One of the things detractors of virtual reality love to say, is that today's technology is no different from the last time VR was a thing, back in the '90s. Remember Lawnmower man? And those big VR units at arcades like Dave and Busters? According to some, today's tech is …
Read More »Major alleged UFC and WWE pirate arrested
A British man from Leicestershire has been arrested on suspicion of being one of the most proflific pirates of WWE wrestling and UFC MMA events. Reportedly his uploads have been downloaded several million times and he alone has uploaded more than three terabytes of data. This means, according to PIPCU, …
Read More »OCZ SSD competition update: last drive still going
When OCZ challenged KitGuru back in December to kill five of its Arc 100 SSDs by writing and rewriting to them constantly for the foreseeable future, nobody could have predicted that four months and several hundred terabytes later we'd still be talking about it. However we need to really, since a …
Read More »Corporal Hicks confirmed for Aliens sequel
When we first heard that District 9 director Neil Blompkamp was going to be directing a sequel in the Alien franchise, along with the hope that he'd skip over the latter half of the series, was one that somehow he could get Michael Biehn to come back and finish the …
Read More »Attack on Titan’s first live action clip is suitably creepy
It's been almost six months since we caught our first glimpse of which characters – some old, some new – will be appearing in the live action Attack on Titan movie, but now we have a few short clips of what they'll look like in action. Yes it's plastered with …
Read More »Microsoft will upgrade pirated copies of Windows for free
Microsoft is making a big push with Windows 10 to re-ingratiate itself with its customer base. It made a big splash earlier this year when it announced that it would be giving everyone with legitimate copies of Windows 7 and 8 free upgrades, but it's now looking like it might extend that offer …
Read More »Adam Sandler’s Pixels movie trailer references games
When trying to come up with a title for this piece, I wanted to be as accurate as possible and the above is about the best I could come up with. Yes I could have mentioned the fact that Kevin James is the President in this movie and I could …
Read More »Seagate Wireless 500GB mobile storage drive
Although the discerning media user likely already has a home server with wireless connectivity and remote access this kind of set up is not always ideal. In-fact, all it takes is for you to lose access to a decent internet connection and suddenly you are media free – which for some …
Read More »Valve did not just give everyone in the EU a chance for game refunds
A lot of publications are reporting this morning that Valve just made it possible for everyone to receive refunds on games they don't like within a 14 day period of purchase. If true, that would be great and would show a real about turn from the company that has been …
Read More »Tommy Wiseau clears up The Room questions in AMA
The Room is one of those movies that shouldn't work. It's terribly filmed, terribly acted, terribly written and somehow, it comes together to create something perfectly watchable – albeit with your jaw on the floor most of the time. Since its release in 2003, it's garnered a cult following as …
Read More »Elon Musk: driver controlled cars could be outlawed
Although hard drugs may never give the children of users pre-cognitive murder detection powers like Minority Report promised us, one day soon we are going to have the driverless car technology also showcased in that movie and Elon Musk's Tesla is helping to push us in that direction. Speaking at …
Read More »New 3D printer works up to 100 times faster
3D printing is a technology in its infancy. While it has gotten smaller in the past few years, the quality can be a little dubious and it's far from fast or cost effective when it comes to traditional manufacturing techniques. However, that may be about to change as a new …
Read More »Vice airs Obama interview
Last week Vice debuted a trailer of founder Shane Smith's sit down with US President Barack Obama, hinting at some of the topics that they had discussed earlier in the week. Now the interview has been released in full, touching on everything from climate change, to political gridlocks and even on …
Read More »Ebay partners with Sotheby’s for live stream auctioning
Ebay has always been full of interesting items on sale from various individuals and businesses around the world, but starting today it will have an entirely new crop of products for its international users to bid on. In a partnership with New York auction firm Sotheby's, the online marketplace will …
Read More »Apple executive not happy at new Steve Jobs biopic
Since Steve Jobs passed away in 2011, much has been said and written about him, and several people have attempted to craft the story of his life to show the different sides of the Apple founder. Rarely it seems are those closest to him happy however, and that's no different …
Read More »Nintendo partners with Japanese publisher for smartphone games
Nintendo has made a big stand in the past about continuing its console developments, releasing games based around its iconic characters on its flagship Wii U system with gusto, despite the home-system's struggles in the contemporary gaming landscape. And nothing has changed in that respect, but its old line that …
Read More »Counter Strike Intel Master’s tournament nets a million viewers
If you thought DotA 2 and League of Legends were the only games that could pull real crowds with their esports tournaments, think again, as the two-year old shooter title managed to bring in over a million this weekend at the Intel Extreme Master's tournament. That is more than four times …
Read More »Dyson could power your next phone’s battery
Better battery life is something that the world is striving for at the moment. Whether it's in the manufacturing of smartphones and wearables, electric cars or the ever just out of reach armoured exo-skeletons or our Iron Man inspired dreams. Fortunately then there's a technology just around the corner that …
Read More »US feds claim JPMorgan hackers ‘gettable’
Last year, JPMorgan Chase, one of the world's largest banking institutions, was made to look foolish when over 83 million email addresses, phone numbers and business addresses of its customers were stolen by hackers. However, while many other large firms experiencing big data breaches have come up empty when it …
Read More »Is your broadband provider failing you?
