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You may remember Viglen from way back - we review their £999 Incepta Professional RX PC

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Intel has been gearing up for the release of its 8-core Coffee Lake-S processor for quite some time, with the accompanying Z390 chipset leaked last month. A new listing has since revealed that Intel will be debuting two variants, with one sporting a 2.6GHz base clock. Rumours surrounding Intel’s continuation …

While we’ve known for a while that the Steam Summer Sale is just around the corner, it looks like Valve did have a surprise sale up its sleeve to take place beforehand. Last night, the Steam Spring Cleaning event went live, encouraging Steam gamers to explore their backlogs to make …

YouTube has been overhauling its video platform as of late, from revising its partner program to amending its firearm policies. Subscription feeds have largely remained untouched, preserving the chronological format for users to see the latest, and possibly greatest, videos out there. This is now under threat from a more …

It looks like Android will have the exclusive on Valve’s new Steam Link app for a while, as Apple is spoiling PC Gamers’ fun and blocking the launch on iOS. Today it was revealed that Apple has rejected the Steam Link app from the App Store, and a follow-up appeal …

Kodi has long been the main target in the war on piracy, with a major win for copyright seeing two UK-based fully-loaded Kodi box sellers receiving jail time for running a fraudulent business. It seems another piracy-enabling application has been dragged back into the forefront again, however, as movie executives …

MSI has done it - RGB lighting on a monitor. Could it possibly be worth £450?

As many sites draw their attention to tackling fake news and questioning the credibility of ‘journalists’, Tesla’s Elon Musk might have the answer. Taking to Twitter, Musk proposed that writers should be rated on their credibility, outlining plans for a new website, dubbed Pravda, to do exactly that. This comes …

We’ve already heard a number of rumors surrounding this year’s iPhone launch, and now we have another likely story to add to the pile. This week, it is being reported that TSMC has begun production on the A12 processors that will feature in this year’s flagship iPhones, and may end …

Amazon’s effort in facial recognition was made public this week, with Rekognition being developed in collaboration with US authorities in order to catch up to rival nations. Rekognition faces many problems now that its algorithm is in the wild, from privacy concerns to racial bias. Rekognitions facial recognition technology can …

It's slim, sleek and stylish - but what about that flipped motherboard?!

Up until today, internet service providers have advertised their top speeds, so long as at least 10 percent of its user base could achieve the displayed “up to” peak download speed. Enforcing strict new rules that were announced last year, ISPs will now have to shake up their advertisement practices, …

It's a new £80 liquid cooler from Corsair without any bells and whistles

The EU’s new GDPR regulations come into effect this week. With that in mind, we are updating our privacy policy today and pushing it to the front page to ensure that our readers are aware. You can view our policy at any time by clicking the ‘Privacy’ link at the …

Rather than waiting until E3 in a few weeks time, EA decided to hold its own separate Battlefield 5 reveal event last night. While the event lacked in terms of gameplay footage, we did get a decent amount of information. For starters, Battlefield 5 now has a release date, and …

If you’re a casual gamer, you probably won’t need Acer’s Predator Orion 5000 – with an i7-8700K and up to two GTX 1080 Tis, it is both immensely powerful and (most likely) immensely expensive. However, for the entry-level gamers out there, Acer’s Nitro 50 desktops could be just the ticket. …

There’s been a slew of new laptops released recently from the likes of MSI, Razer and Gigabyte, and Acer has decided to join in the fun with its new Predator Helios 500, just announced in New York. The headline feature of the new Helios 500 is the adoption of Intel’s …

At the ‘[email protected]’ event in New York, the first thing to catch our eye was the new range of Orion 5000 desktops. These are from Acer’s Predator range, so they are designed with gaming in mind – and it shows. While it is important to note that is is a …

It has been a long, long wait since ASUS first announced the ROG Swift PG27UQ. This is set to be one of the first 4K/144Hz monitors to hit the market, and while delays have kept pushing it back over the last year, it looks like we’ll finally be seeing a …

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Moving on from his meeting with Congress, Mark Zuckerberg finally met with members of the European Parliament yesterday to discuss security concerns over his social media site, Facebook. Taking just half an hour to answer all of the board’s questions, Zuckerberg managed to dodge enquiries into Facebook’s ‘shadow profiles’ while …

It's a Thunderbolt 3 external enclosure that can take TWO NVMe drives... worth £299?

While the new Razer Blade 15 stole the show the other day, it wasn’t the only new launch up Razer’s sleeve. At the event, we also saw the curtain lifted on the new Razer Core X external GPU enclosure, which reduces the price, and even adds macOS support. The new …

Nintendo has previously mentioned that its ultimate goal with the Switch is to have more than one in each household, much like the DS/3DS and Gameboy eras. Today, the company took a step towards furthering that goal by announcing a ‘dockless’ Switch bundle at a cheaper price. While the dockless …

Intel and Micron have formed a fruitful partnership, with the pair announcing the production and shipment of the industry’s first 4bits/cell 3D NAND technology this week. These new NAND chips use the proven 64-layer structure, and have achieved 1 terabit (Tb) density per die, making it the highest density flash …

There has been a lot of confusion today surrounding ASUS and the future for its AREZ line-up of graphics cards. Nvidia’s GeForce Partner Program has come to an end, so when a Twitter account claiming to be an official AREZ profile posted that the recently launched brand would be ‘coming …

After the disclosure of Meltdown and Spectre, Microsoft and Google promptly shed light on Speculative Store Bypass (variant 4), the latest vulnerability in a string of CPU flaws. Much like Intel’s buggy Spectre patches, the latest fix quells variant 4, but at the price of slowing some systems down by …

A few weeks ago, the first PlayStation 5 rumours began popping up on the web. At the time, it was brushed off due to a few outlandish claims, such as a potential 2018 launch window, but some additional fuel was added to the fire this week. For starters, Sony has …

It's Razer's blade, but now in a new 15in form-factor with 8th Gen Intel CPUs