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There hasn't been much news recently when it comes to Google's self-driving car but the company has finally given us an update. It turns out that Google has spent the last year or so fine tuning the car's software in an effort to make it ready for use on city …

If you hate cleaning your car as I do, then Nissan's latest prototype video will be right up your street. Designated as a “self cleaning” car, essentially Nissan has sprayed down a Note with a hydrophobic and oleophobic material that – according to the video at least – keeps your …

Back in February we tested Asus' SATA Express product demo platform. We could see the potential for the high-speed storage interface, but there was still the question of extensive market adoption lingering overhead. Well, judging by the images of new motherboards based on Intel's upcoming chipset, the 10Gbps SATA Express connection is …

It used to be the case that setting up a streaming TV and movie site wasn't easy, it could take hours and hours of work, sometimes turning into a full time job just updating links, selling ad space and keeping one step ahead of the authorities. While you still have …

If you're into your extreme sports like skateboarding, MotoX and snowboarding, then chances are you're a fan of X Games, an organisation specifically designed to cater to these sports and provide international competitive events for the best in the world to go head to head in. In the future though, …

A Japanese manga publisher by the name of Kadokawa has announced that it's bought an 80 per cent stake in From Software from its previous owners, Trans Comos. The Dark Souls developer will now become a smaller company a subsidiary of Kadokawa. Kadokawa made the move towards the end of …

Major League Gaming, one of the world's premier eSports organisations, has announced a partnership with two Chinese firms, which are going to help it build a 15,000 spectator eSports arena on Hengqin Island in Zhuhai, China. Unlike other previously held games in venues like the Staples Centre which hosted the …

KitGuru was recently invited to a press event where Asus discussed and showed-off its series of motherboards based on the ‘future Intel chipset'. While information surrounding the chipset is still under Intel's NDA, prepare to indulge in a photographic gallery of Asus' upcoming motherboards. Asus ‘Z97' Series motherboards Asus' ‘Z97' …

If you're a serious PC gamer and you've been anywhere near the internet in the past day or so, there's a chance you will have seen mention of the Overclockers Infinity Vesuvius. It's a monster and monsters have a thirst – so how much juice is needed to keep it …

A law that was set to pass in Mexico that could have given the government the power to shut down the internet if it wanted to has been blocked, after hundreds of protesters took to the streets and even more voiced their disapproval online. Similar to the filtering system being …

Brazilian politicians and several digital rights leaders have called for a changing of the guard with who has the dominant stake in the management of the internet, hoping to make the whole thing less US-centric, at the NETmundial conference. NETmundial is a Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance …

We know. KitGuru should be 100% focused on delivering all the (tech) news and more in a hardcore, serious way. But, every now and then, we stumble across some information that's so intriguing that we feel the need to share. This is one of those times. Anyone who's followed science …

The New York Police Department has been found guilty of a huge misjudgement when it comes to how social media works in the 21st century. What seemed like a great idea at the time, has spiralled into an object lesson in ‘Never publicly ask a question unless you already know …

In the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations, it's become clear that the online world is a lot less private than we once thought, with governments and corporations often in secret collusion to provide information on their customers and citizens to intelligence agencies, whether you've done something wrong or not. However …

With copyright and intellectual property law in the messy state that it currently finds itself in the US and other western nations, a lot of time legislating behind the bench is the most common way for changes in the climate to be made and that looks to be the case …

It's amazing to think that the VR company which started life as a Kickstarter dream, was bought up for $2 billion just two years later. Whether you're still smarting over that or not though, you can't just buy up companies for that much without someone giving it the once over …

SanDisk announced the availability of its 15 nanometer technology today, making it the most advanced NAND Flash manufacturing process in the world. The 15nm technology will be available in both two bits-per-cell (X2) and three bits-per-cell (X3) architectures. “We are thrilled to continue our technology leadership with the industry’s most advanced …

Have you ever found yourself flitting between Silkroad, Cloud Nine, Outlaw, Mr Nice Guy or any of the many other online drug marketplaces and you just can't find what you're after? Well now it's gotten a lot easier, as there's now a search engine that checks all of them for …

Kim Dotcom has made headlines here and in many other publications countless times over the past few years for his dealings with MegaUpload, MEGA, Baboom and for a whole host of other reasons, not least perhaps the time his house was raided wby heavily armed police over copyright infringement claims. …

Megashare, one of the world's most prominent movie and TV streaming websites, has announced an end to its services in the near future, due to what is simply described as “problems with video hosting  company.” The site currently uses third party services like Google, Putlocker and Sockshare to achieve its …

Netflix has announced that it is going to be raising its subscription prices slightly for new customers within the next two to three months. It isn't going to be a huge increase though, Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, said that the company's goal is to do “a one or two dollar increase, …

LG has revealed some details of its upcoming Android Wear powered ‘G-Watch', the watch will be one of several wearables launching with the Android Wear operating system and while no release date was revealed, it will probably launch this year, much like the Moto 360. The G-Watch will be similar …

Parents all want, pretty much, the same thing for their kids. It's all university, professional career, kids and retirement near the sea. So what happens when a ‘bad seed' comes along and decides that being a surgeon is a bad idea and that playing games for the rest of your …

Welcome back hardware lovers. Did we successfully get your juices flowing in Part One?   Good.  We didn't stop searching for beauty all day long and we were up late last night picking the very best for you. Here's the second instalment of the Most Gorgeous Systems from Multiplay i51 …

While the event itself is a celebration of pure gaming enjoyment, and most of the 19,000 turnstile clicks over the Bank Holiday weekend will belong to gamers with regular style PCs, there's no denying that some folks make a lot more effort and boy does their work attract some serious …

For any of you who follow comic strips, you know that even if our side is threatened with defeat, there is always a hero or two on standby – ready to avenge the fallen. At Multiplay's i51 event up at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, Overclockers brought plenty of back-up. …

One of the cornerstones of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) case against file locker site MegaUpload and its founder, Kim Dotcom, is that the site was nothing to do with online backup of personal files, but was only a source of …

Sony has revealed that its upcoming line of Bravia 4K TV's will feature Playstation Now support, the gaming equipped TV sets will launch in June and range from $2099 for a 49 Inch model all the way up to $24,999 for an 85 Inch TV. The new 4K sets were …

If you're heading down to i51 later today, super-powered rig in tow, or are just planning on popping by for one day this weekend, it's worth knowing what's there to enjoy. There's games, booths, hardware, Tshirts and swag alongside all the tournaments, but here's what I saw in my first …

Are you heading to Multiplay's i51 this weekend? If you are then be on the lookout for KitGuru staff, as a few of us are attending in official, and less so, capacities, to get some gaming done, as well as see what new tech, games and fun are on offer …