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Battlefield 4: Final Stand to be Released on November 18

EA has announced that the final map pack for Battlefield 4 will be released this week, with Battlefield 4: Final Stand being made available for premium members on November 18. Final Stand will include new weapons, gadgets, ...

9 years ago

Reliable Tech – Hardware Repair Rate Rankings Released

As computer enthusiasts often get hostile about their favorite brands warranties, returns and reliability, we've just been given an insight into hardware failure and warranty rates across popular technology manufacturers. Only ...

9 years ago

Mental Millet: 1.62 Million Phone Orders in 72 hours

Chinese phone company and electricity provider Millet have just reported that after 72 hours of continuous operation, they've dispatched over 1.62 million total units of their new phone release amounting to a total sales amount of ...

9 years ago

DirecTV to be the First Cable Company offering 4K TV

There's a very common and rapidly growing group within the popular Reddit community, they're called 'cord cutters'. Currently grossing over 60k subscribers, this sub Reddit is dedicated to strategies, alternatives and methods to ...

9 years ago

Apple has Disabled TLC Memory

Due to a high reported rate of functional defects, Apple has decided to stop using TLC NAND flash memory technology in their iPhone 6 devices. According to insiders talking to IThome, on November the 6th Apple decided to ...

9 years ago

AMD FreeSync Display To Be Cheaper than G-Sync

AMD executive Richard Huddy recently talked at USA's PDXLAN about some upcoming trends in the market - including a public release of Mantle SDK and Windows 7's non-support of DX12. More importantly, Huddy took some time out to ...

9 years ago

LoL Update Sees New Map Introduced

Many months ago I was introduced to a jaw-dropping statistic. According to their own data, Riot Games will see a minimum of 4 million users logged in to their League of Legends client at any one time, worldwide. This really helped ...

9 years ago

Japan Launches Giant PS Vita – 7 Inch Screen

Thanks to Gamersky, we have just become aware of a Japanese-only release of the "DekaVita 7", which is a 7" screen alternative to the current 5" PS Vita offering. But wait, there's more! Alongside the increased screen size, this ...

9 years ago

Top Dog – ASUS Motherboards Expected to Outsell GIGABYTE

According to 'industry sources', CnBeta has recently reported that ASUS is now expected to move more units in 2015 and kick GIGABYTE off the top position. ASUS motherboard shipments in Q3 2014 have been bumped to over 6 ...

9 years ago

iPhone 6 Sales Over Triple iPhone 6 Plus in the US

Over the last 30 days, Americans have voted with their wallets - showing that they find the iPhone 6 much more favorable to their needs. Apple's iPhone 6 has amounted for 68% of total iPhone sales in the US, when compared to the ...

9 years ago

Turing Award Now Worth $1 Million, Thanks to Google

The prize for the world’s most prestigious computer science award has quadrupled to $1 million, thanks to a sizeable grant from Google, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced. ACM President Alexander Wolf ...

9 years ago

Microsoft Sends First Invites for Skype for Web Beta

A beta version of Skype for Web, a clientless iteration of Microsoft’s messaging service for use as a web application within your internet browser, has been released. Since all video call, voice call, and instant messaging ...

9 years ago

Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional is a Five-Year-Old Boy

A five-year-old boy has become the youngest person ever to pass Microsoft’s Certified Professional exam. Ayan Qureshi, from Coventry in the UK, has been using computers since he was three years old, under the guidance of his ...

9 years ago

Tesoro Peripheral Competition Winners!

It's competition winner time! I've fired up the random bean machine to pick not one, not two, but three! lucky winners this week. We've got a cool bundle of prizes to dish out, and I've divided them up into three groups as ...

9 years ago

U.S. Department of Energy to Spend $425 Million on Supercomputers

The US Government’s Department of Energy has announced it is to invest $425 million to build two supercomputers, which, when built, will be the fastest computers in the world. The ultimate aim is to research science projects, ...

