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Crowd funding will surpass venture capital by 2016

If there is any indication that crowd funding has the potential to disrupt the world's economies, it's this. If current trends continue, crowd funding is going to provide more investment to businesses and projects in 2016 than venture capitalists will. That could have a real impact on how companies pitch …

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Dyson’s new lamp has heatpipes and heatsinks

One of the cornerstones of graphics cards of the past decade or so, is that they get quite warm, which means that heat needs to be dissipated in order to keep them functioning long term. While doing so was once possible with a little low profile fan, for a while now …

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Chillblast slashes prices of Samsung 850 Evo and 850 Pro SSDs

Chillblast, a well-known maker of enthusiast-class personal computers from the U.K., offers rather substantial discounts on Samsung Electronics’ 850 Evo and 850 Pro solid-state drives for a limited time. For less than two weeks, Samsung’s latest family of solid-state drives will be available with £10 – £50 discounts at Chillblast. …

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AMD Radeon 2015 roadmap leaks: Whole lineup now revealed

A web-site has published a slide that reveals AMD’s graphics products lineup that will be available later this year. The image does not only unveil the names and positioning of AMD’s upcoming Radeon solutions, but also code-names of the new graphics processing units from the company. If the slide published …

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HGST formally introduces its 10TB hard disk drive

HGST, a maker of hard disk drives that belongs to Western Digital, on Tuesday formally introduced the world’s first hard disk drive with 10TB capacity. The HDD was developed for active archive applications and is not designed to offer leading-edge performance. Moreover, to use it, owners of datacenters will need …

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Those leaked Oculus Rift images are apparently ancient

This week, members of the Oculus subreddit unearthed some images, supposedly showing off the final consumer version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, giving us a good look around the upcoming device and even a controller for it. These images were found buried in the CSS of the official …

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Apple’s Swift programming language is going open source

Apple revealed quite a bit of information last night at its annual WWDC event. One particularly interesting bit of news was that Apple's programming language, Swift, is going to make the switch to open source, bringing support for iOS, OS  X and Linux. Swift was revealed by Apple last year …

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Specifications of AMD’s Radeon Fury confirmed by benchmark database

Even though Advanced Micro Devices openly demonstrates its next generation graphics processing unit, it has never confirmed specifications of the product. Nonetheless, multiple leaks have already revealed the vast majority of technical details about the upcoming AMD Radeon Fury graphics card and recently specs of the device were confirmed once …

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Spotify will match Apple Music’s family sharing option

Last night at the World Wide Developer Conference, Apple went ahead and officially announced its long expected music streaming service, known as Apple Music, bringing some pretty heavy competition to Spotify's door. In an effort to stay competitive, Spotify has revealed that it will be matching one of Apple's subscription …

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Drone footage shows Crossrail tunnels near completion

The Crossrail project, a new underground railway that will link up parts of Greater London with the surrounding city and other rail networks, is coming on apace. While the project was proposed as far back as the 1940s, approval was only given in the late '00s and construction only started in …

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Apple formally announces streaming music service

Even though we've known its intentions for months, with rumours that the whole reason the Beats headphone brand was purchased was to pick up its fledgling streaming business, Apple has finally, officially, launched Apple Music. The new service will offer a combination of music streaming, downloads and internet radio and is …

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Skyrim is turning in to a book series

Bethesda is turning its biggest Elder Scrolls title to date, Skyrim, in to a series of books, with the first volume being revealed today. The books are all hardcover, with the series being known as ‘The Skyrim Library. Production is being handled by Titan Books, with the very first volume …

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KGTV: Corsair BullDog 4K Gaming System

Our man Leo Waldock managed to get some time with Corsair when he was over at Computex – and they showcased their new BULLDOG system, which they claim can power 4K without a problem. It is a barebones system so it would all depend on how much you are willing …

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Apple announces OS X El Capitan

Apple's annual World Wide Developer Conference kicked off today, at which the company announced this year's Mac OS X update. Following on from last year's Yosemite update will be OS X El Capitan, which is focussing on improving the OS X experience while also bringing a boost to overall performance. …

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KGTV: In-Win showcase H-Tower case

Our reporter Leo Waldock was over at Computex last week, and while we work through some of the video content he acquired, we thought we would start off with a BANG – some video footage of the mega costly In-Win H Tower case. We would consider this tower a work …

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Sony seems to be crippling its own smartphone storage

Sony has gone ahead and crippled the storage capabilities of one of its budget smartphones, the Xperia M4 Aqua, as owners of the 8GB device can only actually access 1.26GB of it. This seems to be largely down to the inclusion of Android 5.0 Lollipop, which apparently takes up 4GB of …

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