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Pro LoL team fined for attempted player poaching

There's a few things that are a real no-no in the world or professional gaming, like: don't be a “toxic player,” and don't poach other teams' players. Apparently though, Counter Logic Gaming didn't get the memo on that last point, as during Season 4 of the Championship series, it tried to …

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Cameron gunning for Paedophiles with new laws

The British government has taken time out from its ban on female ejaculation and face-sitting in porn, to targeting legitimate sexual crime on the Deep Web, with PM David Cameron announcing new legislation to target those that solicit images from children and a new initiative to go after those that …

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Woman receives five year sentence for Facebook terrorism

35 year old Runa Khan from Luton, has been jailed for five years and three months, after being found guilty of promoting terrorism over Facebook. The mother of six was found to be disseminating information on secretive routes into Syria, as well as owning a phone containing images of children and …

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EE is killing Orange Wednesday cinema deal

Chances are if you've visited the cinema any-time in the last decade and have been a little strapped for cash, you've used yours or a friend's Orange Wednesday deal to get yourself two tickets for the price of one; which at today's prices, can make a big difference. However in …

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Would you want to be woken up by a stranger?

I barely want to subject my significant other to my morning breath and craggy attitude first thing, let alone a stranger, but apparently that's just me, as a new startup firm called Wakie has just launched its app on iOS. The purpose of the application is to replace your alarm …

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Royal Mail to offer 3D printing services

Of all the ways you could have envisaged the Royal Mail postal delivery service being revamped to be more competitive with the likes of international courier firms, who'd have thought 3D printing would be the way to go? But that's exactly what's happening, with the national postal service set to …

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Pirate Bay down for 24 hours, no sign of return yet

Yesterday the world of peer to peer sharing held its collective breath, as several of the world's largest Torrent sites, including the iconic Pirate Bay, disappeared from the internet. Nobody has been able to let it out yet either, as despite a proxy .CR PirateBay domain springing up, an official …

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Heroes of Might and Magic III HD coming in January

As great as all these announced HD remakes of classic titles are, I can't help but feel a little sceptical that some executive isn't rubbing their hands together somewhere at the prospect of selling me the same game but with a 10th of the work involved in making the original. …

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Jetpacks may be reality soon too

This year has been an exciting one for technology. We've seen much more realistic virtual reality in the guise of the DK2, we've seen maglev-technology hoverboards and now we might be set to (finally) get access to jetpacks. The New Zealand company behind the technology, Martin Aircraft, isn't just showing off …

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Kim Dotcom and Hutch streaming Destiny Dark Below

Internet entrepreneur, frequent opponent of US copyright politics and founder of the Internet party, Kim Dotcom, is also an avid gamer, often laying claim to the top spots of Call of Duty leaderboards on Xbox Live. However more recently he's been playing Destiny and is currently trying to clear Crota's …

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This is exactly why British people pirate

We often hear a lot about Australia and its woes with getting legitimate access to movies and TV shows from the US and elsewhere and how that has led to it becoming one of the biggest hotbeds of piracy in the world. In the UK things are a little better, …

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Paul McCartney is a Hologram in Destiny single video

Paul McCartney is known for many different musical achievements, but until recently, writing for video games wasn't one of them. However, with the release of Bungie's Destiny, came a track called Hope for the Future, written and performed by Mr McCartney. Now, along with the song's single release, he's appeared …

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Sony hackers demand “The Interview” not be released

On top of marking the second time in the last few years that Sony has been hit by a monstrous hack, the nefarious individuals behind the latest theft of confidential Sony information have released a statement, demanding that the Japanese corporation halt the release of its upcoming movie The Interview, …

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Lionsgate tries to block subreddit over Madea movie

Google has a lot to deal with when it comes to complying with Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) law. It gets hundreds of thousands of takedown requests every single day, all of which it must address at some point if it is to toe the line of the law. Most …

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North Korea says Sony hack may be its ‘supporters’

The hack that hit Japanese electronics giant Sony recently was a bad one. It didn't just lead to the leaking of passwords, but tens of thousands of social security numbers, contracts for employment, salary information and personal details of many of the company's employees. Which made it seem all the …

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Is it time for a Polaroid revival?

Polaroid is back guys, or at the least, it has a new look, transforming itself from a standard looking camera that actually develops the film, to a rugged, Go-Pro-like action camera. Available now in bright, vibrant colours, the company is hoping that its Polaroid Cube will be able to tap into the action …

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US is selling off Silk Road bitcoins

Back in 2013, the online, tor accessible drug marketplace Silk Road was shut down and its alleged owner, Ross Ulbricht arrested by the FBI and a collection of other policing organisations. On top of that though, the authorities seized around tens of thousands of bitcoins worth many millions of dollars. Yesterday …

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Youporn Esports team gets pushback from Wargaming.net

YouPorn, yes, the porn site, announced yesterday that it had completed its search for an eSports team to sponsor, settling on Play2Win, which will now have its DotA 2 team branded as Team YP. However not everyone is happy about this, like Wargaming.net's head of eSports in Europe, Nicolas Passemard …

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Australian retailers ban sale of GTA V

Following protests and petitions from groups headed by ex-sex workers in Australia, retailers K-Mart and Target have removed GTA V from the shelves, after claims that the game “encourages players to commit sexual violence and kill women.” This comes less than two years after the Australian ratings board created the …

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