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New Alien: Isolation DLC Out Today, Welcome to “Trauma”

Alien: Isolation is ready to bring up the scares once again, with its second DLC pack launching today for the Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC. Trauma, the new DLC, launches for the ...

December 3, 2014 at 1:10 am by

Google Chromecast Now More Popular Than Apple TV

Google’s Chromecast TV streaming dongle outsold Apple TV over the first three quarters of 2014, according to Parks Associates, a market researcher. Google has been given the ...

December 3, 2014 at 12:41 am by

Xbox Live Hit by DDoS Attack

On Monday, Xbox Live Gaming Servers were taken offline by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, with a hacker group known as Lizard Squad taking responsibility. ...

December 3, 2014 at 12:41 am by

Sony Hack: Executives Payroll Information Leaked

Time for today’s Sony Pictures hack story. Now the hackers appear to have released a portion of their “tens of terabytes” of internal documents. ...

December 2, 2014 at 11:25 pm by

Apple Patent System for iPhones to Self-Protect When Dropped

Apple has been awarded US Patent No. 8903519 by the US Patent and Trademark Office for a “protective mechanism for an electronic device”, designed to mitigate damage ...

December 2, 2014 at 10:54 pm by

The Return of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Any UK child of the Eighties will be familiar with The Sinclair ZX Spectrum, the best-selling 8-bit home computer that turned a generation of Beano readers into gamers. Now, ...

December 2, 2014 at 9:58 pm by

Stephen Hawking’s Speech System Made Open Source

A new speech system, created for famed physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, has been made available free and open source, creator Intel have announced. The project is called ...

December 2, 2014 at 8:54 pm by

iPhone to Protect Itself from Falls by Shifting Weight

According to the International Business Times, Apple has filed a patent that uses the vibration motor inside an iPhone to shift the device’s weight when falling – ...

December 2, 2014 at 7:58 pm by

Zowie Gear Releases Smaller FK2 Mouse

Zowie Gear has released a new mouse upon us and it’s a shrunk down version of the Zowie FK1 that scored great in our review. Not everyone has the same size hands, so ...

December 2, 2014 at 4:58 pm by

Sonnet Announces Tempo Low-Profile PCIe SSD

Sonnet Technologies has announced their a PCIe card with a 512GB SSD module included as part of their Tempo series of storage products. It is built around a M.2 PCIe SSD ...

December 2, 2014 at 2:58 pm by

Addonics Announces Ultra DigiDrive Multi-Purpose Docks

Addonics Technologies announced the Addonics UDD25, a family of four readers/writers for 2.5-inch HDD / SSD, M2 card, mSATA SSD, CFast card or CF cards. The docks provide fast ...

December 2, 2014 at 12:13 pm by

VR Master Race Competition [Oculus Rift Owners Only]

Bit of an odd competition this week, as we look to kick off our eTeknix VR Week. While I understand that many of you will not be able to enter this competition, it’s ...

December 2, 2014 at 11:52 am by

Patriot Torch SSD Listed and Available Ahead of Launch

Some people just have a keen eye when being at the right place at the right time, and as such the Patriot Torch SSD has been spotted as listed on Amazon ahead of its launch. ...

December 2, 2014 at 11:30 am by

Upgrade Your Rig With DeepCool Competition Winners!

Following on the growing success of our Best Looking System Giveaway, we decided to have a little more fun with the concept. We want to see how many of you have shoddy ...

December 2, 2014 at 11:26 am by

Apple iPad Pro Should Pack A9 Processor, 12.2″ Display & Launch in Q2 2015

Apple is expected to release a new member to its iPad range of tablets, the iPad Pro, next year. The iPad Pro will reportedly feature a 12.9-inch Retina display of some ...

December 2, 2014 at 7:23 am by

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