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PC gaming with a mouse and keyboard is great for many games. However, a lot of PC owners still like to use a controller from time to time and more often than not, Microsoft’s Xbox controller is the best way to go. Previously, the PC’s wireless adapter for Xbox One …

Game Room Galore: Which Products and Gadgets are the Best? Video gaming is an experience that can transcend the game in itself. It engages multiple senses and can enable you to transport yourself to a different world for a certain brief time. Thus, any serious video gamer understands the necessity …

Later this year, Apple will be stepping in to the smart home/smart speaker arena with the HomePod. This wireless speaker will rival other heavy weights the market right now including the Amazon Echo and while the idea of taking on Alexa seems to have sent Samsung running for now, Apple …

Alienware showed its Area-51 Threadripper Edition at E3 and now as SIGGRAPH kicks off KitGuru has had the chance to get some photos showing the innards. Alienware Area-51 Threadripper Edition will go on sale in Europe on 22nd August. The standout feature is the eye-catching Centauri chassis and alongside that …

These 16 and 12 core chips are now due to be joined by an 8-core Ryzen Threadripper 1900X.

Yep, at last, we have them.

The annual SIGGRAPH tech show starts tomorrow in Los Angeles, California and AMD has laid out a Radeon RX Vega graphics card for us to photograph.

AMD has been working with LinusTechTips to showcase an exclusive 'unboxing' of the upcoming RX Vegas graphics card. Some of the press aren't too happy about it either.

Back in May, we first heard that Samsung may be in the running to overtake Intel as the world’s biggest chip maker at some point this year. Now, it seems that time has come, with Samsung outranking Intel in global chip sales over the course of Q2 2017. Samsung has …

Are LN2 results any use to you as a buyer? What do you feel about a company not wanting us to test their supplied cooling system and ONLY delivering LN2 results?

USB 3.1 has only just started catching on over the last couple of years, but it looks like USB 3.2 is already on the horizon. This week, the USB 3.0 Promoter Group, which consists of industry giants like Microsoft, Intel and Apple, announced some new details for USB 3.2, which …

Apple has quite the bill to pay as this week, a judge has ordered the company to pay out $506 million to the University of Wisconsin over a patent infringement claim. The University's Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) believed Apple's A7, A8 and A8x chips all infringed on patents. The …

Last week, we began hearing whispers of a potential Corsair buyout, with sources coming forward to claim that a company known as ‘EagleTree' was looking to acquire Corsair for as much as $500 million. Today, the acquisition was confirmed, with EagleTree Capital buying up a majority stake in the company …

The time has come to say goodbye to Flash, Adobe has finally admitted. This week, the company announced that the long-running software will finally go into retirement as of 2020, at which point updates will no longer be released and web browsers will drop support entirely. While Adobe Flash was …

Yesterday, news broke that Microsoft was looking to get rid of the Paint app, after classing it as a ‘deprecated feature'. The news swiftly spread and the internet at large began mourning the loss of the 32 year old program. Fortunately, it looks like that outpouring has given Microsoft pause …

Update (25/7/17): Following on from yesterday's massive outpouring of support for MS Paint, Microsoft has confirmed that it won't be killing off the app after all. However, it will be moving to the Windows Store. You can find out more HERE.  Original Story (24/7/17): Microsoft Paint has been a staple …

Back in January this year, Razer made a rather interesting acquisition, picking up cloud-powered smartphone maker, Nextbit. At the time, it was said that Nextbit would continue to operate independently of Razer but a new report has come out this week indicating that perhaps that has changed a bit, with …

While analysts had high hopes for the wearable tech market, things have gone cold on that front over the last year or so. The Apple Watch didn't really ignite interest like many had hoped and Android Wear is still struggling to gain traction. Now, it seems that Intel is ready …

Just two weeks ago, we first heard that Samsung was planning its own Smart Home speaker, which would go head to head against the Amazon Echo and Apple's upcoming HomePod. At the time, the project was said to be in the planning phases but the company may be ready to …

It looks like Corsair could soon be under new ownership according to reports this week. It turns out that at least two sources familiar with the matter have come forward to claim that equity firm, EagleTree, is looking to acquire Corsair for more than $500 million. Corsair is one of …

Over the last couple of months, Apple and Qualcomm have been embroiled in an ugly legal battle. Apple and the FTC are suing Qualcomm over anti-competitive behaviour, meanwhile Qualcomm is counter-suing Apple for patent infringement. While this is a case that could take years to go through the court system, …

It has been a couple of years since Google took its experimental smart glasses off the market and while we have heard whispers about a Google Glass 2, nothing had come to fruition. However, this week, Google is giving Glass a second shot at success, though things will be very …

Back in January, Netflix sat at just over 93 million subscribers, with plans to spend around $6 billion producing new original shows and movies in an effort to boost the company over the 100 million subscriber mark. Now, that milestone has been achieved, with Netflix announcing that it now has …

In May 2016, Google's Paris headquarters was subjected to a raid by authorities in France, believing that the search giant had cheated the country out of €1.6 billion in unpaid taxes. The case has been ongoing ever since but this week, A French court ruled against France's tax authority, clearing …

Last year, Facebook forced mobile users to move over to a separate messenger app for private messages. In January, the reasoning behind this became more clear, with Facebook announcing that it would begin showing adverts within the messenger app. In-app ads have been tested in a handful of countries but …

Over the last couple of months, Western Digital and Toshiba have been embroiled in an ugly legal battle. Toshiba is currently looking to sell off Toshiba Memory Corp, which co-owns a NAND manufacturing plant in Japan with Western Digital. We knew that WD wanted a say in Toshiba's TMC sale …

Over the years, digital assistants have become an integral part of the smartphone experience, with Siri often being the most popular. Unfortunately for Apple, while Siri does continue to dominate, usage does appear to be dropping significantly according to new research. Verto, an app analytics company has released a report …

When someone mentions the idea of a smart home, what images come to mind? Do you picture a house controlled by robots – or maybe a futuristic building that resembles a strange spaceship? There are lots of preconceived notions about what the modern smart home actually entails, but they’re almost …

Samsung hit a bump in the road last year with the Galaxy Note 7 but the company appears to have well and truly recovered following the launch of the Galaxy S8. This week, Samsung announced its profit forecasts for Q2 2017, showing record-breaking numbers. Samsung currently forecasts its quarterly profit …

This week, AlphaCool has introduced two new products, the AlphaCord Sleeve, and new Eiskamm Cable Combs, both of which can help you keep your cables looking tidy and unique with different colour schemes. The AlphaCord is perfect for ‘shrinkless sleeving', with opaque (Paracord) fabric. The only downside to individually sleeved …