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Driver records to be put online, could drop insurance prices

The British government seems to have finally decided that this old internet fad isn't going away and it could actually help speed up and simplify some of the more stuffy, traditional activities that citizens are forced to drudge through, like renewing car insurance. Along with 20+ other services, driver records …

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Titanfall to be limited to 6V6 in multiplayer matches

Respawn, the developer behind the upcoming Microsoft exclusive game Titanfall, has just announced that the game's multiplayer mode will only allow for 12 players in 6V6 matches online. Respawn Vice President, Vince Zampella, confirmed this on Twitter: “6v6 is max player count. Turned out to be the best balance with AI …

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EFF calls on US congress to investigate NSA

Digital rights group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is often at the forefront of defending consumer rights and the privacy of individuals online, so it's no surprise that in the wake of increasing NSA snooping revelations and the ongoing lack of consequences for those actions, it's calling for a full scale …

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Academics rally against fading personal privacy

Hundreds of university researchers, lecturers, professors have come together to sign the Academics Against Surveillance charter, which demands that governments around the world provide better online protection for their citizens' right to privacy, which they say has been eroded by the actions of organisations like the NSA, GCHQ and GCSB. …

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KitGuru Annual Awards 2013

Every year, KitGuru considers hundreds of products and puts the best into the KitGuru Labs for testing. While you may tend to see things in terms of conclusions and awards, we actually have a pretty sophisticated scoring system on the backend, that allow us to rank everything we have seen. …

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Spain fines Google for privacy law breach

Google has been hit by a near million euro fine for breaching Spanish privacy laws by combining different information on users from its multiple services without letting consumers in on it, and not giving them access to the data that's held on them. This is all about a move in …

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ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac Motherboard Review

The 4770K offers quite possibly the highest per-clock performance numbers of any consumer-grade processor currently on the market. It’s just that fact which makes Haswell’s multiplier-unlocked Core i7 a plausible option for workstation applications. And with that possible usage scenario comes the requirement for workstation-grade LGA 1150 motherboards. Is ASRock’s …

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Bitcoin tumbles following increased Chinese regulation

The most recent bitcoin boom was driven by Chinese investment, with people from the country buying up more of it than the rest of the world put together just a few weeks ago. Today though, that situation is very different, as following increased regulations by the Chinese government making trading …

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Google bought another robot developer

Google has been gunning for robot development for some time now, possibly lining it up to go head to head with Amazon over automated delivery services – and now it can do it over frozen lakes too, as it just bought Boston Dynamics, the company behind the Big Dog service …

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Get cooperative in new Humble Bundle

While the Humble Bundle seems a little less special these days, due to its increased frequency, the Humble Weekly Sale and the constantly open and selling Humble Store, that doesn't mean that a new bundle isn't cause for celebration, especially when it's packed with as much cooperative action as this …

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Huge Seal attacks city, offers Steam deals

Look out! Quick, gather up supplies, loved ones and weaponry, we have to get out of here. I'm serious, there's this massive seal attacking the city, we have to go. Wait, no, what are you doing? Don't go on your PC, those deals he's offering are lies, a distraction to …

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Doctors Without Borders criticises SOPA like trade agreement

International medical humanitarian organisation, Doctors Without Borders, has released a statement condemning the US backed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), stating that if the agreement were signed by all countries it could severely limit the ability of many of the world's citizens to access affordable medicine. As it stands, it's not too …

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Google and Microsoft to crack down on child abuse images

While search engines might be the first place most of us go when we're looking for pictures of anything, child abuse isn't something you'd expect either search engine to offer up. However apparently they can lead to it, which is why both Google and Microsoft have pledged to block results …

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Possible Fallout 4 game teased

A new teaser website has appeared, titled Survivor 2299, with a countdown date and a morse code background message, that some people believe could be hinting at a possible future release of Fallout 4, set 19 years after the last game in the series: New Vegas. The main reason for …

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Wikileaks outs TPP details, comparable to SOPA

Remember SOPA, PIPA and ACTA? Those three pieces of legislation which the internet and the world at large stood up against because they threatened to inhibit innovation in technology, freedom of speech and access to data? Well now those same concerns are back, but under a new guise: the TPP. …

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Three more developers sign on to support Mantle API

Last month AMD lifted the curtain on the new Mantle API it developed, promising lower level hardware access similar to how developers create games for console hardware. The announcement got many people wondering just how much of a performance gain they could get from it and at the same time …

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Trine 2 coming to the PS4

Trine 2: The Complete Story will make its way to the Playstation 4 after being a PC exclusive for almost 2 years. The developers, Frozenbyte, still want their game to reach as many systems as possible and will be self publishing the title. The best news for Playstation 4 buyers …

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Stop Watching Us rally draws thousands

Organisers of the Stop Watching Us protest rally that took place in Washington DC over the weekend, are calling it the biggest anti-mass surveillance protest in US history, as thousands arrived to listen to speeches, march and to deliver a petition to government, requesting an end to the mass collection …

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Huawei denies spying for the Chinese goverment

Huawei has been the centre of discussion recently, we already know that the British ISP TalkTalk use the company to maintain its filters and that both the ISP and Huawei can add or remove sites from the filter as they see fit. Recently David Cameron praised the company's filtering system in …

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Legal experts brand NSA and GCHQ surveillance illegal

While the British and US government's have been keen to defend their Tempora and PRISM surveillance programs, it looks like the international community might not feel the same way. After some scrutiny by legal experts at the European Parliament this week, several individuals concluded that the actions of both governments …

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Isohunt loses legal battle, forced to close

Pirates around the world, remove your stove hats for a minute of silence please. Isohunt, one of the world's longest running and most popular torrent search sites has finally succumbed to legal pressure from the media lobby and US government and has been forced to settle on a cease and …

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