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A Shattered Collection of My Best Memories: An Immediate Solution Thanks to Stellar Photo Recovery

A Shattered Collection of My Best Memories: An Immediate Solution Thanks to Stellar Photo Recovery

Desktop Jan 2, 2024

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

Adobe Acrobat Pro is the ultimate solution for increased productivity

Business Sep 1, 2022

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 Mix Max’s 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…

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Chinese Police Using Facial Recognition Glasses To Identify Criminals

Chinese Police Using Facial Recognition Glasses To Identify Criminals

News February 13, 2018

Police using cutting-edge tech to catch criminals and monitor commuters. As the Chinese Lunar New Year Holiday began last week and millions of Chinese journeyed home for the occasion, at one particular train station in the Henan Province travellers were met by the sight of police wearing sunglasses equipped... Read more
Microsoft Promises To Delete Software That Scares People Into Upgrading

Microsoft Promises To Delete Software That Scares People Into Upgrading

News February 12, 2018

Microsoft say that ‘bullying software’ such as cleaners and optimizers that try to ‘scare’ PC users into paying for upgrades, will be detected and removed. Starting March 1st, Windows Defender Antivirus and other associated Microsoft security products will classify programs that display bullying messages and use scare-tactic marketing as... Read more
Skype Now Easier To Install On Linux Desktop

Skype Now Easier To Install On Linux Desktop

DesktopNews February 12, 2018

Canonical and Microsoft co-operation lets users install Skype in a Snap. At last! Skype is now available as a snap on Linux desktop. The news means that it’s now easier than ever to install the popular video calling tools in most popular versions of Linux such as Ubuntu and Linux... Read more
Reddit Joins Other Site To Ban ‘DeepFake’ Involuntary Porn

Reddit Joins Other Site To Ban ‘DeepFake’ Involuntary Porn

NewsSocial Media February 10, 2018

Reddit has become the latest on-line platform to remove and ban high quality fake pornographic material from its website. Reddit introduced its new rules banning the uploading, and sharing of what it referred to as involuntary pornography.  The site joins several other well known digital brands such as Twitter, Gyfcat and... Read more
Amazon’s Cloud Is Now World’s Fifth Largest Software Company

Amazon’s Cloud Is Now World’s Fifth Largest Software Company

BusinessNews February 8, 2018

News has emerged that Amazon Web Services (AWS) would be one of the largest software businesses, even if it was completely independent of parent company, Amazon. Newly released figures show Amazon’s cloud business has expanded so fast in the last 10 years, that it’s now the fifth-largest business software... Read more
Bitcoin ‘Biggest Bubble In Human History’ Says Economist Who Predicted 2008 Financial Crash

Bitcoin ‘Biggest Bubble In Human History’ Says Economist Who Predicted 2008 Financial Crash

News February 5, 2018

Nouriel Roubini, the man who successfully predicted the 2008 global financial crisis has called Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency, the ‘mother of all bubbles’ as its price sunk below $8,000 last Friday. At the time of writing, the value of Bitcoin sat at $ 7,700, just over 60% down on its... Read more
Facebook Loses 700,000 Users In USA For First Time 

Facebook Loses 700,000 Users In USA For First Time 

NewsSocial Media February 2, 2018

New data reveals a decline in both the amount of time people are spending on Facebook , and a near one million drop in users from North America and Canada.    For the first time EVER Facebook has experienced a drop in user numbers. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said the reduction in numbers was inevitable, as... Read more
MediaMonkey: A Media Manager For Hardcore Lovers Of Music 

MediaMonkey: A Media Manager For Hardcore Lovers Of Music 

MusicSoftware Reviews February 1, 2018

We review the powerful media manager that’s great for organising serious music collections.  MediaMonkey is without doubt one of the most powerful free media players around, but the interface and overwhelming number of options and features may not be accessible enough for some.  That said, MediaMonkey is a) free and b) has more things going... Read more
CoinCheck To Refund Crypto Customers After Massive Hack

