Although the USB 3.1 standard had some exciting features for us all to enjoy, Type-C was perhaps the biggest recent development, as it promises a reversible header. As the WinnerGear guys said in their IndieGoGo campaign though, it's going to be some time before that's common in our hardware. How …

HGST has launched its first 10TB helium filled hard drive for general purpose use. The Ultrastar HE10 is more power efficient than an air-filled drive, using 56-watts less per terabyte. This is the company's third-generation helium drive, offering two additional terabytes of storage, and is aimed at enterprise or data …

HTC has announced that it is bringing Google's latest version of Android to the HTC One M8. The M8 launched back in 2014 and went on to be a pretty popular device, having followed on from the HTC One M7. While the latter may not be getting the latest Android …

Nvidia is continuing its run of Game Ready WHQL certified drivers for all of the big PC releases this holiday season. This week, a new driver launched for Just Cause 3 from Avalanche Studios/Square Enix and Rainbow Six: Siege from Ubisoft. Being a game ready driver, the aim here is …

CD Projekt Red has been winning plenty of awards over the last few weeks thanks to the launch of The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, which has been received and praised as one of the best games of the year. However, the development team isn't done with Geralt just yet, …

One of Bioware's lesser known RPGs, Jade Empire, is currently free on Origin for PC players. The kung-fu based game launched back in 2005 on the original Xbox and was Bioware's next game following on from the much-loved Knights of the Old Republic. The game is being given away as …

So far, most of the demos we have seen for the Hololens have been gaming oriented, with Minecraft being a pretty big focus at E3. This trend isn't changing any time soon as a new video posted online by Microsoft project manager, Varun Mani, shows off Halo 5 on the …

Things don't always go to plan at Apple's Genius Bar, as Deric White found out last year, when his iPhone, which was in for repair, was returned with all of the photos and videos wiped and not backed up to the iCloud. The issue happened at an Apple Store in …

Microsoft has confirmed that it has cut 60 jobs from the Hololens team as part of a shift in priorities in the development of the augmented reality headset. The team based in Israel was affected, with 30 full-time workers and 30 third-party contractors affected, the development of the Hololens will …

One of the biggest pieces of contention in the Kim Dotcom extradition saga, has been whether the MegaUpload founder should have access to the money he made during the file-locker's life. While not all of it has been returned to him, the New Zealand High Court has now given access …

Yahoo is an entity that despite having lost its status as a household name perhaps as long as a decade ago, is still a monstrously successful company. At the time of writing it still has total assets worth more than $60 billion and a yearly revenue in excess of $4.6 …

G.Skill impressed us when they sent over their new keyboard design recently and today we get to look at the latest release in the Ripjaws line: the SR910 “Real” 7.1 gaming headset. It is big. It is black and it does come packing a full 7.1 surround sound set up, which not …

Hong Kong based toy-company, VTech, has admitted that the details of more than six million children and their parents were revealed in a recent hack of its Innotab child-friendly tablet. The hack revealed not only names and addresses, but often photos that the children had taken, as well as messages …

Mark Zuckerberg is one of this millennium's biggest success stories. In less than a decade he went from a college kid to one of the richest people in the world, running a website with a bigger audience than any other medium ever. But now with a net worth closing in …

AMD put a lot of effort into the development, launch and popularisation of its new Crimson driver that replaced the Catalyst Control Centre. It changed the aesthetic and function of AMD's drivers in many ways, but seemed to cause some nasty issues with fan-speed settings too. Fortunately AMD responded rather …

Last week, we heard talk of AMD's dual GPU graphics card, the Fury X2, which is currently rumoured to be set to launch this month with an announcement event planned for within the next couple of weeks. However, while the announcement might be coming this month, it may not be …

Nintendo still has two big game launches left in the Wii U but that isn't stopping rumours surrounding the company's next console, currently codenamed the ‘NX'. We already know that Nintendo is planning a new console, though it isn't sharing any details until 2016. However, we could potentially see the …

Last year, Google tried to change the way it approached the Nexus line-up, ditching the Nexus 7 in favour of a Nexus 9, built to compete with the iPad Mini. It also switched from the Nexus 5 to the Nexus 6- neither decision turned out to be all that popular, …

The annual game awards is a fairly exciting time, with plenty of potential for last-minute game announcements and trailer premieres from big publishers. This year, we can expect quite a bit, with Palmer Luckey making an appearance for a special Oculus Rift-related announcement, while other publishers will be showing off …

Today, Cooler Master has announced its latest peripheral, the Sentinel III gaming mouse, featuring an ergonomic palm-grip style design, targeted at FPS gamers, along with an improved tracking sensor, a customisable OLED display, support for 16.8 million colour lighting and on-board memory for profile storing. Given that this is a …

It seems that OnePlus is targeting iPhone users next with its new iPhone 6 case, which brings the look and feel of the OnePlus X to Apple's smartphone, though there is more to the push than that. Right now, you can only buy a OnePlus X if you have an …

Rise of the Tomb Raider didn't have the greatest set of circumstances for its launch. Not only did the game launch on the same day as Fallout 4, which was subjected to overly high levels of hype, but the game also launched as a timed exclusive on the Xbox One …

The UK has been home to some wonderfully mocked anti-piracy campaigns. The “you wouldn't steal a car,” campaign birthed many memes and the push for letters warning of piratical activity hasn't had much of an effect on the sharing landscape. Still, they're trying and a new campaign, titled: “Get it Right …

Nokia isn't a company that's been particularly relevant for some time now, only really breaking headlines in recent years when it sold its smartphone division to Microsoft in 2013. However now it's looking to reinvent itself with the launch of a virtual reality camera known as the Ozo, which delivers …

On 17th November, we opened the lines for nominations for the KitGuru Reader Awards – and you responded in force! We thank you all for taking the time to let us know your nominations last month, now we're ready to move onto the serious business of voting.  Voting for the …

We're not blowing anyone's minds when we say that some people can be dicks online. Racism, sexism, homophobia – often the internet feels like it brings out the worst in people, even if there are many pieces of evidence to counter that point. Still, Brazil is looking to change people's …

The AOC U3277PQU is a high-end 4K display, with a large 32-inch screen and a specification suited to graphic design work and gaming alike. It has a 10-bit IPS AHVA panel, built-in speakers, a picture-in-picture mode and a fully flexible stand – for a relatively reasonable price. The different pricing …

Sharing pictures and videos of your celebrating family and friends may be a little harder around Christmas according to OfCom, as those fairy lights that we add to trees and other parts of our homes, could have a negative impact on your Wi-Fi speed. They join a long list of …

When it launched, Grand Theft Auto 5 was a pretty game on even older generation consoles, but it shone when given the extra grunt of the new generation to play with, and even more so when PCs were allowed to take a crack at it. As you might expect too, …