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Yesterday, Samsung announced a staggering 180 trillion won ($161bn/£124bn) investment towards component research and capital expenditures over the next three years. $22 billion of that pool will primarily be taken up by Samsung’s Electronics division, as the company bolsters its efforts in artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, electronic components for motor …

A botched iOS app update has seen Snapchat’s source code uploaded to file sharing website GitHub, briefly leaving it open for anyone to download. Luckily, parent company Snap managed to get the leak removed thanks to a takedown request. The source code was uploaded to GitHub under a free account, …

It seems that toxicity isn’t just prevalent in League of Legends, but developer Riot Games itself as an exposé reveals a rise of discriminatory behaviour against women from within the studio. Riot has since responded to the report, apologising for its failure to “live up to its own values” while …

After months of leaks upon leaks, Samsung will finally be hosting its Galaxy Unpacked 2018 event tomorrow. We already have a good idea of what to expect, but here is when and where the announcements will be taking place. On the 9th of August at 4PM BST, Samsung will be …

Update (08/08/18): IGN found itself knee deep in controversy earlier this week after YouTuber Boomstick Gaming pointed out a number of similarities between his Dead Cells review and that of the publication’s Nintendo Editor Filip Miucin. After an internal investigation, IGN has parted ways with Miucin and is in contact …

In the run up to the FCC’s vote that ultimately eliminated net neutrality, the regulator revealed that it had experienced a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that prevented users from commenting but conveniently left the rest of the site perfectly accessible. In what is likely no surprise to anyone, …

In November 2017, the UK's Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) ruled that broadband providers would have to start advertising average speeds to customers, rather than top speeds. As always, it takes a while for these rules to properly fall into place, but the switch has now happened, and it looks like …

The team at Treyarch is trying something different for Call of Duty this year, shifting away from single-player and focussing all efforts on multiplayer. A few weeks ago, the game's beta dates were announced for PC and consoles, and now, the minimum and recommended system requirements for Black Ops 4 …

Google has released its latest mobile operating system for Pixel handsets, dubbing the update Android 9 Pie.

If it’s not cheaters bringing PUBG players down, it’s a plethora of bugs according to the game’s community. It seems that developer PUBG Corp agrees with this assessment, pledging its latest efforts to improving Battlegrounds’ quality-of-life under a new campaign called “FIX PUBG.” “For the duration of the campaign, we’ll …

The latest SATA SSD drive family from Kingston is the UV500 series.

Yesterday, AMD announced the full line-up for its 2nd generation of Ryzen Threadripper processors. We're getting two different series this time around, distinguished by ‘X' and ‘WX' branding. Those of you interested in the 32-core flagship TR 2990WX will be pleased to know that retailers have already begun listing them, …

Last week, MSI accidentally let some news out surrounding Intel's 9th Gen processor launch. At the time, we learned that Z370 motherboards would be getting a BIOS update to support some of Intel's upcoming 9th Gen SKUs. Since then, other motherboard makers have also begun announcing their own plans for …

Samsung is ramping up its efforts with solid state drives, beginning mass production of the industry’s first commercial 4-bit quad-level cell (QLC) 4TB SSD. Once this has flooded the market, Samsung promises that 1TB SSDs will become much more affordable as a result. Executive vice president of memory sales & …

Chip supplier TSMC was hit by a virus over the weekend, temporarily shutting down operations and prompting concerns of shipment delays. It seems as though the firm has identified the virus to be related to WannaCry, malicious code formally associated with North Korea according to the US, the UK and …

Over the years, several notable publishers have begun moving away from Steam in an effort to grow their own platforms. Bethesda has had its own launcher for a while but hasn't done much to really push it. That is changing this year, as Fallout 76 will be exclusive to the …

Ninja Theory is no stranger to charity, beginning its efforts by partnering with UK mental health charity Rethink last October. This continued in April 2018, with the developer announced it would donate proceeds from Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice to Mental Health America, coinciding with sales milestones of its Xbox One release. …

Got £1150 to spend on a new gaming rig? We look at the Falcon Project X VR Ready Gaming PC

Last week, MSI accidentally let some news out surrounding Intel's 9th Gen processor launch. At the time, we learned that Z370 motherboards would be getting a BIOS update to support some of Intel's upcoming 9th Gen SKUs. Now Gigabyte has followed the same path, confirming its own Z370 9th Gen …

Today Leo is focusing on AMD's Theadripper 2 processors as the first embargo has now lifted and we can reveal more information about the CPUs. Leo also discusses Apple, TSMC, Intel and ... a RGB toothbrush?

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) factories were forced to close down over the weekend after a computer virus crippled the company’s systems. As a major partner of Apple, Nvidia and Qualcomm among others, TSMC has warned that this could cause shipment delays which might impact this year’s iPhone and upcoming …

It's a headset from Xtrfy made in collaboration with Ninjas in Pyjamas - but is it any good?

Over the last couple of years, Valve has simplified the Steam sale process quite a bit. Developers now have control to set their own sale prices ahead of time and flash sales were removed from the equation. This made it easier for buyers to pick up what they wanted at …

Developer Cloud Imperium Games has come under fire for its decision to remove the cap on the amount of in-game currency that players could accumulate in Star Citizen, with suggestions that the game is now pay-to-win. Although the amount of United Earth Credits (UEC) that players can purchase with real …

During Bethesda's E3 showcase in June, we were treated to a fairly brief announcement for DOOM Eternal, a direct sequel to the 2016 reboot. The trailer gave us a brief tease of what to expect, but fans of the series will get their first look at gameplay later this week. …

Last week, reports cropped up claiming that a DRAM oversupply is inbound, set to reduce the cost of components throughout the next year. It looks like the same can be said for the NAND Flash market, as analysts predict a 10 percent drop quarter on quarter throughout Q3 and Q4 …

Samsung just hasn’t been able to keep a lid on it lately, giving fans their first look at the tentative Galaxy Watch just last month. Now, it seems to have slipped up on its New Zealand sites by leaking the as-of-yet-unannounced Galaxy Note 9, with its introduction video confirming the …

ASRock shrinks AMD Ryzen into the mini-ITX form factor

We are used to seeing Apple in and out of the court room, with various patent infringement lawsuits frequently coming through. This week, Apple appears to have lost another one, with a jury finding Apple guilty of infringing on two patents held by Canadian company, WiLan. According to Reuters, the …

We've been discussing Monster Hunter World quite a bit this week, as those with early access have been quite vocal about their experience so far. We know that the game is very CPU intensive, and that crashes have been occurring. Fortunately, some of these issues should start to get resolved …