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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…

Smart Clothing For Rehab and Physical Therapy
Smart clothing is something that, with the advent of wearable technology, we are going to see a whole lot more of over the coming few years. Take for instance these knits that have been designed by Pauline van Dongen in cooperation with TU Eindhoven & Textiel Museum. The design is called Vigour... Read more
‘Ok Google’ Coming To Chromebook
Google might be porting another Android feature to Chrome OS in the next update, this time the virtual assistant, which responds to ‘Ok Google’ commands. François Beaufort announced the feature would be coming to the experimental version of the Chromium project, and will be further tested before an official... Read more
Withings Activite Offers A Classic Smartwatch Design
For the most part, smartwatches in 2014 featured poor design, decent performance and an overwhelming sense of tediousness. Withings wants to change the model for smartwatches, by offering an experience extremely close to a normal watch. The Withings Activite is the first smartwatch to fit the normal watch aesthetic,... Read more
Blow Up The Death Star With This Fire Pit!
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I am a big Star Wars fan. I loved the original trilogy, I enjoyed the prequels (though not as much as the original movies), I owned an army of the action figures, armed myself with more than a few fake lightsabers, and... Read more
Microsoft XboxOne Lead Designer Quits
The guy who orchestrated Xbox Live, Boyd Multerer, announced last week on the social network, Twitter, that he would be departing from Microsoft after working for the tech giants for the last 17 years. In his announcement, Multerer wasn’t just ready to confirm what or indeed where he will... Read more
Apple 12-inch MacBook Air Coming In Early 2015
Apple’s MacBook Air range currently consists of 11 and 13-inch screen options, but for the past two years customers have been pleading for a 12-inch option to fit in the middle. This year might bring the new 12-inch MacBook Air to market, alongside the anticipated Apple Watch, according to... Read more
Apple Pay & Bitcoin For NYC Parking Meters
The good ol’ people of New York City want to make it simpler for the users of the fair city to make it even easier to pay for their near 10 million annual parking tickets fines. The city is currently accepting peoples pitches for different payment systems that would... Read more
Apple Pay coming to UK in 2015
Apple Pay is starting to turn heads in the contactless payment market, in the U.S. 90 percent of banks are working with Apple on the mobile payment solution, and more retailers are coming to the fold everyday. In order to keep growing, Apple needs to expand its borders, and... Read more
Tree Shaped Wind Turbines Provide Green Energy
In the past there have been  great debates from many different people of ranging viewpoints regarding the efficiency, cost and renewability of wind energy. The general consensus now, is that wind-generated power has the potential to make a massive contribution to varying renewable energies across the planet. The main... Read more
Samsung To Unveil 360-Degree Speakers At CES 2015
Samsung has decided to early reveal some of the products coming to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Jan. 6 to Jan. 9, following the lead of LG in audio. The most eye-catching announcement in the audio department has to be the 360-degree egg-style speakers, formally named the WAM6500... Read more
The Last of Us 2 Mentioned In Resume
A sequel to the popular Naughty Dog series ‘The Last of Us’ could already been in the works, according to lead character artist Michael Knowland. On Knowland’s LinkedIn resume, the character artist claims he worked on “prototyping head sculpts” for one month on The Last of Us 2. It... Read more
Woman Buys PS4 From Target & Gets A Box Of Bibles
Well, it turns out it’s not just happening at Walmart. Sadly, another retail shopper has had a bad experience when buying a PS4. (And by “bad experience”, I mean that the shopper didn’t get anything close to what they were attempting to purchase). Last week, Techbeat reported that a... Read more
Bank Of England To Use Social Media To Predict Economic Trends
Finance is a very complicated business isn’t it? Inflation, interest rates, foreign currency rates, borrowing, lending, mortgages and business loans etc. all make for a set of parameters that are in constant flux. It’s no wonder that the banks turn to technology to assist them in the use information... Read more
Apple Pay To Hit UK Early In 2015
Mobile payments have come a long way since their inception. The big guns in the war are Apple Pay and Google Wallet. The US is usually first in the battle, but close behind is the UK. Many people, including myself, are looking forward to Apple Pay’s arriving in the... Read more
Windows 10 May Come With A New Web Browser
Microsoft is working on a new web browser for Windows 10, code-named Spartan, to replace the ageing Internet Explorer. First reported by ZDNet, Microsoft will reportedly ship both web browsers in Windows 10, to test the waters with Spartan. Internet Explorer’s team will be downscale internally, to the point... Read more
Scientist Theorise graphene Could Harvest Energy From Thin Air
Researchers at Manchester University in the UK say their latest discovery involving graphene could be the most revolutionary advance in battery technology the world has seen. According to a recent study published in the journal Nature, graphene membranes may be used to harness hydrogen gas from the atmosphere in the... Read more
New Mothers Use Google Glass To Help Monitor Babies
The news regarding Google Glass has stagnated at the moment. Nobody has been attacked in a bar for wearing them or nobody has been ordered by staff to remove them from the cinema. Well, when I say ‘no one’ I mean sure, there could have been some people which... Read more
Have A Good Christmas? Apple Sure Did!
Did you buy someone an Apple device this Christmas? Or, did you unwrap a new iDevice? (Even if you didn’t, someone you know probably did). One thing’s for sure – Apple had a great Christmas, if device sales mean anything, anyway. Why? Because they had more devices activated than... Read more