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Although Apple’s new MacBook looks extremely promising thanks to its ultra-thin design and high quality display, its sales will not be high, according to a media report. The demand for PCs remains rather low and there are slowdowns in mass production of retina-class display for the laptop. Apple will not …

A web-site has published excerpts from an alleged AMD presentation that describes the company’s upcoming Radeon R9 390X graphics card. As expected, the new top-of-the-range graphics from Advanced Micro Devices will feature unprecedented performance thanks to massive amount of compute horsepower and high-bandwidth memory. The slides from an AMD presentation …

We might end up seeing the goat from Goat Simulator as a character in Dota 2 thanks to the Steam Workshop voting system. The goat would become a custom courier in the game, the mod is being backed by Coffee Stain Studios, the team behind Goat Simulator. The developers are …

It looks like we just might get our first proper look at the new Star Wars Battlefront game next month as EA is going to be attending the Star Wars Celebration event from the 16th to the 19th of April as an exhibitor for the show.  Right now EA has …

It looks like Samsung was right to avoid using Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 SoC in its recently announced Galaxy S6 flagship as new benchmarks of the HTC One M9 are showing that the Snapdragon 810 chip is in-fact overheating under load. Dutch site, Tweakers, managed to get their hands on a HTC One …

Several tech companies have been working on ways to replace the traditional password for quite a while now, some have moved to biometric scanners, like Apple with Touch ID but Yahoo wants to go in a different direction with mobile phone verification. Yahoo is currently setting up a system for ‘on-demand' …

GOG.com is currently giving away 30,000 copies of the 2013 remake of Rise of the Triad for free. The offer is still available but will run out once all 30,000 copies are claimed, at the time of writing, there are still 19,000 copies up for grabs so you might want …

YouTube may soon launch its own premium subscription service for access to its own original content. The platform will be similar to the company's new Music Key streaming service, allowing users to watch ad-free videos for a monthly fee, according to a Variety report. This rumor comes from an unnamed …

Microsoft may end up distributing future Windows 10 updates using a peer-to-peer protocol. The company traditionally uses the Windows Update service to deliver its operating system updates from a single source but the latest build of Windows 10 has leaked, showing a move towards P2P. The option allows Windows 10 …

If you thought DotA 2 and League of Legends were the only games that could pull real crowds with their esports tournaments, think again, as the two-year old shooter title managed to bring in over a million this weekend at the Intel Extreme Master's tournament. That is more than four times …

We give away a lot of hardware on KitGuru, but from time to time we are able to deliver really special prizes – today is one of those days! Thanks to Chillblast and Gigabyte one lucky reader can walk away with a mega gaming system worth £1,133.80. KitGuru reviewed this …

Better battery life is something that the world is striving for at the moment. Whether it's in the manufacturing of smartphones and wearables, electric cars or the ever just out of reach armoured exo-skeletons or our Iron Man inspired dreams. Fortunately then there's a technology just around the corner that …

Last year, JPMorgan Chase, one of the world's largest banking institutions, was made to look foolish when over 83 million email addresses, phone numbers and business addresses of its customers were stolen by hackers. However, while many other large firms experiencing big data breaches have come up empty when it …

KitGuru is busy trawling the stands at CEBIT in Hannover, Germany. Today we were able to get some time at the ASROCK stand – they were keen to show us their new ASROCK X99E-ITX/AC motherboard. This new Mini ITX board is built to very high standards, featuring ASROCK Super Alloy …

Chances are, if you are hooked up to the service of one of the UK's largest ISPs, then the answer to the above question is, yes. Data from a new survey conducted by Which? magazine, suggests that some of the most highly appreciated ISPs are often the smallest ones, with …

Every game developer and publisher knows that at least a portion of their player base is going to be composed of people that didn't pay. In the past, they've tried to stop this with CD keys, code wheels and invincible scorpions that chase you around the map, but Paradox does …

First we had shops, then in the late nineties the traditional model was turned on its head as the world plus dog moved toward online shopping in the dawn of eCommerce. Google's presence at CeBIT 2015 had a distinctly retail feel. Most enthusiasts will be drawn to the stand by …

When KitGuru caught up with Inno3D CEO Ken Ho at Computex last June, he was laughing at the fact that all the visitors crowding his stand were focuses on his latest 3D printer – largely ignoring the graphic cards on show. At CeBIT 2015, Inno3D has decided to go with …

While the show itself is a shadow of its former self, CeBIT still has some cool technology offerings up its sleeve and CODE_n is one of them. We toured the massive exhibition the ‘next tech' and found something interesting on the top floor. Trumpf has been a world leading in …

Valve is great at many things, It brought us the Steam client, developed several fantastic games and has always worked to push PC gaming. However, many will agree that its customer service is often pretty bad and its policies aren't anywhere near as consumer friendly as its competitors, most notably …

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR, once said that the consumer version of Oculus Rift would be available in 2015 unless something goes “horribly wrong.” While nothing seems to be going wrong, he does not look like he is sure about availability of the device this year. The commercial …

In a bid to improve performance and reliability of solid-state drives inside its notebooks, Apple will use SSDs made by Samsung and powered by 3D V-NAND flash memory. This is a major win for Samsung as it gets a major PC maker as a client. The latest MacBook notebooks will …

Chances are you've heard of Star Citizen, it is one of the most ambitious crowd funded games to date. If you aren't sure what all of the hype is about, then this weekend is your chance to give it a go as a 20GB demo of the game will be …

Asrock, one of the world’s largest makers of mainboards, this week announced an ultimate mini-ITX mainboard that can not only enable small form-factor desktops with performance on par with full-size workstations, but also leading-edge functionality not found on many high-end PCs nowadays. The Asrock X99E-ITX/ac is the industry’s first mainboard …

Fujitsu Laboratories this week said that it had developed ultra-thin loop heat-pipe technology that could be used inside ultra-mobile electronics, such as smartphones or tablets. Fujitsu expects the new heat-pipes to enable portable devices with higher-performance system-on-chips inside. Modern application processors for mobile devices have gained tremendous amount of performance …

HGST, a subsidiary of Western Digital Corp., has demonstrated its highly-anticipated 10TB hard disk drive at the Linux Foundation Vault trade-show in Boston, Massachusetts. The new drive is already in mass production and will be released commercially shortly. ZDNet has managed to picture the prototype of the 10TB SMR HelioSeal …

Nearly all leading manufacturers of mainboards have introduced motherboards supporting USB 3.1 technology. Since at present the new interconnection tech is positioned as a high-end feature for enthusiasts, mainboards featuring USB 3.1 are all designed for various processors from Intel Corp. However, MicroStar International (MSI) decided to add the new …

Homefront: The Revolution has faced a string of development issues following its announcement. The game was initially being made by Crytek, who were at risk of going bankrupt, causing staff to go months without being paid, as you can imagine, many of them eventually stopped working entirely. Eventually, the Homefront …

It looks like Apple may have faced its share of issues while manufacturing the upcoming Apple Watch as reports are suggesting that it has experienced a defect-free unit rate of just 30 per cent, meaning most of the Apple Watches being made, don't actually meet the correct standards. This is …

Cities: Skylines released earlier this week and the new city builder quickly garnered praise. Now the mods are starting to pop up, one of which completely recreates the city of Los Santos from Grand Theft Auto V. The city was rebuilt thanks to the efforts of Steam user, Grockefeller. The …