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Another Victim of a Tough Market: SpecialTech is No More

Following our recent coverage of FrozenCPU (stories here), it seems that another much loved retailer has bitten the dust. This time around is it SpecialTech, the place where most bought their first water-cooling related things ...

9 years ago

Entire Episode of Sitcom ‘Modern Family’ To Take Place on a Mac Desktop

An upcoming episode of 'Modern Family', the popular sitcom shown on ABC in the US and Sky in the UK, has been shot entirely on Apple iPhones, iPads and Macs. The episode takes place solely on the desktop of one of the shows ...

9 years ago

Is Touch ID Headed to MacBooks and Mac Mice?

A new rumour from Taiwanese site Apple.club.tw says that Apple is to bring Touch ID to its MacBooks and computer mice. Touch ID is the fingerprint scanning technology the company has included with the iPhone and iPad beginning ...

9 years ago

Test Shows Over 100fps Difference Between DX12 and DX11

Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock, has had some interesting things to say about DirectX 12, and in a recent test he compared DX12 to its predecessor, DX11, on a high-end system with an unreleased GPU. The results saw DX12 outperform it ...

9 years ago

PS4 20th Anniversary Auction Goes for $127,000

Sony Computer Entertainment held a special auction recently, selling off one of their incredibly popular 20th Anniversary PlayStation 4 consoles. Sony promised to donate the proceeds to the Japanese branch of Save the ...

9 years ago

Humble Square Enix Bundle 2 Full of Great Games

The Humble bundles and sales are just as good at dragging the money out of our wallets as the Steam sales are, and the latest Humble Bundle looks like a great offer too. The Humble Square Enix Bundle 2 will give you the popular ...

9 years ago

VLC to Get Chromecast Support

It seems VLC, the acclaimed open-source portable media player, is getting Chromecast support. VideoLAN, VLCs creator, recently posted a changelog for their media platform to GitHub, with “Chromecast output module” listed as one ...

9 years ago

AOC Unveils Latest 27-inch WQHD Monitor

The latest monitor from AOC comes equipped with a WQHD 2560 x 1440 resolution TN panel, a snappy 1ms response time and 27-inches of real estate. AOC promise wide viewing angles of 170° horizontal and 160° vertical. The monitor ...

9 years ago

IDE Isn’t Dead yet, SuperTalent Release DuraDrive ZT4 SSD

Here we are, most of us thinking that the 40pin IDE connector was a part of history by now - but that isn't so. There's still a lot of older systems in use, especially in the aerospace sector, that uses this 'older' hardware. It is ...

9 years ago

Acer Announces Freesync Ready XG270HU Monitor

The upcoming Acer XG270HU gaming monitor will feature AMDs FreeSync technology, a great tool to help eliminate screen tearing and stuttering caused by FPS fluctuations. It comes equipped with a lovely 2560 x 1440 WQHD panel and a ...

9 years ago

Tesla is Working on a Battery For Your Home

Tesla is working on a battery to power people's homes. The company's CEO, Elon Musk, announced the development of such a product during the company's earnings call on Wednesday. Musk said that the battery will enable people to live ...

9 years ago

Samsung First with 14nm FinFET Mass Production

It looks like Samsung beat TSMC to the punch by being the first to announce the mass production of their 14nm FinFET process technology. The first chip to use this will be the Exynos 7 Octa, but the process will be expanded to ...

9 years ago

ECS Liva SOC Mini-PC System Review

Introduction ECS (Elitegroup Computer Systems) are no stranger to the PC hardware game despite not being instantly recognisable by most as a PC hardware vendor. In fact, they are the fifth largest motherboard ...

9 years ago

Jamie Oliver’s Website Hacked and Used as Malware Distributor

The website of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, which has an average of 10 million visitors per month, has been hacked. The hackers inserted a string of code that redirects visitors to a WordPress site that uses a Flash, Java, or ...

9 years ago

Flip Phones Still Popular in Japan While Smartphone Sales Stall

Remember flip phones? Phones like the insanely popular Moto Razr? They were all the rage before the smartphone came along. Well, actually, flip phones aren't dead yet, not in Japan at least. Sales of flip phones grew by 5.7 ...

