Earlier this year, Intel ended up cutting its workforce down by 11 percent, pushing 12,000 or so people out of the company. As it turns out, a heck of a lot of graphics engineers may have been caught in the line of fire back in April, which has since spurred …
Read More »Know a 3DS bug? Nintendo may give you up to £16,000 for it
Nintendo has debuted a new bug bounty program for its 3DS portable console, with rewards up to £16,000 for anyone who can find an exploit in its platform. This comes as somewhat of a surprise, as many expected the upcoming 2017 release of the Switch to see Nintendo focus its …
Read More »Revive injector updated to 1.0, adds Oculus Touch support
With the release of Oculus Touch controllers today, there are over 50 new, supporting games hitting digital distribution platforms like Steam. To make sure that VR stays inclusive, developer CrossVR has updated their Revive compatibility layer, which makes it possible to play all of those Touch games on a HTC …
Read More »Oculus Touch is on sale, but only in a few places
Today marks the day when Oculus catches up to the HTC Vive in the controller department. Nearly eight months on from the initial release of both headsets, Oculus Touch controllers are now out in the wild and by most reviews, they seem to be pretty great. Getting your hands on …
Read More »Pirate Party Iceland was asked to form a coalition government
Iceland's Pirate Party, the group which performed so well at the recent general elections, has been given the go ahead by the country's president, to try and form a coalition government. It is the third party that has been asked to do so, after the two most popular parties failed …
Read More »Social networks, tech firms to block ‘extremist’ images
Some of the world's biggest technology firms are going to share a database of image and video hashes for ‘extemist content' with one another, in order to prevent them from appearing on their various platforms. This is much the same system they use to tackle child pornography and although it …
Read More »Mysterious unreleased AMD GPU benchmark surfaces
Just recently, we began hearing whispers about a potential RX 490 again after months of silence. While at the time these rumours didn't seem so credible, we have since come across a mysterious, previously unseen GPU in a benchmark database listing, showing an unnamed AMD card matching the GTX 1080 …
Read More »AM4/X370 Zen motherboards to be shown at AMD’s New Horizon event
In just one week, we will be getting our best look at AMD's upcoming Zen processors yet at the ‘New Horizon' event, just before the rumoured January launch. However, Zen will be just one element, we will also be getting a good look at the new X370 chipset and some …
Read More »Macbook Pro with Touch Bar users reporting awful battery life
It looks like a few of those who decided to pay the price premium for Apple's new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar are facing some pretty serious issues, as battery life appears to have taken a dive. Apple's latest revision of the MacBook Pro arrives rated with ten hours of …
Read More »Oculus Touch is here and reviews seem to be very positive
The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive have been going head to head all year but so far there has been a clear, defining difference between the two headsets- motion controllers. The HTC Vive has often been applauded as the better buy as many prefer using motion controllers within VR, rather …
Read More »Apple Watch 2 sales are down 71% compared to original
The smartwatch market was expected to truly boom with the launch of the Apple Watch but so far, things haven't exploded in the way analysts had predicted. In fact, it turns out that Apple Watch Series 2 sales are down by 71 percent compared to the original Apple Watch last …
Read More »We are giving away 3x Shuttle NC02U palm-sized 4K portable PCs!
