We now know that the Samsung Galaxy S7 will be launching on the 21st of February as the device maker has begun sending out invites for its event. Alongside this, the very first official images of the smartphone have leaked, so we know exactly what the phone will look like …
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Google Chrome is set to get a redesign
Ever since Android Lollipop, Google has been moving towards a new ‘material design' with its software and now, it looks like Google Chrome will be following in that same direction over on the desktop. Screenshots of the redesigned version of Chrome began popping up over the weekend, showing off little …
Read More »German court: Youtube not liable for user uploads
A German court has just made it harder for copyright lobbyists to sue content platforms for what their users post, after it ruled that Youtube was not responsible for the content published on its site by its members. It reinforced that by stating that this was the case even if …
Read More »Robots may replace window cleaners, painters next
More than five million jobs are thought likely to be replaced by robots in the coming decade according to some analysts, and it may be that window cleaning and painting are part of that number. A new drone design from Apellix is conceptualising the idea of a robotic painting system, …
Read More »British MPs critical of new Investigatory Powers Bill
Despite David Cameron and Theresa May calling for a better insight into the websites we visit with the potentially fast tracked Investigatory Powers Bill, a committee of politicians has warned that it lacks clarity, not defining key points. It warned that if the tech-firms that must be complicit in the …
Read More »G.Skill Trident Z 3400MHz CL16 16GB DDR4 Review
Only the highest of memory speeds are worthy of G.Skill's Trident series branding, so it should come as little surprise to see that the starting point for the vendor's Trident Z DDR4 sets is a lofty 2800MHz. Today we are taking a look at a dual-channel 16GB Trident Z kit …
Read More »Kitguru TV Tech News recap 1st February 16
Today KitGuru TV's Leo Waldock talks about some of the more interesting news stories posted on Kitguru.net in the last week. [yframe url='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSCOOcSiA_U'] Watch on our Vimeo channel HERE. Asus shows off two new MG-Series 4k Monitors – read HERE. Facebook makes its first billion dollar quarter profit – read …
Read More »Thai government wants Facebook to remove ‘harmful’ content
Officials from the Thailand's National Council for Peace and Order military government, are set to meet with executives from Facebook and Korean search provider, Line, in order to discuss censoring their sites. The content it wants removed without fail is anything that could be considered harmful to the monarchy, or …
Read More »Age of Mythology expanded with new Tale of the Dragon update
Age of Mythology is one of those classic RTS titles from the golden era of games like Age of Empires. In-fact Age of Mythology was made in-between AOE games, but had more of a, well, mythological feel to its units, buildings and gameplay. And now, 13 years on from its …
Read More »Rise of the Tomb Raider PC Game analysis
Back in 2013, the Tomb Raider reboot impressed us all on the PC side with its graphical features- the game even went on to become one of our ‘go to‘ benchmarks for GPU reviews. Now, after a brief stint as a Xbox exclusive, the sequel ‘Rise of the Tomb Raider' …
Read More »EA wants to regain the trust of PC gamers
Plenty of PC gamers out there have had their issues with EA. The publisher has come out with unfinished games, implemented microtransactions into single player content and in some cases, just treated the PC platform as secondary to consoles. However, EA has made a bit of a turn around since …
Read More »Elon Musk to announce Space X Mars plans this year
Amid all the furore over who did what first between Space X and Blue Origin and repeated attempts by the former to land a rocket booster on its drone-barge, Space X CEO Elon Musk is still thinking about Mars. He's been doing that for a while in-fact and has some …
Read More »More YouTubers are getting silently dropped from monetisation
Since Google's acquisition of it back in 2006, Youtube has always been a bit of an opaque organisation. Getting through to support has never been easy and often changes are made without much consultation with the content creators. Lately that lack of transparency is causing real problems for some video …
Read More »PC Specialist Octane II Laptop review
PC Specialist has configured a mid-range Skylake laptop called Octane II that packs enough punch for gaming. You get a choice of GeForce GTX 970M or 980M graphics as well as support for as many as four storage drives and SSDs. Our sample arrived with a Core i5-6600 CPU, 16GB …
Read More »Microsoft co-founder’s yacht tore up 14,000 square ft. of coral reef
A 300ft yacht owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has torn up more than 14,000 square feet of coral in the West Bay replenishment zone of the Cayman Islands. Although Allen wasn't there at the time, the boat's anchor chain is said to have destroyed as much as 80 per …
Read More »Which new tech for 2016? Tell us and win an SSD!