Chances are, if you are hooked up to the service of one of the UK's largest ISPs, then the answer to the above question is, yes. Data from a new survey conducted by Which? magazine, suggests that some of the most highly appreciated ISPs are often the smallest ones, with …
Read More »Paradox on piracy: service over security
Every game developer and publisher knows that at least a portion of their player base is going to be composed of people that didn't pay. In the past, they've tried to stop this with CD keys, code wheels and invincible scorpions that chase you around the map, but Paradox does …
Read More »How Virtual Reality could change movies
If you've had a go on a VR headset like the Oculus Rift DK2 or the Samsung Gear VR and were given the chance to whizz through a few demos, you might have tried out one of the various virtual cinema experiences, which give you an entire screen at a …
Read More »Next Team Fortress 2 money maker: user made taunts
It's no secret that Valve's self-perpetuating user-made content trading on Team Fortress 2 and DotA 2 has been a massive success. Tens of millions of dollars have been made by the players, with Valve taking a cut of every transaction that goes on. It's not all about the money of course, as …
Read More »46 year old arrested in Karaoke torrent sting
Although anti-piracy efforts tend to be mostly focused on tackling those that upload and download Hollywood's big, blockbuster movies, they do have other interests too. For example, Karaoke, which along with almost every form of entertainment has been digitised in the past decade, which means it's rife with piracy as …
Read More »Dotcom regains some of his assets, is ‘back in business’
Kim Dotcom's future has been shakier than usual as of late. Just a couple of weeks ago he claimed to be destitute, and “penniless,” having eaten through however many millions he made off of the launch of the MEGA file locker, and began requesting access to his frozen assets from the …
Read More »Using a tablet could be bad for your neck
Despite Microsoft introducing the technology in the early '00s, it's only in the past few years that tablets have become a mainstream technology, with some 42 per cent of US under 18's now said to have one of their own. However, while many more of us may be tapping a …
Read More »We Happy Few’s screenshots don’t make it any less creepy
We Happy Few is a strange mashup of 1984, Brave New World and Equilibrium in terms of setting, and a bit like Bioshock meets Don't Starve in its gameplay, but there's one overarching theme from what we've seen of the game so far and that's that it's creepy. Thanks to …
Read More »Can you trust a cybersecurity firm from another country?
An interesting change is taking place in the world of digital security. As it becomes more clear that nations around the world are constantly probing each other's online assets, firms once aligned together against malware and nefarious hackers, are now backing their host nations, injecting the world of cybersecurity with …
Read More »Razer upgrades Blade Pro gaming laptop for extra oomf
If you were looking to pick yourself up a branded gaming laptop, then Razer may have just given you the perfect moment to do so, as it's Blade Pro series has just received a small bump in internal hardware that makes it a much more viable purchase. The new notebooks …
Read More »Warm oceans discovered on Saturn’s moon, could contain life
Although Jupiter's moon Europa has often been considered the mostly likely place in our solar system other than Earth to have life as we know it somewhere within its under-ice oceans, there may be another, more viable contender on the cosmic horizon. Enceladus, a small moon orbiting Saturn, is now thought …
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