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Back in July, we heard about a group of European mobile networks banding together, asking that the European Union weaken net neutrality laws in exchange for 5G connectivity by 2020. That plan, fortunately, didn't pan out but the EU has not given up on its 5G rollout plan, it'll just …

Space X has announced its intention to begin Falcon 9 rocket launches again as soon as November this year. This news comes after a recent catastrophe that saw one of the rockets explode on the Cape Canaveral launch pad, taking with it a $200 million Facebook owned satellite, as well …

Facebook looked pretty unprofessional when earlier this year it fired its entire news curation staff, only to have the algorithm that replaced them promote fake news within 24 hours. To stop that happening in the future, the social network has teamed up with Twitter and other news and tech firms …

Tesla's CEO and founder, Elon Musk, has said of the company's latest autopilot software update, that with the on board radar now utilised as a major sensor rather than a complimentary one, it's very possible that the recent in-car fatality of a Tesla customer could have been prevented. The incident …

Snapchat has proved time and again that you don't have to sell out to the bigger competition to stay afloat. Years on from not accepting $3 billion from Facebook, it's said to be worth upwards of $20 billion and has secured a new line of credit, ahead of what many …

NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft has been successfully launched into a hyperbolic trajectory aboard an Atlas V rocket. The asteroid miner will spend the next seven years catching up with the Bennu asteroid, orbiting it and taking a sample from its surface, before returning to Earth. Lifting off at 7:05 PM local time …

It's rare to find internet service providers that will take the side of their customers when it comes to cases of copyright trolling and extortion letters, but one Swedish ISP is doing just that. Bahnhof has begun deleting customer logs as soon as it legally can and has restricted access to …

U.S. media conglomerate, Liberty Media, has announced that it is purchasing the entire sport of Formula 1 for a total of $4.4 billion (£3.3 billion). It will become part of the company's expansive portfolio, which includes a controlling stake in Sirius XM satellite radio, Ticketmaster, Bodybuilding.com and a number of …

The radio frequency resonant cavity thruster, otherwise known as the electromagnetic drive, or EM Drive, that so flummoxed scientists around the world over the past couple of years, is set to have its first test in space in the coming months. It's creator has booked a flight aboard a CubeSat …

Paying for high cost items using finance options is nothing new, but often you're at the whim of the retailer's offers and deals and it's hard to find such options at smaller shops. That may not be the case in the future though, as startup Divido wants to provide financing …

We often hear about the ridiculous number of DMCA Takedown requests Google has to process each day in an effort to clean search pages from links to pirated content. Unfortunately, copyright holders aren't particularly good at double-checking who they are going after, which led amusingly enough has led to Warner Bros …

Legally embattled Kim Dotcom has pledged to sue the U.S. and New Zealand governments for billions if his appeal to avoid extradition to America is successful. He claims that at the time of his arrest in 2012, his series of Mega sites and services were worth in excess of $2.4 …

Space X has had a slew of successes in 2016, so as if to remind us that the real world of space travel is far from easy, one of the commercial rocket firm's boosters exploded on the launch pad during a planned test. While no injuries occurred, the Amos-6 satellite …

More than two years on since actress Lindsay Lohan began legal action against GTA V publisher, Take-Two, for what she claimed was an unlicensed use of her image for some of the game's art and one of the in-game characters too, the courts have thrown it out. Lohan's suit began …

The three month shooting schedule for the live action adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa's Full Metal Alchemist has now finished, keeping the feature length film on track for its 2017 release schedule. Some are still concerned about its Japanese focus however, considering the heavy European influence on the original manga and anime. …

Whether you watch live TV, or simply catch up on shows using the BBC iPlayer, you're now required to pay for a TV license regardless. Closing what was termed as the “iplayer loophole,” new rules are now in force, that you must own a TV license to view any BBC …

This week, Virgin Media announced that it would be launching its first broadband tier for online gamers. Essentially, it is the top tier broadband package with 200MB/s download speeds, but with an extra fiver tacked on to the price for 20MB/s upload instead of the usual 12MB/s upload speed. As …

British Telecom (BT) has announced that it's taking Valve to court, over what it claims are patent infringements by the longtime game developer and publisher. While there does seem to be some merit to the suit, all of the patents are rather generic, so there will likely be some wiggle …

The Kim Dotcom extradition appeal is an ongoing legal battle between the German national and the combined might of the NZ and U.S. governments, but it's not happening quietly. You can watch a replay of the livestream now, in preparation for its continuance Thursday (NZ time) early tomorrow. Dotcom's legal …

The European Commission has concluded its three year investigation into Apple's use of Irish tax loopholes to avoid paying high corporation tax and has ruled that it should pay as much as 13 billion euros (£11 billion) in back taxes. Both Apple and Ireland's government are expected to appeal the …

Following the firing of its entire trending news team, Facebook has immediately hit a snag with its automated replacement. Despite years of ‘training,' the algorithm was quick to follow up on stories that people on Facebook were talking about, even if they were false ones. Within 72 hours, it was …

For the first time in New Zealand's history, one of its court trials will be live streamed to the world and it's Kim Dotcom's extradition appeal that will break this new ground. It should give viewers much deeper insight into the case itself, but also a look at how the …

We have heard that Microsoft is working on new Surface devices for some time now and according to the current rumours, we will start to see new Surface tablets in early 2017, following the launch of Intel's new Kaby Lake processors. However, it looks like we can expect a Surface …

A study that lasted a whole year to see how astronauts might deal with the difficulties of living in confined conditions with each other to simulate a round trip to Mars, has concluded in Hawaii. The study saw six scientists living together inside a specially built habitat for the full …

If you've been a fan of Warhammer 40,000 at any point in the past half decade or so, chances are you've come across Erasmus Brosdau's Lord Inquisitor passion project. It's always looked stunning, but seemed destined for video vapourware. As it turns out though, six years on from the film's …

Internet service providers (ISP) are usually not big fans of torrent sites. Downloaders on their network can mean a lot of traffic and can negatively effect the experience of other users, especially in areas of low speed or restricted bandwidth. To try and fix this in some places in India, …

Google Fibre may have started off as an experiment in the US, but it has gained quite a bit of support over the years and the gigabit internet service has slowly expanded to more cities. However, all of that fibre optic cabling and infrastructure is expensive and now, Fibre is …

The sheer size of this Build4Power rig stopped us dead in our tracks in Cologne. The Dutch specialist system builder has gone to town with something that, at first look, appears to be a large, luminous, custom PC desk on it's side. At the same time, it also has something of …

As well organised as the Insomnia LAN events are, there are a number of issues that are intrinsic with a large scale LAN experience: there will be queues and there is always the chance you'll break something important. One solution that's becoming increasingly popular is renting systems and the prices …

Uber is one of those companies that has always lost money. It survives purely on continued investment because it's a good idea. That means it's worth tens of billions of pounds, despite making catastrophic losses. The question is, can it keep it up? The latest report suggests that Uber lost …