles, San Francisco and West Coast hit hardest; rest of G Suite unaffected. Google Docs users suddenly found themselves without access to any of their docs, when Docs itself became inaccessible late Wednesday afternoon. While the outage only lasted a few hours for a “significant subset of users,” panic... Read more

EaseUS MobiMover Free 3.0 for iPhone: Simple, Effective, Intuitive, Free

Desktop Mobile Software Reviews November 15, 2017

Effortlessly transfer photos, music, videos and more from your computer to your iPhone or iPad with EaseUS MobiMover Free. EaseUS MobiMover Free is a professional iPhone manager, that also doubles as a data transfer tool giving allowing you to export photos, music, videos, contacts, notes and Safari bookmarks, with... Read more

YouTube To Restrict Inappropriate Content Aimed At Children

News Social Media November 14, 2017

Crack down by Google-owned video sharing website is not a full ban. YouTube has announced that it is to restrict the availability of ‘creepy’ videos aimed at children and show popular children’s characters in violent and sexual scenes, if they are reported by viewers. YouTube’s new policy follows several accusations... Read more

Millions Of Dollars Worth OF Ethereum Frozen By Mistake

News November 13, 2017

Blunder over bug in code may freeze cryptocurrency wallets forever. An error in the code for Ethereum multi-signature (sig) wallets – and the subsequent attempts to repair it – have resulted in an estimated $300,000,000 of Ethereum being made inaccessible by anyone, possibly for ever. Parity, the software company behind... Read more

Self-Driving Shuttle Bus In Crash Two Hours Into First Day

News November 10, 2017

Human to blame, not the autonomous vehicle. A driverless electric airport shuttle bus that made its debut downtown Las Vegas was involved in a traffic accident just a few short hours after entering into service. Ironically, it seems that the human driver of the other vehicle involved was to... Read more

WhatsApp ‘Fake’ Downloaded More Than One Million Times From Google Play

Mobile News Social Media November 10, 2017

Fake Android update appeared in Google’s official app store. It is understood that more than a million people downloaded a fake version of WhatsApp onto their Android devices through the official Google App center, before Google realized and removed the fake app from the Play store. It’s easy to see... Read more

Shotcut – The Powerful Professional Video Editing Software

Software Reviews Video Editing Software Video Software Reviews November 8, 2017

We review Shotcut, the free, but feature-rich, open source, cross-platform video editor. Shotcut is a surprisingly powerful free video editor that makes even advanced editing straightforward, and dare I say it, rivals many aspects of similar expensive ‘pro-sumer’ software. And it proves proves that getting your hands on a... Read more

Adobe Predicts Online Mobile Christmas Shopping Will Break New Records This Year

Mobile News November 8, 2017

More than 50% of all web traffic will be from smartphones and tablets. Adobe Analytics has released its online shopping predictions for the upcoming holiday season and have estimated that online sales will be some $107.4 billion in the United States, alone – an increase of almost 15% on... Read more

Twitter Employee Intentionally ‘Deactivated’ Trump Account On Last Day Of Work

News Social Media November 3, 2017

@realDonaldTrump feed temporarily taken down – internal review begins. US President Donald Trump’s personal Twitter account briefly vanished without warning on Thursday, leading some to celebrate, and others wondering what was going on. The vanishing feed was only temporary however, and has since been restored. It now seems that... Read more

Bitcoin Breaks More Records And Hits New All-Time High

News November 2, 2017

Cryptocurrency smashes $6,060 mark for the first time. At the time of writing, the price of Bitcoin managed to hit a new all-time high for the third time in almost as many days, surpassing the coveted $6,000 mark and peaking at a global average of $6,609. The snapshot record... Read more

Full Extent Of Russian-Backed Pro-Trump Electoral Facebook Posts Revealed

News Social Media October 31, 2017

A staggering 126,000,000 people may have seen Russian government-backed Facebook posts supporting Trump in 2016 US residential election. Facebook has revealed that as many as 126 million American users may have seen content uploaded by Russia-based governmental operatives over the past two years. Facebook released the figures ahead of... Read more

Tesla Restores Power At Children’s Hospital In Puerto Rico Using Solar Energy

News October 27, 2017

Elon Musk says project is ‘first of many’ on the disaster struck island. More than a month after being hit by Hurricane Maria and another major storm, technology company Tesla has restored power at one Children’s Hospital in Puerto Rico using solar energy. The hospital “is the first of... Read more

Hackers Decode Blurred QR Code And Claim $1,000 Worth of Bitcoin

News October 27, 2017

French pair compute more than two million combinations to crack code. Two French hackers have used their skills with computers and logic to reconstruct a blurred QR code on TV and claim bitcoins worth $1,000. When French channel, France 2 broadcast an interview with entrepreneur Roger Ver earlier this... Read more

Locky Ransomware Returns

News October 26, 2017

Thirty-year-old Microsoft loophole exploit being used to spread infamous ransomware. The cybercriminals behind the infamous Locky ransomware attacks of 2016 have returned and have upped their ransomware game. But this time, the hackers are using a 30-year-old Microsoft legacy ‘feature’ to trick victims into installing Locky. The new approach... Read more

Google parent company to the rescue for communications in Puerto Rico

News October 24, 2017

Alphabet’s Project Loon partners with AT&T to restore and boost web infrastructure on hurricane-hit island. Citizens of Puerto Rico have had an unexpected boost to their mobile data services after high-tech communications balloons provided by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, have started flying above the disaster-struck island. For many in... Read more

World’s First 3D Printed Bridge Open for Cyclists in Holland

News October 24, 2017

Revolutionary structure designed to last 30 years. Dutch officials have applauded the opening of what is being referred to as the world’s first fully functional 3D-printed concrete bridge. The bridge, located in the south-eastern town of Gemert, is primarily intended for cyclists. The bridge is made of made of... Read more

Nvidia Unveils Solution For Fully Autonomous Self-Driving Cars

News October 23, 2017

Nvidia Drive PX Pegasus supercomputer AI to deliver automotive autonomy. Nvidia has announced its audacious new ‘Drive PX Pegasus’ supercomputer, claiming it to be the first artificial intelligence (AI) computer system designed to drive fully autonomous self-driving ‘robotaxis’. The Nvidia Pegasus is apparently capable of ‘Level 5’ autonomy. For... Read more

BlueStacks: Your Favorite Android Apps On Your PC Or Mac

Desktop Software Reviews October 19, 2017

We review the latest version of this highly popular app player. BlueStacks App Player is a brilliant little tool that lets you run almost all your favorite Android apps and games on a full screen monitor using your PC or Mac. Yes that’s right, there’s a Mac version as... Read more

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