Over the years, BT has often come under fire for its operation of Openreach, the backbone of the UK's internet infrastructure. Upgrades to the lines have been slow and other ISPs who rely on OpenReach have also accused BT of providing a poor service. Now, after a lengthy regulatory battle, …
Read More »Qualcomm and Microsoft team up, demonstrate Windows Server running on ARM
It looks like Qualcomm and Microsoft are teaming up this year to bring huge performance gains to the Microsoft Azure Cloud platform. This newly announced partnership will see the Azure Cloud boosted by Qualcomm's Centriq 2400 platform, which is now powered by 10 nanometer processors, though this particular collaboration should …
Read More »Microsoft’s service-wide log-in issues should now be fixed
Update: Yesterday, we learned that many users across the world were having issues with Microsoft's account-based services, with customers unable to login to Xbox, Outlook, Office 365 and even Skype. At the time, we didn't have official acknowledgement from Microsoft on the wide-spread issue but today, the company finally got …
Read More »Samsung ushers in policy changes following government bribery scandal
Following last week's arrest of acting head and heir to Samsung Lee Jae-yong, the company has finally spoken out on the bribery charges. It turns out Samsung's head was embroiled in a bribery scandal involving politicians over in South Korea, in response, Samsung is now promising greater transparency and oversight with …
Read More »The Amazon outage that knocked many websites offline was caused by a typo
Earlier this week, we learned that a huge number of websites had been knocked offline due to an Amazon Web Services outage. Since then, Amazon has been investigating exactly what brought down its widely used platform, finding that a small typo actually caused the downtime. It turns out that some …
Read More »Is Calyos THE world leader in advanced 2-phase cooling?
Calyos is a young company based in Brussels, Belgium that claims to be the global leader in Advanced 2-Phase Cooling Solutions for electronic components. When you consider that Calyos has a mere 28 employees (and that Belgium is hardly renowned as a hotbed of technology) it sounds like a bold …
Read More »Caseking Group expands with acquisition of GlobalData
This week, Caseking Group announced that it has acquired GlobalData, the ‘go-to' shop for hardware enthusiasts in Portugal, expanding the group's reach across Europe. The Caseking Group already consists of some other well known retailers, including Caseking itself, Overclockers UK, Kellytech (Hungary) and now GlobalData is joining the ranks, expanding reach …
Read More »Youtube has a new Live TV service and it’s got a lot of support
Youtube has been quietly working away on its expected live-TV service for some time now and has finally unveiled it to journalists. With a set subscription price per month that seems expensive compared to Netflix or Amazon but could take the fight to traditional cable providers, Youtube hopes its mass …
Read More »Ofcom wants to force BT to lower landline prices, claims millions are unfairly charged
It looks like Ofcom still has a score to settle with BT, with the regulator today revealing that it believes more than two million BT landline customers are getting a bad deal on their contracts, proposing that bills be lowered by at least five pounds per month for those affected. …
Read More »Arrested Samsung official will be charged with bribery
Jay Y. Lee, the heir apparent of Samsung and a billionaire in his own right, is set to be indicted on charges of bribery and embezzlement, following his arrest last week after months of investigation by prosecutors. If found guilty, he faces potentially years in a South Korean jail. Lee has …
Read More »Boston Dynamics’ wheeled robot shows the revolution may not be bipedal
Boston Dynamics has for years been helping us towards the eventual robot revolution that will see us turned into slaves, or batteries – whatever our new magnanimous overlords decide. But its bipedal, walking robots aren't the only kind we'll have to bow to in the centuries to come. Boston's latest …
Read More »SpaceX will fly two anonymous tourists around the moon
SpaceX has planned a launch at some point in 2018 that will see it fly two tourists out of Earth's atmosphere and around the moon before returning home. This would be the furthest tourists have ever been in space and would be the first time any human has travelled beyond …
Read More »EA’s Esports head has left to run Liverpool FC
The head of EA Game's Esports division, Peter Moore, must have made a good impression on the world of football, as he's accepted a new role within the real world sports industry as CEO of Liverpool FC. Moore is set to join the club in Summer this year, though has …
Read More »22% of KitGuru readers would spend more than £500 on a graphics card
How much would you spend on a graphics card? More than £500? KitGuru readers would agree.
