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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…

CIA Joins Facebook & Twitter
Well, you just never know who you’ll find on social media these days. Of course there are all kinds of people who you would expect – celebrities, athletes, big-name type people – but there are some organizations and people who you wouldn’t exactly expect to see sending out a... Read more
UK Highway Code To Be Altered For Driverless Cars
Only a few weeks after Google unveiled its first set of self-driving cars, transport ministers in the UK have begun to draw up new legislation to allow driverless vehicles onto Britain’s highways.  The current Highway Code is somewhat antiquated and therefore inadequate for coping with this new type of... Read more
Google X Projects – The Ones That Made It & Those That Didn’t
For anyone who doesn’t already know, Google X is Google’s top-secret lab that has been responsible for Google Glass, weather balloons that provide internet connections to the remotest parts of the world and self-driving cars. The team of engineers who work in Google X are tasked with thinking not... Read more
DARPA Z MAN Project

DARPA Z MAN Project

News June 11, 2014

Have you ever wanted to be able to climb vertical surfaces?  I remember watching Spiderman in the theatre and thinking wow, now that is cool.  It appears as though I wasn’t the only person to have that desire. The people behind  DARPA’s Z Man project must have had similar thoughts.... Read more
Happy Belated 30th Birthday Tetris!
I don’t know if you missed this big piece of news a few days ago, but on June 6th, the classic game Tetris turned the big 30. Wow – Tetris is just a couple of months older than me. Tetris is one of the first games I can remember... Read more
CCleaner For Android Hits The Google Play Store!
Piriform, the company responsible for the popular PC utility CCleaner, has today announced that CCleaner for Android is now out of Beta and available to download for free. Since the Beta was released, more features have been added and the performance has been improved. We love the fact that... Read more
Be The First To Read All About The Release Of Firefox 30
Mozilla has released a new stable version of its popular web browser! In Firefox 29 the introduction of the Australis interface was big news and made a dramatic impact on the look and feel of the browser. Firefox 30 on the other hand only receives minor functionality updates but that doesn’t... Read more
Toilets Are Getting Smarter At Heathrow Airport
It seems there will be no end to the gadgets and devices getting “smart” upgrades. It seems the new popular item everyone wants to make smarter is their toilet. Indeed, it seems I can’t watch an hour of television without seeing at least one ad that focuses solely on... Read more
Build Your Own 3D Printer For Under $100
When New Matter launched its MOD-t 3D printer on the crowd funding site Indiegogo, everyone was astounded that a 3D printer could be commercially available for just $249 (if you missed the early bird that is) and made everyone realize that these devices are no longer beyond the reach... Read more
This Smart Ceiling Fan Does All The Hard Work For You
Ceiling fans don’t really have all that much to them, and they don’t really require a whole lot of extensive knowledge before someone can figure out how to use it. All it really takes is flipping on a switch and maybe yanking on a chain. (You might even have... Read more
Libre Office 4.3.0 Beta 2 Now Available
LibreOffice is a free but power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux.  The software gives you not just one, but six feature-rich applications for all your document production and your data processing needs. Writer is the word processor for LibreOffice. You can use it for almost any... Read more
Man Drops Smartphone in Toilet & Gets Stuck for 6 Hours
What won’t a person do for their beloved smartphone? Just within the past few months, Techbeat has written more than one article detailing the importance we as a society now place on our phones. In one of those articles, it was revealed that more than two thirds of all... Read more
Smart Rifle Paired With Google Glass
Have firearms’ companies taken technology too far?  All technology can be used for the greater good or for the greater evil.  Google Glass is just one of the latest in wearable technology that is on offer to the public. A Gun company has recently paired up a gun with... Read more
3D Printer Helps ‘Regrow’ Van Gogh’s Ear
3D printing has taken on a whole new and exciting endeavour: Growing a human ear…van Gogh’s ear!  In 1888, Vincent van Gogh cut off his own ear when he had a psychotic episode.  It has now been recreated for an exhibit in a museum. Van Gogh suffered from many... Read more
The Funniest Things You’ll See On Google Street View
Some people relish the opportunity to be captured on Google’s Street View camera, whilst others would have preferred advanced warning, however both result in some pretty hilarious  photos. Here is a selection of our favourite Google Street View shots. Read more
Syringe Invention Seals Gunshot Wounds In Seconds
The U.S. military had asked medical technology company RevMedx, to find a solution for helping stop gunshot and shrapnel wounds from excessive bleeding. This idea of using a foreign substance to plug a hole is not a new one.  The idea is a medical version of Fix-a-Flat; the foam... Read more
Google Could Soon Protect Your Home
Here I thought Wal-Mart was taking over the world, and it turns out Google may not be too far behind them. Google seems to be trying their hand at everything, and rather successfully I might add. Just mention the name “Google”, and many products and services will probably come... Read more
Virgin Galactic Wants To Take You To Space This Year
I think everyone wants to go to space sometime, especially when they’re younger. If you gather a group of kids together and ask them what they want to be when they grow up, someone’s bound to say they want to be an astronaut and fly into outer space. While... Read more