Still looking for ways to help internet users bypass the censorship imposed by many countries, the UK included, The Pirate Bay has launched its own web browser called PirateBrowser. Based on a Tor client and version 23 of Mozilla's portable edition Firefox browser with foxyproxy add-on, PirateBrowser is a simple …
Read More »Google celebrate Erwin Schrodinger
Google are celebrating the life of Austrian scientist Erwin Schrödinger with a Google doodle image. If he was still alive, he would be 127 today. Schrödinger was a nobel prize winning physicist best known for his mind experiment known as Schrödinger's Cat. This was an equation that lies at the very heart …
Read More »Clear skies ahead for Perseids UK meteor shower
Forecasters say the weather conditions are looking good for the Perseid meteor shower which should be clearly visible from late evening tonight to early Tuesday morning in the United Kingdom. Matt Dobson of MeteoGroup, the weather section of the Press Association spoke out “It's looking pretty good for people to …
Read More »SATA-IO completes SATA 3.2 Specification
The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) has announced that it has completed the SATA 3.2 Specification. The latest iteration of the specification brings with it increased data transfer rates, improved power management and SATA Express. SATA Express will allow drives to use two lanes of PCI Express 3.0, increasing available bandwidth …
Read More »3D Hologram projector for your smartphone
The latest Star Wars movies may have sucked, but there is no denying that the original releases in the 1970's were way ahead of their time. We are still waiting on a 3D projector, similar to the one built into R2D2. The wait may be over, as Imagination Farm USA …
Read More »Be Quiet Shadow Rock 2 CPU Cooler Review
Today we are going to look at the Shadow Rock 2 CPU Cooler from Be Quiet!. It is the first model we have looked at from the second generation of the ‘Shadow Rock' series of products. We are excited to see how it fares in our tests as previous models …
Read More »New iPhone may be released within a month
The latest news from AllThingsD would suggest that Apple may introduce the follow up to the iPhone 5 at a special event held on September 10th. This is almost a full year after Apple introduced the iPhone 5 at a media event in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Arts Center on …
Read More »Low priced 4TB drives now being served on an Aria platter
Almost exactly one year ago, KitGuru covered the news that the price of a 4TB drive had been slashed down to just outside the £200 mark. With a few wobbles along the way, that price continues to fall. KitGuru eyes up another offer in the storage department. When things spin …
Read More »Asus will make next Google Nexus 10
Asus were the manufacturer of the original Nexus 7, and the redesigned model which was released earlier this year however Samsung were responsible for the bigger Nexus 10 model. Asus bid for manufacturing of the new model, and they won, aiming to release the Nexus 10 in time for Christmas …
Read More »nVidia price cuts extend to laptops with MSI GE60 and GE70
With all the price cuts on nVidia desktop graphics cards, we guess it was only time before the mobile space also started to throw up some GeForce bargains. Having broken into the world's Top 10 for laptops a few years back, this Taiwanese outfit still pushes hard to create original …
Read More »SSD price war in full flow with Crucial and ADATA
Just a few weeks ago, KitGuru was chatting internally and wondering what happened to all the cool SSD deals from last summer. We remembered a time when drives dropped below £70 and then headed down to settle around £60. Why were 2013's prices so much higher? Looks like movements in …
Read More »Overclockers UK ups the ante in ongoing GTX 600 series price war
In a tactical bid to take the ongoing Nvidia GTX 670 and 680 price war by the throat, Overclockers UK is slashing the price of Asus DirectCU II cards for this weekend only. The move sees Overclockers UK offering up some of the best deals currently available, and better still, …
Read More »G.Skill TridentX breaks world record at 4400MHz
G.Skill has reclaimed its position as performance king after professional overclocker James “YoungPro” Trevaskis reached 4400MHz using G.Skill's TridentX memory earlier this morning. The set-up used to achieve this result consisted of an Intel Core i7 4770k, ASUS Maximus 6 Impact and G.Skill TridentX DDR3 3000MHz C12 4GB. As is …
Read More »Chrome browser can release your passwords in just a few clicks
UK programmer Elliott Kember has raised a concerning issue on his blog this week. Web browsers Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox can reveal saved logged in user passwords in just a few clicks. According to The Register there is now a debate over whether this is a ‘common feature' or …
Read More »BMW i3 (2013) 170bhp hybrid available on order
The new BMW i3 has gone on sale priced from £25,680 with the £5,000 OLEV Government grant. The car can be ordered now, but the official UK launch date is on the 16th November 2013. The BMW i3 is a hybrid design, powered by a synchronous electric motor with the …
