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Turtle Beach Partners With OpTic for eSports Focused Elite Pro Headset
Turtle Beach are looking to push their headset tech to new heights with the upcoming release of their eSports focused Elite Pro headset. Equipped with the Elite Pro Tactical Audio Controller (T.A.C.) and Elite Pro accessories designed for competitive gamers, it looks set to prove a big hit with the eSports…
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UK May Have Hit Broadband Targets
When it comes to the internet the coalition government made a pledge that by 2015, they would have the “best superfast broadband in Europe”. The UK may have hit broadband targets, but still fears remain over the future and if the targets are good enough. The problem with setting targets…
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Scientists Use Fibre Optic Cable to Transmit 57Gbps
How fast is your internet? 1Mbps? 10Mbps? Are you lucky enough to get a 1Gbps? With governments all over the world now racing to deliver the best internet to everyone, the speed of your internet is quickly becoming a topic of hot debate. For those with speed hate, I am…
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Fibre-Optic Signals ‘Combed’ to Perfection
We have been talking a lot about the limitations of fibre optic cabling and signal transfer for a while now; if you recall back a few weeks, we covered a story regarding how we could be ‘running out of internet‘. Well, it now seems that scientists have overcome these issues.…
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We Could be Running Out of Internet
Early last week, reports were coming in that we were running out of internet, mainly IPv4 addresses; well now we could be hitting a much more serious wall, the cables. The current best mode of transferring all of our data is fibre-optic, these are used to carry a vast amount…
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ISP Promotes Higher Broadband Deal for ‘Ideal’ Streaming
We all know the basics that a better internet connection means better internet experience. Well, it seems that this is all Verizon customer service employees know too and it’s over Netflix streaming again. Netflix offers two standard streaming qualities, standard at approximately 3Mbps and High Definition at approximately 5Mbps, but Verizon…
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Four More US Cities to Get Google Fiber Gigabit Internet
As a further sign of Google’s quest to take over the world, The Wall Street Journal says that the company’s Google Fiber service is set to expand to four more US cities. The Journal says that those cities are Atlanta, Nashville, Raleigh-Durham, and Charlotte, adding to the cities of Austin, Texas, Provo, Utah,…
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Google Fibre Is Not Coming To The UK Anytime Soon
A couple of days ago we heard of a report that Google was looking at a project to bring Google Fibre to the UK, however it appears many people read into the report in the wrong way. Although Google do admit that they have looked at the possibility of having…
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