When Elon Musk said that the Autopilot feature that was rolled out to all Model S and Model X owners was probably safe for people, he was mainly thinking about pedestrians that may make the inadvisable move to step out in front of them. He didn't mention anything about the Autopilot …
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Xbox One wireless adapter goes on sale
For a company that has looked to unite its Windows and Xbox platforms over the past year, Microsoft has been awfully slow at making it possible to use its Xbox One wireless controllers on PCs. Sure you could plug them in, but that seems to defeat most of the point …
Read More »Apple to use AMD Zen SoCs for future iMacs?
Apple has been working pretty closely with AMD over the last couple of years. You can find AMD's Fire Pro graphics cards in the Mac Pro, you can also find Radeon graphics chips in some of the new iMacs and now it seems that Apple may tap AMD again, this time …
Read More »Asus might make its own version of Microsoft’s Hololens
It seems that Microsoft might not be the sole supplier of the Hololens as Asus is apparently in talks with the company to build its own version. This would make Asus the first third-party company to build a version of Microsoft's augmented reality headset if a deal can be made. …
Read More »MSI GS40 Phantom Gaming Notebook arrives in November
MSI is well-known for its gaming notebooks and earlier this month it revealed the brand new GS40 phantom series, based on Intel’s latest generation Skylake processors and Nvidia’s Maxwell-based graphics chips all packed in to a powerful 14-inch form factor. Since the initial announcement and our subsequent exclusive video preview, a …
Read More »Western Digital is in ‘advanced talks’ to buy SanDisk
It seems that Western Digital is in advanced talks with SanDisk regarding an acquisition. The two storage device makers could reach a deal pretty soon as well, with sources familiar with the matter claiming that everything could be official by the end of the week. Right now, Western Digital is said …
Read More »Fractal Design Video Reviewer Competition Winners Announced!
At the end of September, we launched a pretty exciting competition in collaboration with Fractal Design. We set out to give away ten Fractal Design PC cases to ten different winners, though there was a catch- we wanted to hear your opinions on the case once received in the form of …
Read More »Core i7 6700K prices continue to rise
Over the last few years, the market for Intel's Core i7 series of mainstream processors has seemed relatively stable in terms of price, with the 3770K, then 4770K and 4790K going for around the £250 mark in the UK at launch. However, with Skylake, things have changed quite a bit and …
Read More »PS4 and Xbox One combined sales 40% higher over last gen
We knew that the current generation of consoles from Sony and Microsoft have been doing pretty well in terms of sales but it seems that things are going significantly better than even last generation. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 went on for eight and seven years respectively before being …
Read More »Lenovo shows off its new Yoga 900 convertible laptop
Lenovo has lifted the curtain on its new convertible laptop, the Yoga 900, featuring a laptop/tablet hybrid design, Windows 10 and new Intel Skylake processors. The Yoga series has generated some positive praise over the last few years, with the standout feature being the hinge that allows the screen to be …
Read More »A few hundred Origin accounts leaked online, EA claims there was no breach
Origin has come a long way from what it was back at launch, though there are still plenty of people on the PC side who aren't sure about EA. Last week, it was discovered that around 600 Origin accounts were leaked on to the web in a Pastebin data dump, …
Read More »Report claims Kojima has officially left Konami, Konami claims he’s just on vacation
We've been receiving some conflicting reports this morning regarding Konami and Hideo Kojima's employment at the company. While it has been largely assumed that the Metal Gear creator hasn't worked there for months, this morning a report claimed that Kojima officially parted ways with Konami earlier this month on the …
Read More »Intel launches Skylake Xeon E3-1200 V5 Greenlow chip family
Although we all get rather excited when companies like Intel launch their new-generations of consumer grade hardware, we aren't the only target audience for new CPU technology. Indeed, there's also a large enterprise sector to cater to, which is often where Intel aims its Xeon processors. That's exactly what's happened …
Read More »Microsoft hasn’t fixed Windows 10’s sticky corners in six months
Although Windows 10 was only released at the end of July and is now in the hands of more than 110 million users around the world, it was nestled into a few million Windows Insider PCs well before that. The purpose of that OS early access was to make it …
Read More »Apple Music now has 6.5 million paying subscribers
When Apple announced its music streaming platform, Apple Music earlier this year, many thought it might struggle, as it was entering an already saturated space. While iTunes was once the darling of the listening world, it had fallen behind the times and industry giants like Spotify and Pandora stomped around …
Read More »The Pokken Tournament arcade controller is huge
