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Google to End Chrome’s NPAPI Support

By Autumn 2015, Google’s Chrome browser will cease supporting NPAPI protocol. The biggest knock-on effect will be that Microsoft’s web application framework Silverlight will be incompatible with Google Chrome. Netscape ...

9 years ago

Apple Co-Founder Ron Wayne to Sell Personal Archive

Apple's third and largely unknown co-founder, Ronald Wayne, is planning to sell his personal archive of Apple memorabilia. Wayne's archive most notably features an untouched pre-order form for the Apple II and perhaps more ...

9 years ago

iPhone 5c to be Discontinued Next Year

A report from Taiwan’s Industrial and Commercial Times has confirmed that Apple’s vibrant iPhone 5c is to be discontinued next year. The iPhone 5c is Apple’s budget iPhone model, with its plastic case, selling for around $299 ...

9 years ago

Student Hacks Microscopes – Saves £100,000

A student at Brunel University in London has saved £100,000 by hacking USB microscopes. The PhD student needed a highly sophisticated microscope for his research into cell movement. However, the best microscopes available for ...

9 years ago

Ubisoft Says Sorry With Free Assassin’s Creed Unity DLC

Breaking news: Assassin's Creed: Unity launched full of bugs! OK, that's not exactly breaking news. Unless you've been on another planet for the last few weeks, it's been hard to miss the constant wave of news surrounding this game ...

9 years ago

Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Declares Himself Broke

The founder of seized file-sharing website Megaupload, Kim Dotcom (born Kim Schmitz), has announced that he is “broke”. He claims to have expended £6.4 million in legal costs, defending himself against charges of internet ...

9 years ago

Hacker Dodges “440 Year” Sentence

A hacker, charged with 44 felony counts of computer fraud and cyberstalking in the US, has avoided a whopping 440 years in prison. Fidel Salinas, a 28-year old hacker with links to Anonymous, faced a maximum 10 years in prison ...

9 years ago

Cooler Master Announces Seidon 120V Ver 2 Cooler

Cooler Master announced the Seidon 120V Ver.2, the latest additions to Cooler Master’s all-in-one liquid cooling line. There have been improvements to all parts of the Seidon from the fans to the pump. The new pressure ...

9 years ago

BT Confirmed to be in Talks to Buy EE

Just a few days after we reported on the news that BT is in talks to purchase O2, it's now been confirmed that they're also interested in Everything Everywhere - EE. Deutsche Telekom and Orange, the two owners of EE, say that ...

9 years ago

Super Talent Unveils its DDR4 DRAM Modules

Super Talent has unveiled their line-up of DDR4 memory modules, and there are quite a few of them to cover every possible use. DDR4 DRAM is the next generation of DRAM which delivers speeds up to double that of the previous ...

9 years ago

Sony Said to be Planning E-Paper Watch

Sony is said to be planning a watch made entirely from 'e-paper'. The entire band and watch face will function as a display, according to Bloomberg. E-paper can display images akin to those seen on Amazon's Kindle - digital ...

9 years ago

Blu-ray Technology Improves Solar Panel Efficiency by 20%

Who knew that home release copies of Jackie Chan’s Police Story 3: Super Cop would be used to save the environment? Researchers at Northwestern University, apparently. They discovered the azure nanoscopic pattern on Blu-ray discs ...

9 years ago

Phanteks Announces Low Profile and Slim Dual-Tower CPU Coolers

Phanteks has announced two new CPU coolers for tight spaces, the TC12LS low-profile CPU cooler and the PC14S Slim Dual-Tower CPU cooler. The low profile cooler dubbed TC12LS only has a height of 47mm without fan and 74mm with a ...

9 years ago

Lian Li Releases Windowed Version of the PC-Q33

Lian Li has released a windowed version of their PC-Q33 flip-open mini-ITX case, the PC-Q33W. The new version is exactly the same as the previous except that it has a window on each side panel. This is of course aimed at DIY ...

9 years ago

CM Storm NovaTouch TKL Topre Switch Keyboard Review

Introduction New keyboards are a fairly common thing in this industry, I see wave after wave of mechanical and membrane switch keyboards come through the office each year. However, very few of the keyboards I review have ...

