The UK is paving the way for driverless cars on the road as upcoming changes to the highway code are due to allow for vehicles without steering wheels or driver controls. UK Science Minister, David Willets, admits that the current highway code is inadequate for robotic vehicles but that should change …
Read More »SteelSeries has revealed an eye tracker for PC
SteelSeries releases peripherals all the time, so sometimes it can be hard to get excited for announcements. However, the company has just revealed something entirely new, an eye tracker that will help train professional gamers by giving them statistics on their attention span and how often they focus on a …
Read More »Fable Anniversary to come to Steam in September
The very first Fable game is widely considered as the best in the series, so when Fable Anniversary was first announced, both console and PC gamers alike got a little excited. However, the game only landed on the 360 and until now, we didn't know if it would ever come …
Read More »Sony Project Morpheus gets trialled by Jimmy Fallon
The Oculus Rift has had plenty of outings in the past couple of years, but Sony's competitor product, Project Morpheus, hasn't had anywhere near the same kind of exposure. Looking to change that it seems, Editor at The Verge Joshua Topolsky took along a couple of pairs of Morpheus and the …
Read More »Computer tricks humans into thinking it’s one of them
Computer chatbots are always easy to spot aren't they? They repeat themselves, don't understand conversational tools like sarcasm or irony and are never, never funny, but it looks like that might not be the case for much longer. A pair of researchers have managed to create a computer that was …
Read More »Kim Dotcom offers £3 million in whistleblower bounty
With his extradition trial approaching and pending civil lawsuits from both the MPAA and RIAA, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is facing the barrels of several guns all at once. To give him a little firepower in his own corner however, he's taken the typically bold step of offering a bounty …
Read More »Notch’s second commercial game is called Cliffhorse
Notch has finally made another game to sell. He's worked on a lot of other projects since the creation of Minecraft sure, but none of them have come from his brain and directly affected the wallets of gamers around the world since he first cloned Infiniminer way back when. Today …
Read More »Seasonic take the gentle, friendly approach at Computex
Approaching Computex from the Geeks point of view – it provides a gorgeous concentration of technologies spread across multiple locations in Taipei for a week. But this year, there was a serious restriction placed on the number of local folks who could get in. The show's organisers had listened to …
Read More »Google unveils project Tango tablet: Tegra K1 inside, $1024 price-point
Google this week introduced a new tablet for software developers that belongs to its family of devices supporting the project Tango technologies. The mobile device has Nvidia Tegra K1 application processor inside as well as advanced sensing capabilities that help it to create a 3D model of the environment around …
Read More »AMD reportedly plans to outsource chipset development to Asmedia
Advanced Micro Devices reportedly plans to outsource development of its core-logic sets to Asmedia, a controller chip developer co-owned by Asustek Computer. While the plan may further reduce AMD’s costs and potentially will allow to quicker respond to market demands, it will also shrink AMD’s ability to offer fully-integrated platform …
Read More »Intel Core i7-4790K overclocked to 4.50GHz with passive cooling
Earlier this week Intel Corp.’s Core i7-4790K “Devil's Canyon” central processing units already demonstrated their impressive overclocking potential when overclocked by professionals with advanced cooling systems. As it turns out, the chip can work in overclocked state at 4.50GHz even with passive cooling. At the Computex Taipei trade-show this week Intel …
Read More »Kinect for Windows v2 available for pre-order, costs £159/$199
Microsoft Corp. on Friday began to take pre-orders for the Kinect for Windows v2 motion sensor. The device is initially intended only for software developers who plan to take advantage of the Xbox One’s motion sensing capabilities on the PC. The software giant plans to start sales of the Kinect …
Read More »SanDisk shows 400GB in each socket of Supermicro board at Computex
In any given month, less than 1 million people read KitGuru. That makes you, the knowledgeable hardware enthusiast, part of an exclusive minority. Your system is likely to be an order of magnitude more powerful than any of your friends and YOU are the person they ring when they need …
Read More »Team Group awards Overclockers UK with its ‘Excellent Reseller Award’
Team Group is a very well-known name in the world of professional overclockers. Their memory modules have set numerous world records throughout the history of the company. It is hard to imagine that just several years ago Team Group was not really recognised in the U.K. However, Overclockers UK, a …
Read More »Dead Rising 3 will be coming to PC
One of the Xbox One's biggest exclusive launch titles was Dead Rising 3 but the game won't be staying console exclusive for much longer as Microsoft has revealed that the game will be making its way to PC. Now gamers will be able to enjoy the zombie slaying title at …
Read More »Exosuit being trialled to search for world’s first computer
