General Tech

MSI has launched its first fanless mini PCs with its Cubi 3 Silent series, featuring an aluminium design. Complete with an Intel Kaby Lake U processor, the Cubi 3 Silent and Cubi 3 Silent S aim to deliver both efficiency and power in a compact form factor. Upgradability is at …

It’s fair to say that Nintendo is still refining its Switch experience, and while it might not have fully fixed its Online app just yet, the core console experience is getting better each month. The Switch OS version 4.0 has finally added USB headphone support, save game transfers and video …

It’s well known that Valve made a lot of money from a considerably small team, however just how rich Steam boss Gabe Newell is has always been up for debate. According to Forbes’ top 400 richest people in America this year, however, he has made the top 100. Good-man Gabe …

Samsung’s Bixby is about to become a little outdated, as just six months after its initial release the company has announced Bixby 2.0. It seems that this is, in fact, a key step in Samsung’s long-term plans for a smart fridge powered by its digital assistant. The original Bixby initially …

Update 23/10/17: Since the original story, Cryorig has responded to our query, explaining that the picture is actually fan made, yet the posting was the fault of the company. You can read the full response here. Original story: Cryorig is a relatively new company on the scene, with its H7 …

Despite constant dips in stock, the Nintendo Switch has continuously outsold the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as of late. This month is no different, with the hybrid topping September’s sales in the U.S. according to industry tracking groups. The NPD Group, responsible for market research across the world has …

Amazon has been pursuing drone related plans for a while now, building up its patents as it fixes potential bugs and finds new functionality for the devices. Its most recent patent showcases a drone meant to recharge electric cars while on the move. The concept of recently granted patent number …

Although Sony and Nintendo are undoubtedly rivals, but the two firms aren’t strangers to collaboration from time to time. While it’s unlikely that we will see any strange hybrid consoles again any time soon, Sony has revealed a new studio dedicated to innovative Switch games alongside its first entry. In …

Nintendo is often synonymous with our childhoods, marking itself as a staple in pop culture with its family friendly cast of characters padded through its world famous first-party exclusives. While this was a growing concern for many fans looking for more mature content Nintendo has seemingly heard the outcry and …

While many were disappointed that Steam support for Windows Mixed Reality wasn’t pegged for the same release date as the Window 10 Fall Creators Update, gamers aren’t left high and dry with Microsoft’s sizeable autumn addition. The company is currently preparing to roll out two new technologies that comprise its …

Update 17/10/17: Conservative MP and former Culture, Media and Sport committee member, Tracey Crouch, has officially responded to Cambridge Labour MP, Daniel Zeichner’s questions. Unfortunately, the government has yet to respond to Connor Rhys Deeley’s ongoing petition which seems well on its way to achieving its 100,000-signature goal. Original story: Last week, game …

Apple and Qualcomm have been embroiled in an ugly legal battle throughout the course of 2017. Apple has blasted Qualcomm’s practices as monopolistic, while Qualcomm has hit back at Apple for using patents without a license. Recently, Qualcomm has been taking things a step forward, following a move to ban …

Our good friends over at Gigabyte are currently running the “Have Your Say” promotion, in which UK & Ireland residents have the chance to win £100 Steam vouchers every month by reviewing their purchase of certain Z370 motherboards. Entries are made via registering the motherboard and the online review through …

Fresh off of rolling out video chat and screen sharing for all of its users, Discord is joining the ranks of Twitter and the likes by providing its own ‘verified’ status to game developers and publishers. These Verified Servers will grant perks to the game companies and allow the official …

It’s well known that each platform focuses heavily on exclusive games and their respective DLC, a delight to many of the system owners and a curse to those cut off from potentially enjoying what the game has to offer. Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has spoken out against the idea …

Steadily increasing its RGB offering, Corsair introduced the world to its HD120 RGB fans last year followed by its HD140 RGB fans this April, both of which sported LEDs around the perimeter. Continuing this trend, the company is now introducing its entirely new LL Series with reworked lighting, combining perimeter …

The Nvidia Shield tablet has had a long life at this point. Both the original 2014 tablet and the updated K1 from 2015 went on to become highly regarded in the Android tablet space and received plenty of timely updates but it is time to put them to rest. This …

Despite the endless rumours of new Surface devices, rumours arose last week claiming that Microsoft might potentially ditch its flagship range by 2019. Corporate vice president of devices Panos Panay has spoken out against this, claiming that it’s just a “tabloid rumour of the week.” Fans of the Surface line …

Earlier this year, Google implemented its newfound ability to recognise individual voices within its AI-powered devices, something of which was a focus during the Home portion of its Pixel conference. Amazon is not far behind, however, launching Voice Profiles for multiple users on its Echo smart speakers. Amazon’s Echo, Echo …

Gaming at the moment is facing a loot box epidemic, in that any and every other release seems to contain the randomised content crates, causing quite the controversy for many reasons. One of the most severe concerns was that these loot boxes could be considered gambling and are accessible to …

Nintendo has been re-treading its retro consoles recently, re-releasing the popular systems that launched its success in the form of Classic Minis. With the Nintendo NES Classic releasing last year and the SNES Classic following suit in 2017, many would believe that the N64 Classic would be up next but …

A few weeks ago, The Pirate Bay began testing out a new cryptocurrency miner as a potential way to replace flash ads. The miner appeared in the website’s code and would borrow CPU resources from visitors of the site in order to obtain a currency known as ‘Monero coins’. The …

It’s somewhat common to convert internal hard drives into external via an enclosure, allowing you to take all of your data on the go. Silverstone is getting ahead of the curve with the newer M.2 technology, offering a new accessory that can turn your M.2 solid state drive (SSD) into …

For the past few years, top industry analysts have been predicting that PCs as we know them were dying, and with it PC gaming. Contrary to that belief, sales are stabilising according to the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) latest report, showing that shipments in the last quarter are better than …

Patriot is making waves in the peripheral market, with its Viper series bringing headsets, mice, keyboards and now a newly announced LED mouse mat. Viper LED Gaming Mouse Pad is not quite the RGB mouse mat you’d expect at first glance, but rather a 6 colour pad with zoned-LED illumination. …

Two weeks ago, modders discovered that the same software that was used to boost the limited library of the NES Classic library could be easily adapted to be used with the recently released SNES Classic. Hakachi2 developer, Alexey ‘Cluster’ Avdyukhin has done exactly this, updating the software crack via Github. …

While Microsoft did acquire Nokia’s mobile arm a couple of years ago, the company has managed to live on in Finland, the US and UK by working on other projects. One of Nokia’s major projects over the last two years has been the Ozo, a $45,000 camera built for filming …

Ahead of Destiny 2’s PC release on October 24th, Blizzard has updated its Battle.net client with brand new social features. Currently the new functions are only available in beta, which is open for anyone to use. One of the most significant introductions to the beta client is the new Social …

Over the last year or so, Discord has boomed in popularity, with many PC gamers making the jump to it, leaving Skype behind. While Discord’s call quality has been a big improvement over Skype, it did lack a few other features, namely video chat and screen sharing. Fortunately, after a …

Over the last couple of years, Netflix has been easing its subscribers in to price hikes and unfortunately this year, there will be another one. Existing customers will start paying a higher price for the standard and Ultra-HD streaming packages. Netflix made the announcement earlier today that its standard streaming …