9 years ago

Xbox Ultimate Game Sale Starts Today

Microsoft is offering a raft of discounts in its Ultimate Game Sale on Xbox Live, on both Xbox One and Xbox 360 games, with price reductions of up to 85%. Xbox Live Gold subscribers are even entitled to an extra 10% ...

9 years ago

Halo Motorcycle Helmet Lets You Ride as Master Chief

Now all you bikers can straddle your ride dressed like Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 with this officially licensed Halo motorcycle helmet. The limited edition Spartan Armor helmet – rumoured since last year after a ...

9 years ago

Custom iPhone Is Worth as Much as a Small Island

Goldgenie, an iPhone customiser that boasts such customers as Usain Bolt, David Beckham, and P Diddy, has created a gold-cased, diamond-encrusted iPhone with an outrageous price tag of £2.3 million ($3.51 million). The Diamond ...

9 years ago

PS4 2.04 Firmware Update Suffering CE-32937-4 and SU-30709-9 Errors

Users have reported two specific errors while attempting to download the 2.04 PlayStation 4 firmware update. The SU-30709-9 error happens before the download begins, while the CE-32937-4 error halts the download after it has ...

9 years ago

Has the FAA Killed Amazon Prime Air?

Prime Air, Amazon’s ambitious 30-minute drone delivery service, may have been downed by the US Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) new regulation proposals before it even got off the ground. NBC News has reported that these ...

9 years ago

Did Apple’s Jony Ive Design the New Lightsabers?

Yesterday we reported on the new profile of Apple's Jony Ive, the senior designer behind the look of many of Apple's iconic products. There is a host of interesting tidbits of information in that profile, covering things from the ...

9 years ago

OpenELEC Version 5.0.2 and RaspberryPi Hotfix 5.0.3 Released

OpenELEC is an embedded operating system built specifically to support the Kodi media player hub (formerly known as XMBC) and to run on most available hardware, and now version 5.0.3 for RaspberryPi and version 5.0.2 for the rest ...

9 years ago

Ubuntu Smart Phones Will Finally Go on Sale next Week

The Ubuntu powered smartphones have been a long time coming, but the first one is finally ready for the European market. The Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition will be available next week for €170 through a series of online flash ...

9 years ago

The Bolt, Chevrolet’s Claim to Green Fame

Electric vehicles (EVs) are slowly becoming the norm in today's society. It all started off with the hybrid Toyota Prius back in the late 2000's, but now it seems every manufacturer and their brother makes EVs or at least a ...

9 years ago

First High Resolutions Screenshots of Rise of the Tomb Raider

The upcoming timed Xbox exclusive, Rise of the Tomb Raider has finally gotten its first direct feed high-resolution screenshots! So we can finally get a little taste of what this game is going to look like in action! The game is ...

9 years ago

Firefox Aims to Replace Flash Plugin Altogether with Shumway

Mozilla's newest project for the Firefox browser will make the need to use the Flash plugin obsolete. The project is called Shumway and is already integrated into Firefox Nightly. It has the purpose of making web browsing more ...

9 years ago

ASUSTOR’s New AiMaster App Allows Easy 4-Step NAS Initialisation

ASUSTOR's has released a new mobile app to control their NAS devices and it is the most comprehensive mobile NAS app made so far. The new AiMaster app allows for an easy 4-step NAS initialisation via your Android phone with all ...

9 years ago

STRAFE Pre-Alpha Build Available for Download

The delightfully bloody STRAFE, an FPS with graphics and gameplay firmly rooted in the Nineties, now has a pre-alpha build available for download, thanks to developers Pixel Titans. STRAFE’s Kickstarter campaign is now down to ...

9 years ago

Sony’s SmartEyeglass Becomes Available for Pre-Order

Sony's Google Glass alternative, SmartEyeglass, has finally become available for pre-order. You can reserve a 'developer' unit today for $840 in the US, Germany and the UK, before the release date of March 10th. The glasses ...

9 years ago

MSI Offering Cashback on Motherboard and Graphics Card Combos

Any customer who buys a selected MSI motherboard with an MSI graphics card from an official MSI reseller is eligible for cashback. The selected motherboards are MSI’s X99 range, the MSI Z97 GAMING line-up, the Z97S SLI Krait ...

9 years ago

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