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Man Buys PS4 From Walmart, Gets Two Bags of Rocks Instead

A man walked into the Stapleton, Colorado based Walmart store, purchasing a PlayStation 4 console, but when he opened the box, there were two bags of rocks waiting for him. No PS4, no controller, no fun... just two big bags of ...

9 years ago

World’s Largest Floating Solar Power Plant Coming to Japan

Renewable energy venture Kyocera TCL has announced plans for a floating 13.4 MW solar power plant on the Yamakura Dam reservoir in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. In terms of capacity/output, the solar plant will become the largest of ...

9 years ago

Young People a ‘Lost Generation’ Who Can’t Fix Technology, Professor Warns

People under 40-years-old expect technology to ‘just work’ and don’t know how to remedy problems, meaning more gadgets, computers, and appliances are being discarded rather than fixed, according to the professor giving this ...

9 years ago

Microsoft Has Now Sold Over 10 Million Xbox One Consoles

Microsoft has hit the Xbox One jackpot, with the Redmond-based software giant selling over 10 million Xbox One consoles since it launched late last year. The holiday season has treated Microsoft and the Xbox One quite well, with ...

9 years ago

The Witness is a Truly Unique Game for the PS4

During the PlayStation Experience event last month, Sony was showing off some truly incredible games, with one of those being the not-so-much talked about 'The Witness.' The Witness is a PS4 exclusive puzzle game, which is ...

9 years ago

PlayStation Network Was Down For Close to 72 Hours… It’s OK Now, Though

Sony has issued an update over its is-it-up-or-down PlayStation Network gaming service, which is now "back online" according to the PlayStation blog. The blog states "PlayStation Network and some other gaming services were attacked ...

9 years ago

Func MS-2 Optical Gaming Mouse Review

Introduction It's been almost a year since we reviewed the Func HS-260 gaming headset, which I absolutely loved. The headset offered nice build quality and fantastic sound despite its modest price tag. I actually used it ...

9 years ago

QNAP Releases TVS-ECx80+ Edge Cloud Turbo vNAS

At what point do we start to call just call it a server again and not an NAS, that's a very good question. Qnap sure pushes that line with their latest TVS-ECx80+ series of Edge Cloud Turbo vNAS devices. On devices like this, the ...

9 years ago

Vizio Makes Fun of Curved Screens in New Video Ad

Vizio is one of the US' biggest TV manufacturer and they make some amazing screens, but it seems they don't believe in the new curved screens. Not only are they not producing any TVs with the new "thing", they are taking quite a ...

9 years ago

Facebook Apologises for Stirring Up Painful Memories With its ‘Year in Review’ Feature

Any Facebook user scrolling through their news feed over the last week have likely seen a slew of posts entitled “It's been a great year! Thanks for being a part of it”, featuring a compilation of photo and text highlights from ...

9 years ago

New Samsung App Aims to Help Autistic Children With Social Interaction

Samsung has developed an app to help children with autism to improve their social interaction. People with the neurodevelopmental disorder autism struggle to engage socially as they have trouble with eye contact and reading verbal ...

9 years ago

Bill Gates Warns That the World Isn’t Prepared For the Impact of Automisation

We are approaching the age of automation, a time in which machines, robots, and software will dominate the labour market. But, unlike the industrial age, which brought with it a plethora of jobs, automation will render many human ...

9 years ago

GTA V Christmas Gifts Extended Due to PSN, XBL Outages

Rockstar Games has announced that its "Christmas gifts" will be available for a longer period due to the PSN and Xbox Live outages. The new cars, outfits, weapons and snowball fights were meant to be available only up until ...

9 years ago

The Interview Made $1 Million on its First Day

Sony has announced that 'The Interview' made $1 Million on its first day. The film was released on Christmas Eve online and in a handful of cinemas on Christmas Day. "Considering the incredibly challenging circumstances, we are ...

9 years ago

Now You Can Download People’s Wills

Want to know what Winston Churchill gave to his family when he died? How about Princess Diana? Or maybe you're more interested in that long lost relative who gave your parents millions of pounds that mysteriously no-longer exists? ...

