YouTube may soon launch its own premium subscription service for access to its own original content. The platform will be similar to the company's new Music Key streaming service, allowing users to watch ad-free videos for a monthly fee, according to a Variety report. This rumor comes from an unnamed …
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 »Cebit 2015: ASRock showcase X99E-ITX/ac motherboard
KitGuru is busy trawling the stands at CEBIT in Hannover, Germany. Today we were able to get some time at the ASROCK stand – they were keen to show us their new ASROCK X99E-ITX/AC motherboard. This new Mini ITX board is built to very high standards, featuring ASROCK Super Alloy …
Read More »Cebit 2015: Big Google presence
First we had shops, then in the late nineties the traditional model was turned on its head as the world plus dog moved toward online shopping in the dawn of eCommerce. Google's presence at CeBIT 2015 had a distinctly retail feel. Most enthusiasts will be drawn to the stand by …
Read More »Cebit 2015: Inno3D prepares to launch affordable 3D printing
When KitGuru caught up with Inno3D CEO Ken Ho at Computex last June, he was laughing at the fact that all the visitors crowding his stand were focuses on his latest 3D printer – largely ignoring the graphic cards on show. At CeBIT 2015, Inno3D has decided to go with …
Read More »Cebit 2015: Inside the CODE_n hall
While the show itself is a shadow of its former self, CeBIT still has some cool technology offerings up its sleeve and CODE_n is one of them. We toured the massive exhibition the ‘next tech' and found something interesting on the top floor. Trumpf has been a world leading in …
Read More »Valve gets an F for customer service from Better Business Bureau
Valve is great at many things, It brought us the Steam client, developed several fantastic games and has always worked to push PC gaming. However, many will agree that its customer service is often pretty bad and its policies aren't anywhere near as consumer friendly as its competitors, most notably …
Read More »YouTube now supports 360-degree videos
Google has just added support for 360 degree videos to YouTube, making the world's biggest video sharing site much more useful to those with a virtual reality headset. The feature was originally supposed to launch some time in late January but after a small delay, it has finally arrived. There …
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 »Intel: Windows XP replacements and PC purchases are slowing
Intel Corp. on Thursday said that its revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year will be lower than anticipated. The company reduced revenue outlook by about $1 billion. The world’s largest chipmaker blamed slower than expected replacements of Windows XP-based PCs by businesses as well as challenging macroeconomic …
Read More »The BBC is making a series based on Rockstar and Grand Theft Auto
The BBC has revealed that it is making a TV series based on the founders of Rockstar, the Houser brothers, and the creation of Grand Theft Auto. The program is part of an effort to get the UK more interesting in programming and technology overall. There isn't much else known …
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 …
Read More »Minecraft could be banned in Turkey
Last month it was reported that the Turkish ministry has begun investigating Minecraft, deeming it as potentially ‘too violent'. The results of the investigation have now been revealed and it turns out that the Turkish Social Policies Ministry does want Minecraft banned. Turkish sites, Hürriyet Daily News and LeaderGamer (Via …
Read More »Google investment partner thinks we’ll all live to 500
Medical technology is advancing so fast, that a partner in Google's investment department believes that as long as we can live for another 20-30 years, we'll be able to make it to the ripe old age of 500 without too much difficulty. His reasoning? The ultra fast development of new …
Read More »Indian movie group to stop piracy by not releasing movies
In some strange amalgamation of biting off its ball to take it home and spite its face, an Indian government body called the Tamil Film Producer's Council, has announced that it plans to halt the release of all movies in the region for three months in an attempt to send pirates out of …
Read More »Microsoft appoints Kinect dev as Xbox experience head
Microsoft's creative director of important technology like the Kinect camera and HoloLens augmented reality headset, Kudo Tsunoda, is being moved and promoted to head of new vision and experience development for Xbox, making him in charge of a number of internal developers like Lionhead, Rare, Press Play and Decisive Games. …
Read More »Valve talks Half-Life VR and why it might not happen
There has been a lot of exciting Valve news over the last week or so, the company just started demoing its own virtual reality headset, it showed off a new Portal technical demonstration running on the Source 2 engine and HTC managed to end up teasing a new Half-Life game …
Read More »Google might be working on a VR version of Android
Android may soon be hitting virtual reality headsets as Google has apparently tasked a group of engineers with developing a version of the operating system that can power virtual reality applications. The team currently consists of ‘tens of engineers', according to the Wall Street Journal report. The report cites two …
Read More »WordPress beats homophobic group in copyright battle
Phony DMCA takedowns have been a staple of anti-piracy lobby groups for years, the debate often being not whether they did it, but whether it was their fault or the over-zealous reporting of their automated takedown tools. Even in the case of clear unjust use of the law however, it's rare …
Read More »Legislation delays mean US falling behind in drone race
Even though some members of the House of Lords want to see tighter regulations on drone usage in the UK, that may not be the best way to help grow the industry on the British Isles, as the US' own restrictive governance of the technology has led to it falling behind international developments. …
Read More »Gabe Newell claims Valve has solved the VR motion sickness problem
The man himself, Gabe Newell, is confident that Valve has solved the virtual reality motion sickness problem with its new headset, ‘The Vive', claiming that “zero percent of people get motion sick” while using Steam VR technology. Virtual Reality had some initial problems with causing motion sickness, although over the …
Read More »uTorrent update secretly installs Bitcoin miner
uTorrent has been caught secretly bundling and installing a Bitcoin miner with its latest client update. The latest update has been found to secretly install EpicScale without user permission, which uses a certain amount of CPU power to mine Bitcoin in the background. Since the program comes automatically as part …
Read More »Snowden documents prove NZ spying on own citizens, allies for NSA
Since the original Edward Snowden revelations came out just over a year and a half ago, it's become very easy to feel despondent about the whole thing. “Of course they're spying,” is almost as often said now in the comment sections of these articles as the “if you have nothing …
Read More »NASA finds evidence of vast historic Mars ocean
Researchers working for the NASA space agency have announced that they've found evidence on Mars for an ocean that covered almost 20 per cent of the planet's surface, which formed shortly after Mars itself 4.3 billion years ago. At its peak, it would have covered much of the northern hemisphere and …
Read More »The Huawei smartwatch could cost as much as $1000
Huawei announced its own entry in to the smartwatch arena earlier this week, showing off a sleek design, circular watch face and Android Wear integration. Unfortunately though, all of this could come at a serious price as the watch may go for as much as $1000 once released. The device …
Read More »UK drones should be registered claims House of Lords
The House of Lords EU Committee wants to see more restrictions placed on the use of drones in the UK, with users forced to register their ownership. This would include both commercial and personal uses of the technology, which is counter to American legislation which recently gave the thumbs up …
Read More »Samsung is planning to slow down Wearable releases
The Apple Watch is widely expected to bring wearable technology to the mainstream but it seems that Samsung isn't in a rush to compete this time around. Samsung is taking on a new strategy by cutting down on releases and going back to the drawing board. Samsung isn't shrinking down …
Read More »Swedish ISP continues to refuse Pirate Bay block
Even though it barely seems to be operational these days, The Pirate Bay is the most iconic torrent search site in the world and is frequently cited by media lobby groups as a URL that ISPs should block – often with the courts backing that decision. While some ISPs might …
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