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Microsoft Edges Closer to 10 million Xbox One Sales

Microsoft has announced that they've sold 10 million of their Xbox One consoles. The Xbox One was released just over a year ago now after initially a slower start to it's biggest rival, the PS4. That difference is still evident ...

9 years ago

Fungus Drone Completes First Flight

A NASA drone made out of fungus, yes fungus, has completed it's first flight. The drone consists largely of material made from mushrooms, specifically mycelium, a material that can be made to grow into any shape. This is then ...

9 years ago

Apple Set to Break Market Cap Record

Apple is set to break their all-time record for market capitalisation. Apple's stock hit the $111.25 mark at the closing bell on Wednesday, with total market cap at $652 billion, edging closely to its September 2012 record of ...

9 years ago

Skyrim Finished in Under 40 Minutes, Setting a New World Record

Speedrunner DrTChops has finished creating himself a new world record for beating Skyrim's story, taking just 39:32. There's a lot of running involved, as you can imagine, but the new world record shaved just a few seconds off of ...

9 years ago

Glose: The Ebook Reader for Social Networkers

Have you ever wanted to turn your love of books into a social experience? Now you can with Glose, the new ebook reader and store. Glose allows users to discuss quotes and segments from their ebooks with friends and other users, ...

9 years ago

Ubisoft PR Blames AMD CPUs and GPUs for Crap Performance in Assassin’s Creed: Unity

In what is turning into an even bigger mess, Ubisoft PR has come out blaming AMD for the bad performance in the just-released Assassin's Creed: Unity. The news is coming from WCCFTech, who is reporting the news, finding Ubisoft's ...

9 years ago

SanDisk to Release Lightning Drive for iOS Devices

SanDisk have revealed a new USB drive compatible with iOS devices. The SanDisk iXpand comes included with a Lightning connector – in addition to the standard USB plug – allowing the device to be plugged into an iPhone or iPad. ...

9 years ago

20TB HDDs? They’re On Their Way, Thanks to HAMR Development

If you thought those 6TB and 8TB HDDs were big, just you wait until we start seeing double-digit HDDs hitting the market. Paul Alcorn, one of our friends over at TweakTown is reporting that we should see 20TB HDDs in the near ...

9 years ago

BlackBerry Classic Launch Date Announced

BlackBerry's forthcoming Classic handset is set for release on 17th December, according to CEO John Chen. Chen made the announcement at Thursday's BlackBerry Conference, during his keynote speech. The release of the ...

9 years ago

Microsoft Plans Windows 10 Update For Windows 8 Lumia Phones

Microsoft has announced that its existing Lumia handsets running Windows 8 will update to Windows 10 when it becomes available. It made the pledge on its official Twitter account, in response to a customer question, tweeting, "We ...

9 years ago

NVIDIA GRID Event Coverage

Several days ago, we at eTeknix were invited to a special event held by Nvidia in the Hilton Hotel in Reading, near to their UK offices. Only a select amount of media were invited and the event itself was very small, but the ...

9 years ago

Confusing Assassin’s Creed: Unity GPU Recommendations and Optimising Issues

As we're inundated with comments about Assassins Creed: Unity barely performing above 50 FPS on low settings throughout higher end graphic card offerings from NVIDIA and AMD, we've taken some time out to look at NVIDIA's ...

9 years ago

[Update] Spotify has Paid $2B to Artists, Taylor Swift Would Have Made $6M

The music industry was in the spotlight earlier this month when Taylor Swift pulled her hot new album release from Spotify's digital streaming service. Claims were made from Taylor and her record label that the artists weren't ...

9 years ago

SMART Modular Announces M.2 SATA with SafeDATA

SMART Modular Technologies announced its new M.2 SATA XR+ product family equipped with SafeDATA power loss protection technology. These new SATA3 solid state drives (SSDs) are optimized specifically for high-reliability in ...

9 years ago

Intel Expands DC S3500 SSD Lineup

Intel introduced the DC S3500 Series of solid state drives to us last year and now that lineup got a refresh in the form of more capacities. Intel has added two more 2.5-inch drives and three M.2 2280 models to the series and also ...

