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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
Antivirus Jul 31, 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…
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…
Survey claims that women like shopping online more than men, but men still prefer bricks and mortar shopping. Seeing and touching items is more important for men, apparently. According to newly released study by tech shopping consultancy, First Insight, the female of the species are increasingly more likely to rely... Read more
Microsoft announces ‘historic milestone’ and has developed Artificial Intelligence that can translate Chinese News to English as accurately as any human. According to the Microsoft blog, researchers at the company’s US and Asian labs believe they have created the first machine translation system that can accurately translate sentences of... Read more
The ability to download software and other media has undoubtedly changed the way those products are consumed. But are the days of physical media really over for good? Almost every type of media we humans enjoy consuming has now been digitised and are available – either for free or... Read more
Cyclists Need Beacons So Self Driving Cars Will See Them
News April 2, 2018
An industry expert has warned that in the future cyclists will have to be equipped with ‘bicycle to vehicle’ beacons so that they will be ‘visible’ to autonomous vehicles. Giving a keynote speech at the Symposium on the Future Networked Car, 2018, – a part of the Geneva Motor... Read more
Six Of The Best MP3 Converters You Can Download for Free
Best SoftwareConversion SoftwareSoftware Reviews March 30, 2018
There’s a huge range of free MP3 converter software available for download. Here’s our take on six of the very best. Keeping up with various file extension types can be a headache. However, with MP3 converter software you can do your best to make sure your media is always... Read more
True Story: YouTube’s ban on gun bloggers has led them to post on PornHub. Just don’t Google ‘guns on Pornhub’, trust me…but if you do, you might be surprised to find that recently firearms are being used as more than sexual props.This follows the news that YouTube has announced... Read more
China Tariff Balancing Act Goes Tech
News March 29, 2018
US tech companies win changes in bill to limit China access to technology. US relations with China have been strained in recent weeks, largely stemming from tariffs and legislation that have been put forth to prevent China from making as much of a profit via US goods and services.... Read more
Cybercrime syndicate infiltrated over 100 financial institutions in 40 countries hacking banks and ATMs via malware. For the past five years, the gang of hackers known as Carbanak has been targeting banks around the world, stealing well over $1 billion in total. Europol, the pan European police agency have said they’ve... Read more
Easily record MP3 or FLAC audio files with Recordify. There are a lot of reasons why you might need to record music files from your device, such as for incorporating into a presentation, saving for later use in case of files crashing, losing all your files to hard drive or... Read more
Mozilla 2018 roadmap shows ad blocking coming to Firefox Mozilla, the company behind popular Internet browser, Firefox, has revealed details of its ad ‘filtering’ plans for 2018. While lots of its intentions are mired in technical terminology, some of it also of interest to the average Firefox user, the... Read more
Bringing Medical Tech To The Streets
News March 26, 2018
Trial sees health checks in local barbers. Non-traditional medicine is making waves for upending an unnecessarily expensive industry, one that can feel like a case of “the treatment is worse than the disease”. High costs of treatment and insurmountable prescription costs, coupled with hours of missed time off of... Read more
Even If It Isn’t Their Default Browser Even if it isn’t their default browser. Microsoft looks for ‘feedback’ regarding new change that will open all email links in the much maligned Edge Browsers, regardless of users personal choice. Microsoft has revealed that it’s to trial another attempt to get... Read more
Upcoming GDPR rules mean data compliance will be mandatory. In the digital age, information is the new hot-ticket currency. Often, companies, third-parties, and even cybercriminals would rather get their hands on users’ data than money, since the potential payoff from having access to sensitive information could be exponentially higher... Read more
Fatal accident likely to put collaboration on hold. Earlier this week, embattled Uber announced it would be suspending all self-driving vehicle tests in light of its car killing an Arizona woman. Some early reports indicate the car may have not attempted to slow down as it approached the pedestrian, despite... Read more
IBM Builds Computer The Size Of A Grain Of Salt
News March 22, 2018
And it costs less than 10 cents to make! IBM has unveiled what it says is the world’s smallest computer. Each of the new computers will be roughly the size of a grain of salt, and each one will cost less than 10 US cents to make. But no-one is... Read more
Are We Finally Doing Something About Facebook?
NewsSocial Media March 22, 2018
Cambridge Analytica scandal brings focus onto data privacy issues. For all of his squeaky clean, boy next door, All-American good looks and charm, Mark Zuckerberg is quickly becoming the man that the public loves to hate, all thanks to piles of allegations that Facebook aided outside operatives who were... Read more
Move comes to promote trust and prevent malpractice. A phalanx of Japanese government-registered cryptocurrency exchanges have announced they are to set up their own regulator in the region, to promote trust and snuff out malpractice. In total, sixteen government-registered cryptocurrency exchanges have said they will work together to set... Read more
We review a real challenger to Microsoft PowerPoint’s crown. For ages, PowerPoint by Microsoft has been one of the mainstays of presentation software. What was once a sought-after skill for employment has become an assumption, just a basic understanding that tech users of every skill level can generate some... Read more