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UPDATE: Correcting comments regarding Matt Skynner. Advanced Micro Devices on Monday appointed Jim Anderson on the position of senior vice president and general manager of its computing and graphics (CG) business group. Jim Anderson is a veteran from Intel Corp., LSI and Avago Technologies. Matt Skynner, corporate vice president and …

Intel Corp.’s code-named “Skylake” microprocessors will hit the market only in August or September and right now the world’s largest maker of microprocessors is getting ready for the launch. Intel is currently sampling “Skylake” chips with PC manufacturers and at Computex Taipei 2015 Asustek Computer has demonstrated a system powered …

Windows 10 is in its final phase of development before officially launching on the 29th of July. While those who own a genuine Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 license will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 for free so long as they do it within the first year of …

It looks like Microsoft is looking to expand on its list of mobile apps as the company is apparently interested in acquiring the Wunderlist app from German mobile firm, 6Wunderkinder GmbH. If true, then Wunderlist will become one of the many apps and services Microsoft is bringing to iOS and …

The machine that kicked everything off for Apple, the Apple 1, is now considered a collector's item. The computer has left its mark on history and the remaining few in the world are worth quite a bit of money, around $200,000 to be exact. So as you would expect, employees …

A surprise game announcement landed on our doorstep this week. It looks like XCOM 2 is in the works and will be launching on the PC with procedural maps and mod support this November. XCOM 2 will be a sequel to the previously released, highly praised strategy title, XCOM: Enemy …

Nintendo might be the first major platform holder to make a gaming console based on Android, if new rumors are to be believed. This would be a big departure from Nintendo's previous strategy, which often involves closing everything down with a proprietary operating system and region locks on software. According …

Computex 2015 has officially kicked off and our man on the ground, Leo Waldock, has been roaming the show floor and hitting the press conferences in search of the most exciting announcements. Today, Corsair has revealed the Bulldog, a DIY mini-PC built for 4K gaming in the living room. The …

Earlier this morning, Windows users will have woken up to a new icon in their taskbar, allowing them to register for their free Windows 10 upgrade, although it did not have a release date attached. However, now Microsoft has let the cat out of the bag, confirming that last week's …

The art of a press conference is a fine one. It's hard to impress a room of jaded journalists unless you have something amazing to show them and even then, you better have something solid to back it up with as the questions that will come rapid fire after the …

A new teaser trailer has popped up for the upcoming sequel to the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot. Rise of the Tomb Raider was first announced last year at E3 on the Microsoft stage and since then, details have been rather thin but since the game is launching this holiday season, …

Alex Winter, the man best known to fans as one half of the Wyld Stalyns with Keanu Reeves, released a documentary this weekend called Deep Web. Described as the “untold story of Bitcoin and the Silk Road,” the film looks at the history of the online drug marketplace and its …

Whoever said talking too much was a bad thing? Thanks to unending debates, filibusters and a growing unease at the US government's willingness to spy on its own citizens, the clause within the Patriot Act that allowed the NSA to record every phone call made by a member of the …

With Computex officially underway in Taipei, Taiwan, it means that there are a number of products which have been honoured as part of the d&i awards 2015. While more than 270 products were entered for consideration, covering the gamut of electronics, applications and gadgetry, only 72 were able to convince the …

The original Banner Saga was a pretty big success for its developer, Stoic, despite the fact that it had to defend itself against Candy Crush giant, King, for the use of the word “saga,” in its name. However if there was one complaint people had, it wasn't about the beautiful …

Update: A Microsoft blog post has now announced the Windows 10 release date as 29th July. Did you wake up this morning with a strange Windows icon in your system tray? Most Windows 7 and 8 users did. Never fear, you haven't been infected with some kind of phishing malware, …

Ahead of Computex 2015 in Taipei, KitGuru was given exclusive access to Silverstone’ Technology's headquarters. Centre stage was a series of new case models, which have an interesting common ancestry. Silverstone’s Technical Marketing guru, Tony Ou, was on hand to explain what makes this new line-up of micro-ATX cases special. …

Today we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win a copy of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – one of the best games I have played on the PC. All you have to do is join our silly Facebook comment thread and place a funny/entertaining …

Shipments of hard disk drives tanked significantly in the first quarter of the year due to sharp declines of sales of both PC and non-PC HDDs. Western Digital Corp. retained its position as the largest supplier of hard drives, Seagate Technology came second and Toshiba Corp. was the distant third. …

Earlier this week, an Xbox Store listing seemingly leaked the release date of the upcoming expansion to the Master Chief Collection, Halo 3: ODST. Developer 343 Industries was quick to squash rumors by claiming that the Friday 29th of May release date was just a placeholder. True enough, Halo 3: ODST …

IBM has begun offering its employees the choice between Mac OS X and the traditional Windows PC for the first time, following a deal with Apple that came around last year in an effort to push iOS in to the enterprise market. Now when setting up a new employee workstation, …

Earlier this week, Microsoft detailed its new method for syncing up Windows 10 with Microsoft's other apps on iOS and Android. This includes bringing the Cortana digital assistant to Google and Apple's respective platforms this year. At the time, a release date was not touched upon but it looks like …

Want to have a high-performance external storage device with USB 3.1 interface, but consider commercially available products too expensive? Sharkoon, a leading maker of PC peripherals, may have a solution! Sharkoon has introduced a special DIY [do it yourself] kit for an external storage device with USB 3.1 interface. The …

Richard Carriere is Senior Vice President for CyberLink, a successful Taiwanese company that finds itself operating in a very fluid market. As Microsoft changes its playback strategy again, removing Media Player from Windows 10, so Cyberlink has new opportunities. We caught up with Richard to ask about the challenges and …

EVGA on Friday introduced one of the world’s first mass-produced GeForce GTX Titan X graphics cards with a hybrid liquid cooling system. The new board will hit the market in June and will be one of the world’s highest-performing single-GPU graphics adapters. For those, who already own a GeForce GTX …

AMD’s next next-generation flagship Radeon graphics card will be the world’s first add-in-board to use stacked high-bandwidth memory (HBM) that will ensure unprecedented performance and will open a number of new doors for graphics adapters. It is rather ironic that for a graphics card that shows the future of GPUs, …

An online store from the U.S. has started to take pre-orders on Nvidia Corp.’s upcoming GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics adapters, which are expected to be introduced next week. If Nvidia does not change the price of the upcoming graphics card at the last minute, then the GeForce GTX 980 …

The lawsuit against Sega and Gearbox over false advertisement claims with Aliens: Colonial Marines has been on-going for quite some time now. However, it looks like Gearbox is about to get off the hook as court documents reveal that the studio has been dropped from the lawsuit entirely. The case …

E3 is about two weeks away, meaning all of the major publishers and studios are gearing up for their round of announcements for the months ahead. However, the trade show has traditionally been an industry-centric event, with press and industry insiders in attendance. However, that could change a bit this …

Google I/O kicked off this week, revealing Google's next version of Android, currently known as ‘Android M', along with all of its new features for developers to make use of. However, what exactly the M stood for was not announced, I was personally rooting for Muffin but it looks like …