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We review many complete system builds here at KitGuru and one company we are consistently impressed with is DinoPC, so much so that we chose them for our hardware test systems last year. This week, DinoPC gave its website a fresh coat of paint, delivering a pleasant browsing experience. DinoPC …

It looks like Google is preparing to return to the Chromecast soon, with a newly revised dongle, featuring a new design and faster components. The new rumours come from leaked documents, which talk about different colour options, improve WiFi performance and something called ‘Fast Play', which will be a new …

Skype has had its service restored back to normal, following yesterday's widespread outage that affected users across the world. Skype initially went down early yesterday morning, though the team behind the communication app were quick to work on it, though it took most of the day. Skype announced that its …

This week, Kickstarter announced that it would be changing course fairly significantly. The crowd funding platform was founded around six and a half years ago as a corporate entity but it is now set to transition from being a traditional corporation in to what is called a ‘public benefit corporation' …

Skype is down right now for many users. The communication service has been down since earlier this morning here in the UK and now it seems that people are being affected across the world. Those affected by the on-going issues won't be able to make any calls, all contacts will …

GlobalFoundries is working on its own 7nm and 10nm fabrication processes and it does not look like the company has plans to license technologies from the outside. The contract maker of semiconductors hopes that specialists from IBM’s microelectronics unit will help it to design world-class leading-edge manufacturing processes. GlobalFoundries, which …

Apple has won an appeal in its never-ending lawsuit against Samsung. The latest victory on Apple's part could mean that Samsung will either have to make changes to or stop selling some of its older Galaxy smartphones and tablets. A US court of appeals made the ruling on Thursday and …

It looks like The BBC is planning to expand in the US with its own TV streaming service in 2016. It won't be quite like the free to watch iPlayer that we are used to here in the UK though. Apparently, The BBC's US service will be subscription based and …

Google has been working on its own self-driving car for quite some time now. In-fact, the vehicles recently made it out in to the public for testing. However, despite all of this effort that the company is putting in to its own self-driving car, Google doesn't actually want to make …

YouTube recently launched the YouTube Gaming app, in an effort to compete with Twitch. Aside from being able to stream from your PC, soon you will also be able to stream through Android thanks to an upcoming update for the app. The announcement was made this week at the Tokyo …

Sony recently changed the name for Project Morpheus, the comany's upcoming virtual reality headset for use with the PS4. The headset is now known as PlayStation VR and the final specs have been officially nailed down. Now, Sony has confirmed that the headset will feature 90Hz and 120Hz display modes …

Last year it was revealed that The BBC would be making a TV show about the rise of Rockstar and their first game, Grand Theft Auto. It turns out that The BBC never actually got Rockstar on-board with the project, so a lawsuit was filed but still, the show aired …

Sony has announced that it is shutting down its online store for Europe. From now on, Sony will only be selling its goods through its retail partners within the EU, likely in further effort to cut costs due to the company's poor financial state at the moment. The company confirmed …

Sony has been working on Project Morpheus for quite a while but it looks like the company is now gearing up for its eventual release as the PlayStation 4's virtual reality headset has officially been renamed. We already knew that Project Morpheus wouldn't be Sony's final branding for the project, …

Recently, Nvidia had to issue a recall for some of its Shield tablets after a battery defect was discovered and now, the troubles continue, as the company is now issuing a recall for some of its Nvidia Shield TV consoles due to a hard drive issue. The recall affects a …

The former CEO of Mt Gox, Mark Karpelès has been officially charged with embezzlement by Japanese prosecutors. The former head of the Mt Gox Bitcoin exchange is said to have embezzled ¥321 million or £1.7 million. The exchange itself fell apart in 2014 after hundreds of thousands of Bitcoins disappeared …

Kim Dotcom has been fighting a non stop legal battle with the US for years now over Megaupload. Dotcom and a few other people involved with Megaupload were trying to appeal for more time to prepare for an upcoming US extradition hearing, but their request has been denied by the …

On the back of news that Dell and Microsoft have teamed up to push the Surface Pro 3 for enterprise use, leaked internal slides show that Dell has a Windows tablet of its own up its sleeve. The XPS 12 is going to be a Surface-like Windows tablet, with an …

Sales of personal computers have been on the decline for several quarters now and the first half of 2015 was particularly bad for the PC supply chain. However, according to Intel Corp. and analysts from Citigroup, the demand for PCs has bottomed and is now stabilizing. Moreover, Intel’s new “Skylake” …

NASA has announced that it will soon be launching a TV channel dedicated to showing off ultra high-definition footage. A company called Harmonic has stepped in to help the space agency with its new channel, which is set to officially launch on the 1st of November. Right now, NASA is …

OnePlus has gone ahead and offered an apology to those who were frustrated by the launch of the company's latest smartphone, the OnePlus 2. Ahead of its launch, OnePlus seemed fairly confident in its plans and had hoped to make things go smoother than they did with the original OnePlus …

When you think of the cockpit of a Space Shuttle or rocket propelled crew capsule, what do you see? If you're like us, you see a cramped, button festooned, interior that has more dials and switches than any human could possibly understand. That's nothing like Space X's dragon capsule, which looks …

Torrent uploaders – and to a lesser extent downloaders – face the ever present threat of being discovered. If they're prolific, the knock at the door may come from a SWAT battering ram, but casual seeders may just receive a letter or email from a music lobby group or copyright …

The topic of China and its continued tug of war with the United States on the digital battleground is a hot one at the moment. With Chinese president Xi Jinping set to meet with President Obama to discuss hacking and digital defences, the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper has …

Microsoft and the US Department of Justice are still butting heads over access to data stored on the company's Ireland based servers. The US has been trying to force Microsoft in to giving it access to information in the firm's datacentre in Ireland for some time now and Microsoft is …

As much as Space X launches might be something the world at large can delight in when they – almost –  land a rocket on a barge, or run test flights of their manned capsule system, not everyone is so pleased. For the 26 residents of the village nearby the launch …

In the case of the U.S. Department of Justice versus Microsoft, much of our international personal privacy hangs in the balance. Yes the NSA is probably hoovering up 99 per cent of what we transmit to each other across the the internet, but if the DOJ wins this particular court …

AAISP – the unfiltered network Most internet service providers are quite typical. They offer phone and broadband products and have lacklustre callcentre support systems that are so ubiquitous, they've been the punchline of every comedian's closing bit for a decade; but that's not the case with every ISP. Recently we sat …

Microsoft is teaming up with Dell to help sell its Surface tablets to businesses. The idea behind the partnership is to push Windows 10 adoption in the work place, ahead of Apple's impending iPad Pro launch, which will also be aimed at the enterprise market. Dell is now going to …

Google is continuing to take swings at any big tech competitors it can find, as following Amazon's move into grocery and other food and beverage deliveries, the search giant has now announced that it will begin offering such a service too. Starting later this year, San Francisco (and one other …