We like to give back to our readers from time to time here at KitGuru, which is why this month, we are teaming up with Shuttle to give away 3 XPC Nano PC-NC02U barebones systems, an ultra-portable, palm-sized mini PC with Skylake technology and 4K capabilities. Key features for the …
Read More »Engineers pin Galaxy Note 7 failures on ‘aggressive design’
Experts have been hard at work on dissecting the Galaxy Note 7 over the last couple of months in an effort to try and figure out exactly what went wrong and why these phones were catching fire. It has taken some time, but it looks like Samsung's design choices really …
Read More »Resident Evil VII demo is coming to PC soon
The Resident Evil franchise is looking to make a big return in 2017 with the launch of Resident Evil VII in January and while many PS4 players have already had the chance to test out a slice of the game, PC players will also be getting the same opportunity within …
Read More »World of Warcraft Nostalrius servers are returning this month
This has been a big year for World of Warcraft in more ways than one. Not only has the Legion expansion been incredibly successful so far, but a lot of attention has been brought to the possibility of legacy/vanilla servers. Legacy servers have been a hot topic ever since Blizzard …
Read More »Ethereum leveraged for new smart-contract blockchain
Public blockchain platform, Ethereum, is being used as the backbone for a new, smart-contract system built on blockchain technology, which should help guarantee workers are paid for services and provide safeguards for all parties before hand. It's hoped that such a system could enhance If This Then That (IFTTT) business, …
Read More »Black Mirror meets real life, China pushing for universal credit score
If you thought the first episode of season three of Black Mirror, Nosedive, was far fetched, think again. In China, there are already trials underway of a “social credit,” system, which takes everything from minor infractions, to how much respect a person gives their parents and from 1st January, will …
Read More »OpenAI to use video games to train AI of the future
Non-profit AI research initiative, OpenAI, has announced a new platform for measuring and training artificial intelligence (AI) that uses games and websites that humans use. It's designed to teach them to learn like we do, through experiences and the usage of tools like the classic keyboard and mouse. Known as …
Read More »Remote healthcare and the rise of telepresence and surgical robots
The use of robotics in surgery and healthcare in general is expected to grow rapidly over the next six years, according to a new study. The higher rates of success with high-end surgical robotics are part of the reason, though telepresence screens and systems are also expected to increase in …
Read More »G2A Direct is proving popular with developers
G2A Direct, the developer partnership program twinned with the G2A game key seller, is proving popular. To date it has signed up 50 production companies and individuals and that's actually proving difficult for the platform provider, which claims it didn't expect anywhere near such a positive response. Launched in July …
Read More »Motorola may be dipping out of the smartwatch market
The Moto 360 may have been one of the more popular and better looking Android Wear smartwatches when it first launched in 2014 but unfortunately, the wearables market hasn't exploded quite as quickly as many had hoped. This has led to Motorola and its parent company, Lenovo, shelving plans for …
Read More »Razer pushes on with open-source by joining Khronos Group
Razer has been a big proponent of Open-Source development for a while now, with its biggest push for open standards coming from OSVR, an open-source virtual reality initiative founded by Razer and supported by quite a few studios. Now, Razer is getting involved with open-source graphics technology by joining the …
Read More »Updated: VR headset probably didn’t cause eye swelling
Update: We've spoken with registered optometrist, Simon Matthews MCOptom BSc(Hons) FBDO CL, who tells us that from the photo the swelling looks to be an “oedema” of the lids, which is more likely to be caused by an allergic reaction than an infection or pressure from the headset itself. He …
Read More »Titanfall 2’s digital sales are 28% lower than original game
While EA and Respawn Entertainment are keeping quiet on exact Titanfall 2 sales figures and standing by the game's long-term sales potential, all early indications seem to show that the game just isn't doing very well sales-wise, despite positive reviews and coverage. Now, we have further evidence of that as …
Read More »Foxconn manager made $1.5 million selling stolen iPhones
It looks like a now former senior manager at Foxconn could face quite the jail sentence after being caught stealing around 5,700 iPhones worth around $1.5 million. This manager worked in the testing department specifically and had eight employees under his wing, who he instructed to smuggle thousands of iPhones. …
Read More »Reach Robotics AR robot hands-on shows how versatile they are
Last week KitGuru was invited down to the Future Space labs at University of the West of England in Bristol, to get our first hands on with Reach Robotics' new augmented reality, smartphone controlled robot brawlers: the “MekaMon”. Complete with AR enemies to fight, other real world robots to battle, …
Read More »Nokia set to make Android smartphone return in 2017
A number of ex-Nokia employees have banded together and licensed the brand name from Microsoft. Not only that, but they've secured a manufacturing partnership too and plan to resurrect Nokia smartphones in 2017 – building a brand new Android device around it. The new firm is called HMD Global and …
Read More »Ubisoft has revised its statement on The Division’s player count
Last weekend, we got news that The Division's player count may finally be back to launch numbers, following Ubisoft's move to delay DLC to fix up all complaints with the game to bring players back in. Things weren't quite adding up according to Steam Chart numbers but given that a …
Read More »be quiet!, Gigabyte and ADATA are giving away free gear
Do you live in the UK or Ireland and want some new PC hardware before the end of this year? If so, get ready to input some credentials, as Gigabyte, ADATA and be quiet! have teamed up to give away a brand new motherboard, SSD, 16GB RAM kit, a new …
Read More »UN Panel rules Julian Assange must be freed, given liberty, money
The United Kingdom and Sweden must end the detention of Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, a United Nations panel has ruled. Not only must both governments allow him to walk from his asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, but they must respect his right to free movement and liberty and …
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