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At 06:32 this morning, the Mars Science Lab completed the second stage in its journey to discover if the Red Planet ever supported life. KitGuru breathes a sigh of relief. In a novel twist to space exploration, NASA scientists have programmed Curiosity to behave exactly like a human on holiday. …

At the time KitGuru sits down to write this story, NASA's Curiosity space rover is closer to Mars than the moon is to Earth. Around 6am UK time, the world's most expensive landing vehicle will try and nestle its 1 ton bulk on the surface of the Red Planet and …

We live in a price sensitive world, so when KitGuru noticed that Aria was offering 80GB and 240GB refurbished SSDs from Corsair, we decided to dig a little deeper and consider what actual value these offers have. We warn you, if you have been seriously considering putting an SSD in …

With Windows 8 on the verge of release, ‘software disasters' are foremost on KitGuru's mind. News has surfaced in the US of A that shows the perils of automating mission-critical tasks. As 1,500 people at Knight Capital wonder if they will have a job next week, KitGuru checks its piggy …

With $2.5 billion on the table, Apple and Samsung will be punching each other to death with squads of highly paid lawyers in a California court room. Central to Apple's case is that the launch of the iPad in 2010 (three years after the iPhone in 2007) heralded the world's …

In one of the most bizarre stories of recent times, a British teenager has been arrested for a tweet in which no one swore, threatened, made racial or sexual statements. KitGuru considers how free a country can be when you're not free to tweet an opinion. Right now, in the …

Supply and demand it at work in the SSD market – and it appears to be pushing pricing up. KitGuru wonders if a complete series of ‘SSD price drop' stories might now need to get published in reverse. When all is said and done, there are only a handful of …

Apple and Samsung spend a lot of time working together toward a common goal: Making Apple products possible with processing chips manufactured by Samsung. At the same time, each company's legal alter ego seems to have its hands wrapped around the other's throat, in court, somewhere in the world. KitGuru …

Back in June, an act hired to entertain a Microsoft ensemble, decided to engage in some four-letter jokes, which caused the software giant some embarrassment. Now it's emerged that an ‘in joke' from its HyperV Virtualisation team has caused an issue. KitGuru examines this boob for size and impact. Someone …

Following AMD's early heads-up to the market that it could miss its stated target for 2012, it comes as little surprise that today's numbers are not strong. So what next for AMD and how should it react?  KitGuru leans against a Wall in the Street and ponders whether money ever …

Each generation of graphic card contains a champion, one card that not only outsells most of the market – but does so at a sensible price point and healthy margin. For nVidia, in 2012, that card is the GTX660. KitGuru finds launch plans on a train to Timbuktu and informs …

Here at KitGuru, we run regular polls to know what you, dear reader, think. Sometimes the results are predictable and sometimes they are balanced. But every now and then, we get a huge surge in opinion – and it's all leaning one way. The single biggest emotion/response to Facebook's new …

Jack and Coke, Cheese and Onion, Thelma and Louise. Some things are just better in combination with each other. The cooks down at Aria have been analysing what it is that customers actually buy (as opposed to what combinations you think they will be interested in) and created a new …

The move from desktop to laptop was gradual. Given that we've had portable computing solutions since 1981, it took until the last part of 2008 before the laptop became the dominant PC life form. The latest research shows that Apple's forte will take a lot less time to pass laptops. …

Last week we had some hands on time with the latest AMD GHZ HD7970. At the end of the day it left us feeling distinctly uninspired. There was no doubt the card was fast, but AMD sadly adopted their ill equipped, painfully loud cooling solution with tiny, single red fan. …

With some rocky sales results predicted for Q2 2012 and no Chief Sales Office in place, AMD has been looking to add stimulus for the (traditionally) quietest quarter of the year. KitGuru has its channel price movement ear to the ground and this is what we've heard from the herd. …

If you believe that competition is a good thing, then the US Department of Energy is going about the problem of ‘How best to construct tomorrow's super computers' in the right way. KitGuru dons flip-flops and heads off to consider the impact of PetaFlops. While PC labs across the world …

In cities across the globe, public phone boxes are cultural icons. From the classic 1929 Mackenzie Trench design (which Dr Who uses to jaunt around the universe) to the iconic red boxes seen across London, we have been used to seeing them everywhere. But what happens when we no longer …

With its headquarters up in Staffordshire, Overclockers has always been associated with supplying the components that enthusiasts need for custom builds. Now it's branching more-n-more across to ready-assembled/pre-overclocked systems and to illustrate that fact, it's today launching the a brand new gaming rig in one of the latest chassis. This …

After a malicious attack on its forums last week, it appears that graphics giant nVidia is still fighting gremlins on a major scale and, at the time of writing, was not ready to let people back in. KitGuru uses good old spy satellite technology to uncover more of the truth. …

IDC loves tracking stuff. When it's not too busy counting the PCs, laptops and tablets that are flying through the world's retail channels, it has smaller divisions that apply the same kind of ‘must know it all' mentality to other markets. Dan Vesset runs the Business Analytics effort and, right …

While it may be one of the world's finest and most respected news gathering and broadcasting operations, the BBC has never designed, set up and run a web site for the Olympics. KitGuru notices when things don't go 100% smoothly. With just 15 days to go, the world plus dog …

Like many of you, KitGuru gets half a ton of email each morning – not all of which is useful. Lots of those emails will contain offers, but it's rare for them to actually grab our attention. This morning's batch of junk seems to contain at least one nugget. KitGuru …

Once the ruler of the smartphone world, Blackberry has rapidly become a joke in modern business. While share holders have dropped the value of the stock into the toilet, top execs have been thrown overboard and thousands of staff have followed. When all's said and done, the company's problems seem …

The world is full of what American's call ‘Monday Morning Quarterbacks' – the fat chaps who sit in comfortable chairs across the world and explain, to anyone who will listen, what they would have done to ‘make a difference'. The challenge for major corporations is that they need to make …

Being connected and communicating with other human beings is not only good for you, it could actually help you live longer – according to the Government's Minster for Care Services, Paul Burstow. KitGuru sticks ‘When I'm 64' on the gramophone and Zimmers off in search of answers. Scan through the …

Memory giant Corsair, made its name when it stumbled upon the idea that systems which can use 2 modules of memory (at the same time), would benefit if the memory itself was ‘twinned' before sale. TwinX was born and Corsair sales went into overdrive. Now ADATA engineers claim to have …

While most local system companies have evaporated, Viglen continues to bang in the results – including a whopping £8m revenue for June alone. How does one of the last remaining giants of the UK PC industry do it?  KitGuru goes back to school to see what can be learnt from …

In the words of Michael Corleone, “Everytime we think we've found a way out – they pull us back in”. In the case, the gravity is being provided by SSD assassins OCZ working in ninja-like partnership with reseller Aria and OcUK. KitGuru pushes aside the more expensive deals from the …

As predicted by KitGuru last month, nVidia's mountain of GTX 570 chips in the world is being obliterated by a series of significant price drops – preparing the market for the up-coming launch of the new GTX 660. KitGuru powers up the crystal ball and scans for prices. The publication …