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2011 has been the year of the ‘hacker', with a news story almost every week detailing a security breach. Two of the names which are mentioned often are high profile, underground groups Lulzsec and Anonymous. How much does Cyber Crime cost every year? Well according to Symantec, they say its …

NASA are launching a robotic mission to the Moon today and they will be including special cameras to photograph areas of the lunar surface, as requested by students and teachers. The Grail Moon probe missions is formed around twin spacecraft named Grail A and Grail B. According to website space.com …

HTC are using nine patents that they received last week from Google to sue Apple. Google took ownership of the patents last year, which were sourced from Motorola, Palm and Openwave Systems. Bloomberg asked to speak to Jim Prosser, a spokesman for Google, but he refused to discuss the transfer …

If you aren't happy with plain old 1080p, then perhaps the new Sony VW1000ES projector will satisfy your cinema demands. They are releasing the new 4k projector for the home, which is the same standard used by full size cinema projectors. DigitalTrends.com have a great story published on the new …

The UK’s top pro-gaming team, Dignitas, has revealed it has big plans for the group’s ninth anniversary on September 9. They’ll be hosting a Hall of Fame on their web site and will also have a nostalgic evening of playing Battlefield 1942 – the first game the team ever played. …

As AMD prepares to launch its new range of even faster/more capable graphic cards, nVidia – like rust – never sleeps. Specialists across the western bits of the globe got a ping into their in-boxes last night from the jolly green giant, but what was the offer exactly? Right now, …

With Call of Duty, you are constantly aware that the action is staggered between each scene. That said, sales of more than $1 Billion for the last version of Modern Warfare are nothing to be sniffed at. One question has been hanging in the air for more than a year. …

Today we are aiming for a change of pace, with a look at a rather interesting watch aimed at the tech based audience. Instead of featuring Arabic or Latin numerals, watch creator Cadence have opted for ‘4 bit binary' markings. Many readers will be immediately squirming in their seats, but …

This is definitely one of the cooler mods we have seen in a long time, while browsing Reddit. Talented modder ‘Timofiend' said he has spent a month or so modifying a Playstation 3 to fit into the same PC case as an Xbox 360. A single PC case containing both …

The Nintendo 3DS is getting a new joystick, according to reports in Japanese magazine Famitsu. Engadget scanned in the image above which shows a cradle fitted to the Nintendo console, apparently adding a R2 button, as well as a starboard circle pad. This peripheral may have been added just for …

The legal war between Apple and Samsung rages on. Apple may have to reveal their sales figures in the UK and US to improve their chances of barring Samsung Galaxy 10.1 sales in Australia, according to a judge. Bloomberg reported on this saying “Apple’s claim that the Samsung tablet’s release …

Can a person - even a highly gifted hardware enthusiast - really build a PC in 3 minutes?

Dell have announced a partnership with Baidu, a company best known for their search engine based in China. Baidu are launching a new operating system called ‘Yi'. It is apparently based around Android and Baidu and will have its own maps and other services including cloud storage, cloud backup and …

Around 300,000 unique IP addresses originating from Iran requested access to google.com using a rogue certificate which was issued by digital certificate authority DigiNotar. The report from security firm Fox-It was published yesterday. Google also issued a blogpost on the problem. The rogue certificate was revoked on August 29th. Fox-It …

On 15th January 2003, Toni Sonn and his partner Kay, opened a tiny little web site in Germany called CaseKing. Like thousands of budding businessmen across the globe, their dream was a simple one. To sell tons of components, build a serious brand and reap the enormous benefits that would …

Did you get a pay rise recently? Feeling a bit flush and in need of a treat? Then you can head over to ebay and pick up a Jet Turbine powered Batmobile for only $620,000, with only 2,000 miles on the clock. The vehicle (can we say car?) has been …

A Lenovo executive has spoken to the Guardian newspaper saying that Samsung have only sold 20,000 of 1,000,000 tablets that it shipped last year. He claims that they are trying to buy share from market leader Apple. This low figure has came as a shock to many but Andrew Darrow, …

It doesn't happen often, but Honda Motor are having to recall 936,000 cars across the globe due to defective power window switches. Honda announced today the recall which effects the Jazz (or Fit subcompact in some countries). Honda are saying that the problem could ‘in a worst case scenario' cause …

Google CEO Larry Page, has a clear focus for his company: in his own words “devote more resources to high impact products — the ones that improve the lives of billions of people.” In layman's terms, they are killing many products in a ‘refocusing' campaign. Google are ditching Fast Flop, …

Samsung have pulled their Galaxy Tab 7.7 out of the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin as Apple have won an injunction which blocks sales and marketing of the product. A Dusseldorf court granted Apple the injunction, after Apple claimed that Samsung were copying their device technology. Apple winning this …

Earlier this week we reported on the ‘stolen iPhone 5'. Since then the press have been active on the story, with some reporters claiming that Apple planned the whole event for marketing reasons. In the last day however, some publications are even saying that Apple impersonated police officers in the …

Hewlett Packard have been in the press recently for dropping the price of their doomed Touchpad to $99 in the US, translating to a whopping $300 loss per tablet sold. Best Buy have dropped the price of the Playbook to try and clean some of their inventory. Best Buy are …

The Metropolitan Police in London have arrested two people said to be associated with high profile hacking groups Lulzsec and Anonymous. The two men are aged 20 and 24 according to the reports, and they have been arrested for conspiring to commit alleged computer offenses under the online identity Kayla. …

In highly competitive world of modern computing, it's strange how often the smaller battles can mirror the larger ones. While over at GamesCom 2011, KitGuru spies sent back some interesting pics. When they were compared to the pics from Multiplay's i43 at the Telford International Centre, something unusually competitive was …

Yesterday we reported that Apple had lost a prototype of the iPhone 5, in a bar. Many people couldn't believe that the same thing happened almost a year before. The International Business Times however have a different take on the matter – was it a clever ploy for media attention? …

At Wednesday night's Intel Tweet-Up in old London Town, multiple presenters went through a heap of technologies. It's not that any of them were world exclusive launches, it was more the intimate hands-on nature of the presentations that really worked well. Gaming Guru Max Smolaks caught up with Dave Byrne …

Everyone can think back to the days when they spend 3 hours in a single class room, doing double-period lectures in subjects that make you want to commit suicide. The CPU giant has come up with a solution and we sent Guru of the Games, Max Smolaks, into London to …

Apple are facing criticism over environmental issues for the second time this year. A leading Chinese environment activist are targeting the American computer maker over ‘polluted water' and ‘hazardous gas' concerns. According to a report on the Wall Street Journal, Ma Jun, a director of the Institute of Public & …

This might seem hard to believe, god knows we had a hard time digesting it this morning but according to CNET an Apple employee has left a new iPhone prototype in a bar. A rerun of events from April last year. The new iPhone is set for launch fairly soon, …

So much of the technology market is aimed at men, whereas we all know that at least half the tech being bought these days is going to be owned/used/operated/upgraded by ladies. KitGuru loaded up the Digital SLR at Multiplay's i43 event and went in search of the human side of …