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IBM planning big changes to combat stagnancy

IBM, once one of the most booming businesses in the world of tech, has fallen on tougher times in recent years. While still one of the world's biggest corporations, with over 400,000 employees and a net worth in excess of $120 billion, it's struggled to remain relevant as thee world …

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US rules politicians can receive bitcoin donations

Users of the digital currency bitcoin, will soon be able to use it to make donations to their favoured politicians after a ruling by the United States' Federal Election Commission (FEC) okayed the move. However, there is one caveat: you won't be able to do it anonymously. This of course …

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Nissan debuts dirt repelling paint job for your car

If you hate cleaning your car as I do, then Nissan's latest prototype video will be right up your street. Designated as a “self cleaning” car, essentially Nissan has sprayed down a Note with a hydrophobic and oleophobic material that – according to the video at least – keeps your …

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MLG teams up with X Games for Esports

If you're into your extreme sports like skateboarding, MotoX and snowboarding, then chances are you're a fan of X Games, an organisation specifically designed to cater to these sports and provide international competitive events for the best in the world to go head to head in. In the future though, …

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MLG to build world’s biggest dedicated eSports gaming arena

Major League Gaming, one of the world's premier eSports organisations, has announced a partnership with two Chinese firms, which are going to help it build a 15,000 spectator eSports arena on Hengqin Island in Zhuhai, China. Unlike other previously held games in venues like the Staples Centre which hosted the …

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SilentiumPC launches new Fortis 2 CPU cooler

In the market for a new CPU cooler? Then you should probably take a look at SilentiumPC's latest offering, known as the Fortis 2 XE1226. Besides the catchy name, it packs features like pure copper 6mm heatpipes, a near silent 22dBa 120mm fan and it supports almost all modern Intel …

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Pro internet freedom protests in Mexico block crackdown

A law that was set to pass in Mexico that could have given the government the power to shut down the internet if it wanted to has been blocked, after hundreds of protesters took to the streets and even more voiced their disapproval online. Similar to the filtering system being …

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Brazil and allies call for end to US internet dominance

Brazilian politicians and several digital rights leaders have called for a changing of the guard with who has the dominant stake in the management of the internet, hoping to make the whole thing less US-centric, at the NETmundial conference. NETmundial is a Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance …

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How Child of Light’s lead character was created

Even though the Wii U is still struggling to find its place in the modern console environment, especially considering how underpowered it is compared to its main competitors, it's shown some surprising beauty in the hand drawn art games like Rayman Legends and looks to continue that trend with Child …

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Watch a full game of Evolve here

Turtle Rock, the developer behind the original Left 4 Dead and now my most anticipated game of the year, Evolve, has released a trailer for the monster hunting, human bashing game, showing the perspectives of every player and giving you a real idea of what it's like to play it. …

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Brazil creates ‘Internet Constitution’ enshrines privacy

In the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations, it's become clear that the online world is a lot less private than we once thought, with governments and corporations often in secret collusion to provide information on their customers and citizens to intelligence agencies, whether you've done something wrong or not. However …

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Government gives thumbs up to Oculus, Facebook deal

It's amazing to think that the VR company which started life as a Kickstarter dream, was bought up for $2 billion just two years later. Whether you're still smarting over that or not though, you can't just buy up companies for that much without someone giving it the once over …

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Tor drug markets just got their own search engine

Have you ever found yourself flitting between Silkroad, Cloud Nine, Outlaw, Mr Nice Guy or any of the many other online drug marketplaces and you just can't find what you're after? Well now it's gotten a lot easier, as there's now a search engine that checks all of them for …

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Kim Dotcom could fund Internet Parties around the world

Kim Dotcom has made headlines here and in many other publications countless times over the past few years for his dealings with MegaUpload, MEGA, Baboom and for a whole host of other reasons, not least perhaps the time his house was raided wby heavily armed police over copyright infringement claims. …

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Altergaze offers Rift like 3D for your smartphone

Even though Oculus VR is committed to making its Rift headset as affordable as possible, at the end of the day you're still paying for an impressively compact screen, with a fancy converter board, on top of the lenses that perform a lot of the VR emulation and this is …

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Megashare to shut down over hosting issues

Megashare, one of the world's most prominent movie and TV streaming websites, has announced an end to its services in the near future, due to what is simply described as “problems with video hosting  company.” The site currently uses third party services like Google, Putlocker and Sockshare to achieve its …

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