Despite what many copyright lobbyists would have you believe, the media industry is continuing to do very well indeed, as despite a small drop in physical media sales last year, digital is booming and raking in billions of pounds. The stats show physical goods sales dipping in music, video and …
Read More »4.6 million Snapchat usernames and phone numbers leaked
2014 has barely started and we already have our first leak, a Snapchat database containing 4.6 million phone numbers and usernames has leaked on to the Internet and has been made downloadable for all of the world to see. The site housing the leak, SnapchatDB, currently offers two download formats: …
Read More »Netflix introduces cheaper streaming plan
Netflix has started offering a cheaper streaming plan option in North America, the new plan will come in at $6.99, which is just one dollar short of the regular $7.99 option, so what's the catch? The cheaper plan comes with two restrictions: The cheap plan will only allow users to …
Read More »Imgur’s biggest images of 2013
Imgur is one of the world's biggest sites at this point, sporting traffic numbers that make it comparable to long term internet giants like Ebay. Therefore when it says the biggest images of 2013 for Imgur, it really means the biggest images for the internet as a whole. With that …
Read More »Sky offers up to 5 million people a FREE solution for poor Wi-Fi speeds
As you would expect from a site like KitGuru, the vast majority of our readers are connecting at regular and fibre optic broadband speeds. In our most recent survey, only 3% of you are using a non-broadband connection. But what happens when that connection hits the router and you're reliant …
Read More »Lemonparty.org goes on sale for $450,000
Step right up, step right up, gather round, gather round. Folks, today I have for you the chance of a lifetime, nay, the business opportunity of the century, as a piece of internet history is hitting the auction block this very morning. Which piece you might ask? Why Lemonparty of …
Read More »Man build’s world largest K’nex Ball Machine
Lego has been a big deal for a long time, but it seems like since the release of Minecraft, it's sparked a whole new generation of fans, and media attention. Forget that for now though, today it's all about K'nex, as one man has used it to build the world's …
Read More »CES provides a love match service for tech companies
At the start of January, executives from across the globe make their excuses at home and head over to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). It's work honey – honest – they tell their significant others, as they had for a land of excitement with streets of delightment. …
Read More »Eric Schmidt predicts tech trends in 2014
There are a few people around the world that while not necessarily developing the latest and greatest technology themselves, have been around the block long enough that when they start throwing out predictions about the future, chances are a few of them are going to stick. One such person is …
Read More »Google and Audi to team up with new Android based car system
Rumour has it that Google and Audi might be teaming up to create a new Android based car information and entertainment system, rumour also has it that this system might make its début at the Consumer Electronics Show next week. The new system has been designed to give drivers and passengers …
Read More »The sun just flipped its magnetic field
The word's “the sun,” and “flipped,” aren't ones that you'd think would commonly appear alongside one another, since the former is the largest body of mass within light years of us and the latter is a relatively flippant term used more for describing various boards people ride on, rather than …
Read More »Here’s the torrents people searched for in 2013
With 2013 coming to a close, it's interesting to look back on some of the events of the year, the hardware releases, the news stories: which is why KickassTorrents has collated the results of the most common torrent searches throughout the year on its main site, providing some interesting results. …
Read More »Intel hires 16 year old for new devices group
Last year Joey Hurdy, a 15 year old kid with autism, went to a science fair at the White House where he met the President and demonstrated his home made Marshmallow cannon for him. Since shooting Marshmallows around the White House, Joey has been keeping himself busy by going on …
Read More »RIP Hello Games’ sofa and a lot more
Christmas may be a time for joy, but Hello Games, developer of the VGX show stealer No Man's Sky, was hit by flooding the night before. It wasn't just a few inches of water either: a river broke it's bank, sending torrents of water through the windows and every other crack …
Read More »Lego is going all Mars-Curious
I'm so confident the question on your lips after reading this will be, “why didn't they release this before Christmas?” that I'm opening the article with it. That's right, Lego, the makers of real-world Minecraft blocks, has announced plans to launch a 1:20 scale lego model of the Mars Curiosity …
Read More »Amazon sold 426 items per second leading up to Christmas
