8BitDo, a brand well-known for retro-themed gaming peripherals, is tapping into nostalgia once again with a new collection inspired by the iconic translucent green of the original Xbox. With the refreshed Retro 87 mechanical keyboard and the brand-new Retro R8 mouse sporting the classic Xbox aesthetic, 8BitDo has created a …
Read More »Thermaltake introduces new CT120 and CT140 ARGB Sync reverse fans and new colour options
Thermaltake has announced the release of the CT ARGB Sync PC cooling fans (2-fan pack) and CT Reverse ARGB Sync PC cooling fans (2-fan pack) in four colour options: black, white, blue, and green. The CT ARGB Sync series is equipped with PWM fans and improved fan blades (standard and …
Read More »Thermaltake introduces Matcha-themed Ceres 300 case and Argent E700 gaming chair
After introducing the Tower 200 Matcha Green mini chassis and receiving excellent feedback, Thermaltake aims to release more Matcha Green variants of its products. The new products to receive a Matcha Green variant are the Ceres 300 TG ARGB mid-tower chassis and the Argent E700 gaming chair. These are now …
Read More »Memblaze unveils the PBlaze5 520 Series NVMe SSD
Memblaze has announced its PBlaze5 520 Series NVMe SSDs, promising enterprise level performance, 96-layer 3D NAND and a significant reduction in power usage. One of Memblaze's focuses with the new PBlaze5 520 series is to bring down the power consumption. The new SSDs have a typical power consumption of 9W and …
Read More »Turtle Beach adds new colour options to its Recon 70 affordable headset series
Turtle beach is giving one of its best-selling headsets a makeover, the popular Recon 70 series will be available with new colour options including an exclusive silver, as well as two Camo versions, one in green and a blue version. The new Recon 70 headset will be exclusively available in …
Read More »Razer Kraken (2019) Headset Review
Briony is back with her review of the new Razer Kraken - is it worth buying at £80?
Read More »World’s richest to invest more than $1 billion to fight climate change
Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and many more of the richest people in the world, have together announced a new initiative that will invest at least $1 billion over the next 20 years to help combat climate change. Specifically the fund will look to invest in developments in electricity …
Read More »Microsoft doubles wind power investment to 500 megawatts
Microsoft has made another large investment in clean energy by signing two new agreements to purchase additional wind power. These deals will see it acquire a further 237 megawatts of green energy, nearly doubling its total to 500 megawatts. Microsoft considers this another step on the road to making its …
Read More »Tesla’s Elon Musk vs Coal CEO: let’s all drop subsidies to zero
Tesla has taken flack from the CEO of Murray Energy Corporation, Robert Murray, who claimed that it is taking far too much in taxpayer subsidies, while failing to turn a large profit to counter it. Tesla founder Elon Musk has fired back, saying it's nothing compared to the coal industry, but …
Read More »Pirate Party Iceland support holds strong in election lead up
Just a few months after noting how well the Pirate Party was polling in Iceland, it's really looking like we may close out the year with the first Pirate majority government. Following the recent resignation of the Icelandic Prime Minister, the Pirate Party continues to poll well, with now more than …
Read More »Western Digital to abandon ‘Green’ brand in favour of ‘Blue’ HDDs
Western Digital Corp. plans to unify its Green and Blue product lineups. The move will help the company to increase its profit margins. For end-users, the unification of low-cost HDD brands could mean increased performance of affordable hard disk drives. Western Digital is set to unify its Green and Blue …
Read More »Eiffel Tower becomes energy self-sufficient
The Eiffel Tower is one of the world's great landmarks and yet, like any other popular tourist destination and skyline attention grabber, it requires a lot of lighting and other systems that use a lot of power throughout the year. However now the French icon has become almost entirely energy self-sufficient, thanks …
Read More »Apple acquires $848m stake in Solar power plant
As part of his keynote address to the Goldman Sachs conference, Tim Cook has announced that Apple has purchased an $848m stake in a new solar plant, to be built in Monterey County, California by First Solar. For its stake in the new plant it will get 130 of the total 230 …
Read More »Dell to make PCs of plastics obtained from recycled electronics
Dell this week announced two new eco-friendly initiatives that should significantly reduce the impact that manufacturing of personal computers have on the environment. Next month Dell will offer a line of all-in-one PCs made entirely of plastics obtained from recycled electronics. In addition, Dell will use the so-called carbon-negative packaging …
Read More »ISP’s call out useless site blocks
The US is playing world police again and leaning on Switzerland this time to crack down on its high levels of piracy. However, not everyone is cool with that this time around, as local Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have been standing up and protesting the proposed site blocks. “The United …
Read More »Pirate Bay’s power footprint is equivalent to vacuum cleaner
Since moving to the cloud last week and ditching its servers altogether, The Pirate Bay has reduced its power requirements to that of the average vacuum cleaner, according to the sites current unnamed staff – who presumably aren't the founders, who've been tangling with the Swedish court system for the past few …
Read More »TonidoPlug 2 Small Home Server Review
Media and enthusiast-servers are growing in popularity as more people realise the benefits within a home environment; after all numerous computer systems, tablets, televisions and phones can be utilised in accessing media files. Media servers allow people to have media stored in one area which can then be streamed to …
Read More »Logica sees logic in largescale job loses
When a multi-billion dollar organisation wants to update its systems and see how it could be doing business better, then Dutch-Brit tech specialist Logica, might have been one of their first phone calls. Now it seems that Logica's high-powered analytical skills have been focused inwards. Result? Major job loses. KitGuru …
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