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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…

VLC 3.0 Vetinari Launches For All Platforms
The latest version of the free ‘play-everything-and-anything’ VLC Media Player has been released for Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, iOS, Android TV, Apple TV, and Chrome OS. Its gets Chromecast support, and is just as good as ever. The good news, is that it’s still free, it plays even more formats... Read more
5 Great Tech Gift Ideas for Valentine’s Day
Sweets may be for sweets, but it’s gadgets for us geeks! February 14th is upon us, so check out these inspired tech gifts for Valentine’s Day. Tech gifts for Valentine’s Day? Absolutely! Forget flowers and chocolates – this year, why not surprise your one and only with a gift... Read more
VLC Media Player 3.0 Review
We review the first major release in three years of this ever-popular cross-platform multimedia player. VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and streaming protocols. Version 3.0 is the first major release in... Read more
Chinese Police Using Facial Recognition Glasses To Identify Criminals
Police using cutting-edge tech to catch criminals and monitor commuters. As the Chinese Lunar New Year Holiday began last week and millions of Chinese journeyed home for the occasion, at one particular train station in the Henan Province travellers were met by the sight of police wearing sunglasses equipped... Read more
Amazon Takes On Healthcare Industry
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase & Co to partner on US employee healthcare. Amazon is in the business of revolutions. Apart from single-handedly changing the way consumers buy books, the retail giant also completely upended the publishing industry, giving voice, respectability, and income to authors whose books would... Read more
Microsoft Promises To Delete Software That Scares People Into Upgrading
Microsoft say that ‘bullying software’ such as cleaners and optimizers that try to ‘scare’ PC users into paying for upgrades, will be detected and removed. Starting March 1st, Windows Defender Antivirus and other associated Microsoft security products will classify programs that display bullying messages and use scare-tactic marketing as... Read more
Skype Now Easier To Install On Linux Desktop
Canonical and Microsoft co-operation lets users install Skype in a Snap. At last! Skype is now available as a snap on Linux desktop. The news means that it’s now easier than ever to install the popular video calling tools in most popular versions of Linux such as Ubuntu and Linux... Read more
Reddit Joins Other Site To Ban ‘DeepFake’ Involuntary Porn
Reddit has become the latest on-line platform to remove and ban high quality fake pornographic material from its website. Reddit introduced its new rules banning the uploading, and sharing of what it referred to as involuntary pornography.  The site joins several other well known digital brands such as Twitter, Gyfcat and... Read more
India Hasn’t Banned Bitcoin…Yet
Yet it does look like the beginnig of the end for the cryptocurrency there. Articles have begun circulating with incendiary headlines concerning Bitcoin and other forms of cryptocurrency, more specifically that the government of India has banned the use and trading of this monetary form within the country. Unfortunately,... Read more
Is Tech Addiction Real?

Is Tech Addiction Real?

News February 9, 2018

Momentum growing to classify digital addiction. Pop culture and society have an obsession with appropriating mental health terminology. It’s commonplace to hear things like, “I’m so depressed, my dog died,” or “My ADD is acting up today.” Even references to more severe issues like bipolar disorder and even schizophrenia... Read more
Amazon’s Cloud Is Now World’s Fifth Largest Software Company
News has emerged that Amazon Web Services (AWS) would be one of the largest software businesses, even if it was completely independent of parent company, Amazon. Newly released figures show Amazon’s cloud business has expanded so fast in the last 10 years, that it’s now the fifth-largest business software... Read more
Cryptocurrency WannaMine Attacks On The Rise
Anyone can be infected by mine hackers, so it’s important to upgrade your AV protection to include a block against WannaMine and similar threats. Another day, another headline about the cryptocurrency craze… If anyone else is starting to feel like cryptocurrency is just a giant game of Farmville where... Read more
Uber v Google: Self-Drive Tech Clash Goes Legal
Two of the biggest names in autonomous vehicle tech go head-to-head in court in San Franciso. Ride-hailing firm Uber is being sued by Waymo, the self-driving company spun out of Google. At the heart of the case is the accusation that Uber stole ‘trade secrets’ relating to Lidar (light... Read more
Bitcoin ‘Biggest Bubble In Human History’ Says Economist Who Predicted 2008 Financial Crash
Nouriel Roubini, the man who successfully predicted the 2008 global financial crisis has called Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency, the ‘mother of all bubbles’ as its price sunk below $8,000 last Friday. At the time of writing, the value of Bitcoin sat at $ 7,700, just over 60% down on its... Read more
More Crashes From Self-Driving Cars
Tesla Model S and Chevy Bolt incidents prove autonomous vehicles still have a way to go. Automakers GM and Tesla are once again coming under fire for safety concerns, this time involving two separate collisions of their vehicles while the “autopilot” feature was enabled. The Tesla had the misfortune... Read more
Facebook Loses 700,000 Users In USA For First Time 
New data reveals a decline in both the amount of time people are spending on Facebook , and a near one million drop in users from North America and Canada.    For the first time EVER Facebook has experienced a drop in user numbers. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said the reduction in numbers was inevitable, as... Read more
Google Now Sells Audiobooks… Is That A Good Thing?
Google Play Store features new audiobook section and integrates them with Home smart speaker. Google has recently announced that it will now sell audiobooks to its customers, opening up the doors of competition against Amazon’s widely popular Audible. The move will mean that the Google Play Store will host... Read more
Stripe Payment Platform Drops Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency receives another blow as online payment platform announces end of support.  There’s possibly nothing as uncertain as cryptocurrency right now, despite the continuous high stakes gambling involved in investing. All forms, from Bitcoin to Monero and beyond, are experiencing unprecedented attention, but that may soon be crashing to... Read more