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According to some hints floating around several different sites this morning, Youtube could be set to begin charging for certain channel subscriptions, marking the first time that its content has been restricted to a specific user base. According to the Mashable report and its sources, this payment model could be …

We like our gadgets on Kitguru and one that has always grabbed our attention is the toaster. The new Arzum Firrin Toaster has won the 2012 Design Turkey award. Instead of popping the toast out vertically with a loud noise, the toaster has a sliding tray which means it can …

Warner Bros is one of the biggest copyright enforcers in the world, going after individuals with lawsuits, Google with DMCA takedown requests and websites like The Pirate Bay with blocks – through sponsored groups like the BPI – and yes apparently, when it comes to internet cat memes, it's more than happy to steal …

If, like me you get sick reading about how computer games make us ‘more violent', then positive research completed by the University of Iowa will be a welcome change. They have proved that playing games will slow down the decline of cognitive skills as we get older. As we get …

Apple have started to offer larger flash storage options for their 21.5 inch iMacs. These Macs have been shipping with a 1TB Fusion drive option now for some time, at a price premium of £200. As the image above shows, Apple are now offering a 256GB SSD at £240.00 extra, …

The U.S. Department of Defense has cleared Blackberry 10 smartphones and PlayBook tablets for use on their networks.  Reports hit yesterday that the department may also clear devices by Apple and Samsung. The company, which were formerly known as Research In Motion announced in November that their BlackBerry 10 platform …

Kim Dotcom's sequel file locker website, Mega, has announced the hiring of a new Chief Financial Officer, Stephen Hall. Having worked at other big tech firms as President, CEO and CFO before, Mega higher ups are hailing him as just what the company needs. MEGA CEO Vikram Kumar said, “MEGA …

Facebook has announced a significant boost in earnings over the past quarter, after it saw a big jump in revenue from mobile advertising and perhaps more impressively, an increase in user numbers, seeing active users on the site reach 1.1 billion throughout the quarter. While Facebook has been the world's …

As our recent research has highlighted, Windows 8 is still proving very unpopular with the enthusiast audience. Our last poll for instance showed a 82% result in favour of Windows 7. The Kitguru audience however are generally more experienced, knowledgeable people, well above the average punter walking into PCworld in …

IBM scientists in California have created the world's smallest stop animation movie. Incredibly they used a scanning tunneling microscope to move individual atoms. The movie has been created more as a showcase of just what is possible rather than intended to hit the movie theaters. The movie is called ‘A …

Earlier today Kitguru writer Joseph McDonnell wrote about Google Glass being jailbroken and our story hit the net and was re-published on many sites across the net. Today alone we received over 100,000 hits on the article. Joseph referenced in our article that Jason Perlow, writer for ZDNET spoke to …

That's right folks. A KitGuru writer, going by the obviously ridiculous pen name of “Jon Martindale,” has written a book and he's looking to plug it on the homepage of our favourite tech site. Can you believe the balls on this guy? He's not written some sort of in-depth tech manual, …

It seems like the time between domain seizure threats and The Pirate Bay showing up somewhere else is just getting shorter and shorter. Since the beginning of April it's moved domains three times, with the authorities hot on its heels. How long can the admins keep this up for? First …

If you happen to live on that big blob of land across the pond from the KG HQ, then you can now take advantage of Twitter's tweet sponsoring program, where you pay a set fee in order to put your message in front of more people. This is a scheme …

The new Combimouse concept takes both the mouse and keyboard and combines them into one device. The right section of the keyboard can also serve as an optical mouse. The concept came from designer Ari Zagnoev and the first patent for the product was filed way back in 1999. In …

Lenovo have announced a new laptop to join the ThinkPad ranks – dubbed the S431. The new notebook has a multi finger touchscreen which opens to 180 degrees. The company have also included a huge touchpad and a backlit keyboard. The ThinkPad S431 has incorporated a 14 inch screen into …

America was always at the forefront of space travel however it would appear that the Russians will now become an American taxi service, for only $70 million, per person. Russia and America always had a healthy battle when it came to spaceflight, but the American organisation said it was too …

It didn't take long but the high profile Google Glass has already been jailbroken. Infamous Android and iOS hacker Jay Freeman (otherwise known as Saurik) has told the community that he has ‘rooted' his Google Glass headset. He shared a picture online showing his jailbroken device. Additionally he published a detailed …

While the advent of Quad HD TV might provide one of the biggest challenges to console gaming in the coming years, there seems little doubt that having a single code platform might be one of the biggest benefits for the development community in years. KitGuru eyes San Jose in November …

There's a big furore today surrounding Zach Braff's Kickstarter for his dream sequel to Graden State, a movie he directed and starred in that has a nice cult following. However he hasn't made a sequel of any sort since, apparently because he doesn't want creative control rested away from him. …

Following on from the announcement that the Pirate Bay would now be hosted on the small island nation of Iceland, the local Pirate Party there has now managed to surpass the five per cent of the vote needed in a general election, in order to garner a seat in parliament, …

We already published a story this morning on the new ‘bendy' LG OLED television set and researchers at Queen's University Human Media Lab in Belfast have just developed a new prototype smartphone which can change shape to alert the user, such as when receiving calls. The phone is built around …

LG Electronics will start shipping curved OLED television sets next month, the first company to sell these products to the public. OLED televisions are thinner and more flexible than previous technology. The sets will initially be made available in South Korea and the 55 inch model will cost 15 million …

2K games follows on from Nintendo as the second publisher to announce that it would not be holding a big conference at E3 2013, though it won't even have small events to show off new games, but will instead be debuting new titles via Youtube and Twitch. While this highlights …

It's all about Kim Dotcom today isn't it? First it was asking whether New Zealanders actually liked the chap and now we're talking about the media mogul's latest twitter competition. This one though has the potential to get interesting, as he's asking New Zealanders to film the US attorney general, …

While the world over has been arguing about whether Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom should be extradited from his adopted home of New Zealand, nobody has asked his neighbours what they think. Now though, a NZ news organisation has and the results are somewhat undecided. 3 News asked around 1,000 Kiwis …

One of the problems with movies is that while they can show us breathtaking beauty, action and philosophy  when it comes to technology, it needs to keep things simple enough for everyone to understand. But beyond that, it needs to be entertaining. That's why with every single hacking movie ever, we …

According to reports circulating online, Tesco have leaked a report on the next Call of Duty Game. The game is expected to be called ‘Call Of Duty: Ghosts', information leaked earlier by Tesco. The latest report says that the upcoming COD title will be ‘powered by a new next generation …

When we first reported on April 25th, the bidding to have a cup of coffee with Tim Cook was sitting at $175,000. Today, the bidding is up to $600,000. The charity event is already number 2 in the CharityBuzz list of all time top fundraising items. It will certainly end …

Spain have issued a news report to say that they have arrested a Dutch citizen. The authorities say that the suspect may have launched the biggest cyberattack from a bunker, and that he had a van capable of hacking into networks anywhere in the country. The hacker apparently traveled in …