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AIDA64 v6.10 is Released With Added Graphics Card Support
For those of you who take a more in-depth analysis of your system and it’s components, then AIDA64 is, without a doubt, one of the most popular (and best) programs around. For owners of the latest Nvidia ‘Super’ or AMD 5700 (XT) graphics cards, however, to date, the program has…
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New EU And US Data Sharing Policy May Not Be Enough
With thousands of accounts and messages used every hour, with messages going between countries within seconds. With systems like PRISM from the US tracking, profiling and gathering information from accounts worldwide the EU decided that they needed to re-clarify the agreement they had regarding data sharing and for a year now…
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Paris Police Want Hexacopter Drones For Crowd Surveillance
When it comes to technology, people are often suspicious when the technology is used to monitor them. Only recently it was revealed that the Stingrays, a set of devices that would pretend to be mobile towers and record messages and calls made through them, were being used by authorities but…
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To Play With The Oculus Rift You Pay With Your Privacy
We all love the idea of virtual reality and augmented reality, the idea that technology can send us to the deepest parts of the earth or the farthest reaches of space inspires us to enjoy things we will never get to do in the real world, all from the comfort…
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Egypt Blocks Facebook’s Internet Service After Being Denied The Ability To Spy On Users
Facebook have been keen on allowing countries access to Free Basics, their low-cost internet system designed at giving people the ability to create a Facebook account and access a limited number of sites at no cost. Free internet sounds great doesn’t it? Some countries don’t believe so, with India already banning…
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Pigeons With Backpacks Are Monitoring Pollution In London
The environment and technology are often seen at odds with one another, with the advance of technology coming at the cost of the environment. While green technology like solar panels get more efficient and generate more electricity with the same resources, people are worried about the pollution and issues we’ve…
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Hexoskin Smart Shirt Monitors Your Health
As a race, we seem drawn to making things smarter, from self-driving cars to watches designed to interact with our mobile phones. One thing that everything from smart watches to phones includes on an all too regular basis is health apps, tracking everything from your steps for the day and…
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Uber Trials Phone Monitoring of Its Drivers
Uber is well-known for problems. The popular app allows drivers to charge as if they were taxi’s, getting notifications that someone is requesting a lift and then offering their services at a charge. Uber, like many companies, suffer from bad press and actions like stolen accounts being sold and even having its leaders…
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Best of CES 2016 – NZXT CAM Software
CES 2016: NZXT has been working hard on making their CAM software the ultimate one stop shop for monitoring and getting the most out of your desktops performance. Previous versions of the software were certainly impressive, but with CAM 3 and what we’ve seen is to come in updates throughout 2016…
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Snoopers Charter Could Have Harmful Effect on Smaller Businesses
Previously we’ve reported on the Snooper Charter (the official name of which is the Investigatory Power Bill). The focus for the snooper charter has been on large companies, with groups like Facebook and Microsoft coming out with some observations over just how bad an impact the charter might have on companies working in…
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Smart me up Demos Real-Time Face Recognition Analysis @ CES 2016
CES 2016: Smart Me Up is a French company which created a highly advanced software suite to monitor a person’s age, gender, head pose and other essential statistics. This is also completed in real time and constantly updates as the software learns more about your facial characteristics. During a hands on…
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