9 years ago

Amazon Posts Delivery Drone Jobs in the UK

Look out! Amazon's drones are out to get yo.. deliver things to you! According to a job posting on Amazon's website, they are seeking a "Flight Operations Engineer" in Cambridge to help in the testing of their "Prime Air" ...

9 years ago

Samsung Reviews its Own Watch, Says its “Awesome”

It appears that Samsung is trying out some more of their outlandish marketing techniques. The "most average editor" writing a review of the Gear S smart watch for the 'Samsung Tomorrow' company blog has come out with the bold ...

9 years ago

Tor Announces Partnership with Mozilla

On Monday we reported Facebook's announcement that they would be officially supporting users of the Tor browser. Now yet another web giant, this time an open source giant, Mozilla intend to help bring the private browsing network ...

9 years ago

GiffGaff Goes 4G from £12 per Month

UK mobile virtual network operator GiffGaff is now offering 4G data at a very low £12 per month. They've joined the 4G crowd a year later than the other UK networks, but their low priced 4G 'goodybags' should appeal to new and ...

9 years ago

FCC Rejects Obama’s Net Neutrality Proposal

Following President Obama’s support for net neutrality, suggesting that the FCC invoke Title II legislation to protect broadband as a utility, Tom Wheeler, the Chairman of the FCC, has issued a defiant response: "I am an ...

9 years ago

Twisted Lasers Beam Data Across Vienna

In an interesting example of wireless data transmission, researchers in Vienna delivered digital data over 2 miles via twisted laser beams. Using a technique known as "orbital angular momentum" (OAM) the scientists twisted a ...

9 years ago

AT&T Halt Fibre Investment Until Net Neutrality is Resolved

First, President Obama voiced his support for net neutrality, asking the FCC to apply Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 to protect broadband as a utility. The ISPs responded by threatening to sue if the regulation was ...

9 years ago

Beats Reveals Wireless Version of Solo2 Headphones

Dr Dre’s popular fashion headphones range, Beats, has announced the release of a wireless version of its première headset, the Beats Solo2.  This marks the first new release from Beats since its acquisition by Apple back in ...

9 years ago

Microsoft Makes .NET Open Source for Linux and OS X

Much of Microsoft’s .NET has been open sourced since April 2014 through its .NET Foundation, but today Microsoft announced that the entirety of its .NET stack is to be made available as open source. GitHub will host the code ...

9 years ago

NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan II Will Reportedly Ship With 12GB of RAM

*Breathes heavily*. Composing myself, I can continue writing this - in a world where 4GB of VRAM on our GPUs is about the norm now, with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX Titan shipping with 6GB of RAM and a slew of AMD Radeon R9 290Xs now ...

9 years ago

Project Beyond: Samsung’s Bold New 3D, 360-degree Camera for Gear VR

Samsung has just detailed its plans for Gear VR, and while it was at it, it announced its Project Beyond camera at its ongoing developer conference in San Francisco. Project Beyond is an interesting device, with 16 individual ...

9 years ago

Google Glitch Leads to Ad-Less Sites, Millions Lost In Ad Revenue

Google encountered an embarrassing glitch Wednesday morning when their ads caused major slowdowns to some big name websites. Twitter users reported sites including the BBC and USA Today displaying the problem. The glitch ...

9 years ago

Samsung Gear VR On Sale Next Month for $199

Samsung has just announced that it will be selling its Gear VR headset next month, priced at $199. Keep in mind you'll need the Galaxy Note 4, also made by Samsung, for it to work - but it will provide you with a 2560x1440 display, ...

9 years ago

UK Mobile Data Signal Hotspots Uncovered in New Map

Phone retailer, mobiles.co.uk has released a new crowdsourced map that reveals the true strength of mobile data coverage across the UK. The map uses a handy colour code to show areas of strong and weak signal, offering the ...

9 years ago

PS4 Exclusive Bloodborne Delayed to March 2015

Bloodborne had an original release schedule of February 2015, but Sony Computer Entertainment Japan producer, Masaaki Yamagiwa, has announced that the PlayStation 4 exclusive will now launch on March 27 in the UK and Ireland, PAL ...

9 years ago

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