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 »Troll and I trailer shows asymmetrical coop gameplay
Troll and I is a game that we first had a look at back at EGX 2016 in the Leftfield collection and it looked and played well then. Now though we're just a few weeks away from its official release, so Maximum Games' latest trailer is giving us a much …
Read More »AMD RX 580 and RX 560 benchmarks leak
It looks like there is an AMD RX-500 graphics card series on the way as two new benchmarks have appeared from an AMD employee on the Ashes of the Singularity database, showing performance for an upcoming RX 580 and RX 560 GPU. Both benchmarks were run at 1080p using the …
Read More »Samsung denies that it is planning to sell refurbished Galaxy Note 7s
Update: Yesterday reports began circulating claiming that Samsung would soon sell refurbished Galaxy Note 7 units with smaller batteries in certain territories. At the time, the reports claimed that these Note 7s would be sold at a reduced rate in emerging markets like India as well as Samsung's home country South …
Read More »Apple’s massive ‘spaceship campus’ will open in April, now called ‘Apple Park’
Apple's new spaceship campus has been in the making for years now but the ambitious building project is finally nearing completion, with a grand opening date now set. The campus is set to be named ‘Apple Park' and will be the new workplace for 12,000 of Apple's employees starting in …
Read More »Valve brings SteamVR support to Linux
While things have been a little quiet on the SteamOS front for a while, Valve is still a big supporter of Linux and other open standards, which is why this week the company is releasing the SteamVR for Linux beta, bringing virtual reality support to those outside of the Windows …
Read More »Quite a few countries are facing a Steam price hike
It looks like new tax jurisdictions on digital goods are coming in to play in several countries, forcing Valve to raise Steam prices across the board in ten different countries. Most countries on the list will see Steam game prices rise by well over ten percent, while some others will …
Read More »Digital Homicide’s crazy $15 million lawsuit against Jim Sterling has been dropped
Digital Homicide, the studio perhaps most famous for releasing bad games and then trying to take legal action against those with negative feedback, recently had one of its two massive lawsuits dismissed. Last year, Digital Homicide's James Romine filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against game critic Jim Sterling but this …
Read More »Ryzen UK pricing confirmed, pre-orders go live at 6PM
Today has been a big day for AMD, not only is Ryzen confirmed to begin shipping on the 2nd of March but pre-orders are set to go live later today and pricing appears to be very competitive against Intel's high-end i7 CPUs. While we only got confirmation of US pricing …
Read More »Nvidia will be announcing the GTX 1080Ti in six days
It looks like Nvidia is planning a GTX 1080Ti reveal for GDC after all. Last week we learned that Nvidia was planning on holding a ‘fan event' on the 28th of February but we were unsure whether or not there would be a livestream, calling into question the likelihood of …
Read More »Probable Samsung Galaxy S8 leaks show its bezel is smaller than ever
Not too much is known about Samsung's upcoming flagship device, the Galaxy S8, but as we edge closer to its expected March unveiling, leaks are giving us a good look. The latest one is a picture of the Galaxy S8 with the screen on, which shows us just how much …
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 »Valve ditches $3,000 tracking course requirement for SteamVR developers
Valve has announced that it is ditching the requirement of a $3,000 training course to become a SteamVR tracking partner, meaning just about anyone can make SteamVR enabled hardware. While the course and in-person training will still be available for those who want it, Valve is also making much of …
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 »Twitch streamer dies after 22 hours straight gaming
Although gaming isn't as harmful for you as the tabloids would suggest, marathon sessions do seem to have some potential for health concerns. In the case of one Twitch streamer, fatally so, as 22 hours into a 25 hour gaming marathon, he died from what are currently considered unknown causes. …
Read More »First traces of Volta spotted in new Nvidia driver
It looks like the first signs of Nvidia's upcoming Volta architecture are starting to appear as recently the team behind AIDA64 spotted references to Nvidia's next generation flagship GPU in a new driver. It seems that the AIDA64 team were digging around Nvidia's latest driver looking for traces of the …
Read More »AMD Ryzen 1700x benchmark leak shows strong performance against Intel
With the Ryzen launch now imminent, we are starting to see more and more leaks. We have had quite a bit of early information over the last few weeks, from pricing information to retail packaging and new stock coolers. However, today, something a bit more juicy appeared on the web- …
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 »Microsoft will be releasing two major Windows 10 updates this year
Microsoft has been drip feeding us details about the upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update for a few months now and while it is set to be a major update, Microsoft does have more planned for the rest of 2017. The Creators Update will bring along native Windows support for things …
Read More »Bethesda’s Fallout VR is ‘going great’ but there is still no set release date
Last year, Bethesda announced that it would be reworking Fallout 4 and DOOM for virtual reality and while things have been fairly quiet on that front since, this week, Todd Howard opened up a bit more about it. It turns out that right now, the entirety of Fallout 4 is …
Read More »Apple to refresh iPad in March with new iPad Pros and iPad Mini
It looks like we can expect a new batch of iPads this Spring as this week sources have come forward with details of Apple's plans for an iPad refresh following an event in March. Apparently, we are set to see a new iPad Mini, iPad Air and two new iPad …
Read More »Samsung reportedly planning to sell refurbished Galaxy Note 7s
It looks like Samsung may still be able to recover some money from the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco after all as reports this week are claiming that the company will soon start selling refurbished versions of the Note 7. These refurbished Note 7s would come with a smaller battery than …
Read More »Final Fantasy XV’s 60 frames per second patch isn’t very good
Yesterday, the long awaited 60 frames per second patch for the PS4 Pro version of Final Fantasy XV launched. The patch changes the ‘lite mode' within the game options, which previously gave 1080p visuals at 30 frames per second. Now, the visuals remain at 1080p in lite mode but the …
Read More »Humble Freedom Bundle sends more than $6.5 million to charity
The Humble Freedom Bundle has proved to be the second most popular in the history of the platform, generating more than $6.5 million for charity and selling 200,000+ bundles. The only bundle to have a better showing was the Humble Origin bundle, which generated more than $10 million in 2013. …
Read More »NETGEAR competition: five prizes, five winners
We like to give back to our readers as much as possible here at KitGuru, so this week we are teaming up with NETGEAR to give away five prizes, giving you guys five chances to win something and upgrade your networking gear! Here is the full prize list: 2x Nighthawk …
Read More »Manga impacted differently by piracy, depending on whether it’s finished
Completed manga comic series fare far better with piracy than those series which are ongoing, according to a new study. Research suggests that manga readers will more readily pirate content if a series is still ongoing, but if it's completed, they might not know it existed without a pirated version. The relationship …
Read More »Nintendo Switch boxes are beautiful, but have a lot of wasted space
Taking advantage of the fact that the cartridges for the Nintendo Switch are some of the smallest of any console to date, Nintendo has printed some beautiful artwork inside the cases. However, it does seem like rather a lot of plastic for something that occupies barely one per cent of …
Read More »Binding of Isaac Switch port will miss launch, but comes with instruction booklet
The port of Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ for the upcoming Nintendo Switch, will not be a launch title as originally intended. Although the game's publisher, Nicalis, still claims the game will debut on the new-gen system in March, it won't quite be ready for the originally planned release date of …
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 …
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