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Remember back in January 2012 when MegaUpload was shut down and its servers were seized? The people who were paying customers of the site didn't receive any compensation for that loss and despite many legal efforts by different individuals, nobody has been able to get their files back. It was …

Autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, is a phenomenon that unless you can experience it yourself, seems completely bizarre. The idea that a voice or a sound can create a feeling of euphoria or relaxation, is strange enough, but when you factor in the role plays and banal, one-sided conversations …

As much as Tesla has crafted some amazing cars over the years, with many reviewers claiming the recent Model S P85D is the best car in the world at the moment, none of them come close to being affordable for the average consumer. While Elon Musk has promised that its Model …

China's National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund has reportedly approached GlobalFoundries about possible acquisition or cooperation. Chinese investors intend to take over GlobalFoundries in order to significantly improve Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and make it one of the world’s largest contract makers of semiconductors. China-based Hua Capital Management, which …

Just last week, Google officially responded to the European commission's allegations that the company has been rigging its search results to promote its own products and weaken the competition. The case in the EU likely won't be resolved for some time but now it looks like Google is also going …

Samsung is bringing Tizen to smart-watches with its new circular Gear S2. Samsung announced its latest device at the IFA press conference and as we can see, the watch has clearly taken some design tips from the Moto 360, which was the first circular Android Wear smart watch. On top …

The limit for how much people can spend when using the contactless card payment system is being raised to £30, as usage of the quick and easy technology increases exponentially. Previously, those paying without inputting their pin-code would only be able to spend up to £20 as a security measure, …

One of the two agents accused of siphoning off Bitcoins during the investigation of the Silk Road dark-net marketplace, has pleaded guilty. Ex-Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges, 33, appeared in federal court and admitted to money laundering and obstruction of justice, having secretly moved over $800,000 worth of the digital …

The TeSPA collegiate esports organisation has announced a new scholarship fund of $100,000 that will go up for grabs for teams of three that play Blizzard's collectible card brawler, Hearthstone, in an effort to cultivate more competitive esports talent in the U.S. Known as the Collegiate Hearthstone Championship, the competition …

T-Mobile has revealed its plans to go after excessive users of its ‘unlimited data' plan. Now we have known for some time that when a network offers unlimited data, there is always some kind of caveat attached and it turns out that some T-Mobile users have been using as much …

Several companies have launched Android Wear smart watches over the last year and while some of them do look pretty tempting, they are limited as far as platforms go. Now, iPhone users can buy an Android Wear smart watch thanks to an upcoming software update from Google. There are some …

Apple might have pulled in most of the people that like to spend outrageous amounts on a smartwatch, but if some held out, they might be able to opt for a much cheaper and comparably flashy design from LG. The Korean company is now launching a 23 carat gold-plated version …

Mayor of the small town of Bom Jardin in Brazil, Lidian Leite, has gone on the run after police uncovered she had not only siphoned off more than four million dollars from school funds – leaving teachers unpaid for weeks – but had not even been taking part in the governance …

Multiplay, the gaming server provider and host of the multiple-yearly-Insomnia gaming festival and LAN parties, has announced that with its next event, the winter LAN, it will be moving from its current home at Coventry's Ricoh Arena, to Birmingham NEC. This will allow it to fit in more gaming space, …

Netflix has had 4K content for a while now. All of its original shows are filmed in ultra HD and it even has a few third-party offerings, like Breaking Bad. Unfortunately, only specific devices have access to 4K streaming on Netflix and that list mostly consists of smart TVs. This …

The reversible USB type-C connector is something that the industry has been waiting for since the introduction of the original USB bus in 1997. This year PCs, computer components and mobile devices finally started to incorporate USB-C receptacles, but not all implementations necessarily support all features introduced by the latest …

Insomnia i55 might make you walk a long way to get there, but i55 is, like most Multiplay events, packed with interesting things to look at and do. There's a few new games to try, a lot of hardware on show and plenty of desktop PCs that will make you …

Multiplay's latest Insomnia event, i55, has a parking problem. It's not clear if it's just because it's become a victim of its own success, has been planned poorly, or a combination of the two, but there are thousands of people who have been unable to park near enough to the …

If there is one thing a lot of us don't take too kindly to on the internet, it is auto-play videos on sites in the background. Google already made finding which tab is playing audio a little easier last year with a new speaker icon displayed on tabs with audio, …

It turns out that HTC and Valve may have miscommunicated things just a bit earlier this year when it was announced that the HTC Vive virtual reality headset would be launching in Q4 this year. While it is still true that there will be some units available, they aren't necessarily …

Earlier this year, after months of investigation, the European Commission formally accused Google of anti-trust practises, forcing the company to respond and give evidence that its business tactics aren't secretly squeezing out the competition. As you would expect, Google is arguing that the EU's allegations are “incorrect”. The European Commission's …

We have known for a while that Sony has been pushing for its Japanese employees to experiment a bit more with product ideas in order to try to turn its company financials around. We've seen Sony drones, paper smart watches and now, we have a speaker that also doubles as …

So, does anyone remember last year when Amazon attempted to release a smartphone? No? … I didn't think so. Since the Fire Phone flopped last year, costing Amazon as much as £100 million, the company has decided that it would be a wise idea to scale back its hardware efforts …

In a continuing trend that shows ISPs on the continent have more backbone than all of the big ones in the UK, T-Mobile Austria has refused a request from a copyright lobby group to voluntarily block The Pirate Bay and a number of other sites, after a rival ISP was …

Although Apple, Baidu, Tesla and many other companies are all working on bringing fully-autonomous vehicles to our roads within the next decade, the first crop of licensed users won't be people like you and me, but construction crews. Before the end of the year, Florida will begin deploying autonomous construction …

Stan Shih, the founder of Acer Group, said at a press conference on Thursday that he would welcome acquisition of the company he founded in 1976. In the recent months Acer’s sales decreased once again and its losses exceeded its net profit for the year 2014. Selling the company could …

The Humvee that has been the iconic workhorse of recent U.S. and international military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, is now set to be replaced. Following years of criticism for its lax undercarriage protection and weaknesses to roadside explosive devices, the Humvee is going to be replaced by a design …

Virtually all high-tech companies who sell PC hardware or personal computers recently complained about poor sales of PCs in the past few quarters. While many expect their revenues to improve in the second half of 2015, analysts warn that factors, which negatively affect sales of PCs now, will continue to slow …

A man dubbed as the Facebook spam king has pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and criminal contempt, having sent over 27 million commercially themed spam messages to Facebook users and then illegally accessing 500,000 of the accounts. The incidents took place between 2008 and 2009. The man behind the …

Like many cities that have been around since before the popularisation of rail travel, New York has a number of abandoned and neglected stations, many of them under ground, leaving acres of land derelict in prime positions around the city. One project is looking to reclaim at least one of …