30 percent of Americans would leak private data for $1,000

As we carry out more of our day-to-day transactions online, so the amount of information about us that exists out on the internet grows. That means there are more and more opportunities for data to be leaked or stolen, but a new study by IT staffing company Modis reveals that people still aren't taking their privacy seriously. If $1,000 were on offer over 41 percent of respondents say they would leak personal photos, while nearly 39 percent are willing to part with their browser history. Most are more protective about their financial information though, with only 10.9 percent ready to… [Continue Reading]

Thwart ransomware and protect your data with our O&O Disk Image 10.5 giveaway, worth $49.95

Everybody needs a backup -- with ransomware added to the list of threats to your data, now is the perfect time to take full advantage of our latest Downloadcrew giveaway: a full copy of O&O DiskImage 10.5 Professional, worth $49.95, across this coming weekend. What makes O&O DiskImage special is that it allows you to back up both individual files and folders as well as take a full drive image, so you can protect key data alongside your fail-safe drive image covering your entire Windows installation -- all from one application. The program is simple to use -- the main user… [Continue Reading]

Windows 10 continues to see very slow user adoption

According to NetMarketShare, in July Windows 10 grew its usage share by 0.83 percentage points -- its largest increase in three months. (This, remember, is an OS that only managed to gain a grand total of five percent share in an entire year). With a new major update to the operating system right around the corner, you might expect Windows 10 to have grown its share by a similar figure in August, but no. It's back to the glacial growth we usually see for the new OS. In August, Windows 10 went from 27.63 percent to 27.99 percent, an increase of just 0.36… [Continue Reading]

How to enlarge images without loss of quality

Any photo editor -- be it on the desktop, or on the web -- can reduce an image’s size. You can shrink images down as little or as much as you like. However, making an image bigger, well that’s a whole different matter. When you blow up a picture you can introduce all manner of problems, including blurring, general loss of sharpness, and jagged edges. That said, it is possible to increase a picture’s size without introducing these problems, if you know how. The trick is to use the right software. Two excellent free tools to try are A Sharper… [Continue Reading]

Best Windows 10 apps this week

Two-hundred-and-forty-six in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 on the Windows Store in the past seven days. Microsoft released a number of new Insider Preview builds this week: build 16275, build 16278, and build 16353. As always, if I missed an app or game that has been released this week that you believe is particularly good, let me know in the comments below or notify me via email instead. Discounts this week The following list is a selection of the best deals. Make sure you check out the Store… [Continue Reading]

Oracle upgrades Internet of Things service with artificial intelligence and machine learning

Oracle has revealed a major upgrade to its IoT cloud offering that it says will help businesses get more value out of the platform. The company has revealed it will be imbuing its IoT Cloud with built-in artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities which will be able to provide businesses with more detailed data than ever before. The new Digital Twin and Digital Thread platforms will also allow companies greater visibility into their entire supply chain, with the latter giving a clearer overview by creating a "system of systems" of a company's IoT processes. The former will allow companies to develop… [Continue Reading]

Novabench 4.0 offers quick and dirty benchmark solution for PC and Mac

Novawave Inc has released Novabench 4.0, a major new update for its Windows and Mac benchmarking tool. Version 4.0 unveils new and updated benchmarks, plus an interface redesign. The tool opens with updated CPU tests to support the latest processor features, and debuts new graphics tests -- a cross-platform OpenCL GPU compute test, plus Direct3D 11 (Windows) and Metal (OS X) tests. There’s also a new disk read speed test. The update also sees the program’s score comparison site improved, although at time of writing the ability to directly compare user results with previously submitted benchmarks wasn’t up and running. Novabench focusses… [Continue Reading]