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Millions Of Dollars Worth OF Ethereum Frozen By Mistake

News November 13, 2017

Blunder over bug in code may freeze cryptocurrency wallets forever. An error in the code for Ethereum multi-signature (sig) wallets – and the subsequent attempts to repair it – have resulted in an estimated $300,000,000 of Ethereum being made inaccessible by anyone, possibly for ever. Parity, the software company behind... Read more

Self-Driving Shuttle Bus In Crash Two Hours Into First Day

News November 10, 2017

Human to blame, not the autonomous vehicle. A driverless electric airport shuttle bus that made its debut downtown Las Vegas was involved in a traffic accident just a few short hours after entering into service. Ironically, it seems that the human driver of the other vehicle involved was to... Read more

WhatsApp ‘Fake’ Downloaded More Than One Million Times From Google Play

Mobile News Social Media November 10, 2017

Fake Android update appeared in Google’s official app store. It is understood that more than a million people downloaded a fake version of WhatsApp onto their Android devices through the official Google App center, before Google realized and removed the fake app from the Play store. It’s easy to see... Read more

Legal Govt Tracking Of Mobile Phones For Data Mining

Mobile News November 9, 2017

Mobile phone tracking data ‘could replace census questions’. A recent UK government announcement just might prompt a few citizens to fetch their tinfoil hats: the Office of National Statistics (ONS), what in other countries might be referred to as the “census bureau,” has revealed that they’ve tested a data... Read more

IoT-powered home insurance launched

News November 9, 2017

UK-based Neos says smarthome tech may lower premium costs. For years, auto insurance providers have offered customers a simple way to lower their insurance costs via ‘black box’ tracking devices. Now UK insurance start-up Neos is working to bring the same savings to home owners’ insurance through smart tech. By installing... Read more

Shotcut – The Powerful Professional Video Editing Software

Software Reviews Video Editing Software Video Software Reviews November 8, 2017

We review Shotcut, the free, but feature-rich, open source, cross-platform video editor. Shotcut is a surprisingly powerful free video editor that makes even advanced editing straightforward, and dare I say it, rivals many aspects of similar expensive ‘pro-sumer’ software. And it proves proves that getting your hands on a... Read more

Adobe Predicts Online Mobile Christmas Shopping Will Break New Records This Year

Mobile News November 8, 2017

More than 50% of all web traffic will be from smartphones and tablets. Adobe Analytics has released its online shopping predictions for the upcoming holiday season and have estimated that online sales will be some $107.4 billion in the United States, alone – an increase of almost 15% on... Read more

Are Tech Giants To Blame For Russian Election Scandal?

News November 7, 2017

Facebook, Twitter, Google and others may have unknowingly played roles. There’s little doubt now that state-sponsored Russian operatives worked diligently to try and interfere in last fall’s US Presidential election – a notion that has both federal investigators and armchair social media experts weighing in day and night. However, more... Read more

Snapchat Drops Out Of App Store Top Ten

Mobile News Social Media November 7, 2017

Snap Inc (SNAP) no Longer a Top 10 iOS App Store app. For the first time all year, popular yet potentially dubious messaging and image-sharing app Snapchat, fell out of the top 10 in the iOS App Store rankings. Without a lot of information as to what could have... Read more

Twitter Erases #Bisexual From Site

News Social Media November 6, 2017

Outcry as Twitter blocks ‘bisexual’ searches. For a social media platform struggling to remain relevant, Twitter sure is raising some ire among users and critics alike. First, the company has a long history of ignoring threats of violence and accounts that explicitly violate its terms, despite vocal outcry and... Read more

Google Pixel Buds To Surpass AirPods In Connectivity

Music News November 3, 2017

The race between the two tech giants for seamless headphone pairing continues. Apple and Google have both taken on the wireless headphone space with a Bluetooth-connected feature on their latest phones, but both products have similarities and striking differences. In the race to get rid of the wire–although Google’s... Read more

Twitter Employee Intentionally ‘Deactivated’ Trump Account On Last Day Of Work

News Social Media November 3, 2017

@realDonaldTrump feed temporarily taken down – internal review begins. US President Donald Trump’s personal Twitter account briefly vanished without warning on Thursday, leading some to celebrate, and others wondering what was going on. The vanishing feed was only temporary however, and has since been restored. It now seems that... Read more

Amazon’s Creepiest Prime Benefit Yet

News November 2, 2017

Amazon Key is a new service that lets couriers unlock your front door. Critics have lobbed some harsh accusations at one of the world’s largest online retailers: they’re the evil empire, they’re taking over, they’re telling you what to buy and how to think. Now, Amazon is about to... Read more

Bitcoin Breaks More Records And Hits New All-Time High

News November 2, 2017

Cryptocurrency smashes $6,060 mark for the first time. At the time of writing, the price of Bitcoin managed to hit a new all-time high for the third time in almost as many days, surpassing the coveted $6,000 mark and peaking at a global average of $6,609. The snapshot record... Read more

Optimize Your PC With Advanced SystemCare 11

Software Reviews System Tuning November 1, 2017

We review the latest release of this popular system optimization software from IObit. Advanced SystemCare 11 is a handy all-in-one, and easy-to-use, PC optimization program that cleans, optimizes, speeds up, and protects your system, as well as secure your online privacy. Until the advent of DIY system tools to... Read more

Apple Fires Engineer Over iPhone X Leak?

Mobile News November 1, 2017

Engineer reportedly fired after his daughter posted a video of the iPhone X before the official launch. There’s a tale or two going around the internet, one that leaves so many unanswered questions as to be nearly unbelievable. Reportedly, an engineer at Apple invited his daughter – Brooke Peterson... Read more

Full Extent Of Russian-Backed Pro-Trump Electoral Facebook Posts Revealed

News Social Media October 31, 2017

A staggering 126,000,000 people may have seen Russian government-backed Facebook posts supporting Trump in 2016 US residential election. Facebook has revealed that as many as 126 million American users may have seen content uploaded by Russia-based governmental operatives over the past two years. Facebook released the figures ahead of... Read more

Amazon Launches German AI Lab

News October 31, 2017

Artificial Intelligence hub will be based in Tübingen, near the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems’ campus. Machine learning research just got an unlikely ally in Amazon, who announced the construction of its German-based AI lab this week, one that will add about 100 further highly-skilled engineering jobs over... Read more

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