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Microsoft are investing $670 million US dollars in an expansion of their data center in West Des Moines, Iowa. The expansion has been code named Project Mountain and it has been awarded tax benefits. 29 new jobs are going to be created according to a statement issued by the Iowa …

Since the Middle Ages, Swiss Banks have had a reputation for keeping your most valuable assets safe. The country also has a ton of secrecy laws enshrined into its national identity. Cue the 21st Century. KitGuru gets Bourne again. The Cypriot government decided to snatch money directly from bank customer's …

No, it isn't the next iPad, but the first Apple computer designed way back in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The Apple 1 computer was the foundation of the business that the two Steve's created in the 70's and is firmly seen as a piece of technology history. …

Shota Ishiwatari has started a KickStarter campaign for his new RAPIRO Raspberry Pi Robot. He is aiming for a simple to build bot which has RGB sensors onboard with 12 servos. The price? A very cool £229. Ishiwatari has had plenty of experience in robot engineering, his company Kiluck Corp …

Other manufacturers may be focusing on bringing new high end features to their cameras, but Pentax have decided to go all out on offering a huge variety of colour schemes for their K50 mid range DSLR camera. The K50 measures 129 x 96.5 x 70 mm with an empty weight …

Bitcoin is a brilliantly anonymous currency. Once its yours, you can do what you like with it and it's very difficult for anyone to track that down – you know, like cash. However one of the problems with it is that with mining becoming an unprofitable venture for all those …

Sleek is a new Wi-Fi voice activated assistant for the home. It is always connected to the internet and is said to replace the smartphone or PC as a controller and assistant device. We aren't so sure it will ever take off, but the concept is certainly worth looking at. …

A retired music theorist, who has been playing piano and typing since 1960, has drafted up a preliminary model of a computer keyboard layout, which he believes will enable most people to type at least 100 wpm, and will see the world’s fastest typists racing at 200 wpm or higher.  …

Outside of the PC industry, the name Centerprise might not ring a bell. Inside the industry, it is known as a major IT distributor – based in Basingstoke – with around 30 years' experience in the UK channel. Centerprise has just made a rather interesting acquisition, which could create interesting …

A large number of the servers used by Megaupload during its operation to store the data of its customers, have been wiped out by Netherlandic firm, Leaseweb, in a move it said, was to help free up space after it received no interest from either Dotcom or authorities to examine …

John McAfee was the original founder of McAfee antivirus, but as he points out in the this latest video that was over 15 years ago. Since then he's been doing all kinds of things, but last year he was arrested in Guatemala for entering the country illegally, after fleeing nearby …

Graphics chip maker NVIDIA has announced that is considering licencing its technology to other firms in a similar fashion to the Cambridge chip maker ARM. In a statement made earlier this week Nvidia said it would start to licence both its GPU cores and its “visual computing” patent portfolio to new …

I don't think I have ever seen a worse prelaunch than the Xbox One. Microsoft had set so many restrictive rules in place that gamers didn't know which way to turn. Was this really an easy to use console to enjoy on the sofa with friends in the evenings or …

Apple may be making all the headlines with their upcoming iWatch release but the latest Emopulse Smile model is available now for pre-order. This is no mere smartwatch however, as this product will be an entertainment and gaming hub as well as a social networking and news feed system. This …

Russia and the USA spent a large part of the 20th century in a stand off of global proportions. Posturing went back and forth, spies and information wars were won and lost but ultimately there was no out and out conflict, most likely because neither party really wanted to go …

Scientists at Spain's La Universidad Carlos Ill De Madrid have designed a set of augmented reality glasses that will help professors see which students are struggling with the lecture. Students will not have to lift their hand in front of other members of the course, instead keeping their struggles private. …

While the shuttle project might be dead and it might be a few years yet until a new US based launch vehicle is ready to go, this hasn't stopped NASA recruiting its next generation of astronauts, picking eight individuals who will become trainees at the organisation, hoping to one day …

If you'd hoped to get a message to the colonies for Christmas, your time might be running out, as on 14th July the last telegram service will close, due to it becoming disused in the wake of increased mobile phone usage across the world. The last service and its 75 …

Danish developer, IO Interactive, has announced that nearly half of its staff have been let go, in a move that is designed to restructure the company to make it more streamlined, in order to continue development on further Hitman games. Everything but projects related to Hitman have now been cancelled. …

It looks like it wasn't just G.Skill that was ahead of the curve at Computex‘s overclocking competition, with Asus also walking away a champion, by helping to claim new performance records for a variety of different synthetic benchmarks. ASUS announced today that it helped achieve world records in the following: …

Twitter and Facebook have been spearheading social networking growth over the years and the ‘tweet' phrase phenomenon has been accepted by official language sources.  UK Prime Minister David Cameron will not be happy as he aired his feelings about Twitter in a 2009 radio interview. At the time he said …

UK designers Yannick Read, 42 and John Foden, 37 have spent two years creating an advanced prototype they call the Paravelo. This vehicle is capable of travelling at 15mph on land and 25mph in the air. When cycling it tows a lightweight trailer which holds a powerful fan. When the …

A Chinese supercomputer has claimed the top spot in the list of world's fastest supercomputers. It has outperformed an American system, achieving double the performance. The Tianhe-2 (Milky Way 2) was developed by China's National University of Defense Technology and now holds the title of world's most powerful computer according …

Memory maker G.Skill has managed to break new overclocking records for memory, leading to further record breaking achievements in several synthetic benchmarks that anyone that's ever delved into their BIOS to get a few extra MHZ from their components, will be familiar with. Taking to the OC stage at Computex, …

It's been nearly two weeks now since we heard about the American PRISM program that was collating huge amounts of digital communication data from some of the world's biggest tech firms, with the supposed purpose being to help the authorities route out terrorists. However, since then, many of the technology …

While gamers might complain about DRM ruining games, readers might soon be saying the same when it comes to ebooks, as a German research group has just invented a new method of locking down digital copies of the world's novels, by injecting them with text and punctuation changes. The technique …

The first human to do anything is quite a special thing. While people will undoubtedly improve on the achievements on those that went before, the first time one of us achieves something is a big deal and those people should be celebrated, even in death. Which is why it's a …

If you mention the name ‘Hasselblad' to any camera aficionado they are likely to start drooling. Their medium format cameras may be very expensive, but the quality is in a class of its own. They recently announced their new Lunar camera – the ‘ultimate luxury mirrorless interchangeable lens camera'. The …

Google are launching a new shareable database which will make it easier for organisations to report and subsequently remove images of sexual abuse of children from areas of the web. Google have said that the database will identify images by a process of ‘hashing'. This algorithm can break down an …

We all mourn the passing of the huge number of high street gaming stores. Steam and the other online download engines provide an excellent service and there's no turning back the clock, but the high street stores provide a ‘finger on the pulse' which KitGuru loves. Here's a great example. …