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As much as Uber is changing the way people catch lifts to and from places they need to go, as a company it's a terrible money maker. Uber loses tens of millions every quarter, but has managed to stay afloat through investment and borrowing. That's nothing new in 2016, as …

Well that didn't take long. Following the revelations that a number of prominent Youtube Let's Player personalities had hidden their ownership of a CS:GO gambling site that they were promoting to their young audiences, Trevor ‘TmarTn' Martin and Tom ‘ProSyndicate' Cassell are now being sued. Although there is a lot …

Intel's Broadwell-E processors are now out in the wild, which means this is also the perfect time for some exciting new motherboard launches. This week, ASRock has announced that its new Taichi and Fatal1ty Professional Gaming i7 motherboards are now available, both of which are stable and feature-rich offerings. The …

It seems that things in the Android Wear smartwatch world have slowed down a bit lately but this week, reports have begun circulating suggesting that Google is currently working on two of its own smartwatches, set to launch under the Nexus brand. This isn't the first time that we have …

Nvidia is expanding its Pascal line-up of graphics cards today with the launch of the GTX 1060, promising GTX 980-level performance with doubled power efficiency for those on a tighter budget. We have been hearing quite a bit about the GTX 1060 through rumours in recent weeks but today, Nvidia …

Since E3, there has been a lot of talk surrounding the future of Xbox exclusives thanks to the announcement of Xbox Play Anywhere, a new program that initially promised to bring all Microsoft-published titles to Xbox and Windows 10. Unfortunately since then, Microsoft has quietly edited its description for this …

The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) might have lost half of its funding just a few months ago, but that hasn't stopped it continuing its crusade against pirates. In its latest move, it's given 17 different pirate-catching cinema ushers £500 cheques, a certificate and a special ceremony to thank them …

Of the free anti-virus and anti-malware programs out there, Avast and AVG are two of the most popular. Now though whichever one you opt for, Avast will benefit, as it's purchased its rival anti-virus firm for a total of $1.3 billion. It now hopes to offer “more advanced,” services to …

Remember the ‘hoverboard' craze of last year? It being 2015, the idea of riding something – even if it didn't hover – was pretty exciting, but due to a lack of regulation, the crazy ended before it could really start, due to faulty batteries. They were quite prolific too, as …

Many of you will remember Evolve, it was a fairly promising looking game in the build-up to its launch but once word of Turtle Rock Studios' DLC plans started going around, a lot of people were put off entirely. These days only a handful of people ever launch the game but Turtle …

Although the fate of Germany in this year's European Championship is still set to be decided, the German robot football team's is far more certain: they are the champions. The American team opposite them in the finals put up a good fight, but when it came down to penalties, the …

Cooler Master's latest case release is an impressive blend of style and customisation with the MasterBox 5. “You decide the inside,” is its tag line, because there are a heap of mounting options for storage bays, masses of space for coolers and radiators, cable management hooks and sleeves and a …

Right now current rumours are pointing towards Nvidia launching the GTX 1060 very soon. We have seen some leaked images, we've had a look at some leaked specifications and now some benchmark results have also appeared on the web, giving us an early idea of how this GPU performs. The …

While AMD's new RX 480 graphics card has launched with positive reviews, it did run into one issue last week when a few publications discovered that the GPU was demanding more power from the PCI-e slot than it should be. Fortunately, despite some early speculation, this issue is fixable through …

These days, most Android flagship handsets launch with 32GB of internal memory as standard. However, Apple has been a little slower to adopt this trend with iOS but that could change this year as current rumours indicate that the iPhone 7 won't have a 16GB version, instead the base model …

Prior to Call of Duty's current batch of games set in the future, Activision was actually looking to experiment with the series and took pitches for various spin-off titles. This led to Call of Duty: Roman Wars, where the player takes on the role of a soldier in Julius Caesar's army. The game …

If you still haven't got around to picking up The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, then you might want to give it another month or so as word on the street is that CD Projekt Red is planning on releasing a Game of the Year Edition in August, packing in …

If you want to run the HTC Vive on a GTX 1080 or 1070 graphics card, you better be planning to use the HDMI connection, as it looks like the optional mini-Displayport for the Vive just doesn't work with either card's respective connector. Nvidia said it was looking into the …

For all his bluster, pomp and failed political ambitions, Kim Dotcom has done a few things well over the years, namely making file lockers. MegaUpload and more recently Mega, were big successes and though he's not involved in either any more, he may build a new one, with a name …

The FBI has announced that at the conclusion of its investigation into U.S. presidential candidate, Hilary Clinton, over her use of an unsecured private email server while Secretary of State, that they it would not recommend indictment. Although the justice department may pursue a conviction any way, it seems quite …

Chinese online retail giant, Alibaba, has announced a new vehicle created as part of a joint partnership between itself and SAIC Motor Corp, china's largest car manufacturer. Made using the YunOS operating system, the new Roewe RX5 can connect to the internet through your smartphone, with the firms behind it claiming it's …

Fancy yourself a brand new chassis? be quiet! is once again giving away a number of them and that means you stand a chance to win. The Dark Base 900 is its new line-up of multi-colour-option chassis, with a modular construction, noise-reducing air vents and of course a big, windowed …

Update: Some of our readers from around the world have managed to download it. If you're playing Pokémon Go right now, where are you from, and which platform are you playing on? Nintendo has launched its new augmented reality smartphone game, Pokémon GO, in territories including Japan, New Zealand and …

At this point, we have all had a good look at what Pascal can do following on from the launches of the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070. However, there is a more powerful Pascal card on the horizon- Nvidia's next Titan, which is currently rumoured to launch at Gamescom in …

It has been a while since we last heard anything regarding AMD's new Zen architecture. For now the first eight core desktop CPU is on track to launch late this year but there are also murmurs about future Zen APUs, which will launch next some time in 2017 and rumoured to …

We have been hearing more and more about the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 recently, from the name, to the release date, to the internal specifications and now, we also know exactly what the phablet will look like thanks to an image posted online recently. Last month, EVLeaks/Evan Blass tweeted out …

Ubisoft has been fighting off a potential hostile takeover from Vivendi for a while now  but this week the publisher announced that it has moved to expand its board of directors, which will in turn lessen the amount of leverage Vivendi could have should it keep buying its way into the …

Blizzard has already taken an impressive stance against cheaters in Overwatch but now the studio is also going after the cheat creators. Blizzard is suing Bossland, a German cheat maker on the grounds of copyright infringement, unfair competition and a violation of the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause. The Overwatch cheat in question …

The Sapphire RX 480 Nitro is the world's first custom RX 480 graphics card to be listed at retail and to celebrate its launch, we are teaming up with Overclockers UK  to give one away!  Sapphire's Nitro cooler is one of the best around and that additional cooling efficiency allows for …

The NASA Juno satellite which left the confines of Earth's atmosphere five years ago, has completed its retrograde burn to bring it into Jupiter's orbit. Although there was some concern that the radiation belt surrounding the gas giant could cause damage to the space craft during its approach, the orbital …