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We reported yesterday that the Apple developer website was hacked, with information on 275,000 registered third party developers potentially compromised. The portal at developer.apple.com had been offline since last Thursday without an explanation raising concerns among the user base. The latest news to hit is that Ibrahim Balic, a Turkish …

As gross as it may sound, an engineer called Andreas Hammar has built the ‘Sweat Machine', a device which can purify sweat into drinking water. Unicef helped to drive the project and they say they hope that the device will raise awareness of shortages of drinking water in parts of …

Facebook have added over 100 million mobile users with their ‘Facebook For Every Phone'. The company launched the software two years ago to attract non smart phone users to use their platform. The company have been working closely with phone manufacturers and carriers to ensure their software works on as …

It's been over a year since I first covered the EU legal ruling that companies were required to allow their customers to resell digital software purchases and here in mid-2013, we're not really much closer to making that a reality. However, now Valve, one of the biggest opponents of the …

Known as GaymerX (formerly Gaymercon), the conference, set to take place in San Francisco between the third and fourth of August, is planned as a typical games related event, but with a focus on the LGBT community. Funded by a Kickstarter campaign that raised over $90,000, GaymerX, will feature booths, …

We spoke with a source close to Apple this weekend and they say that Apple are likely to ship the new Mac Pro in October. In Europe the Mac Pro has been absent for some time, due to a change in regulatory standards. It was removed from sale in 27 …

British prime minister, David Cameron, has announced that in the near future, British households will have an automatic pornography filter implemented by internet service providers, which will block explicit images by default; though there will be an option to turn them off. Those signing up to new accounts with ISPs, …

Apple's developer website which was down for quite some time last week, may have been hacked according to the latest reports to surface. Apple have released the information in an email to registered developers saying that sensitive emails, physical addresses and names may have been compromised. Apple took down the …

Many people are saying that the Apple iPhone screen needs to get larger. When you look at the latest Android phones such as the HTC One, Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note it is beginning to look tiny. A new report suggests that Apple may be listening to feedback. The Wall …

Apple have apparently agreed to buy online transit navigation service HopStop.com, according to people close to the deal. Apple are keen to improve their mapping software after a long series of problems when they shifted focus from Google Maps. Apple wanted to ‘scale back their relationship with Google' according to …

The latest news would suggest that Google are planning to release their MotoX smartphone on the 1st of August. They sent out invitations to a New York City launch scheduled for August 1st for the American made Moto X smartphone. This is a huge event for Google as it will …

Panasonic and their subsidiary Sanyo have pleaded guilty to a price fixing scheme involving automotive parts and battery cells. They have agreed to pay $57.6 million (£37.7 million). Battery supplier LG Chem have also pleaded guilty to battery cell price fixing and they have to pay $1,056 million according to …

Many parents are treating their kids to the joys of a tablet computer, but what about the more artistic among us? The new WaterColorBot might just be the answer, allowing colour pictures to be painted on paper, connecting to a computer. Sylvia Todd, a young girl who hosts her own …

Most of us like a drink on a Saturday night however due to accidents and dangerous drink driving concerns, a new ‘pee analyser' has been developed. A nightclub in Singapore is trialing the product with the hope that they can persuade people to go home safely. Sinagpore's Zouk nightclub has …

Shares of Microsoft dropped badly on Friday, wiping out billions of dollars of the software companies value. This happened after they announced earnings below Wall Street expectations. They dropped by $4,04 or 11.4% to $31.40 in trading on Friday. As we reported earlier in the week, Microsoft missed their financial …

Game of Thrones continues to be a media force to be reckoned with, as the introduction of the show's third series on Tesco owned and operated on-demand service Blinkbox, saw an increase in year-on-year revenue boost of a massive 632 per cent. Granted we're only comparing the revenue earned on …

UK'ers are struggling with the heat wave lately, although very few people are really complaining. We all love the sun after all, right? Well to help deal with the temperatures, UBER, the luxury taxi service are delivering ice creams throughout London today.  Generally you would book an Uber car through …

HTC have released the HTC One Mini in the UK with a pre-order price of £379.99. The smartphone has 1GB of ram, 16GB of internal storage (12gb free) and a 1.4 ghz dual core processor. The screen is 4.3 inches with a 720p resolution, less than the HTC One's 4.7 …

Nokia have generated an operating loss of £98.8 mllion in the second quarter and revenues have fallen 24% as they have struggled to turn their handset business around. It isn't all bad news for the company however as their Lumia smartphones have outsold rival Blackberry. This is seen as very …

A group of scientists at Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the United Kingdom have managed to create a new power source for a mobile phone – urine. While not exactly the most practical or hygienic way to keep your iPhone or Samsung smartphone running, it is part of a project to …

Google have announced second quarter earnings which are below analyst estimates. The details have been shared on this page. It seems they are still struggling to get to grips with mobile advertising. Google's CPC (cost per click) rate dropped a noticeable 6 percent. This is an indication of how much …

Buying an SD card is not normally the most exciting task. Online there are literally hundreds to choose from and often the focus is on just getting the best deal. For sports photographers however it is important that some of the focus is placed on the performance. Toshiba are claiming …

One of the biggest problems with the US government's PRISM information gathering program, is that it forbids many of the companies involved from being open about what information has been shared – making it hard for anyone to know exactly what data has been collected about them. Yesterday though, many …

While LAN parties are great for many things, they're not great for rig-envy. You know that feeling, when a nerd as classy as yourself feels totally outdone by someone sporting a nicer case than you, a newer GPU, a better watercooling loop. Fortunately, when your wallet gets that itch to …

Who'd have though it? If we'd all been drinking the media lobbyist cool-aid for the past decade, we'd have been under the belief that the only way to tackle piracy, was to crush individual uploaders and downloaders under massive fines and scare them into never touching a PC again, when …

Anyone who can remember progressing from a Commodore 64 to a PC – largely with gaming in mind – can rest assured that it's a very familiar path for the KitGuru editorial team. When we got the opportunity to interview MSI's Product Manager, Joran Schoonderwoerd, we were definitely interested. Read on …

Samsung have launched The Tab 3 211 7 inch and the Tab 3 311 8 inch in the Indian market. They are charging Rs. 17,745 and Rs 25,725 respectively for the devices, which are both 3G capable. The Tab 3 310 8 inch is also going to be available as Wi-Fi …

The new BitTorrent share ‘n' sync tool called BitTorrent Sync has been released after Alpha testing, available to download for Android devices. Having used the Alpha for a short while, I can say there really isn't much in the software to make it stand out from competitors such as DropBox. …

Men may be seen globally as being most interested in new technology but UK research has detailed that more women are using tablets than men. A survey of 3,824 British adults by YouGov show that women claim 52 percent of tablet market share in the UK, up from 43 percent …

A government policy paper was published this week, showing that Autonomous cars will be tested on UK roads before the end of the year. The BBC say that trials will take place on less busy rural and suburban roads using the ‘semi autonomous mode' which will allow a driver to …