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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…

Microsoft’s Windows 10 Now Has 270,000,000 ‘Active Users’
8 months after launch, people are still signing up at a faster than originally anticipated rate Microsoft have revealed some of its latest figures in regard to the number of users who have either bought a new Windows 10 based PC, or have upgraded to the flagship Operating System.... Read more
Organise Anything With Anyone With Project Management Software Trello
So, the humble Trello is this week’s featured project management software, and why not. It’s way past due. Unfortunately, it’s going to be tough for me to be even remotely impartial with this one, because Trello pretty much is my work bible. I mean, it literally organises my work... Read more
Google Says Sorry For The Mic Drop In Its Web Browser On April Fool’s Day
April Fool’s day jokes for the world’s most popular web browser Chrome, seemed to go horribly, horribly wrong. Yes, that’s right, this year Google’s efforts on April 1st ended up backfiring on the tech company in something of a spectacular fashion, and as Google had to admit in a... Read more
Microsoft To Go To The Edge To Offer Adblocking In Its Web Browser
Tech giant set to add to ad-publishers headaches as eagle eyed Zdnet journalist, Ed Cotton, spots Microsoft’s new feature for its Edge web browser. That’s right, adblocking may be coming to Redmond’s flagship browser in the next scheduled release for its Internet Explorer replacement. If it happens, Microsoft will... Read more
MIT Media Lab Goes Open Source, And Doesn’t Forget To FLOSS
The MIT Media Lab, a tech innovation center that has has a hand in numerous tech related products over the years, including Guitar Hero has revealed that going forward, the way it deals with its approach to software releases is to fundamentally change.    From now on, the MIT... Read more
Microsoft Takes Macro Protection Action
Office 2016 has been given a feature upgrade by its creators, Microsoft, but the chances are that very few people, if any, will even notice, even on a macro level. But that doesn’t make it any less important for all that. The new feature has been implemented to prevent... Read more
Digital Mass Surveillance Silences Dissenters
A newly published study has found that people with knowledge that their society or community is subject to mass surveillance, even where that surveillance is widely accepted, and widely condoned by the populace at large, is more likely to censor dissenting or even personal opinions in online environments. That... Read more
Microsoft Formally Apologizes For Tay, It’s Offensive Teenage Chatbot
Tech company, Microsoft, has apologized on behalf of its wayward child, and said it is “deeply sorry” for the offensively racist and sexist Twitter messages that Tay, its experimental AI teenager chatbot delivered last week. The apology comes after Tay’s first 24 hours of freedom online last week saw... Read more
Microsoft Terminates Tay AI Chatbot After Tweets About Hitler
No, really, it did
.Tay is an AI chat bot developed by Microsoft with the aim of interacting with the millennial 18-24 age group. It’s developers quickly learned however that social media and open access to the internet might not have been the best learning environment for its creation. Within... Read more
France fines Google over ‘right to be forgotten’   
The French data protection authority, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL), has said it has fined Alphabet subsidiary, Google, €100,000 for failing to scrub search results widely enough to comply with an EU privacy ruling. The US based tech firm has been in a long running... Read more
Apple Storing iCloud Data On Google Servers
News has emerged from several different sources that Apple has struck a deal with what some might see as its arch rival, Google, to store some users iCloud data on Google’s own cloud storage servers. The deal is being reported as a real coup for Google, which is seen... Read more
Israeli Cybersecurity Firm Linked To FBI Unlock Of Terrorist iPhone
An Israeli cybersecurity firm by the name of Cellebrite has been revealed as the third party source that the FBI are using to crack the security features of the iPhone that was used by the San Bernardino terrorists, and all without the court ordered assistance of Apple. Cellerbrite, a... Read more
Have FBI Discovered Way To Unlock San Bernardino iPhone Without Apple?
The FBI is now claiming that they may have found a way to crack the security features of the iPhone that was used by the San Bernardino terrorists without the court ordered assistance of Apple. On the basis of the above information, A US judge has postponed a hearing... Read more
Microsoft Finally Brings Windows 10 To Older Phones
After what has sometimes felt like forever, Microsoft have finally announced that they will be deploying Windows 10 to its older range of smart phones. In all, just over a dozen phones are set to receive the upgrade as an option. But there’s a catch;- not all Windows phone... Read more
Anonymous Releases Trump Phone And Social Security Number
After declaring total war on Donald Trump, again, the hacking collective known as Anonymous, have promised to dismantle the Republican Presidential hopeful’s electoral campaign by exposing details that the perma-bronzed billionaire would rather the “public didn’t know.” As a result, Anonymous, have allegedly published The Donald’s Social Security number, personal... Read more
US and Global News Sites Hit By Advertising Ransomware
A number of major news sites and popular websites saw their onsite advertising hit by a malicious ad hijacking campaign last weekend. If activated, the maliciously appropriated adverts sought to install ransomware on users’ hardware, encrypt their data, and then demand payment via the virtual currency, bitcoin, in order... Read more
AI experimentation heads to Minecraft.
Microsoft, owner of the evergreen popular video game, Minecraft, have announced the news that pro computer scientists and casual amateurs will now be able to help evaluate and develop Artificial Intelligence software by simply playing the game. The aim of the AI project, known as AIX, will be to... Read more
Tech Companies Set To Increase Encryption Protocols
As the ongoing legal battle between Apple and the FBI keeps going on and on,  a host of other Silicon Valley operators have clearly signalled which side of the fence they’re sitting on. Facebook, Google, Snapchat and others are seemingly working on increasing their own encryption methods in the... Read more