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Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge appear in new leak

The Samsung Galaxy S6 reveal is just a handful of days away but we already have our first look at the new flagship thanks to some new leaks. The Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge have been pictured side by side, showing off the new design and a few features. …

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Sponsored search results coming to Google Play store

Google has announced that it will soon be adding sponsor spots to search results in the Google Play app store on Android. The ‘pilot program' will work similarly to how ads work on the traditional Google Search page, allowing developers to have their apps highlighted. This means that those looking …

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Google to invest $300 million in SolarCity

Google is investing $300 million in SolarCity, a residential solar system company in the US, which is backed by Elon Musk. This follows Google's earlier $280 million investment, which it made back in 2011. Solar energy isn't cheap, so SolarCity has a lot of upfront costs to look out for. …

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The BitFenix Aegis Core and Icon editions are now available

The full colour range of the BitFenix Aegis desktop PC case is now available at Overclockers UK. There are two versions of the case available, the Icon edition, which comes with a small colour display built-in, allowing you to display a custom logo and the Core edition, which does not …

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Google to combine divisions to combat tighter regulation

In order to not fall afoul of European regulators, Google is merging its Northern and Western European divisions, with the one currently covering the rest of Europe, the Middle East and Africa according to some internal sources. This comes after several months of the search giant being investigated for claims …

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‘Penniless’ Dotcom asks court to release funds

Kim Dotcom is a larger than life personality, known for his extravagant displays of wealth as much as he is his entrepreneurial ventures and political aspirations. Still, while you can find plenty of pictures from the past decade showing him on private jets, with heavily modified cars and lounging in …

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Revenge porn site owner wants photos of him taken down

The founder of IsAnybodyDown.com, Craig Brittain, has drawn condemnation from privacy advocates and the press in the past couple of days, as despite his website gaining notoriety back in 2012 for featuring ‘revenge porn' images of nude women without their permission, he recently used the digital millennium copyright act to …

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ToeJam and Earl sequel appears on Kickstarter

Although modern gaming is full of beautiful high-fidelity graphics, deep and emotional stories and inter-connected multiplayer experiences, there is something that it lacks almost right across the board: funk. That wasn't always the case of course, as a pair of aliens from Funkatron once taught us how to be cool, …

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HP: mission-critical servers business improves as Itanium fades away

A little more than a year after Hewlett-Packard started to offer its business-critical systems (BCS) with Intel Xeon E7 microprocessors inside, the company reports that it sees some recovery in sales of such machines. While BCS revenues continue to decline, shipments of x86 servers for mission-critical workloads are beginning their …

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DRAM will remain in short supply this year – analyst

Even though Samsung Electronics plans to increase its manufacturing capacities for dynamic random access memory later this year, analysts believe that this will not create an oversupply on the DRAM market. The reasons for that are transitions to bigger memory dies as well as growing demand for higher memory capacities …

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1Tbps mobile data speeds could soon be a reality

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Thanks to research currently being conducted at the 5G Innovation Centre at the UK's University of Surrey we could all be enjoying some incredibly fast mobile data connections, when 5G networks are rolled out. They have recently tested equipment that exceeds 1Tbps wirelessly with extremely low latency. This lab test handily beats any …

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3DS exploit bypasses microtransactions in Pokemon Shuffle

Nintendo launched a little free to play title on the 3DS a while back called Pokemon Shuffle. Since it is a free puzzle game, micro-transactions were incorporated but a new 3DS console exploit allows you to completely bypass the annoying paid for items and just enjoy the game. The 3DS …

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Dragon Quest Heroes coming to PS4 in US and Europe

Square Enix has announced that it will be bringing Dragon Quest Heroes to the US and Europe as a PlayStation 4 exclusive later this year, following the game's launch in Japan this week. Dragon Quest Heroes is actually a slight departure from the usual formula, being a spin-off title, rather than …

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Apple Watch could support 100,000 apps at launch

The Apple Watch could launch with a huge amount of software support, as 100,000 apps could end up being available for the wearable when it launches in April, according to new reports. While Apple has yet to publicly speak on the range of software set to be available for its …

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HTC One M9 leaked and detailed in new videos

Just a few days before its official reveal, the HTC One M9 has leaked in a series of videos, going over new software features, a new camera and other aspects of the device. The clips were originally posted by Upleaks, although the posts were later removed. The three videos amounted …

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Apple to pay $533 million for infringing patents with iTunes

Apple has been ordered to shell out $533 million to patent licensing company, Smartflash, after it was found guilty of infringing on patents with iTunes. The ruling was decided on by a federal jury in Texas, where Smartflash is based. Apple tried to argue that the Smartflash patents were invalid …

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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 …

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Reddit to kill anyone’s nude photos if they ask

Reddit is taking a stance on personal privacy and has enacted a new policy in its latest administrative changes update that will mean if anyone complains about a nude or sexually suggestive photo of themselves being disseminated on the site, it will be removed without question. Ultimately, any such photo …

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UK Cold caller clampdown coming soon

Have you been pestered by cold callers lately? If you live in the UK then chances are the answer is yes, but never fear, as the government has announced a new change to traditional legislation that will make it far easier to take the companies responsible to task. Even though last year …

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Dark Nexus Arena is a Warhammer 40k MOBA

Making a MOBA is a difficult task. Not only only is the landscape pretty crowded already, with the likes of DotA 2, League of Legends, Heroes of Newerth, Infinite Crisis, SMITE and the upcoming Heroes of the Storm, but it's a pretty defined genre. If you are going to make …

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