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As the second weekend of be quiet! and Kitguru's Facebook competition has rolled around, it means everyone has another chance to win one of three great prizes. All you have to do to enter is answer a simple question, so why not take a swing at it? But what's up for …

Taking a quick look at any of the comings and goings of online drug marketplaces over the past year will give you several different impressions. One is obviously that it's astounding how simple it is to purchase supposedly “controlled,” substances online with a little technical know how, but the second …

The gaming industry often gets a lot of flak for not being a gender neutral workplace and alongside that negative comparison, EA games has been similarly voted the worst company of the year several years in a row based on online voting, so it's somewhat of a surprise to hear …

It was back in November that we first started to hear details of the SOPA like, US trade agreement known as the Trans Pacific Patnership, that would impose big limits of personal privacy, see worldwide draconian crackdowns on software and media piracy and potentially stop life saving drugs from being …

When you depend on the internet for work and gaming as I do, the concept of not going online for a week is a bit of a strange one. It's the kind of thing I like to do when I go on holiday, including turning my phone off, but it's …

British nerd rapper Dan Bull has always been a fan of file lockers. Sites like Megaupload helped him distribute his first album – until it was taken down in early 2012. Fortunately for him and for the rest of us, Kim Dotcom went on to launch Mega, a similar cloud …

We all had a good laugh and a think about Amazon's recent announcement that it was working on drone delivery to help reduce the time some products get to your doorstep and giggled again when Waterstones jokingly said that it would start delivering books via owl. However this might not …

As you no doubt have guessed, Kim Dotcom, is not the Megaupload founder's real name. His birth name, the one he had before changing it to sound like the early 2,000 bubble, was Kim Schmitz. Now though, he could be set to change it again, as a bunch of New …

Hewlett Packard has announced that the new year will see another large number of its UK employees let go from the company. In total as many as 1,124 will be made redundant by the end of March 2014. According to union leaders (via the Guardian), the unlucky number will be …

Two days ago, KitGuru Lab staff cast their eyes over a photo of a brand new product. It looked amazing and seemed to offer a level of flexibility in LN2 cooling that you don't often see. That product is the EK-SF3D Critical Point. We have been lucky enough to get …

Big data is often a topic of conversation in the tech world these days, especially in enterprise forums, but standard data can be just as exciting, if not beautiful in the right context. Take for example Martin Robertson's method of using website links to create these stunning formations. These images …

Looking to shun the typical Hollywood style award ceremonies of the movie industry, VGX has announced its entertainment lineup for its award show, set to take place on the 7th December in an “intimate setting,” and be streamed live across a huge variety of devices. See which game won game …

In a partnership you haven't seen the likes of since Sam and Frodo, Batman and Robin or Sterling and Katya, Be Quiet and Kitguru have teamed up (with Blizzard too) to give away some great prizes every week until Christmas, making yours that bit more techy. Sticking with the festive …

Following on from the interesting, but certainly attention grabbing news yesterday that Amazon was currently in discussion with the FAA about unmanned drone delivery, book retailer Waterstones has released a trolling video discussing a new way of delivering books, via owl. In the very tongue in cheek video, press manager …

What's up Kerbal Space Program fans and you know, people interested in real, actual space travel. China has now launched its first lunar rover, attached to the Chang'e-3 lunar probe with the intended mission of surveying the moon's surface and looking for natural resources that can one day perhaps be …

The UK's biggest gaming festival is getting bigger next year as Insomnia festival will take place at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, instead of the traditional Telford International. The first Insomnia event to take over the arena will be held over the Easter bank holiday weekend- Friday the 18th of April …

If you thought there was a brown, stewy storm brewed up from the demise of drug marketplace Silk Road, wait until you hear the story behind the shut down of its offspring, Sheep Marketplace. It looks like someone managed to hack the site, stealing around $6 million worth of Bitcoins …

Since I've been playing Kerbal Space Program all weekend, I figured I had to cover this story today. A comet by the name of Ison, has survived a fly-by with the biggest ball of burning gas in our solar system, the sun, despite the fact that comets are mostly made …

Smartphones may be getting smaller and more powerful, graphics cards may be faster than ever and TVs may be getting more detailed than we could ever have imagined, but you know what still feels somewhat archaic? Ordering something online and then having to wait a day or two for it …

We're not in the habit of linking up any old YouTube videos, but something will land on YouTube inside the next 24 hours that is likely to be a phenomenon and we wondered where you stand on the issue of bullying?  KitGuru links up the tricky situations. UPDATE: The promo …

As the i-Series of gaming LANs passes into its 17th year, the organisation behind it has released an epic documentary that charts its history – from humble beginnings to i50 glory. KitGuru pulls up a comfy chair, pops the corn and forces YouTube to 720p goodness. When medical student Craig …

After running this morning's story about Crucial's inexplicable $50 bump for an SSD drive price when it gets sold to Brits, we got a timely reminder that there is one company that rips hard and faster than anyone else in this industry. KitGuru checks the sums before declaring Adobe the …

Many SSD manufacturers have to buy components through multiple vendors before they are able to sell the final unit to you, the customer. Companies with fewer ‘steps' should show ‘purer' pricing – less inclined to be impacted by a multitude of component price moves. KitGuru puts Crucial's latest offer on …

If you're thinking of heading down to Multiplay's 50th ever iSeries event in Telford this weekend, but you're not sure if it'll be worth the trip, have a look at what we've been looking at and playing today and once you're finished, you'll know whether you want to or not. …

Nick Starr, a network engineer from Seattle, was made to leave his local diner because he was wearing Google Glass. However, according to him, he had eaten at the diner several times before while wearing his Google made spectacles. Starr shared the events of the night through Facebook: “We begin …

The 50th ever (at least officially) Insomnia, iSeries, i50, gaming mecha festival has now begun for real, with the opening ceremony as always disseminating freebies to the early arrivals. Taking to the stage to kick things off we had Paradox video producer Matt “A_Spec' Hoving, along with Multiplay head and …

It turns out that there's a hard drive worth $7.5 million sitting in a landfill site right now. James Howells collected 7500 bitcoins back in 2009 but threw away the HDD containing his fortune earlier this year because it had just been sat in a drawer for years. Unfortunately for him, …

If you're a Virgin Media customer, then this will probably interest you. The cable provider has just launched its own Android app to rival Sky Go. The ‘TV Anywhere' app is now available across a range of Android tablets and phones as well as all IOS devices. help coursework Virgin's …

If you didn't pre-order a PS4 but find yourself itching to spend that few hundred you have burning a hole in your pocket, then consider dropping by to your local supermarket at the midnight launch, as over 150 Tesco stores, as well as a handful of Asda outlets will have …

Just as much as the iPhone helped bring the smartphone into the hearts, minds and ultimately hands of the masses, Glu Mobile CEO, Niccolo de Masi believes that the next revolutionary hardware in the mobile market, especially when it comes to gaming, is Google Glass. “Every five or 10 years, …