9 years ago

$66,000 Dollars Raised on Kickstarter For… Keyboard Waffle Iron

There's some crazy Kickstarter campaigns around these days. Take this one for instance, a waffle iron shaped like a keyboard that makes waffles shaped like keyboards. Speaking to Re/code, its creator Chris Dimino was as ...

9 years ago

Tor Reassures Users After Hack Attempt

  The Tor Project, victims of an attempted hack by a group known as Lizard Squad, has reassured users that the threat is being dealt with and that users’ anonymity remains intact. It seems that Lizard Squad launched ...

9 years ago

Tesla Announces Roadster 3.0 – With 400 Mile Range

Luxury electric car maker Tesla has announced a new version of the Tesla Roadster, the 3.0. Most interestingly it has a range of 400 miles - unprecedented in electric vehicles that usually max out at 100 miles. The Tesla ...

9 years ago

Top Tech Investor Warn US Could be “F—ed” by its Strict Immigration Policy

Paul Graham, co-founder of seed accelerator Y Combinator and investor in Dropbox, gauges that 95% of the world’s best engineers live outside the US, and that America’s strict immigration policy means the country will never be ...

9 years ago

“Monkey” Obama Behind Internet Outage, According to North Korea

North Korea has blamed the US of taking down its internet services over the Christmas period and, in a gesture of unbridled racism, branded President Barack Obama “a monkey”. The US is accused of retaliating for the Sony ...

9 years ago

Apple Announces Annual Lucky Bag Sale in Japan

Apple has announced that its annual Lucky Bag Sale in Japan will begin on January 2nd. The lucky bag sales are a New Year tradition in Japan, where customers are offered a bag of mystery items at a set price. The bag could equal ...

9 years ago

Lizard Squad Identities Supposedly Revealed by Anonymous

Another day, another Lizard Squad story. Anonymous have apparently had their revenge and unmasked those behind the 'hacking' group. A list of names, addresses and other contact details have been dumped onto pastebin. The details ...

9 years ago

Lizard Squad Claims Xbox and PSN Hack Was For Our Own Good, Anonymous Declares War

Lizard Squad, the hacker group responsible for taking down Xbox Live and PlayStation Network over Christmas, has claimed it committed the act for the good of gamers. Whatever the motivation, Anonymous has declared war on Lizard ...

9 years ago

The Nexus 6 is Now Back in Stock, in All Colour and Storage Options

Motorola has been making as many Nexus 6 smartphones as it can, but it has not been able to keep up with rampant consumer demand. The Nexus 6 has been quite hard to find in most places across the globe, but now it is back in stock ...

9 years ago

HTC Aims for Budget Smartphone Market Heading Into 2015

Struggling Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC is reportedly aiming for the budget smartphone market next year, after failing to offer decent budget offerings in 2014. The company has lost out to Motorola and Xiaomi in that ...

9 years ago

Steam Holiday Sales Include Shadow of Mordor, Many More

The Steam Holiday Sales include some great bargains today, where you can pick up Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor for £17.99, which has dropped from its original price of £29.99, representing a saving of 40%! Thief is another ...

9 years ago

Facebook Messenger, Snapchat & YouTube are the Top iOS Apps of 2014

Apple has released multiple lists of the best performing apps on the App Store for 2014, with the list of the 10 most popular free iPhone apps below: 1. Facebook Messenger 2. Snapchat 3. YouTube 4. Facebook 5. Instagram 6. ...

9 years ago

Amazon Prime Secures 10 Million New Customers Over the Holidays

With an annual price of $99, Amazon Prime is still doing quite well, with the US retail giant announcing that over 10 million new customers used the premium subscription-based program over the holidays. Amazon Prime's free two-day ...

9 years ago

Kodak Launching Android Smartphones in 2015

Kodak is launching some Android smartphones, with the first to be shown at CES in January. However, this is not a comeback for Kodak in a different business per say, this is more like Kodak licensing their brand to someone else's ...

9 years ago

Lizard Squad Attacks Tor

Lizard Squad, the hacker group responsible for the Christmas Day attacks on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, has turned its sights upon anonymous internet server, Tor (The Onion ...

9 years ago

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