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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…

Tag Heuer to Release Smartwatch in 2015
The Swiss maker of luxury watches and all round envy of the timing world, Tag Heuer, could be about to reveal their first Smartwatch at the CES 2015. “Industry sources” have been speaking to Business Insider and they suggest that Tag Heuer will debut its Intel-based gadget at the... Read more
Get Spotify Premium for 3 Months for $0.99
In this day and age, you’ve probably already found yourself a music streaming service you really like, but if not, Spotify is offering a pretty awesome deal for the time being. From now until the end of the year, they are offering their Spotify Premium service basically free for... Read more
12.2-inch iPad Air Plus Blueprints Leaked
The 12.2-inch iPad rumor has been going around for over a year now, but Apple has not shown any signs of updating the size of the tablet to cater for owners who want more screen. A new blueprint, spotted by Japanese magazine Mac Fan, reportedly shows blueprints for the... Read more
AutoDesk to Offer Software to Schools Free of Charge
Earlier this year, Autodesk gave the middle and high school students, currently in school in the US, their software suite as part of President Obama’s ConnectEd project.  In an interesting turn of events this week, Autodesk has also made a stack of other tools free to educators and students,... Read more
This Smart Toothbrush Works with your Smartphone
It never ceases to amaze me how everything is getting the “smart” upgrade these days. We’ve got smartphones, smart cars, smart watches, smart TV’s, smart thermostats – and now we’ve also got a smart toothbrush. I’ve seen electric toothbrushes for years which claim to clean your teeth quite a... Read more
Microsoft Planning Windows 10 Event in January
Microsoft announced Windows 10 in a small event in San Francisco, where the developer preview was launched. Redmond has a bigger launch event planned for the consumer edition of Windows 10. In late January, Microsoft will hold an event for all press and developers, to show some of the... Read more
Woman Tracks Her Stolen Phone to Starbucks & Gets Kicked Out
You know what they say – no good deed goes unpunished. A woman from Houston, Texas, recently learned that lesson the hard way after she tried to help a teenager who she thought actually needed her help. This past Monday, a teenager randomly knocked on the door of her... Read more
Australian Stores are Banning GTA V
It’s no surprise to anyone by now that the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) games are incredibly popular right now and that stores sell them in droves, especially since GTA: V has just been “re-released” on the PlayStation 4 among other consoles. Just as the game’s popularity is no surprise anymore, neither is... Read more
The 19 Most Bizarre Things On Google Street View
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once said that “Life is infinitely stranger than anything the mind could invent” and once you’ve viewed these images captured on Google Street View, I’m certain you’ll agree! I think this woman got her hand measurements wrong when picking her 'horse'! Image 1 of 19 Read more
5 Personalised Gifts for the Tech Enthusiast
What do you buy for the person who has everything? It can be a tricky decision but don’t worry, we’ve come up with a few suggestions that should hopefully make it a bit easier. The products themselves would make great gifts for any tech enthusiast but the added beauty... Read more
Sprint Wants to Cut your Smartphone Bill in Half
If you’re someone who wants to save quite a bit of money on your smartphone bill and is tired of having either Verizon or AT&T as your service provider, Sprint has just announced a pretty tempting offer. Beginning this Friday (12/5/14), if you bring in a copy of your current bill... Read more
VMware Player Version 7.0.0 is Now Available
A virtual machine is a computer defined in software. It’s like running a PC on your PC. This free desktop virtualization software application makes it easy to operate any virtual machine created by VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware Server or VMware ESX, as well as Microsoft Virtual Server virtual machines... Read more
Intel Buys PasswordBox
On Monday of this week, a recent deal was announced regarding Intel acquiring a cross-platform identity management service, based out of Montreal, called PasswordBox. The recent acquisition means the firm will be merged with the Intel Security Group portfolio. Intel has said this acquisition of PasswordBox will encourage the company’s Safe... Read more
Google Glass to Get Intel Chip in 2015
Reports are circling that microchip manufacturer, Intel, will be suppling a new chip for a the latest version of Google Glass. The new version of Glass will be available in 2015, according to news reports. The new chip will replace the current one that is made by Texas Instruments. ... Read more
Why you Should Never Take Photos Using iPads!
It wasn’t until Apple released the iPad 2, with its front and rear-facing cameras, that people started taking photos with iPads. Now it seems to have become an epidemic with people thinking it’s ok and cool to thrust a large rectangle device into the air, blocking everyone else’s view.... Read more
Obama Pushes $263 Million For 50,000 Police Body Cameras
If you haven’t heard about all of the civil unrest happening in Ferguson, Mo (and other areas as well), you haven’t had the TV on or opened up a newspaper lately. As a citizen not too terribly far from Ferguson, I can tell you that it’s just about all... Read more
Need a Backup of your NAS or SSD? Try True Image 2015
Acronis True Image creates backups of important data, individual partitions or entire hard-drives. With those backups at hand, mistakenly deleted files or hard-drive defects are of little concern. TrueImage features scheduled backups and synchronization of images on hard-disks, NAS systems, USB drives and over the web. As soon as... Read more
Sony Experiments with New E-Paper Fes Watch
Sony has been experimenting with its smartwatch design and has come up with the Fes Watch, a minimalist and monochrome looking watch made from e-paper. The thought process behind this unconventional smartwatch is to look at how fashion can play more of a roll in technology. Of course, it... Read more