Read More »Bitcoin almost hits highest value ever amid US regulation rumours
Back at the start of the year, Bitcoin hit its highest peak since 2013 only to drop back down in value a week later. Now this week, Bitcoin has shot back up once again, with the digital currency almost hitting an all-time high point but coming just three dollars short. …
Read More »Digital Economy Bill to guarantee 30Mbps download speeds by 2020
An amendment to the currently under debate, Digital Economy Bill, has made it so that by 2020 service providers in the UK will need to deliver a minimum of 30Mbps download speeds to customers. This represents a large increase from the original proposition of just 10Mbps downspeeds. The Digital Economy …
Read More »Tesla pledges to make 5,000 Model 3s a week by end of 2017
Tesla has pledged to hit a production target of 5,000 Model 3s every week by the end of 2017 and even plans to increase that to 10,000 a week at some point in 2018. While a massive increase over its traditional production levels, it will be necessary, as Tesla has …
Read More »KitGuru @ AMD event: Ryzen CPUs set to hit Intel pricing hard
Kitguru has the pricing, we have had a hands on. Is 2017 THE COMEBACK OF AMD?
Read More »Kids plush-mobile firm, Toymail, creates child-friendly companion app store
Toymail, the company that makes plushies which feature smartphone connectivity so that kids can stay in touch with their parents without staring at a screen, has now introduced an app store for its fuzzy little smart-toys. The Toymail Cloud store features audio-exclusive apps, which can help kids sleep, or alter …
Read More »Verizon and Yahoo agree to $4.48 billion purchase price
Following lengthy debates and much fall out at the news that Yahoo had suffered a number of breaches over the past few years, a deal has been reached for the planned Verizon buyout. It won't be quite the near $5 billion initially offered, but neither has Yahoo lost a billion …
Read More »Bill Gates proposes a tax on the robots set to take over human jobs
The robot revolution isn't quite here yet but it looks like Bill Gates is thinking ahead by proposing a ‘robot tax' to offset the job losses that will occur as machines start carrying out more tasks and replacing humans. The idea seems to be, since we tax human workers on their …
Read More »Amazon’s new Fire TV stick comes with an Alexa remote
Voice commands for televisions are now smarter than ever and hardly expensive, with Amazon debuting the first of its Fire TV sticks to support its Alexa vocal assistive service. Priced at just £40, the sticks are now available to pre-order, with the first ones set to ship out in April …
Read More »KitGuru poll shows overwhelming public support for AMD Ryzen
Ryzen – its been impossible to avoid and its clearly one of AMD's most important hardware releases within the last decade. Leaks, slides, pre release benchmarks and expected pricing have all hit the internet but there is no doubt that AMD are driving forward to put the hurt on Intel …
Read More »YouTube will get rid of unskippable 30 second adverts
It looks like Google is going to be doing away with one of the less enjoyable aspects about YouTube- the unskippable 30 second ads. Google announced this week that pre-roll advertisements would be skippable going forward, making it less of a hassle while streaming YouTube to a TV, console or …
Read More »SpaceX completes second launch-pad booster landing
SpaceX has followed up its successful launch and return of a Falcon 9 rocket earlier this year, with another, though this time the booster touched down at SpaceX's Landing Zone One, having taken off from the iconic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. Doubly successful, the mission's main payload, a Dragon capsule full …
Read More »Kim Dotcom may still be extradited, but not for copyright infringement
Kim Dotcom's long-running appeal of his originally long-running extradition trial in New Zealand, has come to a close. Despite the courts agreeing that he didn't commit copyright infringement, it ruled he could be extradited anyway, based on more general fraud charges. Dotcom's legal team has now announced that it plans …
Read More »KitGuru Inside Alphacool HQ – worlds biggest manufacturer of PC radiators
We were invited over to Alphacool HQ - a company with a self set goal to sell 15,000 radiators every month
Read More »Samsung’s vice-chairman has been arrested over bribery claims
Following an investigation by the South Korean Special Prosecution Office and a petitioning of the courts to grant it a warrant, the heir-apparent and vice-chairman of Samsung, Jay Y. Lee, has been arrested. This case is linked with the impeachment of current President, Park Geun-hye, the investigation into whom is still ongoing. …
Read More »Bangarang! Hook actor is crowdfunding a Rufio prequel
Dante Basco, the actor who played Rufio in the 1991 adaptation of Peter Pan, Hook, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to film a short prequel film about the character. At the time of writing, it's reached $13,000 of its $30,000 goal, with several hundred backers already on board. “This is …
Read More »Verizon to shave $300 million from Yahoo deal
The Verizon Yahoo buyout deal is still likely going ahead for somewhere in the region of several billion dollars, but that doesn't mean they've settled on a price. Indeed closing in on a year on from the initial announcement, Verizon is still looking to pay less for internet giant in the …
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