9 years ago

Turn Your Smartphone into a Polaroid Camera with Prynt

A small French startup has revealed a prototype “shoot ‘n’ print” camera addon for smartphones called Prynt. The hardware has a built-in printer that receives photos from your handset via Bluetooth and prints them out ...

9 years ago

UK’s NHS Breaches Data 6 Times a Day, Including on Social Media

Privacy pressure group Big Brother Watch has conducted research revealing a startling number of sensitive data breaches by the UK's National Health Service. On average, data including sensitive medical records, is breached 6 ...

9 years ago

US Marshals Spying on Phones From Planes

The Wall Street Journal has made some startling revelations regarding a new spying programme being undertaken by the US Marshals. Apparently they've been using special fake cell tower devices attached to aeroplanes in an attempt to ...

9 years ago

OS X Yosemite Kills Third-Party SSD Support

The new OS X 10.10 Yosemite was received pretty well upon release, sure it had a few minor hiccups, but overall it was an improvement. But not everything is visible right away, especially not when it's done in secret. Apple has ...

9 years ago

Samsung Almost Ready with UFS v2.0 Flash Memory

With 4K, high-speed and 3D photography and video entering the market on a bigger scale, product manufacturers need to increase the performance of the storage to keep up with this. The answer is the UFS v2.0 upgrade from the current ...

9 years ago

Google to Kill Google Wallet for Digital Goods

Google Wallet for Digital Goods will be closed down, according to an announcement from the company. The service which was primarily used as a system for in-app purchases, allowed users to pay for items online with their Google ...

9 years ago

MSI Referred to Watchdog by Aria

Earlier this year MSI released their 980 GPUs, when doing so they did a special launch offer and priced them at £424. Once this offer was over, MSI requested that its prices were raised to £449 .99 which is £10 under what the ...

9 years ago

CEO of Reddit Resigns, Cites Office Space Problems

Reddit is going through a big shake up, with its CEO leaving the company and with the return of co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Ohanian left the company in 2010, will return as Executive Chairman, while Ellen Pao will become the ...

9 years ago

NEC Launches Stunning 84″ 4K Display

NEC has introduced a stunning new 84-inch UHD (Ultra HD, or 4K) display that delivers a stellar picture clarity at four times HD resolution. The X841UHD has a 3640 x 2160 native resolution and supports 60Hz through the DisplayPort ...

9 years ago

Apple Unaware of Users Affected by Masque Attack

Apple has responded to the claims iOS and OS X are susceptible to a vulnerability called Masque Attack. They say that they've not been aware of anyone affected by the attack and that the standard security measures present in those ...

9 years ago

ASUS With All New White PCB Motherboard

ASUS have announced their new iteration of the white, Sabertooth series. Containing a white PCB and named the Sabertooth Mk S, this hot piece of tech is created on the Z97 platform and was previously seen under the codename ...

9 years ago

Sony Announces PlayStation Vue Cloud TV Service

Sony has finally unveiled details of it's TV service it announced at CES this year. PlayStation Vue is Sony's plan to take over cable and satellite subscriptions by offering a range of channels across a variety of "Sony and ...

9 years ago

Noctua Presents Three New 92mm CPU Coolers

Noctua has announced three new 92mm premium class CPU coolers. The new NH-U9S and NH-D9L are retail models while the NH-D9DX i4 3U targets Intel Xeon LGA2011 based workstations and servers. All three new models use the recently ...

9 years ago

Kingston Upgrades Their SD Cards

Memory cards aren't just memory cards and there can be a huge difference between them, just the same way that a USB device doesn't have to be fast just cause it has a blue connector. Kingston is no stranger to good memory products ...

9 years ago

Samsung’s Answer to Apple’s ‘Continuity’

Samsung has a developer conference going on this week, in-case you didn't know, and they've just announced 'Flow', a hand-off/continuity feature to keep everything in sync between your devices. The feature unifies many of their ...

9 years ago

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