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Deepfake Safety: Five Things You Can Do Today

The generation of images, videos, and voices through artificial intelligence is evolving at a pace that demands we establish clear criteria and good habits to defend ourselves from the dangers of abusing these technologies. Deepfakes are already part of our everyday online life, so it is a very good idea…

Top Online Scams to Be Aware of in 2025

The internet is undoubtedly full of great content, hobbies, information, offers, products, and people, but there’s also a darker side to it. We might not realise it, but every day we’re exposed to threats and scams as we navigate the online world. Curiosity and trust can be exploited to lure…

Meet the new features for Avast Free AV and Avast Premium Security

With millions of active users worldwide, Avast stands as a benchmark in cybersecurity. Why? Because of the quality of its solutions, the reach of its tools and because it is a platform in continuous evolution. A platform that today, once again, places our security at the forefront by reinforcing every…

Google 64Bit Android L Dev Emulator Image Released
Google has just released the x86 64-bit Android L developer preview emulator image.  This allows developers to begin testing their 64-bit apps. Building 64-bit apps on an Android platform enables developers to access more addressable memory space, a bigger number of registers and new instruction sets. Google elaborated on the news:... Read more
Students Now Being Asked to Pee in the Shower to Save Water
We live in a day and age where many people are concerned with “going green”. Many are concerned with solar energy, hybrid cars, and making a lot less of a carbon footprint. Many are also concerned with conserving water and not just wasting it down the drain because we... Read more
Evidence Remotely Wiped Whilst in Police Custody
The BBC has uncovered information regarding the data on a quantity of tablets and phones that have been seized as evidence, is being wiped remotely whilst the items are in police custody.  At least four different constabularies (Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Durham) have informed BBC News that the devices... Read more
Free School to Teach Using Gaming Principles
Veteran of British games industry, Ian Livingstone, has officially applied to open a free school with the lessons being built using video gaming. Mr Livingstone is most famous for being known as the man behind epic gaming franchises of Tomb Raider and Warhammer. If the application is successful, the... Read more
Study Shows You Probably Stare At Your Phone 3 Hours A Day
I don’t know if you’ve noticed or not, but everywhere you go it seems like people are using their smartphones. Maybe they’re looking at their Facebook newsfeed, maybe they’re snapchatting, or, maybe they’re just taking a picture or two. (Or, God forbid, they might actually be using the phone... Read more
Feeling Restored in Bionic Arm Patient
US scientists have reported massive advances in bionic hands, which have restored a sense of touch in two patients for a period of more than a year. The study, published in Science Translational Medicine said the artificial hand has sensors that are used to send signals directly to the... Read more
Hawk Vs. Drone: Who Wins?

Hawk Vs. Drone: Who Wins?

Video October 13, 2014

It seems you can’t visit any tech website without reading something about drones. Most of them all seem to say much the same thing: they’re awesome, they’ll be delivering your goods soon, they’re going to help make better movies, and they’re all kinds of fun to use. And while... Read more
The Latest Version Of Dropbox Is Now Available
Cloud storage is the best way to store your data away from a localised area.  There are many advantages to this way of storing your data.  Among the many companies that are on the market today that provide this type of service, Dropbox is the easiest way to store,... Read more
Need File Recovery For Your Mac? Try Disk Drill
Have you ever inadvertently deleted a file or folder that you really needed and just couldn’t figure out a way to recover it? Everyone should have at least one form of backup utility on their Mac, whether that be a Time Machine connected to a NAS drive or a... Read more
How To Make Text Float In Photoshop
With the possible exception Peter Pan, everyone and everything has a shadow, as long as light is hitting it. Internal shadows appear where the surface contours towards and away from the light source. External shadows appear behind wherever the light source is. Multiple light sources cause multiple shadows and... Read more
Australian Guy Recreates the Strangest Tinder Photos
When looking for love many turn to the popular dating app Tinder, however when Jarrod Allen failed to find a girlfriend after a lengthy search, he decided to put Tinder to better use. After seeing how many crazy profile pictures women were using, Jarrod embarked on a mission to... Read more
How to Create Chromakey Effects in Video
We’ve come a long way since Star Wars. Where the ability to magically insert different video elements together was once the province of special effects studios, with expensive equipment that filled an aircraft hanger, most of us can now create complex and impressive chromakey effects on our home computers.... Read more
Looks Like Apple’s Almost Sold 20 Million iPhone 6’s
Whether you love it or hate it, you can’t deny that the iPhone is insanely popular, especially right now. Heck, on its opening weekend just a few weeks ago, Apple sold somewhere in the realm of 10 million models of the newest iPhone(s). No surprise to anyone, that happened... Read more
Want To Try A Different Media Player? Check Out Zoom
Do you want to change your media player? Why not give Zoom Player a try? Zoom Player is a rapid and stable media player that tries to both simplify playback and give you all the tools and interfaces that you need to manipulate your playback environment to your exact specification.... Read more
The Worst Break Up Text Messages Ever Sent!
What’s worse than being dumped? – Being dumped by text of course! Here is a collection of some of the worst messages ever sent, by people who were just too cowardly to say it face to face. This guy appears to have his priorities all wrong! Image 1 of... Read more
Adobe Launches CC Range of iOS Apps
Finally, Adobe has announced its new collection of apps that are currently accessible on the Apple App Store. Adobe has decided to focus on making its mobile software simple and easy to use.  There are four types that sync with the desktop PC: Illustration, Imaging, Video and Creative Cloud Capture... Read more
Microsoft Launches Project Spark
In the third quarter of 2013, Microsoft introduced to everybody, Project Spark. If you don’t know about Project Spark it is basically a tool that has been created by Microsoft to entice gamers on the Xbox One and Windows platforms to produce games of their own. There are lots of hit indie... Read more
Amazon is Opening an Actual Store in NYC
For just about as long as I can remember, since I’ve been using the internet, there has been Amazon.com. I really can’t remember a time without it, that’s how big it is. Of course when I first started using it, I mainly used it to only purchase books, but... Read more