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Call of Duty getting double XP weekend

If you stayed up late last night for the launch of Call of Duty: Ghosts, or are itching to get home to open up your delivered, pre-order copy, don't worry about being several hours behind people in more Eastern parts of the world, as this coming weekend, Infinity Ward is …

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Tesco to introduce face-scanning targeted adverts

If you do your weekly shop at your local Tesco, you could soon be having your face scanned and adverts displayed specifically to target you. It may not announce your name to the world with a projected face like Minority Report, but it could be equally embarrassing if you're a …

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Kim Dotcom claims number one spot on CoD: Ghosts

Well that didn't take long. Just a few hours after I wondered (sarcastically) where the man had disappeared to, Kim Dotcom, the Megaupload founder and current extradition trial fighter, has claimed the number one spot on Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer, marking the second time in the history of the …

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Blackberry buyout collapses, but it’s cool

Blackberry is no longer set to be sold to its main shareholder, Fairfax Financial Holdings as part of a massive $4.7 billion deal and is instead pushing to raise over a billion dollars in capital to help it continue operations as is. With an ailing business and over a billion …

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Anyone seen Kim Dotcom?

Legally embattled Kim Dotcom is a face you see online quite often. He's regularly launching some rally, or announcing his intention to launch a new political party, or even just posting sarcastic comments about President Obama and his proclivity for spying on the world. But for the last day or …

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Sony details PocketStation app on Vita

It was late last week that Sony revealed its difficult to follow teaser trailer, that went on and on and eventually just featured a piece of paper suggesting upcoming news about the PocketStation, a Japan only accessory for the original PlayStation that featured a screen and controls – like Sega's …

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Raspberry Pi low cost monitor breaks funding goal

A Kickstarter campaign to build an inexpensive 9 inch high definition monitor to connect to the Raspberry Pi was fully funded in just three days. The £65 HDMIPi is an affordable small and portable HDMI monitor to connect to the Raspberry Pi. It broke the funding target of £55,000 and …

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$99 Wii Mini heading for US release

Nintendo announced a while ago that they were stopping all production of their original Wii console – wanting to place their focus entirely on the Wii U, which hasn't been the sales success the company would have wanted. They are now saying that the Wii Mini, originally for the Canadian …

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Blockbuster customer’s megaphone protest nets refund

Blockbuster recently re-entered administration, despite raking in masses of pre-orders earlier in the year for both the Xbox One and PS4. With its current financials, it announced it would be unable to provide refunds, unless customers wrote to the head office, with all sorts of documentation and receipts. One man …

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Welcome to the age of laser drones

If Sci-fi has told us anything, it's that the future is filled with robots that may or may not want to kill us and lasers, lots and lots of lasers. While we might be still a few years away from developing some form of sentient life form from the internet, …

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Watch the Xbox One snap its apps here

While the Xbox One might be having all sorts of trouble when it comes to displaying games at 1080p and/or at 60 frames per second, one thing it is able to do is multi-task. If you're in a game and want to look something up through the Internet Explorer browser, …

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More and more Germans want to give Snowden asylum

Following on from revelations that the US' NSA had been tapping the phone of German chancellor, Angela Merkel for over a decade, a growing number of politicians and influential people in Germany have been calling for the government to offer asylum to NSA document leaker Edward Snowden. Published in a …

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Nintendo has suspended the Swapnote service

Nintendo has decided to suspend the Swapnote service after receiving regular evidence that the 3DS feature was being used to exchange offensive material. The Swapnote and Special notes services were suspended at 7:00 PM EST on the 31st of October so over here in the UK you would've found that …

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YOYOTech XDNA Aurum 24K Images Gallery

The response to KitGuru's earlier article about YOYOTech's brand new £8,000 mega box, the XDNA Aurum 24K was really positive. While we can argue about whether any PC can be worth that much money, there's no doubting the beauty of this hand-crafted monster. You wanted more, so here's more. While …

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Microsoft, Apple, RIM and Sony just patent-nuked Google

We've all been watching the smartphone patent wars for the past few years, covering our ears and hoping the shells would just stop falling. Unfortunately all that's happened is it has increased in frequency, to the point now where a coalition of companies has launched its stockpile of patent nukes …

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Sony set to bring back the PocketStation memory card

Sony looks like it might be revitalising one of its most niche accessories, the PocketStation memory card. Similar to the Sega Dreamcast's VMs, the PocketStation was launched in 1999 and featured flash memory storage, infrared communication capabilities and a monochrome LCD display. The reason most haven't heard of it before, …

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