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Lenovo: “We’re Sorry. We Messed Up.”

Lenovo, the PC manufacturer embroiled in controversy over the installation of 'Superfish' adware on new PCs, has issued something of an informal apology on its US Twitter page. We're sorry. We messed up. We're owning it. And we're ...

9 years ago

Adobe Celebrates 25 Years of Photoshop With Spectacular Ad

It's been 25 years since a little Mac application was first released that allowed you to edit photos. Yes, 25 years since Adobe Photoshop was born as a slightly more advanced version of your standard Paint application. However, ...

9 years ago

The Pirate Bay Has Trouble Finding Safe Harbour

The Pirate Bay has been back online for a couple of weeks now, but it has been far from smooth sailing for the site. The main problem for them is to find an ISP that actually wants to host the site. Last Friday it went down ...

9 years ago

Apple to Produce Cars by 2020

Bloomberg, a trusted source for Apple rumours, says that the company is to be producing cars by the year 2020. They say that they company will have vehicles rolling off the production line "as early as 2020", suggesting that the ...

9 years ago

Google Launches YouTube Kids App on Android

Google has launched a dedicated YouTube kids app for Android. The app, to be released on Monday, features specially selected TV shows and videos from kid-centric YouTube channels. The app will only be available on Android at ...

9 years ago

Snowden: US and UK Spies Hacked SIM Card Manufacturer

It's been reported that spies from both the UK and the US hacked into a SIM card company. The information, once again coming from Edward Snowden, details efforts to steal codes that allowed the spies to eavesdrop on communications ...

9 years ago

AT&T Patents Fast Lane for File-Sharing Traffic

Either AT&T knows something we don't or they've been awarded one of the most pointless - yet useful - patents so far. The new patent granted to AT&T is for a 'fast lane' designed to speed up BitTorrent and P2P file ...

9 years ago

EVGA TORQ X5 and X3 Gaming Mice Now Availalbe in Europe

EVGA recently introduced the TORQ X5 and X3 gaming mice and now they're available in Europe. Each of these mice was designed from the ground up to satisfy the needs of the gamers with high-quality sensors and Omron ...

9 years ago

Icy Dock Release ToughArmor MB998SP-B 8×2.5″ SATA Drive Hot Swap Mobile Rack

Being able to put four or even up to six 2.5-inch drives into a single 5.25-inch bay has been seen before, but having a total of eight drives in a single bay is somewhat unusual, but that is what Icy Dock's new ToughArmor MB998SP-B ...

9 years ago

From A Router To The Cloud: How Gaming Companies Manage Online Bandwidth

The development in online streaming and multiplayer gaming has progressed rapidly in the past few years which is great for gamers but has also meant that the hardware and software used to power these new advances has had to ...

9 years ago

Nvidia Pushing Huge Range of AAA Titles To GRID

Nvidia has been working tirelessly to develop their GRID gaming service. GRID is a cloud-based gaming service, which renders the games on Nvidia servers, streams the video output to your device, such as the Nvidia Shield Tablet. ...

9 years ago

Gameblast 15 Supports SpecialEffect With Weekend Gaming Marathon

Over 50 companies from the gaming industry are working together this weekend to do a 48 hour gaming marathon in aid of Special Effect – a company who transform the lives of gamers with disabilities by supporting them with ...

9 years ago

Proper Offline Mode for Just Cause 3

PCGames.de recently interviewed Avalanche's Roland Lesterlin about Just Cause 3. The biggest news from it is that Just Cause 3 will have a full offline mode. Roland said this about the game: "We want to make the game accessible to ...

9 years ago

Sapphire Tri-x Radeon R9 290x 8GB Graphics Card Review

Introduction The AMD R9 200 range has been with us now for around 18 months, much longer than a normal graphics card range. AMD produced some very high-quality products here that allowed them to initially beat NVIDIA ...

9 years ago

Windows Phone 8.1 Update 2 (GDR2) Due Before Windows 10 for Lumia

Windows Phone 8.1 Update 2 (GDR2) for Microsoft Lumia devices will be released within the next few months, it has been revealed, meaning that it will arrive before the release of Windows 10, due later this year. Unfortunately, ...

