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Yahoo Might Decide to Sell Its Core Business

Things are not looking good for Yahoo right now, as the company is struggling with both popularity and financial issues. Lately, some of the firm's most important executives have decided to leave, most likely because profits have ...

8 years ago

New Form of Carbon Creates Diamonds at Room Temperature

Diamonds. Known for being priceless stones and hard to scratch, they've been at the centre of jewellery for years due to their shine, price and resilience. This could all change soon though, thanks to Scientists from North ...

8 years ago

Skull Emoji Appears in Gmail Due to Unusual Bug

Gmail scared some of its users around the world Yesterday. A small emoji skull and crossbones appeared in the bottom left corner of their browser screen. The skull worried a number of users due to its displaying of messages such ...

8 years ago

Guy Builds a Mobile Phone in Minecraft That Can Make Real Video Calls

One of the biggest YouTube successes of recent years has built a working mobile (or cell) phone in Minecraft that can actually call other players in-game. Jordan Maron, otherwise known by his YouTube handle CaptainSparklez, can use ...

8 years ago

Google Hires the Man Who Developed Tesla’s Autopilot System

Robert Rose, the man who led the development of Tesla’s "Autopilot" project, has been hired by Google not too long ago. The news was confirmed by Robert himself in a way, as he updated his LinkedIn page in order to reflect his ...

8 years ago

Radeon Settings: Crimson Edition Performance Analysis

Introduction To coincide with the recent Radeon Settings: Crimson Edition release, here is our full look into the performance side using our base Windows 8.1 test system. As we all know by now, Radeon Settings is the ...

8 years ago

HGST’s Helium-Filled Ultrastar He10 10TB HDD Now Shipping

The world's first 10TB perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) hard disk drive is now officially shipping and it is naturally HGST's helium-filled Ultrastar He10. This is the third generation helium drives out of the Western Digital ...

8 years ago

Microsoft Considering Xbox Live Subscription on Windows

Microsoft has been attempting the win back the hearts of PC gamers and making promises to take the platform seriously. Rightfully, this was greeted with a degree of skepticism given Microsoft's history and the disgraceful Games for ...

8 years ago

New AI Named Gabriel Can Whisper Instructions into Your Ear

Fittingly named after the angel Gabriel who usually takes on the role of God's messenger in most biblical writings, the outstanding artificial intelligence platform that I'm about to describe was developed by a team of researchers ...

8 years ago

Research Firm Investigates Why Some Apple Watch Owners Are Dissatisfied

The Apple Watch received a fairly lukewarm reception and ridiculed for its extremely high pricing. Despite this, the device has sold surprisingly well and I didn't expect this given the daily charge requirement. As with any ...

8 years ago

AMD Unveils FirePro W4300 Low-Profile Graphics Card

AMD just unveiled a new family member to the FirePro workstation graphics card series, the new AMD FirePro W4300 low-profile graphics card that will be perfect for small form factor CAD workstations. The AMD FirePro W4300 card ...

8 years ago

High Pressure CPU Coolers Can Damage Skylake

Intel's latest architecture requires a new LGA 1151 socket and features an enhanced pin count. Additionally, the CPUs are built on a 14nm manufacturing process. Some of you might remember that Skylake retail samples do not ship with ...

8 years ago

AMD Releases Hotfix for Crimson Edition Software and Fan Issues

AMD's new Crimson Edition software that replaced the old Catalyst Control Center ran into some trouble over the weekend as users reported their fan speeds malfunctioning. For some users it would be stuck on maximum while other ...

8 years ago

IRS Used Stingray To Track 37 Phones

Digital security is an issue that is raised weekly, with digital privacy seeming to be at odds, security or privacy. These topics come to a point when the topic of Stingray towers is brought up, mobile devices that mimic mobile ...

8 years ago

MSI Launches Z170A KRAIT GAMING R6 SIEGE Motherboard

MSI made a lot of system builders happy when the introduced the KRAIT EDITION motherboards a while ago and since then we've seen several models with the simplistic black and white layout. The newest is the MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING ...

