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Lenovo announced a “new VR solution for enterprise” during this year's VR/AR Global Summit Online Conference. The Lenovo Mirage VR S3 headset with ThinkReality is being developed by Lenovo alongside Pico Interactive, a company specialising in VR and enterprise solutions. Built for professional use, the Lenovo Mirage VR S3 comes …

The first generation Raspberry Pi single board computers (SBC) were released back in February 2012, and featured just 512 MB RAM. Since then, SBCs have come a long way and now the Raspberry Pi 4 has been made available with 8GB of memory. 8GB is a lot of RAM for …

In April this year, the Federal Communications Commission (FFC) set the standards for Wi-Fi 6E, and now Qualcomm has announced its FastConnect 6900 and 6700 chips that feature support for Wi-Fi 6E, with speeds of up to 3.6 Gbps. FastConnect 6900 is the faster of the two chips with speeds of up …

News about Apple's 2020 lineup of iPhones is continuing to ramp up, and we already know all the iPhones expected to launch later this year are likely to come equipped with OLED screens. Now it's reported that Samsung Display will deliver a majority of the screens for the upcoming iPhones. Apple …

The Internet is growing at an exponential rate, and with such growth comes the need for faster speeds. To meet that need, researchers work hard on finding faster ways of transmitting data from one point to another. Now, a team based in Australia report that they have reached a speed of …

iPad and iPhone users have been experiencing some weird update bugs recently, with several of Apple's own apps reissuing old updates for seemingly no reason and some even failing to launch and delivering error messages.  At this point in time, Apple has not commented but both Macrumors and The Verge …

Tensions between the US and Huawei can be traced back to at least early 2018, and resulted in the company being blacklisted in the US. However, the UK allowed Huawei to continue to sell its 5G infrastructure domestically, albeit with some limitations. Now it looks like the UK is preparing …

Samsung has announced that it plans to expand its foundry capacity with a new production line in Pyongtaek, Korea. Samsung said that the new line will become the “core manufacturing base” for the company's production of 5G, high performance computing and AI solutions with 5nm EUV.  Samsung said that construction of …

Intel has announced that it is acquiring Rivet Networks – a company mainly known for its network solutions, with its Killer series often used in various gaming machines. Intel said that the acquisition will boost “Intel's Wi-Fi offerings for PC Platforms”. The world is growing ever more dependent on Wi-Fi …

Over the last 18 months, hackers have made great progress on opening up the Nintendo Switch console for piracy and homebrew software. Nintendo has been cracking down on these exploits with software updates but the latest tactic is to take things to the courtroom.  At the end of last week, …

The OnePlus 8 Pro has been shipping for a little while now and early adopters were quick to notice the new ‘X-Ray' filter in the camera application, which can see through certain plastics and clothing materials. As you might expect, a camera feature that can see through clothes kicked up …

The trade dispute between the US and China is continuing this week, with reports saying that TSMC has stopped taking new orders from Huawei as the US attempts to limit chip supplies.  The US government announced last Friday that semiconductors making chips abroad with U.S. technology would require licenses for …

Back in April, as more and more people went into quarantine due to coronavirus, Netflix and other streaming services made adjustments to video quality in an effort to reduce bandwidth usage and avoid internet blackouts. Now, bitrates are slowly beginning to rise once again.  We are still some ways off …

PC Engine CoreGrafx Mini was originally expected to launch worldwide on March 19. However, due to production delays, the launch had to be indefinitely delayed everywhere except for Japan. Now Konami says that the console will be shipping to North American customers starting May 22, with availability in other regions expected …

The COVID-19 outbreak has shaken the market in many ways that would have been impossible to predict just a few months ago. Foxconn is one of the companies that has been hit hard by the pandemic and has reported a 90% decline in profit for Q1 2020. Hon Hai Precision …

Facebook has made a number of huge acquisitions over the years to maintain its dominance in the social media landscape. From the $19 billion and and $1 billion purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram respectively, to the $2 billion buyout that brought Oculus under Facebook's umbrella. The next frontier appears to …

Things change fast in the world of technology. On May 11 it was reported that the Trump administration had reached out to several semiconductor manufacturers to discuss the possibility of building a chip plant in the US. Now, just four days later, TSMC has announced that it's planning to build and …

Cincoze recently revealed the GM-1000, a compact GPU computing platform that supports MXM GPUs. Cincoze claims it offers all the features required for “field applications in machine vision, image processing, and artificial intelligence.” Cincoze's GM-1000 is based on the Intel Coffee Lake-R platform and supports 8th/9th generation workstation-grade processors with …

Over the last few years we've heard a number of tech-related news stories emerge from the Trump administration, including Huawei being added to the US' blacklist. Now, the administration is conducting negotiations with semiconductor companies about building chip factories in the United States, according to reports from Wall Street Journal. …

The Japanese company Sharp has revised its forecast for earnings last year, and has also reduced its expected full-year profit by 48%. It is believed that a big factor for the downturn is decreased demand as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. Major shifts are happening across the worldwide market …

When thinking of operating systems for desktops one usually comes to think of Windows, Linux or macOS. However, Huawei is looking to change that with it's planned entry to the PC market with its own operating system- HarmonyOS 2.0. The first iteration of Huawei's HarmonyOS was introduced at the Huawei …

MSI has launched its new Codex R 10th gaming desktops that are equipped with 10th Generation Intel Core processors and Nvidia graphics. Specific models also include the Clutch GM11 mouse and Vigor GK30 keyboard. Not everyone builds their own PCs, and MSI is catering for those looking for a prebuilt system …

We've been feeling the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak for weeks now, and in Southeast Asia this has led to slowdowns in the supply chain and a decrease in the production of notebooks. The decreased supply, combined with an increase in demand, is predicted to lead to a supply shortage …

The outbreak of COVID-19 has brought a huge amount of disruption to global markets, including the technology sector. During Q1 2020, global smartphone production fell 10% on a year-on-year basis and that is now set to be followed by an even greater drop of around 16% in Q2 2020. The …

AMD has already got a bit of a foothold in cloud gaming, as Microsoft's Project xCloud runs on AMD silicon, and Google Stadia is powered by AMD Radeon graphics. Now, AMD is also partnering with Oxide Games to further its efforts in the cloud gaming market. Oxide Games was founded …

Video Electronics Standards Association – or VESA for short – has announced the specifications of DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0, that enables all the latest capabilities of DisplayPort through a USB Type-C connector, including “beyond-8K resolution and higher refresh rates, along with USB data delivery”. On April 29 VESA announced that it has released …

RetroPie allows users to turn their single board computer into a retro-gaming machine – with the software supporting most SBCs except Raspberry Pi 4. Until now, that is, as RetroPie has announced that RetroPie 4.6 will launch with support for Raspberry Pi 4. It's difficult to deny the success of …

On April 28, AMD reported its First Quarter 2020 Financial Results. The message was clear: AMD's revenue is enjoying healthy growth. The company also announced that its Research & Development budget is up 18% year-on-year. AMD's reports starts with the following overview: “Revenue grows 40 percent year-over-year; Gross margin expands …

Little to nothing is known about the announcement that GIGABYTE is planning to make on April 30 at 6pm BST. The only thing that is known – except the time – is that AORUS Direct will announce updates to AORUS products on its YouTube channel. Over on the AORUS‘ website, there is …

We regularly run polls over on the KitGuru front page in order to gauge what hardware/software our readers are using or have a preference for. Recently, we ran a poll asking which anti-virus you are currently using, and we have compared the results to 2013, when we ran the same …