General Tech

Indiegogo is looking to take on Patreon with its own consistent crowd funding service, which will reportedly be called ‘Forever Funding'. These new campaigns will allow content creators to to receive a continuous stream of money for their work, rather than having to resort to temporary crowd funding methods. A source …

Sony is continuing its downward spiral, having quadrupled its predicted loss for the current financial year, ending on the 31st of March 2015. We've known about Sony's poor financial state for a while as the company has cut wages, shut down two-thirds of its stores and sold off parts of …

I know that in general we cover light hearted news here at KitGuru, but today we have to take a swing at real, hard hitting journalism, as it turns out that Samsung, is accusing LG of sending its employees to showrooms in Germany, in order to damage Samsung's high end washing …

The BBC has weighed in on recent copyright and piracy talks, suggesting that Internet service providers should monitor network traffic and automatically be suspicious of customers using a VPN while consuming large amounts of bandwidth- assuming that all VPN users are pirates. In a submission to the Australian government, the BBC …

Bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, has chosen to keep his identity a secret  for the longest time and as a result, people are obsessed with finding out who he really is. Now, an anonymous hacker has come along, saying that he will expose the identity of Nakamoto to whoever gives him 25 …

Chances are that if you're planning an X99 build, then you're not too worried about money. However, it's still worth shopping around for the best deal just in-case, right now Asus has teamed up with Samsung to offer customers up to £100 cash back if they purchase an Asus X99 …

T-Mobile has filed a lawsuit against Chinese firm, Huawei, after its staff attempted to sneak in to T-Mobile offices and steal software and technology behind the carrier's phone testing robot, which is nicknamed ‘Tappy'. Huawei employees allegedly stole the software and specifications for the robot, they also took secret photos …

Microsoft is set to shift focus back to the MSN brand, just one week after it announced that the messenger service would be shutting down for good later this year. Several Bing apps, including News, Sports, Travel, Weather, and Finance, are set to be re-branded under the MSN name. Additionally, each app will …

Music Industry group, IFPI, has sent not one, but two take down notices to Mega, asking the site to remove Kim Dotcom's very own album, casting doubt on the accuracy of record label take down notices. Kim Dotcom founded cloud storage service, Mega, in the aftermath of the Mega Upload court …

Google is set to pay out at least $19 million to refund parents who were billed for in-app purchases made by children that weren't authorized to do so. The case has been going on for some time now but it looks to be coming to a close as Google considers …

Oculus has revealed a few details surrounding the upcoming consumer version of its virtual reality headset. For a start, the specifications for the consumer version of the Oculus Rift have already been decided on and the team already has a price point in mind. Speaking with Eurogamer, Oculus founder, Palmer Luckey …

Although Intel Corp. imagines its future many years down the road and has a solid vision, it admits that going forward it will be much harder to achieve certain goals as manufacturing technologies get much more complex. Like other huge companies, Intel Corp. has big plans for the future. Recently …

Intel Corp. officially confirmed on Wednesday that it will not use extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography for its 10nm process technology allegedly due to come online in 2016. Apparently, not only the EUV scanners are not ready, but backbones of certain fabs may not support the new equipment due to its …

Asus has officially announced its ZenWatch, the new wearable will be powered by Android Wear and feature a custom user interface that Asus developed specifically for the new device. The smartwatch will pair up with any smartphone running Android 4.3 Jelly Bean or higher in order to provide useful notifications …

The UK government has sent out warnings to Microsoft, Google and Yahoo stating that if these companies don't address the issue of online piracy and stop linking to illegal content voluntarily, then legislative action will be taken. Over the last year or so, the UK government has shown its full …

Last week it was revealed that the Australian Consumer Rights Commission was planning to take Valve to court over its refund policy. At the time, Valve stated that it was making “every effort to cooperate with with the Australian officials on this matter,” and now we know exactly what changes …

Samsung has officially revealed the Galaxy Note 4 handset and its Virtual Reality headset, the Gear VR, which was in fact developed with the help of Oculus, just as previous rumors suggested. The Gear VR headset is designed to fit around the 5.7 Inch screen found on the just announced …

It looks like Microsoft is fighting to keep customer and user information safe as the company is refusing to yield to a warrant granting US authorities access to email accounts, stating that the US has no power over its customers in foreign countries. This fight started off back in April when …

Leap Motion has launched a virtual reality head mount for its PC peripheral motion controller. This will allow Oculus Rift users to track their hands as well as head movements. The mount has launched alongside a new Leap Motion SDK, which enables the device to keep track of your hands …

Amazon is set to launch its own 4K streaming service in an effort to better compete with Netflix, which already offers 4K content, although it is strictly limited to supported TV's and not available for PC users. There isn't a lot of native content for those who own a 4K …

Valve has done a lot of great things for the PC platform over the years but consumer rights is unfortunately one of the company's short comings. Unlike Origin, Steam has a strict no refund policy, and the Australian Consumer Rights Commission is calling the company out on it by filing …

Digital distributor, GOG, has begun selling DRM free gaming oriented documentaries on its store. The company is hoping that eventually it will be able to convince hollywood studios to sell DRM free versions of TV shows and movies through its store, although so far the talks have been unsuccessful. GOG.com's North …

HP is currently recalling over six million laptop power cords world wide due to burn and fire risk. The faulty power cords were sold with both HP and Compaq laptops, 5,577,000 of them were sold in the US, 446,700 in Canada and the rest could be anywhere in the world as the …

Over the last few months there were plenty of rumors floating around suggesting that Google buying Twitch was practically a done deal. However, it turns out that Google supposedly backed out due to anti trust issues, thus paving the way for Amazon to snap up the streaming service for $970 …

Google Street View is a handy little tool, not only does it let you take a peek at almost anywhere you want to go in order to virtually explore the area but now you can take a private virtual tour through the sets of TV Shows like Breaking Bad and …

It turns out that Google is currently receiving and processing an all time high of one million piracy link removal requests per day, proving that copyright holders and media lobby groups just don't give up. The media Industry's new tactic is to simply overload Google with DMCA takedown requests, all …

Google has confirmed that its self-driving robot cars are capable of breaking the speed limit but only as a safety measure. The company's studies have shown that if its self-driving cars were to stick to the speed limit in areas where everybody was speeding, it could have a negative impact …

A recently filed patent has given us a peak at the possible future of Google Glass, showing off a very normal look with no tell tale signs to suggest that you are wearing smart glasses...

Google's long awaited music streaming service may finally see the light of day as new rumors suggest that it will launch under the name ‘YouTube Music Key' and will feature 20 million songs. The latest leak comes from Android Police, which reveals that Google's Spotify rival will also feature offline listening …

The British government will be forced to pay £224 million of tax payer money to US IT firm, Raytheon, after it canceled a £750 million contract for a passenger identifying system at the country's borders. The e-Borders project was approved and signed back in 2007 while the Labour party was still …