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Batman Arkham City on PC Gets Unofficial HD Texture Pack
Batman Arkham City came out in September 2012, which is over five years ago now. However, modder GPUnity has released a new HD texture pack updating the game to more modern 2017 standards. GPUnity is the same modder responsible for the NieR Automata and Batman Arkam Asylum re-texture project. This…
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Hacked Email Account Details Could Be Fake
When it was revealed that over 720 email accounts were being sold online for less than $1, people became concerned as the accounts ranged from Hotmail and Yahoo accounts to those provided by Russian email service Mail.ru. It now would appear that those email account details could be fake. The revelation that…
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Windows XP Still Powers 181 Million PCs
Microsoft XP is the operating system that just won’t die it seems. Even now, two years after support for Windows XP finally ended, it has been found that 181 million PCs around the world still use the dated operating system from 2001. Whether 181 million PCs is a lot in a…
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Apple to Use Old or Refurbished IPhones to Break Into Indian Market
The Indian market is one notoriously hard to get into for many firms selling devices at a premium, with many Indian customers being incredibly sensitive to high pricing and the import taxes for the country are high. In response to this difficult market, Apple has a new plan to gain…
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Who Needs 4K? Report Reveals Black and White TV Usage in UK
There’s always a buzz about what is new in the tech world. People have marketing campaigns pushed at them every day, showing how fantastic it would be to upgrade to a flat panel TV, high-definition, 3D and more recently, 4K, OLED, curved and more types of TV. Of course, new…
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The Wackiest Graphics Cards Ever Devised
AMD’s small-form factor Nano GPU provides an insight into the future with HBM stackable memory which leads to more compact designs. As GDDR5 is phased out, graphics cards should become smaller as the memory is no longer scattered around the PCB. Over the years, there has been some rather unusual…
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‘May the 4th be With You’
Calling all Star Wars fans, you know what you’re getting into here. Lucasarts has announced a new deal ready for the unofficial Star Wars day; ready? They plan on re-introducing some of the classic games onto the PC with previously announced partner Good Old Games (GOG.com) and new partner, Steam.…
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Google Maps is 10 Years Old
Google Maps has just become 10 years old. It’s hard to believe that it’s as old as that, but it’s also hard to imagine a world without it 10 years ago.The quintessential mapping web app was initially developed by a team of 50 people, but it took many years and many…
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Watch Some Old People ‘Play’ GTA V
There’s a lot of these videos nowadays. Kids, teens and old people get sat in front of a game, piece of old or new technology, an outrageous YouTube video, or pretty much anything else that’ll get an interesting reaction, and they’re just asked to say what they think about it.…
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BlackBerry Classic Officially Released
BlackBerry has finally released the Classic – a device the company has been talking about for a long, long time. Well now we finally have everything we need to know about this little blast from the past. The device comes with a 720 x 720 pixel, 3.5-inch touchscreen, with 2GB of RAM and…
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Bye Bye Plasma TV Technology
In 2005, Sony and Toshiba announced their departure from the plasma business, followed by Hitachi and Pioneer in 2008. Now South Korean companies Samsung and LG Electronics have announced their abandonment of the once-popular panel option. Samsung and LG have recently cancelled their investment plans into plasma panels into Taiwan’s…
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15 Year Old Cashes in $100,000 Thanks to Bitcoin and Launched a Startup
Erik Finman is the 15 year old founder of Botangle, an online education program designed to link students with instructors across the globe. He’s said to be following in similar footsteps to his mentor, Alexis Ohanian, who started the ever-growing online platform Reddit at the young age of 22. After…
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