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Pokémon Go is a game that has taken much of the world by storm in the past two weeks, sending people of all ages scrambling for local landmarks to try and catch their favourite pocket monsters. But what if you can't, or won't and still want to be the ‘be …

Although hacked apart online services are par for the course these days, LinkedIn's 2012 breach was actually far worse than initially thought. While it was reported that a few million may have been affected, the latest number pegs the hack as having stolen the details from some 117 million users …

Considering the fortunes at Yahoo have been tumbling in recent years, it's no surprise that the long-time internet firm is looking for a buyer. If the CEO of the company, Marissa Mayer is let go at any point within a year of the sale however, she will be gifted a $54 …

A US congressman has found himself under investigation after it was discovered that $1300 of campaign funds were spent on Steam games. Around 70 payments were made to Steam between October and December last year so it sounds like someone had a good time during Steam sale season. Duncan Hunter, …

As much as bundled games have made expanding our collections that much easier, there are often diminishing returns on their discounts. There are only so many bundles you can buy, before the same games start appearing and if you already own them, that's not much of a saving. Except now …

If you are shopping around for a new graphics card this weekend or more specifically, if you are shopping around for a GTX 980Ti, then Overclockers UK has a pretty good deal running for the next couple of days. They are having a sale on the reference OCUK GTX980Ti, bringing …

If you are shopping around for a new graphics card this weekend or more specifically, if you are shopping around for an R9 390, then Overclockers UK has a pretty good deal running for the next couple of days. They are having a sale on the excellent Sapphire R9 390 …

Razer is running a pretty big sale over on its store today, offering Razer Insider members 50 percent off all products on its store aside from the Blade systems to celebrate CES 2016, which just ended. This means mice, keyboards and headsets will be had for significantly cheaper if you …

Although the USB 3.1 standard had some exciting features for us all to enjoy, Type-C was perhaps the biggest recent development, as it promises a reversible header. As the WinnerGear guys said in their IndieGoGo campaign though, it's going to be some time before that's common in our hardware. How …

Yahoo is an entity that despite having lost its status as a household name perhaps as long as a decade ago, is still a monstrously successful company. At the time of writing it still has total assets worth more than $60 billion and a yearly revenue in excess of $4.6 …

Having invented the solid state drive (SSD) in 1991, SanDisk doesn't mess around when it comes to innovation and the company has over 5,000 patents in play right now. Being the third largest flash memory manufacturer in the world, alongside a strong partnership with Toshiba, means that it's able to …

There are two ways to approach any major sale. Get something that you've had your eye on for sometime for less money or use the money you've put aside to ‘trade up' for something altogether better. After being voted the KitGuru reader's ‘Reseller of the Year' in 2013 and 2014, …

Black Friday is coming up this week, so we can expect plenty of sales and discounts across a range of stores, but UK system builder, Vibox, is doing things a little differently this year by offering free graphics card upgrades to those looking to buy a pre-built system. This means …

From an artificial holiday with zero impact in the UK five years ago, Black Friday has becomes a huge focus for technology retailers across the globe. Here in the UK, we have a history of starting sales early. The January sales 2016 will happen at the end of 2015, and the …

Last year, Nvidia stepped in to the tablet arena with the Nvidia Shield, featuring a powerful Kepler based graphics chip, a 1080p display, along with some unique features. However, in recent months the tablet has been rather hard to find due to a recall that took place. Now, those issues …

Around two years ago, Valve announced that it would be trying to tackle PC gaming in the living room, with its own version of the Gamepad, along with Steam OS and Steam Machines. All three of those things have now finally arrived after much debate and tweaking, so in order …

Toshiba is apparently in advanced talks to sell its image sensor business to Sony for as much as $165 million. This comes just a few weeks after we learned that Sony also acquired sensor start-up company, SoftKinetic. So far, this news is coming from multiple sources, ranging from Japanese newpaper, …

Warner Bros is almost set to launch the final patch-fix for the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight this month and once it hits, the game will finally go back on sale on Steam, if anyone left actually wants to buy it following all of the initial problems. The new …

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, the 1997 classic adventure game is currently available to download for free on Steam. Once you hit install game, it will be added to your account and be yours forever, though you only have a limited time window to do this in. The offer ends at 6PM …

Factory-overclocked graphics adapters offer performance and features that are simply not available on add-in-boards designed by developers of graphics processing units. Unfortunately, graphics cards with extreme clock-rates and high overclocking potential also cost considerably more than adapters based on reference designs. Fortunately, from time to time stores offer great deals on them. Overclockers …

Although far from the mobile powerhouse it once was, Nokia still has a name and some services that are worth an impressive sum. Now it's down one, after selling its HERE mapping service to a consortium of German car manufacturers for 2.8 billion euros (£2 billion). Together BMW, Audi and …

BlackBerry is still kicking around somehow, though it isn't hanging on to much of the market at all. Now, the Canadian phone maker might go ahead and join the Android market, leaving BlackBerry OS behind in order to be more competitive in the Android and iOS dominated smartphone market. According …

Semiconducter manufacturer, Qualcomm, is set to put a portion of the radio spectrum up for sale in the UK, with mobile operators expected to compete for it in a bidding war. The “L-Band,” as it's termed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is part of the 1-2Ghz radio …

It looks like Verizon is set to buy out AOL for $4.4 billion, putting the company in control of all AOL businesses, including several news outlets such as The Huffington Post, Engadget, Tech Crunch along with AOL.com. Joystiq would have been included in the list but AOL chose to shut …

There has been a long tradition of Bank Holiday sales in the UK – a way for the retail industry to plug the promotional gap between Christmas and July. The success of any given company's offer will normally depend on the weather. Hot and sunny means a bumper spend in …

Buying up patents for a firm like Google normally means spending a few million dollars on picking up an entire company, but that might not be how it does things in the future. Instead, Google is looking to buy patents from you, me and anyone else it can, after announcing …

Amazon might soon be dropping another few hundred million on a hardware firm and this time it's to do with internals. Purportedly the deal is for a $370 million (£244 million) buyout of Israeli chipmaker Annapurna Labs, which will not only see Amazon take over the company, but also begin …

The Apple Watch has always had an ‘early 2015' release window and so far, Apple has been tight lipped on a proper release date. However, according to new reports, we can expect the Apple Watch to launch in March, with retail training expected to begin in February. According to Mark …

Back in 2013, the online, tor accessible drug marketplace Silk Road was shut down and its alleged owner, Ross Ulbricht arrested by the FBI and a collection of other policing organisations. On top of that though, the authorities seized around tens of thousands of bitcoins worth many millions of dollars. Yesterday …

UK retailer, GAME, is set to launch special console bundles for Black Friday, including an Xbox One with four games and a Wii U with Super Smash Bros, Super Mario U and an Amiibo. There are strong rumors of a Playstation 4 bundle as well, although that one has yet …