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The Raspberry Pi 3 adds more power for the same price

The Raspberry Pi first launched four years ago and to celebrate its birthday, a third iteration of the tiny computer launched today, featuring more power and additional features all at the same low price. The Raspberry Pi 3 comes with a 50 percent power boost over the Pi 2 with …

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Overclockers UK and HTC team up for VR hardware bundles

HTC opened up pre-orders for The Vive today, its Valve-backed virtual reality headset that makes use of room-scale technology. It is a pricey bit of kit, coming with a £689.99 price tag so you will want to make sure that your PC is up to scratch for VR and to …

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Hololens will be available next month for $3000

Microsoft has opened up pre-orders for its Hololens augmented reality headset today with the first developer units set to ship out at the end of March. As previously reported, the developer edition of the headset will cost $3000 so it is an expensive investment but that price will likely come …

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HTC Vive pre-orders now live, priced at £689 in UK

The HTC Vive is now available for pre-order around the world, with international pricing revealed over the weekend. To put in your own order, visit the official HTC site, but consider pre-warning your your credit card company, as though there are no charges going through today (unless you use Paypal), …

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Morrisons to begin shipping food to Amazon customers

Amazon is continuing its expansive attempt to become the only shopping destination in the world, by teaming up with Morrisons to offer grocery deliveries to UK customers. Amazon Prime Now and Amazon Pantry customers will soon be able to take advantage of the service which will deliver fresh, frozen and non-perishable …

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Palmer Luckey and Notch spar over Rift quality

Founder of Oculus VR and the original creator of Minecraft, Markus “Notch” Persson, have been going back and forth via Twitter, with the latter suggesting that Oculus has fallen behind its main VR headset rival, HTC with its Vive. While Luckey countered, the back and forth shows the heated landscape …

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Win STEAM game of your choice this weekend!

We have another little competition running this weekend on our Facebook page – the chance to win a STEAM game of your choice! Just give us a funny or entertaining caption to the image below from the upcoming FarCry:Primal and we pick a winner on Monday morning. Open worldwide. It …

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Windows Store games come with some pretty big limitations

Microsoft is attempting to crack into PC gaming once again this year with a big push for new games coming to the Windows 10 app store. However, there are some problems with that as it turns out that Windows Store games come with some pretty big limitations, with games like …

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KitGuru presents EHA survey results at Distree 2016

Virtual Reality topped the charts as the European Hardware Association today revealed the results of a massive survey into European technology buying trends for 2016. Almost half the respondents chose VR as their ‘most likely to buy’ new technology, with Smart Home and Connected Audio coming second and third. KitGuru …

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Google launches free DDOS prevention tool

Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) have become fairly common these days and are often thrown at outspoken news sites. However, Google wants to help protect against that and has released ‘Project Shield' which is designed to prevent DDOS attacks from affecting your network by rerouting traffic through Google's web infrastructure. …

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Xbox One to get Windows 10 Universal Apps

Microsoft made some huge changes to the Xbox One last year with the launch of ‘the new Xbox One Experience', which changed the entire software layout and updated the operating system to Windows 10. Now, it looks like Universal App support could be on the way for the console fairly soon. …

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Vivendi is trying to muscle in and take over Ubisoft

Vivendi is a company with a lot of fingers in a lot of pies, though most recently it took a step back from the gaming industry when it sold its stake in Activision/Blizzard back to the publishing giant. However it soon set its sight on another large corporation: Ubisoft, and …

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Facebook takes down Syrian groups selling ‘CIA’ weapons

Facebook is playing whack-a-mole with a number of specific groups on its social networking site that claim to be selling weapons in the Middle East. There's even a suggestion that they were supplied by agencies like the CIA. The pages offered everything from small arms to grenade launchers, with admins …

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AMD launches Radeon Software Crimson 16.2 update

Ever since launching Radeon Software late last year, AMD has recommitted itself to driver support with big monthly updates. Today, AMD released Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2, which brings some performance boosts to titles like Rise of the Tomb Raider and Ashes of Singularity, which is currently an excellent benchmarking …

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