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The UK isn't exactly known for its blazing fast internet speeds, with average household broadband speeds sitting at 10.7Mbps. However, one company is planning on blowing the UK away with its own 5Gbps broadband service, though it will cost you quite a bit to get it. Right now, the 5Gbps …

Although much of the history of space exploration has been driven by the minds and money of national organisations like NASA and the Soviet Space Program, commercial entities have been aiding their efforts for a long time. And that looks set to continue with Space X bidding on a contract …

Another town, another group of taxi companies and another Uber-centric lawsuit. Once again taxi companies are unhappy that Uber, the ride sharing application that has turned everyone into for-hire drivers, is taking all of their business, so they're suing New York City and its transport authority for allowing the app-based …

Virtual reality is growing and there is a big push for it on smartphones, thanks to products like the Samsung GearVR and the Google Cardboard. The YouTube app even supports virtual reality headset viewing from smartphones now, something that Figment is looking to help push with its iPhone case, which …

Google Glass is still alive and well behind the closed doors of Google X. However, even with development now taking place behind closed doors, that isn't stopping us from getting any information on what could be coming. The latest news seems to be that one of Google's Glass 2 variants …

As much as we are pretty safe here in the UK from major storms and tectonic activity, the rest of the world isn't quite so lucky. Fortunately though, we live in a world where not only can PS3s be connected together to form modular super computers, but commercial graphics cards …

Although China is perhaps most well known for producing low cost goods and emulating designs, it's also shown that with enough investment it can create some impressive products in its own right. Looking to bring that attitude to the processor game, state-owned Tsinghua Holdings is set to invest upwards of 300 …

Although KitGuru is first and foremost a tech-focused publication, copyright is something that has impacted a generation of web users more than any other before it, so the way it operates is surprisingly relevant to a bunch of people playing games and overclocking their CPUs. In this instance however it's …

A new type of smart dressing for wounds could allow doctors to be more selective with their doling out of antibiotics, something that is consistently preached as an important measure to avoid the growth of highly-resistive bacteria. It could have particular application we're told, for use with wounds on children, …

Getting automated vehicles to operate safely on the roads is one of the key concerns of those working on the various technologies that they use, but going too fast doesn't seem like one of them. In-fact the opposite is true in some cases, as a Google automated pod-car was recently …

Google and the British Museum have announced a partnership to expand the current Google Cultural Institute's offerings of digital musceum exhibits to anyone around the world. This represents one of the biggest team ups in the history of the project, with some 5,000 objects scanned, photographed and put online for …

Although hardly the biggest country or even the one with a historic number of pirates, Sweden has been at the heart of the debate about online file sharing for as long as it has existed. As the home base of the Pirate Bay, the founding point for the now Europe …

The space race was arguably the best thing to come out of the Cold War. It would be insensitive to suggest that all of the problems it wrought on the world were worth getting people to the moon, but the competition of major powers trying to outdo each other in …

Blizzard has launched a lawsuit at the creators of several popular bot services that help players cheat at World of Warcraft, Diablo III and Heroes of the Storm. Blizzard is accusing the bot developers of copyright infringement and also points out that bot services ruin the gaming experience for legitimate …

The Trans Pacific Partnership is the other side of the world's TTIP. It's a piece of legislation masquerading as a trade deal, which for a long time, leaked drafts of have scared privacy campaigners, doctors, tech companies, nationalists and just about every internet user who can wrap their head around …

It looks like Asus is preparing to get in to the augmented reality business, with its own pair of AR glasses. We recently heard that Asus might be interested in putting together its own version of the Hololens in collaboration with Microsoft but now it looks like the company might …

Google has revealed that its Chrome browser will soon no longer support some slightly older versions of OS X, along with older versions of Windows. Starting in April next year, Google will no longer deliver Chrome browser updates or security fixes for those running Windows XP or Windows Vista, though …

Recently the rumour mill has begun churning out early information for Apple's device plans for next year. While Samsung may not be putting together Apple's A-series chips for the iPhone 7, it is said to potentially be providing displays, which would mean that Apple may ditch LCD in favour of …

“We haven't had a Stasi or a Gestapo in Britain, so are intellectually lazy about surveillance,” said Tory MP David Davis recently, and that's something a lot of people seem to agree with. Following the publishing of the draft version of the Investigatory Powers Bill, proposed by Theresa May last week, …

Sports are a major part of many people's lives, with some living and dying by the results of their favourite teams. For those that aren't hardcore fans of any one entity though, fantasy sports can be a fun way to imagine how you'd do as a team manager, or a …

Samsung is betting bigger on virtual reality this year, as it plans to release another version of its GearVR headset, this time aimed at consumers. This year's latest model is already available to pre-order and will ship this month with a slight re-design and a much lower price. Oculus is once …

Although you would imagine Disney has its hands full putting out Marvel movies like they're going out of style, producing new animated characters for kids to latch on to and milking as many dollars from park visitors as it possibly can, it's also got its hands full with wearable development. …

In an effort to get more developers involved and speed up the advancement in technology, Google has made its machine learning AI engine, known as TensorFlow, open source and freely available. Google has been working on machine learning for some time now, it has helped out with a few projects, …

When a new piece of hardware is introduced to a market that shakes things up, it's often termed disruptive. Elon Musk is himself, a disruptor of many industries, helping push the world towards electric cars, high-speed maglev hyperloop travel and indeed, cheaper and more efficient space transits. So much so …

There have been a number of distributed computing projects over the years, from SETI@Home to Folding@Home (for which KitGuru has a powerful, active team still running) but as much as the desktops of the world are more powerful than ever before, smartphones have seen the biggest explosion of performance hardware …

The judge presiding over the case of Apple vs several thousand of its former retail employees for what were described as “demoralising,” bag searches throughout their time with the company, has thrown it out, stating that if employees wished to avoid the checks, they could have not brought bags to …

Snapchat is one of the biggest social communication platforms of the past few years and is still growing at an unprecedented rate. As of right now, its users are sending videos that between them all are watched more than six billion times per day. While these numbers haven't been officially …

Sony has been working on PlayStation VR (formerly Project Morpheus) since 2013. We already knew that the company had the final specification in mind, it was just waiting for developers to build a solid library of launch titles. Now, Sony has shared that final specification with the world, with a …

As further indication that police and intelligence agency access to digital records can be abused, a U.S. judge attempted to bribe an FBI agent with beer in the hopes that it would give him access to the text messages sent from two separate phone numbers. Eventually they settled on $100 …

One of the more head scratching moves made by local governments and authorities in looking to deal with the destabilising effect the Uber ride-hailing company has had on the traditional transport business, is restricting it. Transport for London famously pushed for a five minute minimum wait time for customers to …