The Investigatory Powers Bill is something that almost no one has approved of since its first announcement, with repeated debates and analysis heralding many concerns and problems, few of which have been rectified. Now the Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) committee has raised its own issues with the bill, citing …

China continues to be the owner of the world's most powerful supercomputer, easily surpassing the U.S. in what feels like a 21st century version of the Cold War space race. The newly ranked #1 Sunway TaihuLight was built and designed in China, using Chinese micro-processors and is capable of a whopping …

Although services like Spotify, Netflix and Amazon Instant Video have gone a long way to make buying content legitimately an easy and affordable way to consume media, piracy is still alive and well. If there was any need for proof of that fact, KickassTorrents has just entered the top 70 …

Blue Origin's new Shepherd has once again launched and landed successfully, making this the fourth re-use of the same rocket hardware. This not only continues to prove the viability of the passenger rocket, but showed that even with a deliberate parachute failure, the capsule can come down safely. [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYYTuZCjZcE'] …

You wouldn't know it, but for the past three years developer of No Man's Sky, Hello Games, has been embroiled in a legal battle with BSkyB, the owner of the Sky TV service in the UK. The cable TV company wanted the explorative space title to change its name, but Hello …

Although Magic Leap's augmented reality headset technology is still mostly under wraps, every time it releases a new demonstration of what it can do it's even more impressive than before. The latest release sees Industrial Light and Magic creating some star wars assets for it and the effect is simply …

Creative Assembly initially wasn't going to allow mods with Total War: Warhammer – we suspect because of Games Workshop influence – but it must be glad it turned things around, as already there are over 1,000 of them. From adding new playable armies, to increasing the size of the battles, …

Considering politicians and public figures prefer to lambaste piracy as a hateful crime more often than not, it's rare to hear those in any form of office decrying copyright trolling. That's exactly what happened in the House of Lords this week though, where Ralph Palmer took a swipe at several companies …

Uber is looking to do more than just pick you up next time you need a lift, it now wants to deliver food to you too. UberEats is an application that extends its service and lets you order food from as many as 150 restaurants around London that do not …

Earlier this year Disney made the surprising move to end the game development branch of its business. That meant the incredibly popular and profitable Disney Infinity is also set to be shut down. Rival mixed reality game series Skylanders however, is gunning hard to pick up the leftover audience, with …

Poor Gabe Newell. It seems he can't go five minutes without someone emailing him asking about Valve's stance on exclusive games. We should know it by now: it doesn't like it. Still, it does seem like each time he opens up about it, Newell tells us a little more. In …

As pornography companies attempt to divert the continued legislative attacks on their business from various governments and organisations by pushing into the mainstream, PornHub is looking to to make its service more inclusive. It's now launched a descriptive audio service on its site, letting those who can't see, still enjoy what …

A lone hacker has come forward and claimed responsibility for the hack of the U.S. Democratic party servers, something that digital security firm Crowdstrike claimed was the result of Russian state sponsored hackers. The lone hacker claims to have everything from financial data on donations, to a report on Donald Trump. Earlier …

be quiet! is a company that finds itself in an awkward position of having too many of its new Pure Power 9 power supplies. So many in-fact that it's looking to give them away to four lucky winners – all you have to do to be in with a chance, …

Yesterday Space X once again sent up a Falcon 9 rocket to deliver a payload into Near Earth Orbit. That all went to plan, but on attempting to recover its fourth first-stage booster rocket in a row, a problem during the landing caused a rapid unscheduled disassembly (RUD), which in …

If you've been stomping your orcish and undead hordes through castle after castle in Total War: Warhammer, then you probably think it's a breeze taking fortresses from on-high. If you get into the thick of the fray though in a game like Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord, it gets a …

It looks like years on from making the Kinect a mandatory piece of kit for its Xbox One console, Microsoft is ready to admit that it's a failure. The recently debuted Xbox One S, doesn't come with a port for the Kinect. If you want to use a Kinect with …

There's been a lot of discussion around virtual reality exclusivity and Oculus' attempts to create a gated community around its titles, but everyone else seems to hate it. Including it turns out, Valve founder Gabe Newell and head of Xbox Phil Spencer, both of whom have spoken out against this …

Although you might understand American TV network AMC's annoyance at someone leaking potential spoilers for The Walking Dead before they have aired, how do you feel about it using copyright law to hit them with legal action? That's exactly what's happening. The Spoiling Dead Fans is a community of Walking …

Although initially intended as a continual brawl against a number of bosses, the '30s animation inspired side-scroller Cuphead now has some levels to beat, as well as a number of larger foes. That doesn't mean the game looks any worse though – if anything it's as pretty and nostalgic as …

Update: Oculus has since reached out to KitGuru and provided us with the following statement, which we print here in its entirety: “We regularly offer developers financial grants to help fund early development of new titles to accelerate development or expand the scope of the game. In some cases, we …

Microsoft has announced that it will be buying up business-focused social network Linkedin, for a whopping $26.2 (£18.5) billion. This will be Microsoft's biggest ever acquisition in the history of the company and is even more noteworthy because it will be purchased entirely with cash, no stock will change hands. LinkedIn …

As a big proponent for a manned mission to Mars and the colonisation of the red planet, you might expect Elon Musk to wrap up his ideas in PR positivism, but that's not the case. In a recent interview, he claimed that the first missions to Mars will be very …

The 41st century is a grim and dark place, unless you're talking about Dawn of War III, where there are so many particle and lighting effects that battles look like they're taking place around Christmas. At least that was the impression I got from the new reveal of Dawn of …

While it might be a little late to the party, the price tag on Sony's PlayStation VR platform and the large install base for the console it's designed for could still make it a winner. We now know the Sony VR solution will be showing up in October, with a …

Bethesda has announced at its pre-E3 show that it is currently developing versions of both DOOM and Fallout 4 for virtual reality. The plan is to first bring them to the HTC Vive, with support for other headsets like the Oculus Rift further down the line. The way the two …

Despite efforts made by HBO to crack down on potential leaks of the new episodes of its flagship medieval fantasy show, Game of Thrones, they just keep on spouting. Once again the latest episode of the show appeared online before it was available through legitimate channels. In recent years along …

We recently teamed up with Silverstone to offer three qualified readers the chance to review some of its finest cases, power supplies and coolers. All you had to do was explain why you were the right candidate for the job; why you, with your hardware experience and writing chops, might …

Sometimes when you watch a film you can feel real empathy for what characters are going through, seeing them struggle with the trials and tribulations of their lives. That's something that's quite strong in the first short film ever written by an A.I. algorithm, but more so because the characters …

Seemingly confirming rumours of a new Xbox One with more power and a reduced footprint, promotional images showing off just that have appeared online days before Microsoft's briefing at E3. They show a smaller, whiter Xbox One, which we're told contains a 2TB hard drive and will be capable of …