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Man at Arms builds a Halo energy sword

Man at Arms is a series of Youtube videos that has an experienced bladesmith crafting all sorts of weaponry from video games and movies, but for his latest project, he's building a Halo energy sword. Of course it doesn't have the power to one shot kill an Elite, but it …

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One in five would vote for Kim Dotcom’s Internet Party

While Kim Dotcom may have been forced to scrap his Party Party earlier this year, he's still going ahead with his Internet Party, not a celebration, but a political organisation. In-fact, he's even more likely to push it forward with it after hearing the news that one in five New …

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Thousands of websites to protest mass surveillance

It only feels like yesterday that the world and his dog's website voluntarily blacked themselves out to protest the SOPA and PIPA bills, but while those bits of restrictive legislation are thankfully long gone, new threats have emerged. Today the problem is mass surveillance, with citizens of every country the …

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Meet Titanfall’s IMC faction

The Titanfall press wheel is beginning to spin in the build up to the game's release in early March, so while we've already had a look at one faction in the game, the Militia, this time about Respawn has released details on their opposition, the Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation. The IMC …

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Kim Dotcom offers $15,000 NZ for Good Times remixes

Internet entrepreneur, Megaupload founder and now musician, Kim Dotcom, released his first full length album “Good Times,” recently, with a big campaign on his still-in-beta music service, Baboom and with real world posters. Now though he's offering up a total prize pack of $15,000 for whoever makes the best remix …

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Silkroad 2 listings top 15,000 – more than SR1

Law enforcement officers and federal agents the world over that are committed to stopping international drug trade no doubt held a big party when they shut down the original tor accessible drugs marketplace Silk Road back in September last year. They probably did so again as it first two successors, …

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The internet’s creator want’s it to stay free and open

One of the founding fathers of the internet and creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee has spoken out about the current state of the internet in the March issue of Wired magazine, stating that he doesn't want to see countries developing their own closed off internet infrastructure in …

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Rust ditches zombies

Rust, the open world survival and trouser finding sim created by Garry's Mod developer, Garry Newman, has now completely ditched zombies from the game. While Rust was initially intended as more of an open world DayZ, with the current spate of zombie survival titles out there, Newman felt they had …

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Turtle Beach launching Titanfall Atlas headset

With the upcoming release of Titanfall for the Xbox One and PC, it's no surprise that companies are jumping on board to sell tie-in hardware and Turtle Beach is no different. It's got a high end gaming headset called the Atlas set to debut on launch day – though it …

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Meet the owner of the new Silk Road – DPR2

If you've followed the story of the tor accessible marketplace Silk Road, you'll know all about its closure last year and the arrest of the alleged owner, Ross Ulbricht. However it didn't take long after that initial shut down for other sites to take its place, one of them being …

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US snooping continues expansion with NZ FACTA compliance

Despite all the negative attention that the privacy destroying revelations surrounding the NSA's PRISM scheme has brought to the US and the huge fallout because of that in the US technology sector, the government is continuing to extend its tentacles around the world and is getting local governments to force …

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Snoop gatecrashed Will Ferrell’s Reddit AMA

If you were participating in the Will Ferrell AMA on Reddit yesterday, chances are you were excited to hear about a potential sequel to Step Brothers, or find out just exactly what Mark Wahlberg smells like, but what you wouldn't have expected was Snoop Dogg/Lion to show up and try …

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Amazon bought a video game developer

Amazon really is starting branch out. Last year it jokingly hinted at possible drone deliveries, but this year it's kicking things off by buying up the developer of Xbox One exclusive, Killer Instinct, Double Helix Studio, throwing more wood on the rumour-fire that Amazon is developing its own console. While …

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Oculus is co publishing Eve: Valkyrie

One of the most impressive Oculus Rift demos that's been showcased to date, is Eve: Valyrie, a first person, cockpit, space-shooter based in the Eve universe, but Rift support was an after thought – or at least that's what we thought. In-fact, as it turns out, Oculus and Eve developer CCP Games …

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Xbox One getting a lot of updates on 11th Feb

The Xbox One may have had a bit of a rocky start last year and it may be trailing a couple of steps behind the PS4 in terms of sales numbers, but that isn't slowing Microsoft's full speed charge upwards and onwards, with the software giant announcing a big list …

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Youtube is taking steps to curb artificial video views

Youtube has announced that it plans to target those that inflate their video view counts, likes, subscriber numbers or favourites via artificial means, by periodically reviewing all view counts and changing them to their validated amount if they're phony. According to Youtube software engineer Philipp Pfeiffenberger, the act of increasing …

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Anti-piracy app shows how little labels pay artists

A new app developed between British lobby group UK Music, the Intellectual Property Office and Aaardman Animations, known as Music Inc, was released to try and show gamers the impact that music piracy has on the industry, but in reality just showcases how little it is labels actually pay their …

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Anonymous Slovenia claims to have hacked the FBI

Despite having anonymity as their namesake and practice, there are localised version of the hacking movement Anonymous all over the world, and one of them – in this case the Slovenian branch – is claiming to have hacked the FBI, revealing details about its director and login information for many …

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Last Borderlands 2 DLC announced

Borderlands 2 was released way back in October 2012, so the fact that Gearbox is still pumping out DLC for it and gamers are still buying it and playing it, is testament to the longevity of a game that at its core is a grind for better loot as bad …

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You can help beat cancer by playing this free game

While Folding@Home was a noble project and still continues delivering excellent data for scientists to pour over to this day, it had one major flaw: it used up idle cycles. While this meant you could have it running whenever you weren't using your PC, it makes it much harder to …

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New top level domains begin rollout

As many as one thousand new top level domains are expected to go live in the near future, with the first one rolling out today. It's pronounced dot shabaka, but looks like  شبكة and is the Arabic translation of the word “network,” making it a very apt one to begin with. …

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