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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…

Windows 7 Still Dominating OS Market Followed By Windows XP
It’s less than a week before Microsoft pulls the plug on Windows XP, but it doesn’t look like Microsoft’s attempts to get people off the operating system has made a significant impact. NetMarketshare just released the latest data on operating system market shares, which only goes to show that the... Read more
Samsung’s Galaxy S5 Has A Hidden Baby Monitor Feature
The Samsung Galaxy S5 has been found to have yet another feature up its sleeve that you may not have even known about. If you are a parent you may be pleased to discover that the popular Android device has a hidden baby monitor app that was discovered within... Read more
Cupcake ATM Open in NYC
Feeling peckish?  Have a cupcake from your local ATM machine!  Yes, you heard right!  New York City, the city of lights, the big ‘apple’, has now got its very own, first ever, Cupcake ATM!  Open 24 hours a day, it will help the citizens of New York feed those... Read more
Apple Seeks Patent For Texting & Walking Feature
It doesn’t matter where you go anymore – it always seems like you see people who are texting while they are walking. You can usually easily spot these people as they are paying no attention whatsoever to where they are going or the people around them. Oh, and their... Read more
Teenager Discovers A Change Of Font Could Save A Fortune In Ink
14-year old Suvir Mirchandani was studying ways to reduce the use of ink and paper for a school project when he discovered that using the Garamond font, rather than Times New Roman and other popular fonts, businesses and organisations could save thousand of dollars every year on printer ink.... Read more
Facebook Messenger To Offer Voice Calling In India
Facebook users in India may now send and receive voice calls via the Facebook Messenger service. Facebook first introduced this feature for iOS users in the United States and Canada back in January 2013. The feature was extended to Android OS users in a few months later, in April of that... Read more
Woman Facing Prison Time for Facebook Post
People have warned Facebook users since the inception of the social media giant that they should be careful what they post for the world to see. Because while you can delete a Facebook post from your profile, you can’t ever undo the fact that it was once up there... Read more
Adobe Powers 3/4 Of All Digital Reading
Adobe has revealed that it now powers more than 75% of all digital issues, which are consumed on mobile devices. Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, more commonly known as DPS, is a codeless app generator for publications. Freshly unearthed data from Adobe shows that DPS, which releases publications that are... Read more
VMM Improvements for VirtualBox 4.3.10.92957
Oracle has released the latest version of its VirtualBox software. VirtualBox 4.3.10.92957 sees significant improvements in the VMM and some interesting experimental features. Here is the full list of changes and additions: VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers on certain host CPUs VMM: fixed... Read more
Microsoft Buys Wearable Tech IP For $150 Million
If there were any doubts about wearable tech being the future, this is the time to re-think those doubts. Microsoft just joined the wearable tech race to the tune of $150 million; at least that’s the estimate of those in the know. According to TechCrunch, Microsoft has spent a whopping amount... Read more
D-Air Wireless Airbag Biker Safety
The amount of different types of road bikes currently in use globally is astonishing.  The motorcycle industry is huge, with millions of riders and their machines always on the road.  I myself, before I had a family, used to dabble in the use of 2 wheels instead of 4. ... Read more
iPhone 6 Casing Image Leaked
iPhone 6 concepts have been flying around, claiming to be based on Apple’s own plans. But now leaked images have been spotted by Nowhereelse.fr, which were posted on the Chinese social network site Weibo. The images are supposed to be of the back of the iPhone 6 but the... Read more
Man Jumps Under Train To Save His Phone
I know our smartphones are important. After a while it even seems like they become an extension of our own bodies. What would ever happen to us if we were stripped of them? We might not know what the weather was doing, what our friends were doing, what was... Read more
Dropbox Acquires Readmill
Reading groups have been around since, well, books have been.  People can gather together and discuss a particular book, which they have previously chosen to read and then they can discuss the characters, the plot, the premise, whether the author pulled off the characters well enough for the story... Read more
Woman Has Skull Replaced With 3D Printed Implant
A medical team has carried out what is believed to be the world’s first brain transplant using a 3D printed implant. A 22-year old woman suffering from a condition that causes a thickening of the skull, had been slowly losing her vision and was suffering from motor coordination impairment,... Read more
Kim Dotcom in New Political Venture
The German entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, who is currently wanted by US for copyright infringement and money laundering in connection with the Megaupload web service, has launched a political party in New Zealand. The Internet Party manifesto said it would fight for net neutrality, faster broadband and online privacy.  The party plans... Read more
The White House Wants To Build Wooden Skyscrapers
Folks at the White House always seem to have plenty of ideas. While politicians may never seem to agree on very much, it’s not because there’s any lack of ideas – it’s because everyone thinks their own idea is better. Some of the ideas that come out of Washington... Read more
Appbucket Founders Convicted
The leader of a piracy group and a co-conspirator, that was engaged in the illegal distribution of copies of copyrighted Android apps have pleaded guilty for their roles in the plot that distributed more than a million copies of copyrighted apps.  The total retail value of these apps was... Read more