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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…

Foxit Reader Takes On Big Names In PDF Software
There’s little doubt that PDFs are such an integrated part of our connected lives that there’s a real need for quality software for the medium. Unfortunately, there are only a few major developers in document software, and they’ve become such household names in their industries that it’s easy to... Read more
VW Gets Approval To Release Auto Software Update
In what has been one of the bigger software news items of the year–at least in terms of the reach of its impact, and the sheer callousness and greed involved–the German automotive group headed up by the Volkswagen folks have had it pretty rough. Their emissions cheating scandal even... Read more
Software That Tells The Police You’re Probably A Bad Guy
We reported recently on the new analytical software that helps cash-strapped police departments “predict” crime in order to patrol specific areas, and how this software is already helping law enforcement agencies save on manpower hours by enforcing a presence in areas where crime is more likely to occur. That... Read more
Wolfram Alpha: Free For All
We’ve never been closer to the future predicted in Star Trek than we are right now. In the dream-state setting of the television series and films, there is no struggle on Earth. There is no disease, no poverty, no clashing of ideologies that erupts in violence. Humans have moved... Read more
Predicting Crime With Software
Using technology to solve crimes is nothing new, at least not in the last few decades. With everything from forensic science innovations to DNA testing to facial recognition software and more, law enforcement agencies are relying on science to find their bad guys. But what if technology could tell... Read more
“Monkeying Around” With E-Learning Software
From the outside, working at a zoo might not seem like a daunting career: feed the animals, clean up after the animals, don’t let the lions eat the zebras. But in reality, the responsibility of not only housing living creatures to adequate standards but often ensuring the protection of... Read more
Measuring CyberCrimes And Software Security
There have been 690 large-scale data breaches so far this year, with more than 175 million consumer records accessed by unauthorized individuals. While this is actually a significant decrease from last year’s record-setting number of breaches, security experts have warned that this is still too high. The reason for... Read more
Guilty? Lie Detector Software May Prove It
Polygraph tests, more commonly known as lie detector tests, make for great drama on your favorite crime show, but the reality of their usefulness is far less believable. Already rejected by the court system as admissible evidence due to their lack of reliability and their overall failure rate, polygraphs... Read more
SAP Gives Medical Data Software A New Purpose
There’s a hotly contested issue in healthcare services, and that’s the concept of storing medical data on individual patients in a nationwide database. The purpose of such a database would be to allow coordination of care between doctors and hospitals, no matter where the patient seeks treatment. While some... Read more
Tax Prep Software Gets A Security Overhaul
It’s almost time! Everyone’s favorite time of year is almost here, and no, we don’t mean the holidays. In the US, it’s almost tax filing time! While citizens and politicians alike rant about the wasteful use of tax dollars–in practically any country around the world–there’s one overlooked source of... Read more
Ford Updates 5M Cars With Siri
This ain’t your granddaddy’s Ford… In software-related vehicle news that mercifully has nothing to do with Volkswagen destroying the planet on purpose while reaping profits, US automaker Ford has announced that as many as five million of its vehicles are compatible with an update that will enable the autos... Read more
Software Company Brings Charitable Giving To 21st Century
When a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, disaster relief teams from around the world descended on the country to lend a hand. Closer to home, a record number of people tried out a newfangled concept in donations, the text-to-give concept. The idea was to text a code... Read more
VTech Hack Targets Children’s, Parents’ Data
There were a record number of data breaches in 2014, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center, reaching an all-time high of 783 in that one calendar year alone. Previous years’ results were hardly any better, with corporate, retail, and medical data breaches occurring at an alarming rate. But... Read more
Your Cyber Monday Fun Isn’t Over Yet
Early indicators on the typically greed and violence-fueled Black Friday shopping seem to show a decline in participation this year, hopefully caused by the general population developing a better sense of humanity than to engage in a street brawl over a television. Reports of store violence were down, as... Read more
Apple Looks To “The Force” For Innovation
If you’re looking forward to the newest Star Wars movie as much as the rest of the intelligent life forms of the world, there’s a feature in this one that you especially want to watch for. No, it’s not the new villains or the old favorites (lookin’ at you,... Read more
How IoT Medical Devices Are Vulnerable To Hackers
It’s a story straight out of a cyberthriller, a haunting tale in which hackers take over someone’s insulin pump and deliver too much of the normally life-saving drug, killing him with the very device that was supposed to save him. It makes for good crime novel fodder, but one... Read more
Vonteera: Adware That Can Destroy Your Antivirus
Adware really is crappy stuff, if you think too much into it. While most of the internet-using population has come to see that advertising is partly what makes your internet use cheap and affordable (even free, if you connect over public wifi), it’s more than a little annoying to... Read more
Dell Security Error Opens Door For Hackers
Dell laptop owners beware: reports of a security flaw in some self-signed digital certificates mean your laptop may be wide open for a hacker. According to a discovery of some odd digital certificates by a reddit user (who then posted the discovery), Dell laptops–believed for now to be limited... Read more