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Although Intel Corp. decided not to bring support for next-generation solid-state drives with Serial ATA Express (SATAe) interface this year, Asustek Computer earlier this year demonstrated motherboards with SATA Express connectors and vowed to bring the new interface to the market. On Wednesday the company said that it can now …

Microsoft Corp. has just released Windows 8.1 update 1, but the work in Redmond, Washington, continues. Based on a new leak allegedly made by Wzor, a well-known source of Microsoft-related news with a good track record, the software giant may release a new Windows 8 update this year. The general …

While Apple has yet to confirm introduction of its smart-watches known as iWatch later this year, it looks like the preparations for the announcement are in full swing. Recently the company extended usage of its own trademark to include products like “jewellery, clocks and watches”. International trademarks are split into …

SanDisk announced the availability of its 15 nanometer technology today, making it the most advanced NAND Flash manufacturing process in the world. The 15nm technology will be available in both two bits-per-cell (X2) and three bits-per-cell (X3) architectures. “We are thrilled to continue our technology leadership with the industry’s most advanced …

Have you ever found yourself flitting between Silkroad, Cloud Nine, Outlaw, Mr Nice Guy or any of the many other online drug marketplaces and you just can't find what you're after? Well now it's gotten a lot easier, as there's now a search engine that checks all of them for …

An Ubisoft employee went ahead and teased a new Prince of Persia game on Twitter yesterday, however, following on from the tweet, Drew James, an Ubisoft Reflections Engineer, had his Twitter feed pulled offline. The Twitter profile for @UbiDrew, now redirects to a 404 page. The take-down of the account was …

Toshiba Corp. and SanDisk Corp. on Wednesday said that they would start to produce multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory using 15nm fabrication process later in April. The new manufacturing technology allows Toshiba to make world’s smallest and potentially cost-efficient 128Gb NAND flash memory. Initially, Toshiba and SanDisk will produce …

Kim Dotcom has made headlines here and in many other publications countless times over the past few years for his dealings with MegaUpload, MEGA, Baboom and for a whole host of other reasons, not least perhaps the time his house was raided wby heavily armed police over copyright infringement claims. …

Sony Online Entertainment recently announced its free to play title, H1Z1, another zombie survival game. Like with any free to play game, monetisation will play a huge part in the title's success so trying to keep things fair and balanced is key. SOE had its first monetisation planning meeting this …

When the news that Gamespy was shutting down hit the net, there were mixed reactions. Younger games no doubt asked, “what?” older ones asked “why?” and others were just surprised it was still around, but one thing that nobody was happy about was the long list of games that was …

It's easy to forget more than six months on from the launch of the Xbox One that it isn't available everywhere yet. One of those territories is quite a big one for gaming too – though not a big one for Microsoft – Japan. The Xbox One won't be landing …

Broadcom last week introduced the industry's first six stream 802.11ac MIMO platform for home networks. Broadcom claims that its 5G WiFi XStream is up to 50 per cent faster than MU-MIMO routers and gateways. What is important is that the company’s technology can boost network performance of existing devices. Broadcom's …

Micron Technology on Tuesday unveiled its new lineup of solid-state drives that are optimized for datacenters, yet are relatively affordable, are based on consumer-grade MLC NAND and use Serial ATA interface. The reliable, high-endurance M500DC SSDs are designed to achieve two drive fills per day for five years. Micron M500DC …

AMD’s Radeon R9 295X2 graphics card is among the fastest graphics solutions that money can buy nowadays. It features extreme performance and has high overclocking potential thanks to hybrid cooling solution. But what if you just want more? An ultimate graphics card that would wed extreme performance and utter quiet …

Advanced Micro Devices last week confirmed that it is developing chips that would be made using 20nm manufacturing technology. The company also re-affirmed plans to continue adopting new fabrication processes, including those with FinFET transistors. “What we have said in the past is [that] this year all of our products …

The less credible data about Nvidia Corp.’s next-generation graphics processing units is available, the more market rumours emerge. The recent set of unofficial pieces of information claims that Nvidia will tape-out its new-generation code-named GM204 (GM104) and GM206 (GM106) chips already this month, will manufacture them using 28nm process technology …

Even though Oculus VR is committed to making its Rift headset as affordable as possible, at the end of the day you're still paying for an impressively compact screen, with a fancy converter board, on top of the lenses that perform a lot of the VR emulation and this is …

Megashare, one of the world's most prominent movie and TV streaming websites, has announced an end to its services in the near future, due to what is simply described as “problems with video hosting  company.” The site currently uses third party services like Google, Putlocker and Sockshare to achieve its …

GRID Autosport will be the next installment in the racing series, Developer, Codemasters, revealed today. The game will be coming to the PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, leaving out Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony's new consoles. Codemasters said on its blog that GRID Autosport is an attempt to fix the …

Netflix has announced that it is going to be raising its subscription prices slightly for new customers within the next two to three months. It isn't going to be a huge increase though, Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, said that the company's goal is to do “a one or two dollar increase, …

Often the easiest way to introduce more traditional board gamers or non-gamers to more in-depth tabletop experiences like RPGs, is through “lite” versions, like Heroquest, or Castle Ravenloft, but these games can still be overly complicated for younger players, with a lot of options and counters to keep track of. …

LG has revealed some details of its upcoming Android Wear powered ‘G-Watch', the watch will be one of several wearables launching with the Android Wear operating system and while no release date was revealed, it will probably launch this year, much like the Moto 360. The G-Watch will be similar …

Epic Games upcoming builder, horde-defense, shooter title, Fortnite, has a cartoony theme to it despite its use of the impressively detailed Unreal Engine 4.0 behind the scenes. However, you'd be forgiven for thinking its enemies, the “monsters,” could have come from another, similarly anti-undead game, now that we know a …

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced that starting today it would provide free video games not only with high-end and performance-mainstream graphics cards, but also with entry-level models. In addition to that, AMD will also give its customers a choice and will offer them titles from independent makers in addition …

The sale of Nokia Corp.’s devices and services business unit to Microsoft is set to be closed this month and it looks like the situation with Nokia brand and the future of Nokia itself are getting clear. A letter from Microsoft suggests that the company will give its smartphone division …

When KitGuru Labs took the Radeon R9 295X2 apart and put it through its paces, one of the key questions that we couldn't answer with 100% precision was ‘Does it represent good value?' – no stores had stock when the review went up. With the latest leaking on to the …

Although Thunderbolt interconnection technology is not an industry standard that is broadly adopted by all players on the market, it is an interconnection of choice for many creative professionals who work with large amounts of data. Thus, it is not surprising that Thunderbolt is evolving and becomes faster over time. …

Gamers are pretty used to the idea of platform exclusives on consoles and PC but it isn't something we've really had to deal with on mobile devices until recently, as now Apple and Google are battling over exclusivity deals with App developers more aggressively than ever. With gaming apps being …

If you've been keeping a track of game trailers and teases for the past few months, chances are you've stumbled across Evolve, an upcoming game from Left 4 Dead developer Turtle Rock, featuring rampaging alien monsters, treacherous local wildlife and hardened, veteran hunters with an impressive arsenal of varied weaponry. …

One of the cornerstones of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) case against file locker site MegaUpload and its founder, Kim Dotcom, is that the site was nothing to do with online backup of personal files, but was only a source of …