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One of the things that many photo sharing sites aren't too keen on, is nudes. It's a mine field, because you have to protect children from seeing it and then there are those who might be uploading images that aren't of them – it's a legal headache. So understandably, many …

Well you guys won't have too long to wait now for reviews of Haswell processors on your favourite websites. We noticed this morning that ARIA have just gone live with their stock of the new range of Intel processors. Kitguru can't spill the beans we are under NDA still, but …

After communication from Women, Action and the Media, a women's advocacy group, suggested that Facebook did very little to prevent gender and sexual discrimination on Facebook, despite having clear policies for clearing out racial or religiously motivated hate groups, the social network has announced its intention to step up its …

We love PC mods, if you follow our Facebook page, we post them almost every day. The new R-Kaid-42 system is produced by Swedish design company Love Hultén. The unit is built around a wooden chassis, looking almost like a piece of furniture. The company install 20,000 playable titles from yesteryear, …

For a reviewer – giving a PC a rating is difficult as they often only spend a week or two maximum with the machine before publishing their article and handing it back to the manufacturer. This report by Soluto, a company who have collected data from their cloud based management …

Head of PR over at HMV, Gennaro Castaldo, has left the firm after almost three decades of employment, to take up a position at the internet's favourite hate group, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), famous for the ineffective blocks it lobbied to have put into place against websites like the …

In a move that shouldn't be a surprise at this point, several major movie studios have asked Google to remove Kim Dotcom's Mega site from its search engines, claiming that the file locker is hosting copyright protected content without permission. However, it's not individual file links that the studios want …

Belkin first showed their Thunderbolt Express Dock back in IDF 2011. A year later and after a minor facelift it was showcased at CES 2012, due for release later that year. Finally the product has been released keeping the same low profile aluminum style exterior they used in January 2012. …

Since the death of the legendary Steve Jobs, many Apple naysayers felt that the company may struggle to innovate. Tim Cook wanted to clarify the situation, saying that the company would release ‘several more game changers' and hinting that wearable computers could be one of the new concepts. Cook spoke …

Singapore would love to be seen as a shining example of Eastern prosperity. It features gleaming clean cities, low crime rates and seemingly little dissent among the populace. Of course a lot of this is to do with the fact that caning children is an accepted practice, capital punishment has been …

We received some queries from Kitguru readers after our initial Radeon Quad HD7990 testing back in January this year. We had a crash happy disaster of monumental proportions and based on emails, we weren't the only users experiencing problems. We had assumed at the time that AMD had not focused …

The age old question of whether platform providers should be held responsible for how their services are used, has risen its ugly head once again, this time in the wake of a teen suicide in Italy, where a girl threw herself from a third story window after a video of …

The Xbox One has certainly caused a stir, when the launch event hit the public domain in the last week. Microsoft have also announced a next generation version of their Kinect for Windows sensor. The device is built around the same technologies as the Xbox One's new Kinect sensor. The …

How much product you can sell into a market depends on many things – including desirability, price and your marketing. That said, at a much more fundamental level, there is the question of ‘availability'. Is the product available to buy, at all. The more places that stock your product, generally, …

The Russian communications regulator has put the countries most popular social networking website Vkontakte on a banned website list today. Several Russian areas have reported that they couldn't access the domain vk.com. Shortly afterwards the regulator's representative explained that the social network had been entered into the registry of banned …

I still have fond memories of my first BlackBerry phone. While many people would chuckle now at the monochrome screen and ancient interface, I only had to charge the battery twice a week. Smartphones today may have fast quad core processors and giant 4 inch HD colour screens, but by …

Samsung Electronics Co have said they have shipped more than 10 million units of the Galaxy S4 since the phone hit retail in April. The sales figures have surpassed those of previous Galaxy models. Samsung said “Sales of the Galaxy S III reached the 10 million mark 50 days after …

One of the reasons that big franchises like Star Wars are still so popular today, is because of their fans and more specifically, the content that those fans create. You have fan films, fan art, fan costumes and of course, fan fiction. Delving into the world of the latter can …

Sky has signed a £49 million deal with Virgin Media Business to upgrade their backhaul broadband network. Virgin announced the deal with Sky in their quarterly earnings report for the start of 2013 but they have now valued the deal. Virgin will provide Sky with its 10Gbps High Capacity Services …

The World's largest lego model is a 1:1 scale replica of an X-Wing, complete with R2 unit. It is made up from 5,335,200 lego bricks and took 32 lego master builders 17,336 hours to create. This full scale replica stands 11 foot tall and 43 ft long, with a wingspan …

Several big Atari properties went up for sale today, including some pretty historic ones like Rollercoaster Tycoon, Test Drive and Total Annihilation – only caveat is you'll need a fair chunk of change to be able to pick up the rights, as Atari is looking for over $20 million in …

The smartwatch industry has yet to make any impact, and according to the latest rumours it may be 2014 before Apple get their hotly debated iWatch to market. The latest person to discuss the topic has been Ming Chi Kuo of KGI Securities, a man with a proven track record …

Otterbox, maker of some of the finest protective cases for smartphones has announced their acquisition of LifeProof. No figure was given for the deal. Otterbox have a well earned reputation for creating some of the finest protective cases that money can buy. My colleague Carl reviewed The Otterbox Defender for …

A short while ago, KitGuru was invited to AMD's press event with the agenda of discussing the company's mobile products for 2013. It is clear that the mobile market is a big priority for the US-based chip maker, so read on to find out what AMD has in store for …

Well of course it is right? I mean, when the guy that created the animated image format tells you so, you shut up and listen – unless of course it doesn't really matter and then you can just go on with your lives as normal. Yup. Steve Wilhite is the …

The twin Mars Rovers Opportunity and Curiosity have both been looking into old riverbeds on the red planet, discovering that flowing water existed in impressive volumes at one point, suggesting that life could well have been sustained in Mars' history. A lot of this new information comes from rocks drilled …

Last week we reported on how Nintendo has been taking over the advertising of those making Let's Plays featuring games from the the Japanese firm, leading to all revenue from said videos heading eastward. Understandably many of the channel owners complained and Youtube has now got back to them. The …

Founded in 1987, Via Technologies is a fabless creator of chipsets, processors, memory and other electronics products. Right now, they are causing a stir in the market for a different reason. Jam. Nope, it has nothing to do with cooked fruits and sugar. This Jam is all about creativity – …

Amazon are taking a leaf out of Apple's handbook by announcing that they are planning a biodome for their campus headquarters in Seattle. Documents hit the Seattle Department of Planning and Development showing the new campus headquarters design. They are building the 3.3 million square foot headquarters campus in the …

Microsoft have sold a staggering 76 million Xbox 360 consoles since its release in 2005. Based on their May 21st event it would appear Microsoft want to target the huge audience of TV addicts. The Xbox One is going to be tightly integrated with the living room environment. The system …