Did you think computers were invented in the 20th century? Don't make me laugh. 19th century? Come on. Try the 1st century BC, or there abouts, as that's what the Antikythera mechanism is considered to be. It's a (probably) Greek analogue computer from roughly 100 years before the birth of Jesus, found …
Read More »Turtle Beach launches membership scheme for pro gamers
Turtle Beach, the long term maker of gaming headsets for both PC and consoles, has announced that it will be launching an elite membership programme for competitive and professional gamers. The scheme will offer benefits and discounts to anyone who buys an Elite gaming headset. Members of the new programme …
Read More »Vodafone reveals extent of government snooping
Vodafone has revealed the extent of government snooping on its mobile network today, it turns out that many government agencies have full access to Vodafone's 400 million customers, being able to snoop on conversations and general user data at any time without warning. The 40,000 word document that was published …
Read More »Microsoft clarifies: Disconnecting Kinect won’t boost performance
Microsoft recently admitted that by making the Kinect optional, developers would be able to squeeze out an extra 10 per cent out of the GPU on the Xbox One. However, that doesn't mean that current owners will suddenly see a performance boost simply by unplugging the peripheral. Microsoft has now …
Read More »Meet the robot that understands human emotion
Japanese telecoms company, Softbank, will be releasing an emotionally aware robot next February. The robot is called ‘Pepper' and will cost less than $2000 on release, company CEO, Masayoshi Son, announced at a presentation. Pepper uses technology acquired from the French robotics company, Aldebaran. You may have heard of Aldbebaran before, its …
Read More »Kingston begins to ship SSDs in M.2 form-factor
Kingston Technology this week started to ship its first solid-state drives in the M.2 2280 form-factor. Such SSDs will soon become popular as the latest platforms based on Intel’s 9-series chipsets support the M.2 SSDs with the PCI Express 2.0 x2 interface and up to 1GB/s of bandwidth. Unfortunately, the …
Read More »Moon rocks show trace of planet that collided with Earth
Ever wondered where our moon came from? While we'll never know for sure – cameras were pretty rare 4.5 billion years ago – the general consensus is that another planet, named Theia, collided with the then “proto-Earth”, smashing huge chunks of both into space. Over time that debris coalesced in …
Read More »Win MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC, R9 290X Gaming GPU and LE Siberia V2
Today we have a monster competition starting courtesy of our good friends over at MSI. One lucky KitGuru reader will win one of their new flagship Gaming 9 AC motherboards, as well as an R9 290X Gaming graphics cards and a limited edition Steelseries Siberia V2 headset! MSI will be …
Read More »New Zealand MP found guilty in Dotcom donation scandal
Long standing New Zealand politician, John Banks, has been found guilty of deliberately concealing the source of donations during his mayoral campaign back in 2010. He's set to be sentenced on the 1st August, shortly before the general election, so will see out his current term as the only seated …
Read More »GoG takes fight to gaming platforms: debuts GoG Galaxy
As part of yesterday's CD Projekt Red conference, which saw it revealing the stunning new trailer for the Witcher 3, the developer also unveiled something special to do with its GoG platform. As well as continuing to offer DRM free games via its website, it will also be launching its …
Read More »Watch the new Witcher 3 trailer here
Yesterday was all about the Witcher 3, with its developer CD Projekt Red running a live event to show off the new game and some of its features. It also released a new trailer, showcasing a mashup of pre-rendered cut scenes and gameplay footage and boy does it look pretty. …
Read More »Exclusive interview with Ken Ho, President of Inno3D at Computex
In the graphics industry, Ken Ho is a bit of a legend. Having been in the manufacturing game for many, many years – he has worked with them all and seen a lot of trends coming and going over the decades. At Computex 2014, he was very excited about something …
Read More »MSI displays Intel-based World Firsts at Computex 2014
Hot on the heels of its ECO drive, MSI has also been showing two World Firsts in the mainboard area. One is set to improve all round performance through superior bandwidth, while the other promises a high-speed interconnect for your everyday peripherals (or, at least, the ones you will buy …
Read More »AMD demonstrates the first FreeSync display prototype
At the Computex 2014 trade-show this week Advanced Micro Devices demonstrated the industry’s first prototype of a monitor that features the company’s FreeSync technology, which is largely based on the recently announced Adaptive Sync technology from VESA. While the monitor works pretty fine, it seems that it has certain limitations, …
Read More »Intel wants to get rid of cables with ‘Skylake’-based devices
The upcoming systems powered by the Core M “Broadwell” microprocessors will certainly be impressive. But the real revolution awaits us sometimes in 2015 – 2016, when Intel Corp.’s partners roll-out devices based on the code-named “Skylake” central processing units. Those mobile systems are expected to be completely wireless and therefore …
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