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Companies have been moving away from Adobe Flash for a while now and Google is set to sever yet another tie with the software as the company has announced that it will no longer be accepting adverts made using Flash from the 30th of June onwards. If advertisers get their …

Yesterday we learned that three of the higher-ups working at peripheral maker Mad Catz had resigned from their positions just ahead of a looming earnings report. Now that the earnings report is out, we know the full extent of the situation, confirming that Rock Band 4 sales fell below expectations, …

The appeal for internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom's extradition trial has been set of August, so the MegaUpload founder will have at least a few more months to prepare and  can finish out this summer there. This comes despite demands from the U.S. that his appeal be fast tracked to hurry …

Google's autonomous vehicle control algorithm has been given the designation of “driver,” by the U.S.' National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA). This is just one more step on the road to vehicles like the Google pod car being allowed to drive around without someone sat behind the wheel. Despite the …

The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) of Parliament, a previously rather quite organisation has stepped out of the shadows to lambaste the British government over its proposed Investigatory Powers Bill, often termed the Snooper's Charter. It claims that the bill “lacks clarity,” and wants to see privacy protections, “form the …

Wayne England, one of the most iconic tabletop gaming artists of the past few decades, has passed away. Known for his illustrations in Warhammer rule books, on the pages of White Dwarf magazine, Dungeons and Dragons manuals and Magic the Gathering cards, England helped define the artistic style of many …

Undisputed UFC flyweight champion, Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson, has dominated his weight class for the past three years and hasn't lost since 2011, but fighting is a young man's game and at 29, he's thinking about the future. And that future might revolve around video-games, as Mighty Mouse has said …

Last week, we learned that Intel may be taking steps to stop users from being able to overclock their locked, non-K series Skylake processors and sure enough, a BIOS update from ASRock seemingly confirmed that. Now, it seems that Intel has given an official update on the situation, explaining that …

The first Blu-Ray player designed to play back Ultra-HD/4K content has hit the market a little earlier than expected. Samsung's upcoming player was first revealed at CES 2016 and would make this year's first batch of UHD Blu-Rays playable on the 4K TVs that have flooded the market in the …

If you are a PC gamer, then you have probably heard of Mad Catz, the peripherals maker has been responsible for plenty of well-received products over the years. However, it looks like the Mad Catz team has fallen on hard times following its co-publishing deal with Harmonix for Rock Band …

While the fanfare surrounding digital currencies like Bitcoin seems to have settled down a bit over the last year, plenty of people still have some left over to use and soon, you may be able to use your left over Bitcoins up on Steam according to hints found in the …

Not too long ago, Square Enix and IO Interactive officially announced that the 2016 Hitman game will be an episodic release and now, we have the system requirements for the PC version of the game and they are fairly high on both the minimum and recommended specifications, particularly where CPU …

Here in the UK, ISPs and their routers can be a bit hit and miss when it comes to speeds and range even on higher tier packages. However, ASUS appears to be pretty confident that its routers can improve your experience, which is why they are currently running a ‘Test …

Apple has announced today that it is open-sourcing the benchmarking tools which are used to measure performance of code and software written using the Swift programming language. The tools have already been published on GitHub under the open-source Apache license much like the rest of Swift. The announcement was made …

If you're a social networking user with any politically minded friends, then chances are over the past week you've been informed that there's something funny going on with Google results when looking up the Conservatives: they don't offer derogatory auto-complete choices. Some have suggested that this could be to do with …

There's never been a better time to be a fledgling game developer. While engines would have cost you hundreds of pounds to even use on a restricted license a few years ago, today you have your pick of the litter with many available for free with back-end points instead of …

Although the UK has always lagged behind other nations when it comes to average download speeds, there are areas where it is better than others. London of course enjoys some of the highest speeds in the country, but what about the worst? If you live in Wales, big chunks of …

The discovery of a new dinosaurs on a Welsh beach could help palaeontologists understand the evolutionary path taken by dinosaurs to become some of the most iconic  of the terrible lizards. Living some 200 million years ago, dracoraptor hanigani, could well be one of the early prototypes for the velociraptor, which …

When the PlayStation 4 was first announced back in early 2013, one of the first games shown running on its hardware was Deep Down, a dungeon crawling, Dark Souls-like experience with cooperative monster slaying and a stunning engine behind it all. But here we are nearly three years on and …

Back in 2014, Samsung and Nvidia began battling it out in court over patent infringement. Initially, Nvidia launched a suit against Samsung and Qualcomm over GPU patent infringement, which led to Samsung filing a counter-suit over memory chip technology, which the company has now lost. Originally, Samsung said that the …

Back in 2013, Apple impressed us all with its new Mac Pro, featuring a cylinder design and unique cooling system along with some powerful components. However, it seems that some units are suffering from issues, with FirePro GPUs starting to fail, so Apple is issuing an extended repair program for …

Go back a few years and it would seem like most TV manufacturers were trying to force 3D technology on the world. Fast forward to 2016 and things have changed significantly as reports seem to indicate that both Samsung and LG are currently in the process of moving away from 3D …

Over the weekend, a video began making the rounds featuring an unnamed member of The Division development team stating that the PC version had to be “kept in check” as it would be unfair to console players if PC gamers got a far superior looking version of the game. Ubisoft …

The Pirate Bay now doubles as a streaming site apparently, having added support for Torrents Time, a plugin that allows users to stream torrent content inside of their browser rather than having to download the torrent itself. With this plugin, users won't even need a BitTorrent client to view content, …

The Binding of Issac: Rebirth won't be coming to the iOS App Store it seems as the game has been rejected by Apple due to what the company perceives as violence towards children. This isn't the first time that this game has faced some trouble launching on a platform, having …

Google has some success bringing cheap Virtual Reality to the intrigued masses last year with the DIY Google Cardboard but now it seems that the company wants to take the next step with a proper VR headset of its own set to launch sometime this year. Much like Cardboard and …

Mike Cumby, UK Country Manager for OCZ spoke with Leo Waldock of KitGuru about the SSD market in 2016. Hot on the heels of CES, OCZ has launched Trion 150 which is a 15nm die shrink of Trion 100. Mike didn't have a Trion 150 with him as it was …

Video game cracking group, 3DM has revealed that it is going to be running an experiment, they won't be working on cracks for single-player games for around a year in order to assess any genuine impact piracy has on game sales. This follows on from recent comments that game piracy could …

Google has been testing its self-driving cars on public roads in California for quite some time and while the company does seem to be focussed on the US right now, things may soon spread to other countries, including the UK. According to London's deputy mayor for transport, Google is currently in …

One of the more common put downs by those unconcerned by encroaching filtering systems on British internet, is that they are easy to get around. Using a proxy, VPN or DNS tweaks to circumvent government or other filters might be easy for the tech-savvy, but for the majority of internet …