Semiconducter manufacturer, Qualcomm, is set to put a portion of the radio spectrum up for sale in the UK, with mobile operators expected to compete for it in a bidding war. The “L-Band,” as it's termed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is part of the 1-2Ghz radio …

Even though much of the world still seems rather complacent about the Edward Snowden revelations, there's no denying that the two years since then have seen a surge of interest in encryption and other message obfuscating technologies. Proponents of governments spying on their own citizens, don't like that at all, …

Even though gaming is still portrayed as a young person's hobby, there's no denying that the average age of gamers is getting older and older. While that may be the case, the children of today have access to so many more games than their parents, with smartphone apps, downloadable console and PC …

Lian Li is most well known for its brushed aluminium chassis and this year's Computex backs that up considerably. However, that doesn't mean that the Taiwanese chassis manufacturer isn't showing off something new and exciting. It has cases built into desks, cases with entire see through side panels and some more …

Although the upcoming Lego Worlds is an impressive take on the Minecraft formula, giving players the ability to explore a world, terraform it and build things to their heart's content, it's very much a modern take on Lego. It's Lego with characters that have animated faces and licensed properties. That's …

In the battleground for the internet, armies lob digital shells at each other almost as often as the masses sling insults, as it looks like millions of US government worker details may have been stolen by a foreign party. While an investigation is ongoing, China is the earliest named potential …

Gigabyte is one of those companies that has been a big name in the enthusiast PC industry for a long, long time. It makes motherboards, graphics cards, peripherals, laptops, tablets and more and all of them need putting together at some point. Which is why when we were given the …

As pretty as recently released games like The Witcher III: Wild Hunt are, they don't really hold a candle to future high-end projects like Star Citizen. One other beautiful game that's got a release set far in the future is Kingdom Come: Deliverance, which is set to offer a highly …

Although the world of digital game purchases is a simple one: you buy, you download, you play, some miss the golden age of physical games. You got a nice box, a detailed manual or instruction booklet, perhaps some art work and physical extras. That's what Gamer's Edition is looking to …

Collecting data on your customers in order to sell to advertisers is a bad idea according to CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, who took a moment during the annual Champions of Freedom dinner, hosted by public interest research group, the Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC), to criticise his technological competitors. …

Restricting content to certain parts of the world always seems like a bizarre choice for media companies. In the hope of securing licensing deals in different continents for the same content, they limit where in the world it can be viewed, leaving those that want to watch it two options: use …

The wonder of telescopes, is that they let us look into the present, past and our potential future all in a single piece of hardware. They can be used to view objects that aren't far beyond our own atmosphere, peer back into the multi-billion year history of our universe by …

Even as fast as SATA III SSDs are, the new battleground for the storage performance crown lies with PCIe drives, as the potential read and write times with that interface blow everything away. Which is why Plextor has been showing off its own PCIe solutions at Computex this year, but …

Even though Games workshop has released a number of games based around its Warhamer and Warhammer 40,000 universes over the years, very few of them really captured the anarchic battles that can feature everything from trolls, to steampunk cannons, to demi-gods and demons. Fortunately then, early reports of the upcoming …

There are a lot of companies vying for attention at this year's Computex, with everything from NAS drives to drinks dispensing desktop cases. MSI has taken a different route however and merely put front and centre some of the most powerful gaming laptops ever seen. The first one up is …

Cooler Master's whole ethos at Computex this year has been “Make it Yours,” a slogan it's hoping will help promote its new Master Case which isn't that far off from release. To that end, it's been giving visitors access to all sorts of case customising tools, like an angle grinder, …

Computex has a lot of exciting products and services on show this year, but for those looking to back up their important files and folders to a local server, ASUSTOR's new collection of NAS drives aimed at home and enterprise users may be the most enticing. There's a full line …

While many in the UK grew bored of the rhetoric, chest pounding and thug life-like quips in the few months of build up to Britain's General Election in May, the US has it far worse. Almost a year and a half out from the next presidential election and already we're starting …

It's been a long time coming, but Valve has updated the terms of its Steam digital distribution platform to allow gamers to return games they don't want. There are some conditions that must be met: the games can't have been played for more than two hours and they must have been …

Over the past few days a few US users have become a little worried about their favourite on-demand platform. While Netflix has exclusively utilised a subscriber model for its VOD content, it began showing pre-roll adverts for some of its own produced shows like Orange is the New Black, Daredevil …

One of the biggest back and forth struggles of the Kim Dotcom legal saga, was that the US wanted access to his decryption keys so that it could look into the data held on his personal systems, which were seized as part of the raid on his New Zealand mansion …

Case modding is something that for most enthusiasts, they either dabble in on a very minor scale, or merely admire from a distance as those with more practical know how create everything from PCs built into desks, to beautifully laid our water cooling loops and lighting set ups. Cooler Master …

If there was ever an obvious missed opportunity in gaming, it's that Minecraft could very well have been a Lego property. Better late than never I suppose though, as it looks like the company has finally caught on that kids and adults alike love building things with easy to snap …

Building relationships with other companies is one way to give yourself a boost in the technology game and big trade shows like the currently ongoing Computex in Taiwan, are a popular place to announce such alliances. While Gigabyte hasn't done anything quite so formal, it seems from our impressions of …

The art of a press conference is a fine one. It's hard to impress a room of jaded journalists unless you have something amazing to show them and even then, you better have something solid to back it up with as the questions that will come rapid fire after the …

Alex Winter, the man best known to fans as one half of the Wyld Stalyns with Keanu Reeves, released a documentary this weekend called Deep Web. Described as the “untold story of Bitcoin and the Silk Road,” the film looks at the history of the online drug marketplace and its …

Whoever said talking too much was a bad thing? Thanks to unending debates, filibusters and a growing unease at the US government's willingness to spy on its own citizens, the clause within the Patriot Act that allowed the NSA to record every phone call made by a member of the …

With Computex officially underway in Taipei, Taiwan, it means that there are a number of products which have been honoured as part of the d&i awards 2015. While more than 270 products were entered for consideration, covering the gamut of electronics, applications and gadgetry, only 72 were able to convince the …

The original Banner Saga was a pretty big success for its developer, Stoic, despite the fact that it had to defend itself against Candy Crush giant, King, for the use of the word “saga,” in its name. However if there was one complaint people had, it wasn't about the beautiful …

Update: A Microsoft blog post has now announced the Windows 10 release date as 29th July. Did you wake up this morning with a strange Windows icon in your system tray? Most Windows 7 and 8 users did. Never fear, you haven't been infected with some kind of phishing malware, …