9 years ago

Data Breach: The Sure Fast Way to Become a Retail Pariah

"18.5M Californians lose data to hackers"   Shocking weekly headlines such as this illustrate the growing problem of major data breaches at multinational enterprises and have both consumers and operators crying foul. In fact, ...

9 years ago

3D Printed Whiteboard Clock Writes Out Current Time

21-year-old software engineer Maurice Bos has built a mechanical clock that writes the current time on a whiteboard every minute, each time erasing the previous time. Bos, who works for Google in Zürich, built the clock using a ...

9 years ago

Android Malware Fakes Power-off to Spy on You

The security company AVG has discovered a particular devious little piece of malware in the Android ecosystem, one that seemingly can spy on you while your phone is turned off. The malware digs into your phone and actually just ...

9 years ago

Nvidia Mobile GPU Overclocking to Return in Next Driver Update

It was only six days ago that we could report that the latest Nvidia drivers disabled the overclocking abilities on mobile GTX900 chips and later issued the statement that the overclocking wasn't an intended feature in their ...

9 years ago

Apple’s Latest Store Has a Floor That Floats in Mid-Air

Apple's latest store, one in Hangzhou, China, has a first floor that appears to float, with no visible supports. The store was co-designed by British architecture firm Foster + Partners, founded by legendary architect Norman ...

9 years ago

Mars One Colonising Mission Down to its Final 100 Candidates

The candidates for the four seats on board the non-profit Mars colony mission, Mars One, are down to the final 100. The latest round of cuts on Tuesday reduced the pool from 660 candidates, a process which began with 200,000 ...

9 years ago

$114,000 Kickstarter Project The Stomping Land Goes Dark

After raising $114,000 on Kickstarter, dinosaur survival game The Stomping Land is in a worrying state after its lead artist left the project to take another job and its lead developer, Alex Fundora, is no longer responding to ...

9 years ago

New Dragon’s Dogma Online Trailer Shows Sweeping Story and Epic Battles

Capcom Online Games has released an impressive new trailer for its forthcoming free-to-play MMORPG Dragon’s Dogma Online. The game is set for release on PC, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4 later this year. The trailer ...

9 years ago

Sony Selling Overpriced MicroSD Card ‘For Premium Sound’

Sony has apparently developed a MicroSD card that has been engineered 'for premium sound'. The card, which is deemed as a companion to the $1,200 Walkman they introduced at CES this year, is supposed to reduce the amount of ...

9 years ago

NZXT H440 Razer Special Edition Chassis Review

Introduction NZXT have been delivering award-winning products time and time again in recent years. Their most recent marvel isn't exactly new, but as far as a refresh goes, it's a big one. The NZXT H440 is one of my all ...

9 years ago

New Barbie Doll to be Internet Connected for Interactive Chat

A new internet connected Barbie doll will have the ability to talk with kids. Hello Barbie uses speech recognition and a WiFi connection to have two-way conversations with children. The prototype was revealed at the New York Toy ...

9 years ago

Microsoft To Punish Windows XP Holdouts With Doubled Support Costs

Microsoft is so keen to persuade Windows XP users to finally upgrade that it is doubling the support costs for the aging operating system. Despite XP being followed by three different iterations – Windows Vista, Windows 7, and ...

9 years ago

Phoneception: Charge Your Phone with Your Friends

Have that one friend who is always mooching from you? Well, time to add to that list of things that are mooched, as a new Indeiegogo campaign is raising money for a double-headed microUSB cable that will charge one phone using ...

9 years ago

TRENDnet Announced the Availability of the Powerline 1200 AV2 Adapter Kit

TRENDnet has announced the availability of the Powerline 1200 AV2 Adapter Kit, model TPL-420E2K. TRENDnet's Powerline 1200 series create a network connection over your existing power circuitry using all three wires in them: live, ...

9 years ago

DirectX 12 Will Reportedly Treat Multiple GPUs as a Single Entity

There aren't many days that go by at the moment where we don't hear something new about the upcoming DirectX 12. We've already been teased with 600K draw calls and a boost on AMD card performance by up to 600% as well as up to 100 ...

9 years ago

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