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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

Aerocool Announces Compact GT-RS ATX Cube Chassis

Aerocool announced their latest chassis, this time a 'futuristic designed' cube ATX case with a somewhat different design inside. The GT-RS chassis can hold ATX, micro-ATX and mini-ATX motherboards, graphics cards up to 300mm ...

9 years ago

25-Year-Old Commodore 65 Computer Sells for $23,000 on eBay

No, that headline is not a typo: though anyone alive during the Eighties will be familiar with popular home computer the Commodore 64, its lesser-known younger cousin the Commodore 65 was released in 1990 as a bridge between the ...

9 years ago

Amazon Offering Partial Refund to Some NVIDIA GTX 970 Users

Over the past few weeks, we've all heard massive amount of hype over the mis-advertisement of the GTX 970 range in the VRAM department. Even though they were shown to have 4GB VRAM, in some very demanding benchmarks, users found ...

9 years ago

Amazon Experiences Europe-Wide Outage

Last night, users of Amazon in the UK, Denmark, Germany or many other places in Europe for that matter, found themselves locked out of the preeminent online store for quite some time. With this and the company's Instant Video ...

9 years ago

Corsair Carbide 100R Silent Mid-Tower Chassis Review

Introduction Corsair is one of the most recognizable names in the chassis industry, having many of the most popular chassis' designs across many different price ranges. They've dazzled us with their flagship products such ...

9 years ago

Would Apple Really Buy Tesla?

Internet entrepreneur and angel investor Jason Calacanis suggests that Apple may be preparing to go on its biggest ever shopping trip. The company is not typically known for flashy purchases, with the recent Beats purchase being ...

9 years ago

Has the NSA Been Hiding Viruses in Hard Drive Firmware?

A new report from Kaspersky Lab suggests that the NSA might just have developed quite an interesting way to hide viruses. They say that they may well be hiding malicious software inside the firmware of Hard Drives, including those ...

9 years ago

New Profile on Jony Ive Reveals New Watch Details and More

The New Yorker has published a lengthy profile of Apple's SVP of Design, Jony Ive. The profile is an unprecedented look into the professional and private life of the man largely deemed to be the spiritual successor of Steve ...

9 years ago

First F1 2015 Work-in-Progress Screenshots Leaked

A Formula 1 Facebook fan page called F1 Game Memes has got its hands on some screenshots of Codemasters’ work-in-progress F1 2015 game. The game, which is to be current-gen only, is due for release later this year. Though the ...

9 years ago

Apple Hires BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe Sparking Music Service Rumours

Apple has taken the strange move of hiring  Zane Lowe, a popular BBC Radio 1 DJ. Lowe, who has grown to widespread acclaim and popularity in the UK and around the world for his work on Radio 1, will be completely relinquishing ...

9 years ago

Man Maps Home Wi-Fi Signal in 3D

YouTuber CNLohr has developed a low-tech device for creating a 3D map of a Wi-Fi network signal, and has posted the firmware and software he used to GitHub. CNLohr used a battery-powered ESP8266 chip that he moved around his ...

9 years ago

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