Read More »LG G2 specs and price detailed
Many people are waiting on the new G2 phone from LG. At their event in New York the company highlighted the features of the watch, calling the G2 ‘The most ambitious phone in history'. Key features of the LG G2 are a new edge to edge display (‘near zero bezel'), …
Read More »Microsoft developing phone that won’t ever disturb you
We've all had that awkward moment when you forget to silence your phone in the cinema and it happens to go off during the quietest scene of the film. You'll be glad to hear that this may not be a problem for long, as Microsoft are currently developing a technology …
Read More »OverclockersUK have something ‘big coming’
OverclockersUK are teasing everyone with news that they have something ‘big' coming to market. They just sent us a press release which reads “For quite some time Overclockers UK have been working on a top-secret project, a project soon to be unveiled but not first without a taste. In the …
Read More »Prolimatech Releases Blue Series Armageddon CPU Cooler
Cooling hardware manufacturer Prolimatech has released a new version of its high-performance Armageddon CPU cooler. The new version sees the single-tower CPU cooler getting a blue and black colour scheme similar to that found on Ford's Mustang sports cars. Weighing in at 750g, the black-with-blue-stripes heatsink features six heatpipes that …
Read More »HTC targets mid-range market with new Desire 500 handset
HTC has been make a bit of a come back over the past year, since the release of their flagship One handset. This handset has been critically acclaimed for it's excellent build quality, sleek design and innovative camera. It seems that HTC are looking to build on their recent success, …
Read More »John Carmack joins Oculus VR
In a press release, Oculus VR has announced that John Carmack has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer. The co-founder of id Software was quoted as saying “The dream of VR has been simmering in the background for decades, but now, the people and technologies are finally aligning to allow …
Read More »ARIA stocking Club3D Multi Stream Transport (MST) Hub
ARIA, UK retailer are stocking the new Club3D Multi Stream Transport Hub – a device which receives a DisplayPort 1.2 signal from a source and splits up and routes the video streams independently to each display device. The UK retail price is £99.95, but it is currently on offer at …
Read More »40 inch Toshiba HDTV with DVD drops to £339 ahead of 4k HD
Serious followers of KitGuru will know that we have been tracking the advances being made in Quad HD TV for a very long time. As the new generation of visual entertainment prepares to land in our living rooms, what happens to the existing dinosaurs? A shot sent in by an …
Read More »Flaw found in Xerox Scanner software
This week a flaw was found in Xerox scanners and copiers. The issue meant that numbers in scanned documents were being randomly changed without the input of the user. A scientist posted his findings in a blog, showing the results of the error from various Xerox scanners. He used real …
Read More »Floating cinema hits London
The British Arts Organisation have joined up with Duggan Morris Architects and UP Projects to launch the ‘Floating Cinema'. This is hitting the waterways of East London until the end of September. Duggan Morris have created an award winning design which has taken a barge and turned it into a …
Read More »Google launch Spotify rival Play Music in UK
Google are releasing their music streaming service ‘Play Music All Access' in the United Kingdom. This service provides unlimited access to music from all the major record companies, as well as indie and local groups. The company first announced this at the I/O conference in May. They first called it …
Read More »Wireless charging reaches roads, knows no bounds
Wireless charging technology has been around for a few years now in the marketplace, with various products such as the Duracell Powermat and the feint memory that was the Palm Pre. The technology behind it is fairly simple, relying on the basic principle of electromagnetic induction. When the charger and …
Read More »The KitGuru Screenshot Competition
Two weeks ago we launched the Steam KitGuru Group and within a matter of days over 500 people had already joined us. To thank you, our community, for supporting us we held a screenshot competition. Games were played, screenshots were submitted and the winners received their chosen games. To continue the …
Read More »Overclockers UK slash prices on Nvidia 600 and 700 series
The past days we have reported on price drops from retailers such as Scan, Aria and Ebuyer. Happy to jump into the fray, Overclockers are hot on their heels with some price drops of their own. KitGuru pulls out the company credit card, ready to pick up some deals. The …
Read More »MySN update range with new 13 inch XMG P303 gaming notebook
Almost a year ago now we took a look at the XMG P502 from MySN UK which turned out to be a pretty decent portable gaming machine. This was one of their first ventures into the UK market, after the German company set up a dedicated UK arm to handle …
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