The Sync

Every photo holds a story. Photos and videos capture a snapshot in time and viewing them brings back memories of when the photo was taken and the people or scenery in them. With time, the memories aren’t as fresh as they used to be, and some of the people, places, or even time might be […]...

Is your data really safe? In just the past decade, even the biggest tech behemoths like Apple, Facebook, and Yahoo have suffered from data breaches and password leaks. If you have any data stored online or you have social media accounts, your data has likely been leaked by hackers. So how do you pro...

The big five tech giants — Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple — connect nearly 4.6 billion people across the world. The staggering amount of data they store in their data centers are collectively worth billions of dollars and have resulted in algorithms that can actually change socia...

Recently, some users have discovered that the popular social media app WeChat (with over 1.25 billion active users monthly) has been scanning its users’ photo app content in the background every few hours and sending that data back to its servers, as seen here. That left many users frazzled and w...

Last week’s global Facebook outage was the worst that we have experienced in over 13 years. We often take for granted how these social media platforms enable us to live our everyday lives, from doing work to connecting with our loved ones to storing our personal data. As much as we like to think t...

The new Apple iPhone 13 has arrived.  With all the new tech specs that come with it, no doubt many Apple fans will try to get their hands on one of these devices.  Whether you want to buy the iPhone 13 mini or the bigger iPhone 13, you still need to decide on the storage […]...

We are thrilled to share with you that Amber X has been given the prestigious honor of being selected as a CES 2021 Innovation Awards Honoree for the CYBERSECURITY & PERSONAL PRIVACY category. The CES Innovation Awards is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consu...

In early 2020, some Google Photos users got a pretty terrifying notification — their private photos or videos were accidentally uploaded to other users' accounts. This is only one of many similarly embarrassing (for companies) and worrisome (for users) data breaches or bugs in recent years. Websit...

Your downloads folder: the veritable junk drawer of your computer. In between the screenshots, memes, and who knows what else, there’s important information hidden in there. But, when you go to find something, you’re not sure if it ended up in the downloads folder, on DropBox, GoogleDrive, or so...

Author Bio: Cristin Howard runs Smart Parent Advice, a site that provides parenting advice for moms and dads. Cristin writes about all of the different ups and downs of parenting, provides solutions to common challenges, and reviews products that parents need to purchase for babies and toddlers. As ...