CoinCheck To Refund Crypto Customers After Massive Hack

News January 30, 2018

Around 260,000 CoinCheck customers, mostly based in Japan, are said to have been affected by one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts in history. CoinCheck, a prominent Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange has promised to use its own funds to reimburse more than 46bn yen (almost $500 million) to customers who lost... Read more
Microsoft CEO: World Needs Quantum Computers

Microsoft CEO: World Needs Quantum Computers

News January 29, 2018

Satya Nadella warns world is quickly “running our of computing capacity”. In a key note speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella issued a stark warning that the world is quickly running out of the computing capacity it needs to tackle the advanced problems humanity is... Read more
Data-Stealing Malware ‘Traced To Lebanon’

Data-Stealing Malware ‘Traced To Lebanon’

AntivirusNews January 27, 2018

Researchers claim malware that exploits security bugs has been traced back to a Lebanese government building. The malware, responsible for infecting thousands of smartphones across the world, was uncovered by campaign group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in conjunction with security firm, LookOut. The malware mainly affected Android smartphones... Read more
Twitch Spammer Faces Criminal Charges In Canada

Twitch Spammer Faces Criminal Charges In Canada

NewsSocial Media January 26, 2018

A Canadian man accused of spamming the popular streaming site ‘Twitch’ with a torrent of racist and homophobic messages has found himself in court facing criminal charges. The suspect, Brandan Lukas Apple, is facing ‘Unprecedented’ Mischief Charges, and if convicted, could end up in prison. Mr Apple is accused of... Read more
Amazon Opens Supermarket Without Checkouts

Amazon Opens Supermarket Without Checkouts

BusinessNews January 26, 2018

Get your groceries and go: Amazon debuts “Go” store with no cashiers or checkout lines. In a move that could revolutionize the way we buy our groceries in the future, Amazon has this week opened a supermarket that has no checkout operators or tills of any sort.  After a... Read more
Drone Saves Australian Swimmers in ‘World First’ Rescue

Drone Saves Australian Swimmers in ‘World First’ Rescue

News January 22, 2018

Two teenage boys were dramatically rescued by a brand new lifesaving drone in Australia this week… while lifeguards were still training to use the device. The “The Little Ripper” drone, part of a experimental government backed project, was able to dramatically prove its worth when it helped save the... Read more
Apple To Give iPhone Users Option To Turn Off ‘Feature’ That Slows Older Devices

Apple To Give iPhone Users Option To Turn Off ‘Feature’ That Slows Older Devices

MobileNews January 19, 2018

Apple has announced that a new update later this year will allow the users of older models of iPhones to turn off the ‘feature’… it introduced in December that slows them down when their batteries become old.  The new option will become available in next update to iOS 11.... Read more
UK Firm Fined Half Million Dollars For 2015 Data Breach

UK Firm Fined Half Million Dollars For 2015 Data Breach

BusinessNews January 19, 2018

UK-based Carphone Warehouse has been fined £400,000 ($550,000) by British Information Commissioner’s Office in relation to a series of “systemic failures” following a nearly two year investigation after a massive data breach that occurred in 2015. Hackers succeeded in easily bypassing Carphone Warehouse security in 2015, and gained full... Read more
US States Sue FCC To Keep Net Neutrality Rules

US States Sue FCC To Keep Net Neutrality Rules

News January 18, 2018

Twenty-one states (and the District of Columbia) filed a lawsuit this week to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) December repeal of net neutrality rules. The news marks the beginning of what may prove to be a lengthy and high stakes battle for the future of the internet in... Read more
YouTube Changes Ad Rules To Appease Big Money Advertisers

YouTube Changes Ad Rules To Appease Big Money Advertisers

NewsSocial Media January 17, 2018

And puts smaller content creators out in the cold in the process. YouTube has announced it will be introducing tougher requirements for video publishers who want to make money from its platform, from February, 2018. The changes to YouTube’s advertising rules as well as being a response to the... Read more
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