Month: June 2015
- News
Teaching Resource Site For Minecraft?
Minecraft is a game where very little is ever the same. This means you can build a castle in one map with ease, but in the next building the Starship Enterprise is a lot easier. While attracting to a whole range of audiences, from the young to the creative, Minecraft…
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No More Data Roaming Charges in EU from 2017
Nothing can sour the vacation more that roaming charges, but that will soon be a thing of the past in the European Union as a new law will abolish those charges by June 2017 after a 14-month interim period. That is the new deal reached on Tuesday with the aim…
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Early Bird Steam Hardware Pre-orders All Sold Out
Those looking to get some Steam hardware early are out of luck. Valve has announced that all the Steam hardware for the “get it early” offer with delivery set for October 16 have sold out. Any orders from today onwards for the Steam Controller and Steam Link will ship nearly…
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Uber Accquires Bing Mapping Assets and 100 Engineers from Microsoft
Car-hailing firm Uber is making big strides into the mapping market, acquiring mapping data as well as about 100 image-collection engineers from Microsoft. Uber has been looking to making their mobile app better, mainly in the area of better maps to bring drivers and riders together. While companies transferring data…
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- Graphics Cards
XFX AMD R9 Fury X 4GB Graphics Card Review
Introduction This is what we’ve all been waiting for, the R9 Fury X graphics card is finally here! This particular card has been given a lot of hype in recent weeks and months thanks to rumours and leaked performance benchmarks all pointing towards a ‘Titan X Killer’. These rumours shook…
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CodePhage Fixes Software Bugs With Patches from Different Programs
A whole new level can be explored of what could be achievable when both Science and Tech meet; this time around the geniuses at MIT have developed a way to fix bugs in source code by using a system to import functionally from other programs. The system is called CodePhage…
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Malwarebytes Offers Free Reprieve to Pirates
Oh the conundrum of pirated software, on one hand, it’s better to support the product, on the other hand it’s free, but loyalty is what counts, yeah but it’s free. Software companies have tried many avenues to stop pirates, from banning individuals from using particular online games to as in…
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Iraq Prevents Exam Cheating by Cutting the Entire Internet
There are many ways to prevent cheating in exams, there is the honour system, extra checks, and verifications – or you can go all out like Iraq did last week where it cut off the internet for the entire country for a couple of hours. What first looked like something…
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- Cooling
Prolimatech All for Extreme Basic 81 CPU Cooler Review
Introduction Prolimatech have been growing in popularity since they formed in 2008, offering a sturdy range of coolers for reasonable prices and that’s something that certainly caught my attention. Today is the first time I get to review a Prolimatech product, so I’m eager to see what all the fuss…
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Philips Has Released a New 4K Ultra HD Monitor
It’s safe to say that Philips is one of the world’s most renowned tech companies, and so it makes sense that it would be heavily invested in 4K technology. The company has just unveiled a brand new 4K monitor named BDM3275UP, which comes with a generous selection of high-end features…
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Nvidia Preparing GeForce GTX 950 Graphics Cards
We’ve heard a lot of news about high-end graphics cards lately on all fronts, Nvidia GTX 980 Ti as well as AMD’s new Fury line-up, but not everyone can afford nor need the best and fastest graphics card. There is a large customer base that wants a more affordable, yet good…
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Amazon Prime Now Opens One-Hour Delivery in London
Amazon launched their one-hour Amazon Prime Now delivery last December in Manhatten US and later expanded the experiment to Dallas, Baltimore, and Miami. Now Amazon has reached over the big pond to open up the service outside of the US for the first time and in a timely fashion compared…
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Greeks Are Flocking to Bitcoin as Banks Close Doors
Banks in Greece stayed shut on Monday as officials scrambled to prevent the country’s financial system from collapsing. Account holders were facing tough limits on what they can withdraw from ATMs, and trading in Greek stocks and bonds was also halted as measures to prevent Greece from sliding entirely out of…
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Uber Launches a Water Taxi Service in Istanbul
Istanbul is a beautiful and important city, no doubt about it, but it can become quite crowded at times, which is why its citizens often have difficulties crossing from its European to its Asian side and vice versa. Fortunately, American international transportation network company Uber has recently announced a brand new…
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Halo 5 May Remove Split Screen and LAN Play
Halo 5 developers, 343 Industries, is making waves with some dramatic changes to the way the Microsoft title will be played. Local co-op campaign had previously been officially removed earlier this month, with co-op campaign games requiring Xbox Live Gold to hook players together. Now 343 appears to have confirmed that…
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