Although in the history of gaming there have been a number of bizarre controllers, from the Intellivision's turn wheel and numpad, to the N64's need for three hands, things have settled down in recent years. Sure we may be talking touch controls for VR, but for the most part, gamepads …
Read More »Crucial CT4K8G4DFD8213 2133MHz 32GB DDR4 Review
The increasingly widespread application of DDR4 on mainstream platforms has helped to drive the memory technology's production rates upwards with pricing travelling in the opposite direction. A 32GB quad-channel kit of no-nonsense DDR4 memory can now be considered affordable by a greater audience who may have advanced workloads that consume …
Read More »Witcher 3 ModKit update to enable texture editing
While The Witcher 3 is a fantastic game, CD Projekt Red did earn itself some flack for its ModKit announcement earlier this year. Back in 2014, CDPR promised a new version of the REDKit for The Witcher 3, which would be an advanced set of modding tools, unfortunately we ended …
Read More »Amazon designs pair of augmented reality glasses
Amazon has designed its own pair of augmented reality glasses, judging by a recent patent filing from the company. While many other device makers are currently focussed on virtual reality, there aren't as many big names currently working on augmented reality, aside from Microsoft with the Hololens and Google with …
Read More »Apparently Intel wants to get its LTE chip in to the iPhone 7
Apple is preparing for next year's iPhone 7 right now, with rumours suggesting that TSMC may be taking over from Samsung and supplying all of the A10 processors for the device. Now, we are also hearing that Intel is apparently working hard to beat Qualcomm for Apple's business this year …
Read More »Samsung to build robots for South Korean factories
Samsung and South Korea are aiming to cut down on manufacturing costs for electronics by building robots to replace factory workers. The idea is to replace human employees with cheap to run robots, to deal with plenty of tasks, including those that currently require a more delicate touch. The South …
Read More »Google registers two new delivery drone designs with FAA
It looks like Google wants to take on Amazon in the delivery drone race, as the company has just submitted two new designs to the Federal Aviation Administration. These are being tested by the Google X branch, which is Google's experimental division. The drones are named M2 and B3 at …
Read More »Starcraft 2 players arrested for match fixing, permanently banned
Twelve Starcraft 2 players have been found guilty of match fixing in the Korean professional scene, resulting in arrests and permanent bans from the game. The Korean eSports Association has named two of the players as Gerrard and YoDa, who face extra legal action, several people linked to organized crime …
Read More »AMD’s Arctic Island GPUs to offer double performance per watt over Fiji
Next year is going to be an interesting one for graphics cards, Nvidia has Pascal up its sleeve and AMD is expected to launch its new Arctic Island GPUs, which will apparently offer double performance per watt over the current Fiji graphics cards, which already offered quite a substantial improvement, …
Read More »Ubisoft is now launching a uPlay spin-off/ reward program
In recent years, major publishers like EA and Ubisoft have broken away from Steam to launch their own platforms for digital PC games. Ubisoft has been forcing uPlay on us all for some time but now it looks like things are going to get more complicated with the announcement of …
Read More »Apple launches program to fix Macbook Pros with stained screens
Apple is planning to launch a new Macbook Pro quality assurance program, in order to fix Macbook Pro displays with dodgy anti-reflective coating. A few Macbook Pro models out there have had this issue, where the anti-reflective coating wears away and marks the screen due to pressure from cleaning, the …
Read More »Valve plans to finally improve Steam customer service
Valve has caught plenty of flack over the years for Steam's poor customer service. Things have improved this year with the introduction of Steam Refunds but there are still some issues when it comes to opening support tickets and actually getting help. However, Valve apparently has a plan to improve …
Read More »Facebook warns you if you’re the victim of a state-hacking attack
As much as countries, governments and their intelligence agencies put huge counter measures and monetary backing into protecting their digital assets, it often only takes one individual slipping up to a phishing or social engineering scam to make an entire system vulnerable. That is especially easy today where there are …
Read More »Popcorn Time users are settling their lawsuits
The release of Popcorn Time was a watershed moment for piracy. Just as Bittottent made it easier than the early days of file sharing, Popcorn Time changed the game once again and made torrenting just as simple as streaming content from Netflix. As much as this could have been a …
Read More »Razer Mamba 2015 RGB Wireless (16,000dpi) Review
Many gamers avoid wireless mice due to concerns over battery life and latency – we put these concerns to the test when we visited Logitech last year in Switzerland. Razer are another company who believe it is time we change our mindset and give wireless mice some serious consideration. Today …
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