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Windows 8.1 RTM Will Be Ready By August

According to the Windows Blog the RTM (release to manufacturing) version of the Windows 8.1 operating system will be released in early August giving OEMs and partners a chance to tweak and tune the Windows 8.1 operating system for ...

11 years ago

Microsoft Removes Windows Experience Index From Windows 8.1 Preview

According to Softpedia and McAkins Online, the Windows 8.1 Preview drops the Windows Experience Index benchmarking software. Anyone using the Windows 8.1 Preview will probably have noticed this. It is interesting that Microsoft have ...

11 years ago

Gigabyte Z87X-OC (Z87) Motherboard Review

Gigabyte have a large stack of motherboards launching for Z87, and at the top of that stack is the overclocking based motherboards including the Z87X-FORCE and the Z87X-OC which have some fundamental differences. The Force is aimed ...

11 years ago

Egyptian Government Websites Being Defaced By Pro-Morsi Hackers

There was much jubilation and celebration on the streets of Cairo as Egypt's military overthrew President Mohamed Morsi in what has been described as a military coup. Since then the military has been killing Pro-Morsi ...

11 years ago

Students Build Solar Powered Family Car In The Netherlands

A group of 22 students in the Netherlands have been working on something that is very unique and innovative. They are calling it the world's first solar powered family car. The vehicle is called "Stella" and is both light and ...

11 years ago

Prolimatech Fan Accessories Quick Review

Sometimes products come along which are pretty nifty but not really substantive enough to produce a traditional full length review. Nonetheless we still want to bring you coverage of them because they could be very useful to you. We ...

11 years ago

Steamroller APU Engineering Sample Spotted

AMD's Steamroller CPU design is being hyped up by AMD and general tech enthusiasts, like Bulldozer was, who want to see some competition to Intel in the x86 market. Yet the APU is now AMD's main selling product and main main focus. ...

11 years ago

“Haxx.eu” Unveil Passive ATX Case With Integrated CPU Cooler

It is very rare that we see many passive cases but seeing ones of an ATX variety is certainly very rare indeed. The company "Haxx.eu" have revealed an ATX case that doubles up as a CPU cooler too. These kinds of cases aren't that ...

11 years ago

Snowden Claims NSA and German Intelligence Are “In Bed Together”

The German intelligence service, BND, is apparently pretty cosy with the USA's NSA if Edward Snowden is to be believed. Der Spiegel reports Edward Snowden as saying that the NSA and the BND are "in bed together". He says ties ...

11 years ago

Venezuela Says Asylum Offer For Snowden Has Deadline

Edward Snowden recently received political asylum offers from Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia taking his total number of options to three, if you exclude the fact he rejected Russia's asylum offer. Yet despite this Edward Snowden ...

11 years ago

Cuba Backs Latin American Asylum Offers

With Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia all offering the infamous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden asylum, Cuba's president Raul Castro has said that he supports the decisions of the Latin American government. Cuba also received an ...

11 years ago

Venezuela Is Snowden’s Last Chance Says Russia Official

Alexei Pushkov, chairman of the Russia Duma's Foreign Affairs Committee, has stated that he believes Venezuela is the last chance of Edward Snowden to avoid extradition to the USA. In a statement made on his Twitter he stated ...

11 years ago

Iceland Won’t Be Granting Snowden Citizenship Or Asylum

[caption id="attachment_78606" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Iceland's Parliament Building[/caption] Despite the best efforts of Iceland's Official Pirate Party, the country will not be offering him citizenship. This is due to ...

11 years ago

GCHQ “Tempora” Collection System Can Monitor 100% Of UK Internet Traffic

Edward Snowden has revealed new details on the UK's spying activities. Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is the UK's main secret service organisation dealing with surveillance and is roughly equivalent to the ...

11 years ago

Lake Vostok Offers Up Over 3500 New Unique Gene Sequences

Scientists working at Antarctica's Lake Vostok have discovered a staggering 3500 new unique gene sequences. Lake Vostok has been shut off from the outside world for over 15 million years and beneath the ice it hosts a complex ...