This year could see SSD sales match mechanical hard drive shipments in pre-built PCs for the first time ever. The advent of VR headsets in the coming months will drive several new markets – and the fastest GPUs in the world look set to get a lot quicker with HBM2. Meanwhile drones, …
Read More »Bill Nye’s Lightsail completes first round of flight software tests
Scientific educator Bill Nye's Lightsail, crowd funded space-craft project is continuing apace. Following the successful test flight and opening in mid-2015, the final version of the fuel-free space craft is continuing development, with a completion of the latest round of testing, which used a base-station, known as BenchSat, to simulate …
Read More »NASA is working on a Mars VR experience with ex-Irrational staff
There are quite a few different games and experiences in the works that put the player or protagonist on Mars. You might credit The Martian with that, but I backed Lacuna Package back in 2013, so being interested in the red world is nothing new. Still, NASA hopes to continue …
Read More »AUO to release two ultra-wide 3440×1440 144Hz monitors this year
With ultra-wide monitors becoming more and more popular, display manufacturers have been working hard to increase things like resolution and refresh rate in order to get gamers interested. Now, we are finally at a point where 3440×1440 ultra-wide monitors with 144Hz refresh are a viable option and we should have …
Read More »Microsoft Edge private browsing could use some tweaking
Alongside the launch of Windows 10 last year, Microsoft also came out with a brand new browser, Edge, to take over from Internet Explorer. Since this is a modern browser, it does have a private browsing mode, unfortunately, it seems that Edge still continues to record your browsing data anyway …
Read More »Google wants lawyer that leaked financial numbers to face sanctions
Google is fighting off a lawsuit from Oracle right now and recently, some interesting bits of information came to light as a direct result. One of Oracle's lawyers made information regarding Android and Google's financial deal with Apple public and as you can imagine- Google isn't too happy about that. …
Read More »US Patent Office will not grant Sony the Let’s Play trademark
A few weeks ago, it was discovered that Sony was in the process of trying to trademark the term ‘Let's Play', despite the fact that it is a generic term used by the gaming community at large. At first, the US Patent and Trademark Office told Sony that it would …
Read More »Rise of the Tomb Raider trailer shows off PC graphical features
Rise of the Tomb Raider launches on the PC today and many are wondering if the sequel will be able to live up to the same standard as the 2013 Tomb Raider game in terms of the PC port. Fortunately, things are looking pretty good, as a new trailer for …
Read More »iPad Air 3 to have 4K screen, may launch in March
In October last year, Apple introduced the iPad Pro, giving the iPad Air 2 another year in the spotlight as the company's leading 10-inch tablet. However, it looks like it could be replaced quite soon as supply chain sources are claiming that the iPad Air 3 could be coming as …
Read More »Facebook makes its first billion dollar quarter profit
Despite being one of the world's most valuable companies for the best part of a decade, it's taken a long time for Facebook to earn the kind of money that matches its valuation. Still as advertising on it has improved and it's increased its usage to more than a billion …
Read More »Downing street too close to tech-firms claim critics
Criticism of the recent government deal struck with Google over back-tax that saw it pay just £130 million of an estimated £2 billion in missing payments, is growing. Now several politicians and industry heads are claiming that Google and other tech firms enjoy far too cosy a relationship with the …
Read More »The machines are winning: AI beats master at Go
A computer algorithm put together by Google's DeepMind engineers, has managed to beat a human champion of the ancient game of Go. This is the first time in history that an AI was able to defeat a person without a severe handicap. Although it still has to face a world champion, …
Read More »First they came for the torrent sites, next the UK might block porn
The British government has, for several years, been trying to convince us all that pornography is terrible and that children's access to it could be one of the worst things imaginable. Its response has been to push for ISP filtering and there's been talk of forcing age gates on sites. …
Read More »Here’s a list of 12 games at the Steam VR Showcase today
With Valve set to enter the VR world in just a few months time with the launch of the HTC Vive, the company has decided to set up a developer showcase to give exposure to several developers currently making games for SteamVR. The event is set to kick off today …
Read More »Nvidia launches GameReady driver for Tomb Raider and Division beta
With Rise of the Tomb Raider set to launch on the PC in less than 24 hours time and Tom Clancy's The Division beta set to take place over the weekend, Nvidia has gone ahead and launched a Game Ready driver with some last minute optimizations for both titles. Aside …
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