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Next-Gen AMD CPU Could Offer Serious Competition for Intel

AMD hasn't let much slip about their future CPU plans, except that they won't make the transition before it makes financial sense. Rumours still point towards a 2016 Q2 to Q3 timeline with the latest coming from ...

9 years ago

CD Projekt RED to Release 16 Free DLC Packs for Witcher 3

Taking a stance against the “steeply-priced” DLC economy, Marcin Iwiński, CEO of game studio CD Projekt RED, has announced that the company is releasing 16 DLC packs for Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, absolutely free. Iwiński says of ...

9 years ago

Lizard Squad Hacks Taylor Swift’s 51 Million Follower Twitter Account

It was just this morning that we reported on Lizard Squad claiming responsibility for the earlier Facebook and Instagram outage, now it seems that the hacking group has taken another Social Media behemoth - Taylor Swift. For 15 ...

9 years ago

Facebook Bows to Threats and Bans “Anti-Islamic” Pages in Turkey

Rather than be subject to being blocked entirely in Turkey, Facebook has agreed to block “anti-Islamic” content within the country after a Turkish court order. Gölbaşı Criminal Court of Peace in Ankara issued the order on ...

9 years ago

Apple Acquisition of AuthenTec Meant No Nexus 6 Fingerprint Scanner

Back in 2012, Apple purchased biometrics company AuthenTec with the intention of including their fingerprint scanning technology in future iPhones and iPads. That technology became Apple's Touch ID, first included with the iPhone ...

9 years ago

Possible AMD R9 370 Performance Exposure

We've just seen leaks of possible R9 390 benchmarks and now the next card has its performance exposed. An unknown AMD R9 card has appeared in the GFXBenchmark database and qualified guesses make it out to be the R9 370. The ...

9 years ago

Professional Counter-Strike Players Hit With Life-Long Tournament Bans

After eSports organiser ESEA expelled a number of professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player involved in a betting ring, Valve has followed suit, banning those players involved from all future Valve-sponsored events, or ...

9 years ago

Four More US Cities to Get Google Fiber Gigabit Internet

As a further sign of Google's quest to take over the world, The Wall Street Journal says that the company's Google Fiber service is set to expand to four more US cities. The Journal says that those cities are Atlanta, ...

9 years ago

Saints Row IV Being Pulled From Australian Stores

Copies of Saints Row IV: Re-Elected are being recalled across Australia. But don’t worry – it’s not another ban. The game’s distributor, Deep Silver, has made what it calls a “serious manufacturing error” – in other ...

9 years ago

Gaming Site Joystiq to Shut Down

Re/code reports that AOL, owner of gaming site Joystiq, is "likely" to shut it down. They say that the site will probably be closed as part of a wider effort to cut its under-performing properties. The site itself poked fun at ...

9 years ago

Avid Releasing Free Version of Pro Tools

Considered the premier audio recording and editing software, Pro Tools is getting a free version, called Pro Tools First, developer Avid has announced. Pro Tools 11, the latest iteration of the program, usually retails for £478 ...

9 years ago

Twitter Introduces Group DMs and Video Uploads

Twitter is launching group direct messaging and video upload functionality, in a move that incites competition with its rival, Instagram. The direct messaging service allows users to message multiple people at once as part of a ...

9 years ago

Concept Turns Old Smartphone Parts into High Spec PC

Many of us update our phones at increasingly regular intervals now, often once every one or two years. While many of us sell our phones, the buyers of secondhand devices don't keep them too long either. Quite often they end up in ...

9 years ago

Self-Cleaning & Self-Powered Smart Keyboard Identifies Its User

Passwords are an easy and convenient way to prevent unauthorised access to our data, but it might not be the best as many recent stories have shown us. Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Beijing University of ...

9 years ago

30-Minute Legend Of Zelda Speedrun is a New World Record

A Legend of Zelda player has beaten the game in a record-breaking 30 minutes and 29 seconds. The speedrun was completed by Darkwing_Duck_sda, just 8 seconds faster than his previous best of 30 minutes and 37 seconds. Darkwing ...