11 years ago

Privacy Groups Demand NSA Surveillance Shut-Down

The American privacy watchdog group, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), has announced plans to file a petition to the USA's Supreme Court to make the National Security Agency (NSA) stop gathering surveillance data ...

11 years ago

Twitter Reports Very Low UK Profits, Believed To Be Routing Through Ireland

Twitter is a huge company and one of the biggest social media presences across the world, and in the United Kingdom. Yet this year they have reported retained profits of just £92,408 in the UK. Which is about three times the ...

11 years ago

Microsoft Develop 3D Display That Is Combined With Haptic Feedback

3D technology has taken bit of a beating this last few months, the technology doesn't seem to be getting picked up by the general consumer as quickly as many manufacturers had hoped and even the BBC have decided to pull away from ...

11 years ago

Google Paying Adblock Plus To White-list Unobtrusive Adverts

After Google recently cheesed a lot of people off by removing Ad-blocking Apps from the Google Play Store, it turns out they are now resorting to paying Adblocking App companies to white-list Google adverts. According to ...

11 years ago

ECS Introduces H87/B85/H81 Overclocking Too

Just a week ago ASRock revealed to us that they had been able to enable overclocking of K series CPUs on the H87 and B85 chipsets. These are chipsets that typically do not allow for overclocking even with K series CPUs that have ...

11 years ago

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Expected At IFA 2013 In Early September

[caption id="attachment_69041" align="aligncenter" width="635"] Samsung's Galaxy Mega 6.3 and 5.8[/caption] Samsung's Galaxy Note "is-it-a-smartphone or is it a tablet" series of phones has proved very popular over the years and ...

11 years ago

Corsair Hydro Series H80i Liquid CPU Cooler Review

Recently we published a review of the Thermaltake Water 3.0 Pro liquid CPU cooler and I was inundated on the forums, main site and on the Facebook page with requests to review Corsair's H80i. Most people believed the Corsair ...

11 years ago

Intel’s Dual Core Haswell Core i5 4570T Gets Benchmarked

Intel's Haswell has been out for a while now but there hasn't been any sign of any sub Core i5 desktop Haswell processors yet. That said these Core i3 units still have a while to go but we can get some kind of estimation of their ...

11 years ago

Bolivia Join Venezuela And Nicaragua In Offering Snowden Asylum

During a speech yesterday Evo Morales officially offered NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, political asylum in his country Bolivia. Quoted in El Comercio Morales said that "As a protest, we just want to say to the Europeans and ...

11 years ago

CM Storm Control RX Mouse Mat Review

CM Storm are well known for making some fantastic gaming peripherals, especially their gaming mice which in my opinion offer impressive performance and designs that are highly competitive in an already busy sector of the market. ...

11 years ago

AMD FX-9590 Benchmarks Revealed

AMD's FX 9590 processor has been kicking up a bit of a storm recently. AMD's new CPU is the first to run commercially at 5GHz speeds out of the box. This makes it a one of a kind for the PC market. Now we finally have some results to ...

11 years ago

UK Restricts US-EU Espionage Talks To NSA and PRISM Only

According to a new report by the Guardian the United Kingdom, with Sweden's support, is now restricting EU-US discussions with the USA to the NSA and PRISM scandal . Apparently the UK isn't happy for the USA to continue stalling on ...

11 years ago

Hybrid-Electric Airliners Expected By 2050

While we already have hybrid-electric cars, such as the Toyota Prius, our aviation is still dominated by oil-based fuels. This will be problematic as oil supplies start to dwindle and become more expensive. That is why engineers ...

11 years ago

Why Take A Picture When You Could Capture The Smell Instead

The scent of something can be just as powerful a tool at making you remember something as an image, the smell of flowers or fresh cookies could be all it takes to remind you of a place or person, but what if you could capture those ...

11 years ago

NSA Scandal Will Cost American Cloud Storage Industry Millions

Vice President of the European Commission, Neelie Kroes, has made some dire predictions for the American cloud storage industry according to Russia Today. Neelie Kroes believes that U.S cloud storage providers are now going to ...

11 years ago

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