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A Shattered Collection of My Best Memories: An Immediate Solution Thanks to Stellar Photo Recovery
Desktop Jan 2, 2024
Who doesnât 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…
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GOM Mix Maxâs 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…
Tor Browser: Private And Anonymous Browsing Made Simple
InternetPrivacy and SecuritySoftware Reviews April 26, 2017
Easy to use software for online privacy, anonymity and security. Tor Browser is perhaps the single most accessible piece of software you can use to keep your online activities private and anonymous, while at the same time enhancing your security. Itâs also incredibly easy to use, using as it does, a... Read more
Sentenced to two years as the âmastermindâ behind global malware created and sold from his bedroom. Adam Mudd, from Hertfordshire, England, was only 16 when he created the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Titanium Stresser program in 2013. The malware he designed was responsible for carrying out more than... Read more
Microsoft claims Edge browser lasts longer and uses less power than the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox; beating Chrome by three hours andd Firefox by almost five! Microsoft says that a device running its Edge browser will last almost 80% longer than Firefox, and 35% longer than Chrome. Microsoft puts... Read more
Upside is that latest browser release should boost performance and reduce crashes. Sadly, yet probably inevitably, support for Windows XP and Vista is no more. Thatâs right itâs gone, and it won’t be coming back. The Firefox browser was one of the last browsers to still support the older... Read more
Report details the worrying rise and continued growth of Cerber based ransomware, but the almost total disappearance of Locky… Misunderstanding and lack of knowledge puts users at serious risk. So, yes, you can probably all guess what Malwarebytes big conclusion is already, and youâd be right. Because itâs the same one... Read more
Robert Taylor, Computer And Internet Pioneer, Passes Aged 85
News April 19, 2017
Robert Taylor was one of the preeminent founding fathers of the Internet and the personal computer as we know them both today. Taylor died last Thursday, in his San Francisco home, said his son, Kurt Taylor. Taylor had been suffering from Parkinsonâs disease, and other ailments in recent years. Leslie... Read more
Most Artificial Intelligence Exhibits Gender And Racial Bias, Claims New ResearchÂ
News April 18, 2017
Study published in the journal, Science, claims AI displays biases for racial and gender stereotyping. As AI and the algorithms that control it continue to become part of our everyday lives, there is growing evidence that the data sets and input stimulus it uses to train itself and grow do not... Read more
Project with Lockheed Martin announces second successfull test of a fully autonomous F-16 strike fighter. The âUnmanned Combat Air Vehicleâ (UCAV) demonstrated that it could deal with an unexpected air-to-air threat, navigate to its target independently, and carry out an air-ground-strike. The tests form part of a project known as... Read more
Alleged hacker detained at the request of American authorities. Russian man, Pyotr Levashov, was arrested in Barcelona last week on a US computer crimes warrant. He has been detained under a US international arrest warrant and a Spanish court is to start proceedings to decide whether he can be... Read more
New independently-verified âFact Checkâ tool added to news and search results. In response to the rise of ‘fake news’, Google has begun displaying fact-checking labels in search results highlighting news and information that has been independently quantified and vetted by third party fact checking organisations. âWith thousands of new articles published... Read more
Microsoft Reveals Truth About Windows 10 Data Collection
News April 7, 2017
Will transparency on Windows 10 finally put privacy concerns to bed, or will it open Microsoft up to further criticism? Every since the halcyon days of 2015 when Microsoft first released Windows 10, the company has come under fire about its somewhat invasive data collection policy. By far the biggest... Read more
Verizon Rebrand And Relaunch Yahoo and AOL Into Oath
News April 7, 2017
No, itâs not a late April Foolâs day joke, Verizon intend to combine Yahoo and AOL into a new company and call it ‘Oath.’ The news comes as Verizon completes its $4 billion plus takeover of Yahoo. âOathâ was announced by AOL boss Tim Armstrong, Tuesday, ahead of a... Read more
Photo-matching tech will allow users to easily report intimate images, posted without consent. Facebook is acting in a new bid to limit the amount of ârevenge pornâ being shared and reposted across its contingent of social media platforms, in a move praised by campaigners and advocacy groups. The new measures... Read more
Android has nudged ahead to become the worldâs most popular OS. OK, so it might have only squeaked ahead by just 0.02%, but Android usage has beaten all other combined versions of Microsoftâs Windows into second place, for the first time. That is, at least according to Irish analytics firm StatCounter.... Read more
New vulnerability could allow hackers to steal passwords or use remote code execution. For the second time in as many weeks, LastPass password employees are allegedly frantically scrambling to try and fix a major software vulnerability that could allow sufficiently technical malicious websites to bypass LastPass code and infect... Read more
New botnet variant strikes using 10,000 connected devices. Since the Mirai malware was discovered last August, itâs been used to front several high-profile DDoS attacks, including last Septemberâs assault on cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs. But now a new variant of the Mirai botnet malware has been found to behind... Read more
Over Half Of All Pcs Running Out Of Date Software
News March 30, 2017
More than 50% of software installed on PCs including the most popular, critical and security related applications such as Chrome, Firefox, Java and Flash are out of date. Thatâs according to Avast, anyway, who just released their Avast PC Trends Report January 2017. The report, based on the anonymous data... Read more
As youâve probably guessed from the name, Unblock-Us is all about being able to access websites and surf the net by bypassing geographically imposed restrictions on what you can and canât view. Essentially, itâs a Smart DNS (Domain Name System) service, that allows you to virtually reside in another... Read more