9 years ago

TalkTalk Forces Porn Filter on Customers

UK ISP TalkTalk is activating an adult content filter by default for all its users, thanks to prompting by tech-illiterate Prime Minister David Cameron. Under TalkTalk’s HomeSafe system, any website deemed to be hosting adult ...

9 years ago

20th Anniversary PS4 Bought for $130,000

Thought those sales of 20th Anniversary PS4s couldn't get any crazier? Well they just have. It turns out that someone has bought one of the prestigious units in Japan for $130,000. Thing is, this wasn't any regular 20th ...

9 years ago

Swiss Researchers Built Robotic Vampire Bat for Search and Rescue

It isn't easy to create a multi-terrain aerial robot, at least not without adding multiple propulsion features. Up until now they usually carried both wheels and wings to be able to travel in both elements, which in return would ...

9 years ago

Samsung EVO 840 Slow-Down Bug Revisted

We all remember the slow-down bug that affected the Samsung EVO 840 drives last year and Samsung was relative quick to release a patched firmware that seemed to fix the issue. But reports are starting to surface that some drives ...

9 years ago

Xigmatek Aquila Micro-ATX Chassis Review

Introduction It's rare we see a Xigmatek chassis roll through the eTeknix office, but it's certainly always a pleasure when one does. Xigmatek has a good reputation for creating uniquely designed chassis, with good build ...

9 years ago

Lizard Squad Claims Responsibility for Facebook Outage

As you probably know by now, Facebook and Instagram both experienced outages in the last few hours. Droves of Social Media addicts turned to Twitter to vent their frustrations at the "social apocalypse". Now, news has surfaced that ...

9 years ago

Spying Will Get ‘Ethically Worse’ if Unbreakable Encryption is Allowed

Sir David Omand, former head of British intelligence organisation GCHQ, warns that if end-to-end encryption is permitted, that methods of spying will become “ethically worse” to compensate. Ormand said, "One of the results ...

9 years ago

AMD Is Not up for Sale!

There are currently rumours going around the China's BLX IC Design Corp is interested in buying up AMD, causing AMD's shares to surged more than 5 percent on Monday due to this. We all know that it isn't going as good for AMD as ...

9 years ago

Cooler Master Releases ErgoStand III Notebook Cooler

Cooler Master announced the new ErgoStand III cooling stand and docking station for up to 17-inch laptops. It comes with a massive 230mm ultra silent fan using Loop Dynamic Bearing technology to provide 72 feet³ per minute of ...

9 years ago

Facebook Releases Facebook Lite App for Android

In an effort to deal with current, resource-hogging Facebook for Android app, the social network has released a new, lightweight version of the app, targeted at developing markets. Facebook Lite has been made available via the ...

9 years ago

‘Thunderstrike’ Fixed in OS X 10.10.2

'Thunderstrike', a vulnerability for Macs with a Thunderbolt port, will be patched in the next version of OS X Yosemite. The vulnerability allowed an attacker to swap a Mac's boot firmware with software of their own via the ...

9 years ago

Google Released WikiLeaks E-Mails to US Government

Three years after formal requests, Google has admitted that it released e-mails and other digital data own by WikiLeaks staff to the US government, after being served with a secret warrant from a federal judge. Google revealed ...

9 years ago

Imminent IBM Reorganisation Could Result in Massive Layoffs

A potential restructuring of computer hardware company IBM could result in layoffs of 26% of staff, or over 111,000 people. If true, it would be the biggest corporate layoff in history, dwarfing the previous record – ...

9 years ago

FBI Seeks to Track Tor and VPN Users

The FBI is attempting to circumvent the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution in order to spy on The Onion Network (Tor) and Virtual Proxy Network (VPN) users. According to the Foundation for Economic Education: The ...

9 years ago

Planetside 2 Breaks Guinness World Record for Biggest FPS Battle Ever

Last weekend, 1,158 Planetside 2 players came together to break the Guinness World Record for Most Players Online in an FPS Battle. The previous record was held by Man Vs. Machine – a game built especially to break the record, ...

9 years ago

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