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Revenge porn, or the practice of putting nude or sexually suggestive images of people online without their permission, has been a problem for a number of years now. However since the celebrity nude scandal that hit last year sent up red flags of hypocrisy when they seemed to get special …

While the world may like to use China as a manufacturing hub for all of its products, it is no longer just the country that labour is outsourced to: it's now the one doing much of the outsourcing. In a strange turnaround, it's now investing billions in US based R&D …

Although hugely popular, Snapchat has faced an issue similar to the likes of Twitter throughout its short lifespan. Monetising content that is heavily dependant on user interaction is difficult, without interrupting your usual service. As CEO Evan Spiegel explains it in a new pitch video to the community and advertisers however, …

Although there has been a lot of hype surrounding Apple Music, the fruity firm's upcoming music streaming and download platform, it had a shot of bad press over the weekend when Taylor Swift announced she was pulling her album from its launch. Her reasoning, was that Apple did not plan to …

Although League of Legends is still the most popular hardcore game in the world, with the strongest eSports following, the competition is a lot hotter than it once was. In the face of new upstarts like Heroes of the Storm, Riot is continuing to release new champions to keep its …

Intel Corp. is working on a brand-new server platform code-named “Purley”, which will include Xeon microprocessors based on the “Skylake” micro-architecture with up to 28 cores and will feature a number of platform-level innovations. The new multi-core chips will not only sport extraordinary amount of cores and new features, but …

Back when the Xbox One was first announced, Microsoft put a huge emphasis on TV, too much emphasis in-fact but one good thing did come out of those announcements. We learned early on that Microsoft was planning original programming, with Steven Spielberg at the helm of a new Halo TV …

Apple Watch has got off to a surprisingly good start, with sales hitting the millions in a matter of days and pre-order stock selling out swiftly. However, its not just the watch itself making a fortune, Apple is also making a surprising amount on spare watch band sales, with revenue …

Fallout 4 is officially on the way and this time around, mods for the game will be available on all platforms for the first time ever. While most are excited for Fallout 4 to arrive and modders to get to work, some are still sceptical over Bethesda's plans following the …

Earlier this year Nvidia Corp. officially named Samsung Electronics its manufacturing partner. However, as it appears, the companies still have not signed any actual deals because negotiations are proceeding with difficulties. The consequence of prolonged negotiations could result in later-than-expected release of Samsung-made Nvidia chips. Nvidia wants Samsung Electronics to …

Virtual reality hardware market is something that does not really exist today. Oculus VR sells its virtual reality headsets to game developers, Samsung supplies Gear VR to hardcore enthusiasts, other VR gear just cannot be bought for money. But many believe that already next year sales of virtual reality headsets …

In the recent years both Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia Corp. sold similar graphics processing units under completely different names, a practice many consider as deceiving. While stagnation in the market of graphics adapters and rebranding of graphics cards is hardly a good thing for the consumer, both GPU developers …

Guild Wars 2 is one of the more popular MMOs knocking around these days and many players have been looking forward to the game's first expansion, Heart of Thorns. Unfortunately, players aren't as happy about the game's pricing model. The expansion is set to launch soon at a £35 price …

Well it's happening again, Ubisoft is once again ‘re-dedicating' itself to the PC platform, this time by claiming that the next Assassin's Creed game will be developed properly for the PC. As many of you will remember, last year, when Ubisoft released Assassin's Creed: Unity, the game remained broken for …

Just a week before Rocksteady's finale to the Batman Arkham Series is set to release, Warner Bros has canned the game's collector's edition. The £150 version of the game contained a scale replica of the Batmobile featured in the game but unfortunately, nobody will be getting their hands on it, …

Last week, we got wind of rumours suggesting that in an effort to become competitive in the market again, BlackBerry may jump ship from its own operating system to Android with a future smartphone. Now, it looks like we have some leaked specifications, letting us know what BlackBerry is apparently …

If you have been following the news surrounding Oculus and Valve's own virtual reality headset, then you know that this is a pretty exciting time for VR as the tech is finally at a stage where it can be released to the mass market. Right now, Nintendo is the only …

Today Apple officially stopped selling the original iPad Mini, squeezing the last non-retina display device out of its line up for good. This has also removed older hardware from its iOS device range, turning 64-bit processors and high resolution displays in to the new standard for Apple's iPads and iPhones. …

Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday revealed all the details about its new family of graphics cards, the Radeon R9 and the Radeon R7 300-series. As reported, the whole lineup is based on existing graphics processing units with minor speed-bumps to improve performance in certain cases and games. The flagship Radeon …

Ever since last year when Apple launched Apple Pay with the latest batch of iPhones, more and more smartphone makers have been looking in to offering a way for customers to make card payments with their mobile devices. While offerings from Google, Apple and Samsung have all operated in the …

In a move that is sure to please 13 year olds of the world, dating app Happn has implemented Spotify's API in its service, to make it possible to find people that have similar music tastes to each other. Those using the location based matchup application, will be able to integrate …

Despite having an active user base of over 300 million people, Twitter has struggled to monetise quite like other social network giants like Facebook and it's shed many millions of users over the years. Despite revenue growth in the short term however, investors and shareholders have not been happy, so CEO …

The Sunday Times is continuing to paint itself as a propagandist for the British government, after a response to further complaints against its recent exposé, which claimed that British and US spies' lives were put at risk thanks to Edward Snowden's released documents. In a correspondence with a reader, the newspaper's editor, …

Disney Infinity has been a major money maker for the media giant, so it's no surprise that Disney is looking to expand on previous releases in the future. However, it may not always be a title focused around the Base station that lets players bring their favourite characters into the …

The developer of No Man's Sky, Hello Games, is doing its best to get a handle on the hype train as it careens at breakneck speed towards the release of the game. Whether it will live up to its ambitious expectations, we'll have to wait and see, but we do know …

AMD's upcoming Fury release next week has been much anticipated – the incredible level of global coverage so far gives a firm indication that this is indeed one of the most anticipated hardware launches of 2015. Many enthusiast gamers are hoping that AMD will become competitive again in the high …

Chief executive officer of Nokia Corp. this week reaffirmed that the company will design smartphones again in the second half of 2016. Officially, the company only wants to develop hardware and leave production, distribution and selling to other. Still, for end users it will mean the return of Nokia smartphones. …

Advanced Micro Devices this week officially unwrapped its new flagship single-chip graphics card based on the highly-anticipated “Fiji” graphics processing unit. The new AMD Radeon R9 Fury X graphics adapter has a number of advantages that can make it one of the world’s highest-performing solutions. In fact, according to AMD’s …

Nearly one third of modern notebooks are set to use solid-state drives as their primary storage systems in 2015, according to a new research. Thanks to major decreases of NAND flash memory pricing in the recent years, SSDs are now more affordable than ever, which means that mobile PCs will …

Intel Corp. will officially unveil its next-generation mainstream microprocessors for enthusiasts in early August at the Gamescom trade-show. The introduction of the code-named “Skylake-S” microprocessors at a games conference will emphasize that the new chips are designed primarily for systems used to play video games. Intel intends to formally unveil …