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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…

Keep Tabs On Your Children With The LG Kizon
Back in July LG announced a wearable for kids: the Kizon Smartwatch.  The tech allows parents to track and call their children directly.  The Kizon comes in a few designs and a couple of colours, blue and pink, which I assume is aimed at boys and girls respectively. The blue and pink Kizon Smartwatches feature... Read more
Destiny Will Offer Free Upgrades To Xbox One & PS4‏
Activision wants players transitioning from the previous generation to the current generation of consoles to continue their Destiny journey, without dropping another cent on the game. If a customer buys a digital copy of Destiny on the Xbox 360 or PS3, they will be able to download the Destiny... Read more
Driver Using Facebook Kills 89 Year Old Woman
It seems you can’t drive anywhere these days without seeing at least one distracted driver on the road with you. People do all kinds of crazy things while driving, such as: applying their makeup, texting their entire contact list, reading a book (or an e-book), flossing their teeth, and/or... Read more
Scientists Step Closer to Telepathy with Successful TMS Trial
Up until now, the best way we can send data is via fibre optics, lasers and radio waves.  No doubt most of you own a Cell phone, and they are a great way to communicate with people. But what if we could send messages directly to any person we want... Read more
Microsoft Bringing Back The MSN Brand For Mobile Apps
MSN might still be a messenger service for a lot of people, but Microsoft is trying to move the brand away from the 1995 online service and into a new era of news and social aggregation, in a new bid to keep the brand alive. The re-branding of MSN... Read more
Vermont Coffee Shop Bans Laptops & Their Business Booms
If you’ve been inside of any kind of a coffee shop within the past few years, you’ve probably noticed they all have something in common – and I’m not talking about the coffee. It seems like wherever you go, at whatever time of the day or night, people are... Read more
Worried About Data Loss? Get Lazesoft Mac Data Recovery 2.0
No matter what computer you own, no doubt you are worried about your data.  Whether it is the precious photographs of your entire life or the novel that you have been working on for the last ten years.  You want to make sure that your data is safe. But,... Read more
Garth Brooks Finally Releases His Music Digitally
Country music fans everywhere now have a huge reason to collectively rejoice – Garth Brooks has finally got with the times and released his music digitally! One of the most successful musical artists of all time, Brooks has also been one of the last big-name artists to hold out... Read more
Samsung Partners With Oculus To Develop Gear VR
Samsung has unveiled their first virtual reality product, the Gear VR, at IFA 2014 this week. The mobile VR headset will be made in partnership with Oculus, who will work on the software end of the device. Gear VR is the first official virtual reality product to be released,... Read more
How To Create Your Own Motion Comic
We’ve had e-books, e-zines, e-cigarrettes and if you eat in the wrong restaurant, E.coli.  The next big thing in the e-publishing revolution is motion comics, with a number of companies jostling for market supremacy and experimenting with the form. The leader at the moment seems to be Madefire, who... Read more
Using More Data? Facebook May Be To Blame
If you’ve recently found yourself using more and more data on your smartphone, the culprit may indeed turn out to be none other than everyone’s favorite social media app, Facebook. It’s never a good feeling when you look at that monthly bill and see that you’ve exceeded your monthly... Read more
Samsung announces Galaxy Note 4‏
Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy Note 4, one of the biggest smartphones the South Korean giant will ship this year, both in terms of size and stock. The Galaxy Note 4 was part of a launch lineup at IFA that consisted of the Galaxy Note Edge, Gear VR... Read more
How To Save Time With Macros in Photoshop
Have you ever found yourself repeating the same task again and again in Photoshop and wished you had the programming knowledge to automate it? Then I have good news for you, Photoshop will do it for you, and there’s no need to learn any coding skills or new complicated... Read more
Is Your Keyboard Secure? Check out Antilogger
AntiLogger is an extremely powerful and efficient application that can block numerous attempts by hackers to access your computer. Although the application is very lightweight, it can detect any attempts to modify your computer’s settings and place malicious code onto your system. The crowning jewel in the application’s arsenal... Read more
Looking For A Different Media Player? Checkout foobar2000
foobar2000 is a great little freeware audio player application for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for numerous popular audio formats. foobar2000 Key Features Include: Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF,... Read more
Sony Unveils Xperia Z3 & Z3 Compact At IFA 2014‏
Sony has announced the next iteration in the Xperia line, the Z3, Z3 Compact, Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact and two new wearables, the Smartwatch 3 and SmartBand Talk. All of this was announced at IFA 2014, alongside Samsung’s big announcements. Xperia Z3 The Xperia Z3 is Sony’s new flagship,... Read more
New Mega Airport Designed to Collect it’s Own Energy
In a big effort to entice more tourism, cities all over the globe have been fighting to construct mega-airports. And Mexico City is no exception; with a recently announced, enormous new airport proposal that is being dubbed the “most sustainable” in the world. Mexico City has chosen a plan by... Read more
Need More Data On Your Files? Get Mediainfo
If you are like me then you need to know what’s going on with your media. The more info you have then the better armed you are, right?  File collation, music storage, movie archive, they can all be organized by whatever data method you desire.  Or is that just... Read more