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Last week, Apple's walled garden suffered a major breach as the iBoot code for iOS leaked onto the web. The code was posted to GitHub and had been downloaded by many before Apple's DMCA took effect. How did such critical iOS code leak in the first place? Well apparently it …

AMD's first Ryzen desktop APUs are here! The Ryzen 5 2400G brings together Zen CPU architecture with an RX Vega 11 graphics core. The Ryzen 3 2200G on the other hand uses RX Vega 8 under the hood. How do they perform? Let's find out...

As the cryptocurrency mining craze continues, people are trying to come up with new and quicker ways to get their hands on coins in hopes of getting rich. Some Russian scientists thought it would be appropriate to use a government-owned supercomputer to mine for them, and as you would expect, …

Nvidia wasn’t shy of the success brought about by the current cryptocurrency boom during its earnings call on Friday, but it similarly hasn’t forgotten the huge problem it has been presenting gamers. The company has taken the time to reiterate previous statements, reassuring that gamers are still the number one …

Leo is back with a bang, plenty of topics this week from Amazon, Apple and Google Profits, to AMD's upcoming Raven Ridge. And Nvidia's TitanXp Star Wars Edition - is it looking like a bargain in today's market? Surely thats not even possible ? He doesn't like miners either. Leo tells it like he sees it.

We could argue its one of the nicest looking keyboards on the market, but is it good to use as well?

At this point, Nvidia has surely reached the end of the Pascal life-cycle with no additional launches planned. While many of us were expecting Volta to feature in the next generation of GeForce graphics cards, a report back in November said otherwise, claiming that ‘Ampere' would be Nvidia's next generation …

It has been several months since we last received an update on the status of Samsung's Android Oreo update for the Galaxy S8. In October we learned that the update was scheduled for ‘early 2018' and in November the update went into beta. Now the finalized Android 8.0 Oreo update …

The term ‘screw loose’ is almost always a bad thing, but none more so than the literal screw loose in the ThinkPad Carbon X1. Lenovo has since issued a voluntary recall, detailing that the loose screw could cause damage to the battery and overheating to the point of potentially starting …

Intel is continuing to make progress in its efforts to tackle the Spectre/Meltdown bugs that were publicly unveiled last month. While earlier firmware updates ran into some issues, the chip maker is back on the ball with new firmware updates free of reboot errors. This week, new firmware began rolling …

Back in November, Qualcomm found itself in the sights of Broadcom, receiving a massive $130 billion takeover offer. At the time, Qualcomm rejected the bid, stating that the amount offered did not truly represent the value of the company. Rumors of a hostile takeover brewed in the months that followed, …

We were all impressed when PUBG soared to the top of Steam's concurrent player charts with 3.2 million players all online at once. However, it looks like Epic's Fortnite Battle Royale is now giving it some serious competition. Over the weekend, Fortnite managed to hit 3.4 million peak concurrent players, …

We only just saw Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 3 launch at the end of April last year. Unfortunately since then, the game suffered to really capture a player base and a quick look at the Steam reviews will show that many Warhammer 40K fans have problems with the game. …

Graphics cards have been harder to get over the last few months, in large part due to demand from cryptocurrency miners. Prices have gone through the roof and it looks like retailers want to cash in on the mining craze further, with Amazon and Newegg beginning to list graphics card …

Apple seems to be having a pretty bad day, as critical iOS code was leaked to Github, giving hackers a deeper look at the inner workings of Apple's closed garden. The code is known as ‘iBoot', and as you would imagine, Apple has been wrangling with DMCA takedown notices since. …

Huawei's flagship, the Mate 10 Pro. Can it impress at £699, or should you stick to Samsung?

Intel launched its new Xeon-D-2100 processor this week, built from the ground up to address space and power constraints of edge applications and data centre or network applications. The beefy 18-core system-on-chip (SoC) makes use of the Intel Xeon Scalable platform, with Intel promising to “grow performance and capacity without …

Foxconn is a huge part of China's manufacturing industry, with huge clients like Apple, Google, Amazon, Acer and more. As a result of this huge client list, the factory employs a huge number of workers. However, during a press conference this week, Foxconn announced that it would be cutting 10,000 …

After breaking the news that Three customers had not got any Razer Phone updates since launch, Razer issues a response.

Grand Theft Auto V broke records when it first released in 2013 and it hasn't left the best seller charts since. In fact, the game has now sold 90 million copies worldwide, with 15 million of those sales occurring in 2017 alone. Four years later, Grand Theft Auto V is …

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is headed to its flagship platforms later this month, coming to PC, Linux and Mac. Console versions are known to have been in the works for quite some time, with Xbox One and PlayStation 4 confirmed during its crowdfunding phase, however Obsidian has now revealed …

Within the past year, there has been a surge of fake browser alerts pushing tech support scams, in that a prompt will appear directing users to call a number with the sole intention to rob them blind. The latest version of this seems to affect Windows-based browser, in particular Chrome, …

Metro Exodus looks to be one of the most exciting games of the year, particularly after its impressive E3 and Gamescom showings last year. While past games in the series have had us walking through dark tunnels and stealthing past enemy territory, there will be some big changes in place …

Could £50 noise cancelling earphones be any good? We put the Linner NC50 to the test

Since the rise and fall of Onlive, many other companies have tried to tackle video game cloud streaming. Nvidia's GeForce Now service is probably the best option around at the moment, but Sony has PSNow in its pocket and Microsoft just recently bought PlayFab, a cloud gaming firm. Now, Google …

This one comes from Ant Bird, who won an ASRock Fatal1ty H270 Performance motherboard from us.

It looks like Apple's plan to acquire Shazam for as much as $400 million has hit a roadblock. This week, the European Commission announced plans to investigate the acquisition deal over fears that it could negatively impact competition. Multiple countries, including Spain, Austria, France and Iceland requested that the EU …

Over the last year, the tech world has been suffering from a shortage in memory chip manufacturing. This has led to huge price hikes in RAM and even SSDs at retailers, making it harder for DIY system builders to source components at reasonable prices. Now it looks like Samsung is …

After the success of Call of Duty: WWII and the return to ‘boots on ground' style gameplay, we've been left wondering what's next for the series. This year's Call of Duty instalment will be handled by Treyarch and not so surprisingly, this has led to rumors of Black Ops 4, …

FSP is a name that KitGuru readers should recognise by now, particularly after their showing at Computex last year, featuring liquid cooled power supplies. At the time, we saw an early version of the FSP Hydro PTM+, a 1200W high-end power supply liquid cooled by a Bitspower block. Now this …