Christmas time is always incredibly busy for retailers but when it comes to online retailers, there's a lot more people in the shop at once. Amazon has just proven this as it revealed that in the weeks leading up to the 25th of December, it started to sell 426 items …
Read More »This fan-made Tomb Raider short film is pretty damn good
The Tomb Raider series and its hero Lara Croft, hasn't been at its peak since the 90s, but has seen nice jumps in critical acclaim and popularity with the release of certain games, perhaps most notably the latest one. Even though Square Enix didn't feel like it made enough, most …
Read More »Gaming for Good charity raises over $10 million
Gaming for Good, a charity that was started up by celebrity gamer, Bachir Boumaaza, also known as Athene, has just passed the $10 million raised milestone. All of the money that gamers have donated so far has been passed on to the Save the Children charity. Earlier this year, Gaming for Good …
Read More »KitGuru Annual Awards 2013
Every year, KitGuru considers hundreds of products and puts the best into the KitGuru Labs for testing. While you may tend to see things in terms of conclusions and awards, we actually have a pretty sophisticated scoring system on the backend, that allow us to rank everything we have seen. …
Read More »Crowdfunding launched for Blizzard dev with Cancer
A crowd funding campaign has been launched to help support Ron Nakada, a senior software engineer at Blizzard with Stage 4 colon cancer whose short term disability insurance recently ended. Nakada was diagnosed six months ago which was early in to his first year of marriage, since the diagnosis he has …
Read More »Apple is in trouble in Taiwan over iPhone prices
Apple has been fined 20 million New Taiwan Dollars after the country's Fair Trade Commission found that the company was illegally interfering with price plans on phone networks. The commission found out through a series of emails that the country's three biggest phone networks, Chunghwa Telecom Co, Far Eastone Telecommunication Co …
Read More »YOYOTech joins forces with BMW in driving competition
The UK's main BMW dealer is located in Park Lane in the heart of London's West End. If you find yourself down town for the sales (either of your own volition – or propelled by your other half and an insatiable need to max out the credit card), then maybe …
Read More »$12,000 worth of Dogecoin stolen over Christmas
If you've been following digital currencies recently then you might have heard of Dogecoin, it started off as a joke currency which takes its name from the ‘doge' meme but it has started to pick up some steam recently. The currency is only worth a fraction of what Bitcoin is …
Read More »Redtube protects users and itself against copyright troll
Users of the Redtube streaming porn site – who number in their millions at this point, since Redtube is one of the world's most popular websites – can continue browsing without worry now, as the site's owners have secured an injunction against the copyright troll that recently found a way …
Read More »Twitter co-founder joins Disney’s Board of Directors
Twitter Co-founder, Jack Dorsey, has just taken over from Judith L. Estrin, former Chief Technology Officer of Cisco Systems, on Disney's board of Directors. Estrin had to move aside as she had already served the maximum 15 years allowed on the board. Disney announced its latest board member at a press …
Read More »Go Away Cameron- A Chrome extension that bypasses filters
Lets face it, it was only a matter of time before this happened- A Chrome extension that goes by the name of ‘Go Away Cameron' has been released. It's a handy little tool that disarms the ISP filters that UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, has forced the likes of Sky, …
Read More »Last chance to enter be quiet! advent competition
The be quiet! and Kitguru advent calendar competition has been running for a few weeks now offering up great prizes from PSUs, to t-shirts, but now we're in the last week so that means it's your last chance to enter and get yourself a new SLI enabled motherboard, a high …
Read More »Three more arrested in Silk Road case
Ross Ulbricht might be the alleged captain of the now sunken ship that is the Silk Road drugs marketplace (well, there is version 2.0) but he wasn't the only one that worked on it. Now another three have been linked with Ulbricht and have been charged with money laundering. The …
Read More »Exclusive interview with Glen Rhodes from AOne
Here at KitGuru, we spend almost all of our time on testing new products that are just arriving in the market. That gives you, the reader, an idea of what to buy – but how does the product get in your local/preferred store? Finding the cool products and bringing them …
Read More »Spain fines Google for privacy law breach
Google has been hit by a near million euro fine for breaching Spanish privacy laws by combining different information on users from its multiple services without letting consumers in on it, and not giving them access to the data that's held on them. This is all about a move in …
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