Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday revealed all the details about its new family of graphics cards, the Radeon R9 and the Radeon R7 300-series. As reported, the whole lineup is based on existing graphics processing units with minor speed-bumps to improve performance in certain cases and games. The flagship Radeon …

Ever since last year when Apple launched Apple Pay with the latest batch of iPhones, more and more smartphone makers have been looking in to offering a way for customers to make card payments with their mobile devices. While offerings from Google, Apple and Samsung have all operated in the …

MSI's mid-range Z97 motherboard is the first to market with on-board USB 3.1 in the connection's Type-C form. With the port providing transfer rates of up to 10Gbps and support for new reversible USB Type-C devices, can MSI's Z97A Gaming 6 prove itself as a good option for users wanting …

In a move that is sure to please 13 year olds of the world, dating app Happn has implemented Spotify's API in its service, to make it possible to find people that have similar music tastes to each other. Those using the location based matchup application, will be able to integrate …

Despite having an active user base of over 300 million people, Twitter has struggled to monetise quite like other social network giants like Facebook and it's shed many millions of users over the years. Despite revenue growth in the short term however, investors and shareholders have not been happy, so CEO …

The Sunday Times is continuing to paint itself as a propagandist for the British government, after a response to further complaints against its recent exposé, which claimed that British and US spies' lives were put at risk thanks to Edward Snowden's released documents. In a correspondence with a reader, the newspaper's editor, …

Disney Infinity has been a major money maker for the media giant, so it's no surprise that Disney is looking to expand on previous releases in the future. However, it may not always be a title focused around the Base station that lets players bring their favourite characters into the …

The developer of No Man's Sky, Hello Games, is doing its best to get a handle on the hype train as it careens at breakneck speed towards the release of the game. Whether it will live up to its ambitious expectations, we'll have to wait and see, but we do know …

AMD's upcoming Fury release next week has been much anticipated – the incredible level of global coverage so far gives a firm indication that this is indeed one of the most anticipated hardware launches of 2015. Many enthusiast gamers are hoping that AMD will become competitive again in the high …

Chief executive officer of Nokia Corp. this week reaffirmed that the company will design smartphones again in the second half of 2016. Officially, the company only wants to develop hardware and leave production, distribution and selling to other. Still, for end users it will mean the return of Nokia smartphones. …

Advanced Micro Devices this week officially unwrapped its new flagship single-chip graphics card based on the highly-anticipated “Fiji” graphics processing unit. The new AMD Radeon R9 Fury X graphics adapter has a number of advantages that can make it one of the world’s highest-performing solutions. In fact, according to AMD’s …

Nearly one third of modern notebooks are set to use solid-state drives as their primary storage systems in 2015, according to a new research. Thanks to major decreases of NAND flash memory pricing in the recent years, SSDs are now more affordable than ever, which means that mobile PCs will …

Intel Corp. will officially unveil its next-generation mainstream microprocessors for enthusiasts in early August at the Gamescom trade-show. The introduction of the code-named “Skylake-S” microprocessors at a games conference will emphasize that the new chips are designed primarily for systems used to play video games. Intel intends to formally unveil …

It is no secret that Evolve has not lived up to expectations. The game launched with a lack of proper content but launched with tons of DLC, which immediately put gamers off and was likely one of the key reasons the game did not sell well. However, it looks like …

The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) has gone ahead and served US mobile carrier, AT&T with a $100 million fine for misleading its customers with unlimited data plans. It turns out that the company was heavily throttling user speeds on the unlimited data service without informing any of them. AT&T was …

The Apple Watch has got off to a great start as far as sales go but there are still many holding off until the second generation of wearables to hit the market before jumping in. One of the improvements we can expect in a second generation Apple Watch is the …

Autotune has a bit of a bad rap when it comes to music. While once a behind the scenes tool for tidying up vocals that weren't always stellar, it's become the hallmark of bland, over-produced tracks from unimaginative artists. That is of course, if you don't count John D. Boswell, AKA …

This week on Sony's E3 stage, Square Enix surprised everyone with the announcement of a Final Fantasy 7 remake, something fans of the classic PlayStation title have been after for years. While at the time all we got was a trailer with no further details, some more news has come …

Now for the disappointing news of the day, Microsoft's biggest exclusive title of the year, Halo 5: Guardians, will have micro-transactions thrown in to the multiplayer portion of the game, apparently as a “matter of convenience”. As you would imagine, this has become a pretty big talking point right now …

This week, Bethesda announced a new smartphone game called Fallout Shelter. For now, it is only available on iOS but it looks like in the last week, the game has managed to rake in more money than Candy Crush Saga, proving that free to play games can make good money …

Amazon revealed its future vision for 30 minute delivery drones some time ago. Since then, the company has made significant progress with its drones, although due to some setbacks with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Amazon had to take its tests to other countries where the rules gave the company …

If you want to get a sneak peek at what Valve's upcoming engine, Source 2, is capable of then look no further as Valve's successor to the decade old Source engine is seeing its début in the form of a Dota 2 beta. Last week, Valve announced Dota 2 Reborn, …

Gawker, a website known for its salacious headlines and clickbaiting tactics, has been a mainstay of online blogging for the best part of a decade, but that internet empire may come crashing down in the near future. Despite many attempts by the blogging firm to have it thrown out, the …

Although Intel Corp.’s upcoming Core i7-6700K “Skylake-S” chip will likely become overclockers’ new darling, it looks like it will have the same drawback as currently available mainstream microprocessors with unlocked multiplier: inefficient internal thermal interface. As reported, Intel Corp. started to ship production ready full-speed engineering samples of its next-generation …

Project Cars might not have ticked everyone's boxes when it was finally release early last month, but it has given a lot of people a very pretty set of cars and tracks to race around in and on. If you've found your PC isn't quite up to the task of …

What guise will robots of the future take? Some see as them as faceless automatons, capable of performing basic tasks for us, whilst the Supermatrix predicts a future where they'll be actively concious but subdued through a dream within a dream. SoftBank Mobile however believes robots can be our friends …

Does your broadband operate at anything close to the speed stated by your ISP? According to a new report, as many as three quarters of households in the UK are faced with internet download rates that are slower than the one advertised by their provider for their particular package. Worse yet, …

Kerbal Space Program is a game that has proved decriers of Early Access wrong, by steadily updating its space building management, flight sim, into the finished product it is today. But of course, being only available on PC, it's audience isn't as wide as it perhaps could be. Which is …

Zotac, a leading maker of graphics cards that belongs to PCPartner, has been gradually expanding its business for several years now. In addition to Nvidia GeForce-based graphics adapters, the company also offers mainboards, tablets as well as small form-factor PCs. This week the company quietly started to sell solid-state drives under …

Although many people would like to use their PlayStation 3 game discs on their PlayStation 4 game consoles, Sony Computer Entertainment does not have plans to enable backwards compatibility with previous-gen titles. Initially, neither Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox One nor Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 were compatible with games designed for previous-generation …