The Sync

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 ...

Rooted in physics, engineering, and a passion for technology, the genesis of Amber began even before we were carrying around pocket-sized digital gadgets with gigabytes of content, life moments and digital memories. Yes, the origin of Amber predates the smartphone itself. Instead, its beginnings wer...

Where do you keep your data? If you’re like most people, you probably store it in a variety of places. Maybe you have a Google Photos account to save your favorite vacation images (or selfies--no judgment!). You probably have some docs saved to DropBox or OneDrive. Oh, and you might have an extern...

On any average day, you probably take a handful of photos, send some texts, emails, and maybe make a few video snippets of your dog, your kid, or something interesting that is important to you. While on the surface, this may not seem like a lot of data, the amount of content created (and stored) [&h...

Independence day is just around the corner and you know what that means! It’s time to bust out those classic red, white and blue Old Navy tees you wear once a year, gather your favorite mixed drink recipes, run to Target for some new pool floaties, visit your local firework stand for some poppers ...

Open Source software is one of those “techy” terms that gets dropped in business spaces without much explanation. What exactly does Open Source mean anyway? If it sounds kind of vague or confusing, don’t worry. The actual concept is pretty simple. Much like the name suggests, this type of soft...

The “Storage full” notice is so 2000 and late. Why, then, is having space on our devices such a pain? In 2020, 90% of all our photos (and video) will be taken on a Smartphone. Keeping enough free space on your smartphone can be a major frustration. Right!? What do you delete? Is it backed [&hell...

We are thrilled to share some very exciting news with our loyal community of backers and supporters. Since raising our $13.1M Series A and launching our flagship product, Amber, in late 2018 - we hit the drawing board to make the reality of a true Private Cloud even more accessible to mass market co...