A 23 year old California man admitted he used personal information from Facebook to hack into women's email accounts to download nude and seminude photos and videos sent from those accounts. He would then forward these to all of the women's contacts. Dozens of women in the US and England …

Facebook growth is staggering in recent months. Latest reports from Goldman Sachs show that they raked in $1.2 billion across the first nine months of 2010. Facebooks net income in the first nine months of 2010 peaked at $355 million and Goldman values the company now at $50 billion and …

It may seem incredible, but it appears that Facebook have been given the go-ahead to trademark the word ‘Face'. The U.S. Patient and Trademark Office have issued an allowance that says that the company is entitled to a trademark on ‘Face' as it applies to the name FaceBook. To get …

Facebook are reportedly going to release a messaging system which will rival Google's Gmail. The social networking giant who already have over 500 million users are going to host a special event in San Francisco on Monday. Facebook will apparently announce their own email address system @facebook.com and perhaps even …

Queen Elizabeth II is to launch her own Facebook page, according to Royal Household reports. The 84 British monarch is apparently going to be making her own videos, as well as uploading photos and posting news updates on the site, her office said yesterday. Users can send messages to Buckingham …

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams said during a conference in San Francisco that the Twitter platform will soon have one billion users. Williams said “Twitter will get to a billion members”. It could however take quite some time before this becomes a reality, as there are only 165 million registered users …

Social networking giant Facebook are exploring the possibilities of a partnership with Skype which is aimed at integrating their communication services. Wall Street Journal have said that under the proposed partnership that Facebook users would be able to sign into Skype through their Facebook Connect accounts. Once signed in then …

Outspoken Google CEO Eric Schmidt has dismissed the potential threat from social networking giant Facebook and has instead pointed to Bing as being Google's main competitor. Schmidt has said that Bing is ‘doing well' and is owned by a company who has more cash and resources than Google and has …

Facebook has not been having a good week, facing the second wave of downtime, the most it has faced in four years. This time it has been throwing out continuous error messages which was due to an internal system error. With a blog post they have explained the outage was …

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google are holding talks with gaming companies with the aim to create a new competiting social networking service to go head to head with the ever popular Facebook. Google have been in discussions with the makers of online gaming which include Electronic Arts …

Facebook are due to announce that they have managed to achieve a user base of 500 million users. This prediction was originally set earlier in the year when analysts judged that in 2010 they would hit half a billion users. Interestingly they have launched Facebook Stories – a ‘visual memorial' …

The all encompassing social networking site Facebook has agreed to use an application which should help protect the online safety of the younger userbase, according to a Reuters report. This application will appear on a user profile page when they add/bookmark it and it will allow children to report suspicious …

Looking back it is hard to believe that Facebook was a social networking concept dreamed up by a couple of friends in a Harvard dorm back in 2004. Latest 2009 reports released show that the platform generated $800 revenue which is well beyond expected results.More importantly profits were also reasonably …

Facebook have been under pressure lately to protect their users privacy and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has blamed the issues on ‘growing pains'. Mark was keen to point out that engineers and designers have been working hard in the last three weeks to improve privacy settings. “We don't pretend that we …

We're back with another competition! This month we are teaming up with Seagate to give away three prizes to those looking for a console storage upgrade, including a 5TB drive for Xbox and a 2TB drive for PS4/PS5.

Looking for a fast, RGB-equipped set of DDR5 memory? We check out Lexar's ARES series

The Game Awards have been around for well over a decade and at this point, the TGAs have cemented themselves as the biggest awards show for the industry. Keighley knows how to draw people in with promises of new game trailers and other announcements, leading to huge moments like Bethesda's reveal for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, or Microsoft's Xbox Series X reveal. Winning the show's GOTY award is considered to be a badge of honour, so let's take a look back at the last ten GOTY winners and whether or not they deserved it. 

Just one month after release, the remaster/expansion Sonic x Shadow Generations has sold 1.5 million copies – far outpacing the 2011 original.

It is no secret that there is a lot of money involved in industry events like Gamescom. Last year, the costs for showing a trailer at The Game Awards was revealed. Now, the costs for being part of Geoff Keighley's other big show, Gamescom: Opening Night Live, have been revealed. …

After a lengthy period of development, including a full studio move to escape a war, STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl has officially launched. Within days, the game has become a success, selling over a million copies. Today, GSC Game World, the studio behind STALKER, confirmed the sales milestone, while also …

The best-selling games of October 2024 have been revealed and unsurprisingly, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has topped the charts.

AMD's next-gen Ryzen AI 300 series APUs are on the horizon, and a fresh Geekbench leak has given us a sneak peek at the entry-level “Krackan” chip. An Asus laptop running a Krackan engineering sample has surfaced online, confirming the rumoured 6-core configuration with a 4GHz boost clock. The benchmark …

GOG is adding the classic STALKER games to its Game Preservation program, ensuring they remain playable for generations to come.

Leaker Kopite7kimi, known for accurate Nvidia leaks, claims that a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is in the works and could launch alongside the RTX 5080 at CES.

Thermaltake has unveiled the Tower 250 Mini, a new Mini-ITX case designed to showcase your PC. Like all other Tower PC cases from Thermaltake, this model has an octagonal prism shape with a vertical orientation and is available in various colours. Available in black, white, green, and blue, the Tower …

The instant-fail stealth missions in Star Wars Outlaws are being reworked. From now on, players will have the option to shoot their way out of trouble.

Assassin's Creed Shadows overhauls the series' stealth mechanics. The new stealth system is immediately recognisable to anyone that played Splinter Cell.

If you recently invested in a PS5 Pro and had hopes for a Cyberpunk 2077 update, then we have some bad news for you...

Chieftec is expanding its case lineup with the launch of the Visio series, featuring two distinct models for different tastes and needs. The Visio and Visio Air sport a dual-chamber design, tempered glass panels, and hidden-connector motherboard support, making them perfect for building and showcasing a clean system. Both cases …

Epomaker's latest keyboard, the Galaxy 100, might just be the keyboard you're looking for. This customisable 1800-layout keyboard blends comfort, functionality, and stunning aesthetics, packing high-end features at a not-so-high price tag. The Epomaker Galaxy 100 packs a full-size keyboard with a dedicated number pad and function keys into a …