8 years ago

Phanteks Launches Enthoo Mini XL Dual System Chassis

Phanteks newest chassis is anything but ordinary and I'm sure there will be quite a few among our readers that will consider this for their next built and if nothing else, at least imagine what kind of system they would like to ...

8 years ago

eTeknix 2015 Christmas Buying Guide – Treat Yourself or Someone Else!

The time for holiday festivities is almost upon us and as the modern tradition of consumerism continues to grow, it becomes harder and harder to pick the right gifts for people every year, or perhaps it's just me who struggles? ...

8 years ago

Mozilla Describe Thunderbird Client as “a Tax” on FireFox Development

Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail client is often overlooked and hasn't received any major updates since 2012. Nevertheless, I still find it quite useful and think it's a pretty good piece of software to organize multiple e-mail accounts. ...

8 years ago

Zuckerberg and Chan Giving 99% of Their Facebook Shares to Charity

Mark Zuckerberg is not one to shy away from the public spotlight with his charitable activities. Facebook is part group providing refugee camps with internet and recently joined with another billionaire, Bill Gates, to help fund ...

8 years ago

Cooler Master Unveils CM Storm Sentinel III Gaming Mouse With OLED Display

Cooler Master is one of the leading peripheral manufacturers with a history spanning over 20 years. The latest addition to their product line-up is the Sentinel III ergonomic gaming mouse designed for first-person-shooter players ...

8 years ago

Company Uses Advanced Camera to Detect Hidden Weapons and Suicide Bombs

A high-tech camera that was created in Oxford at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) was initially used to map the Earth’s ozone layer, but it is now being repurposed to find concealed weapons, contraband and even suicide ...

8 years ago

Just Cause 3 Engine Does Not Support Multi GPU Configurations

Avalanche Studios is a reputable PC developer and renowned for creating optimized games including Just Cause 2 and Mad Max. While Mad Max's enviroment is fairly basic, you have to admire how well the game runs on modest hardware. ...

8 years ago

NVIDIA Releases 359.06 Game Ready Driver

NVIDIA has unveiled the latest Game Ready driver which includes an SLI profile for Fallout 4 and optimizations for Just Cause 3 and Rainbow Six Siege. Not so long ago, NVIDIA promised to have drivers ready for major releases, but ...

8 years ago

Adobe Renames Flash and Shifts Emphasis to HTML5

Adobe has unveiled its new 2016 Creative Cloud package, bringing with it the end of Flash, but in name only. From now on, Flash – now notorious for its regular security holes and exploits – will be known as Adobe Animate CC, ...

8 years ago

HTTP/2 Opens New Connections With the Word ‘PRISM’

Since whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the extent of the US National Security Agency’s mass surveillance program, the word Prism has taken on a sinister meaning. The NSA’s PRISM program collected the internet ...

8 years ago

Anonymous Claims CloudFlare Protects Pro-ISIS Sites

Anonymous started a new offensive against ISIS following the terrible attacks on Paris and while we all like that part, it's hard for me to take them serious in any way. They surely have a few talented people with skills and ...

8 years ago

Toddler Loses Eye to Crashing Drone

Drones and the dangers of their use can barely stay out of recent news, but the risks of personal drones once again hit home in Britain recently, when a toddlers eyeball was sliced in half by their neighbour's drone. 16-month ...

8 years ago

Archive.org Releases 30GB Torrent of Lost 80s Cassette Tapes

The wonderful Internet Archive (Archive.org) has released a 30GB torrent of lost music which dates from the Eighties to the Early-Nineties. The songs are sourced from a massive archive of cassette tapes – the format by which ...

8 years ago

VTech Leak Contained Headshots of Kids and Chat Logs

Recently it came to light that VTech had been hacked, potentially revealing thousands of emails and usernames. The hacker has revealed more information though on what was contained and revealed within the hack, the information ...

8 years ago

GTA V Mod Will Replace the Game’s Cars with Their Real Counterparts

There is no shortage of Grand Theft Auto V mods, that's for sure, especially mods that alter the game's cars. Actually, a dedicated modder has recently showcased two new videos on his "taltigolt" YouTube channel, and these videos ...

8 years ago

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