9 years ago

Origin Mega Sale: Far Cry 3 for Just $7.48, and Much More

Origin is currently running their Mega Sale, with games up to 75% off. The massive Mega Sale includes games like Mass Effect for $2.49, or Far Cry 3 for $7.98; but there's also some older titles like Theme Hospital for $2.49 and ...

9 years ago

Who’s Making Money From Music Streaming? Because Spotify Isn’t, Musicians Aren’t

Spotify isn't making much money from streaming music, at all. The company has revealed that it scooped in around $1.03 billion in 2013, which was up 74% or so from 2013. But, it doshed out most of that to record companies and ...

9 years ago

Tablets in Trouble Again – iPad Shipments Decline Further

The world isn't as interested in tablets as we once were and not even Apple is able to stay perched on top a cloud of fan-boys and drones. Shipments of tablets worldwide will increase by only 7.2% in 2014, compared to a 52.5% ...

9 years ago

Samsung Sued Over Milk Music App

Samsung have been hit with a lawsuit, over its Milk Music app, from multimedia company Milk Studios. The lawsuit, filed on Monday at the US District Court of the Southern District or New York, alleges that Samsung’s Milk Music ...

9 years ago

Chromecast Adds New Channels, Including Comedy Central and Nickelodeon

The content for Google’s Chromecast seems to be widening every month, now boasting a fresh batch of content partners in Comedy Central, Sesame Street Go, Nickelodeon, EPIX, YuppTV, Encore, and radio app TuneIn. All of these apps ...

9 years ago

Samsung’s ‘Eye Mouse’ to be Made Open Source

Samsung’s ‘eye mouse’, the Eyecan+, is a computer peripheral designed to help disabled and paralysed people control a computer with the movement of their eye alone. Eyecan+ allows the user to perform numerous different ...

9 years ago

Over 3 Billion People Will Be Online Before New Years Eve

There are close to 3 billion people on the Internet. This number is up from the 2.7 billion at the end of last year, according to the United Nations' International Telecommunications Union's (ITU) Measuring the Information ...

9 years ago

Play Snake with no Monitor on CoolerMaster’s QuickFire Rapid-i

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=enzU9u328Fc Feeling a bit bored and looking for something extra to do? Work or school computers have locked down every game and Reddit links are all purple, even on the ...

9 years ago

HP Finish off their Fiscal Year with Interesting Q4 Results

Hewlett-Packard have just their fourth quarter earnings this past Tuesday, posting some interesting results to round out their 2014 fiscal year. Here's a quick summary of the report: Net income of $2 billion, rated at 70 ...

9 years ago

Three-Quarters of UK and US Citizens Believe Internet Access is a ‘Human Right’

A study commissioned by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) has revealed that 75% of Britons and 77% of Americans think internet access should be considered a basic human right. The study gathered opinions ...

9 years ago

Sony Offers Customers Partial Refund After Misleading PS Vita Ads

  The US Federal Trade Commission has ruled that Sony put out ads in the US that misled customers as to the “game-changing” capabilities of their handheld console, the PS Vita. Instead of fighting the decision, Sony has ...

9 years ago

Samsung Tease Eye-Controlled Mouse

Set to help the disabled use computers with ease, Samsung's eye-tracking technology will allow users to control their computers functionality without needing to handle a physical mouse. Developed in-house by Samsung engineers, ...

9 years ago

Australian Prime Minister in Facebook Fan Scandal

Recently, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been receiving a lot of hate from the Australian public, with people noticing that the bulk of his Facebook likes were residents of India - ok lets be honest, he always receives ...

9 years ago

Yahoo and Microsoft Compete to Become Apple’s Default Search Engine

As Google Search’s contract with Apple nears its end, Yahoo and Microsoft are both vying to replace it as Safari’s default search engine. Yahoo have already stepped into the vacant spot Google left at Firefox, becoming their ...

9 years ago

Super Smash Bros. For Wii U Sells Nearly 500,000 Copies in Three Days

After a shaky first year, the growth of Nintendo’s Wii U – in the wake of impressive sales of Mario Kart 8, which doubled sales of the console – continues with the success of Super Smash Bros. For Wii U, which has sold over ...

9 years ago

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