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Twitch Fan Convention to Take Place in San Francisco

  Twitch, the popular game streaming service, is to have its very first fan convention in San Francisco. TwitchCon will take place across two days on September 25th and 26th where viewers, Twitch broadcasters and ...

9 years ago

Drone Captures Amazing Footage of Frozen Niagara Falls

Drones are becoming increasingly popular these days. From recreational use to delivery services, it seems everyone wants to buzz around the skies with a quadcopter. One new place they're seeing use is for news programmes, so it's ...

9 years ago

This Robot Feeds You Tomatoes While You Run

You know when you're on a run and you just fancy a nice tomato, but struggle to pick one up while you're moving? No, me neither. But Japanese company, Kagome, thinks that this is a problem that needs to be resolved. That's why ...

9 years ago

Superfish Admits to Certificate Installation, Didn’t Realise Security Flaw

The CEO of Superfish, the company behind the software of the same name that has been central to a recent scandal surrounding Lenovo, has admitted to his company intentionally installing the root certificate authority as part of ...

9 years ago

Lenovo Releases Automatic Tool to Remove Superfish

Lenovo, the company embroiled in controversy over the Superfish adware preinstalled on a number of their PCs, has released a special removal tool to automatically rid their products of the software. The company initially ...

9 years ago

Western Digital 3.5″ Red 6TB NAS HDD Review

Introduction The Western Digital RED family of NAS drives has been on the market for a while, and it keeps growing. There are 2.5-inch 750GB and 1TB drives just as there are 1TB to 6TB 3.5-inch drives in the WD RED ...

9 years ago

Comcast Starts Using “Designed By Comcast in Philadelphia” on Remotes

Comcast has decided that the best way to improve people's perceptions of itself is to copy one of the most famous slogans in tech. On every Apple product, big or small, from tiny headphone cables to whole computer systems, you'll ...

9 years ago

Microsoft Updates Windows Defender to Remove Superfish

Microsoft has emerged as the hero within this whole Superfish/Lenovo story, as the company has updated its anti-virus software to detect and remove the offending program. Windows Defender, which is preinstalled on Windows 8, and ...

9 years ago

Never Trust a Stranger, Young Destiny Player Learns It the Hard Way

The PS4 has the cool feature that you virtually can hand over your controller to another player to get help with a tricky situation that you can't handle yourself - but you should be sure to trust the person you share with. A ...

9 years ago

Metal Gear Solid PS4 Remake Kickstarter Canceled After Absolutely No One Pledged

Some Kickstarter projects are doomed to fail from the beginning, and it was no different for the ridiculous Metal Gear Solid PS4 remake on Kickstarter The original creator of the game, Hideo Kojima, said at the Taipei Game Show ...

9 years ago

RC Mario Kart Has Wheels That Convert To Hover Mode

A new radio controlled Mario Kart can realign its wheels 90o to covert to “hover mode”, just like the vehicles on Mario Kart 8 for the Wii U. Though the RC racer can’t actually hover, it does a great job at mimicking the ...

9 years ago

Enermax iVektor Mid-Tower Chassis Review

Introduction Enermax is one of the best names in the business, having designed many successful chassis, power supplies and cooling products over years. They've proven to us here at eTeknix time and time again that they can ...

9 years ago

Apple to Release Public Beta Builds of iOS

Beginning with iOS 8.3, Apple will start releasing public beta builds of its mobile operating system, according to Mark Gurman of 9to5Mac. Gurman’s report says that Apple will extend this policy to iOS 9 after its introduction at ...

9 years ago

iOS 9 to Focus on Stability, Public Beta to Come in the Summer

9to5Mac, the venerable source for Apple rumours, has said that iOS 9 will be heavily focused on stability and performance improvements. To achieve this, Apple will apparently have the first ever public beta for iOS. To date, the ...

9 years ago

Trojan Posing as Infamous Movie The Interview Attacks Android Phones

Malware, under the guise of notorious Seth Rogen comedy The Interview, has been attacking Android smartphones in India. The Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In) first detected the Trojan, proliferated via a link ...

9 years ago

New Final Fantasy XV Trailer Shows Gameplay on Xbox One

Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata revealed the gameplay for Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae (the demo release of the game), and it looks pretty spectacular. The video was showcased during the Active Time Report Page 4.0 ...

9 years ago

Dropbox Users Can Get 100GB Free OneDrive Storage

In an attempt to pull Dropbox users over to OneDrive, Microsoft is offering anyone with a Dropbox account 100GB of free storage (for one year). If you visit the OneDrive site and register your Dropbox account, you'll immediately ...

9 years ago

Exploding Kittens Kickstarter Ends, Raising $8.7 Million

Card game Exploding Kittens asked for $10,000 on Kickstarter. Thirty days later, the Kickstarter funding period ended, raising in excess of $8.7 million, with over 200,000 backers. The project had already become the most backed ...

9 years ago

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

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