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Apparently Apple has some ‘big plans’ for 2014

Tim Cook has hinted at Apple's big plans for 2014 in a letter to employees, the letter also praised the ‘innovation' that went in to the new Mac Pro, IOS 7 as well as the iPhone 5s. buy a essay online Employees have revealed the email to 9to5Mac and it …

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Last chance to enter be quiet! advent competition

The be quiet! and Kitguru advent calendar competition has been running for a few weeks now offering up great prizes from PSUs, to t-shirts, but now we're in the last week so that means it's your last chance to enter and get yourself a new SLI enabled motherboard, a high …

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Obvious Nintendo Wii U advert is obvious

One of the biggest complaints any Nintendo fan will have of the Wii U marketing strategy, is that most of it's target audience (Wii owners) don't realise it's a new console. This isn't too surprising considering what the Wii U is called and what it looks like, but most importantly, …

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Three more arrested in Silk Road case

Ross Ulbricht might be the alleged captain of the now sunken ship that is the Silk Road drugs marketplace (well, there is version 2.0) but he wasn't the only one that worked on it. Now another three have been linked with Ulbricht and have been charged with money laundering. The …

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There’s a Tomb Raider card game on iOS

Lara Croft isn't a character I'd easily associate with a social card game on a mobile platform, but that's exactly what's in store for the long standing gaming heroine in her next adventure. In Tomb Raider Reflections, you'll go on quests, collect artefacts and battle other players, all through the …

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UK GAME restocking Xbox One for your stocking

The PS4 might have won the first round of the worldwide console wars, but the Xbox One sold very well as well. So well in-fact that there's been somewhat of a shortage as of late, but never fear if you wanted to get one by Christmas, as GAME has now …

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Spain fines Google for privacy law breach

Google has been hit by a near million euro fine for breaching Spanish privacy laws by combining different information on users from its multiple services without letting consumers in on it, and not giving them access to the data that's held on them. This is all about a move in …

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FACT is blackmailing a Dutch ISP with money laundering

British arm of the Motion Picture Association of America, FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft), has taken a step beyond lobbying to have sites blocked and sending out legal threats to consumers, now it's trying to blackmail a Dutch ISP into shutting down a torrent website by threatening it with a …

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Porn filters block sex education, charity websites

At the behest of the government and through their own initiative, British ISPs have begun firing up their own pornography filters, but as expected, on top of not being the all encompassing blockers that they were designed to be, they've done what we all knew they would do and started …

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Win a STEAM game this weekend!

This week we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win a STEAM game of your choice. All you have to do is join our funny Facebook comment thread and place a funny/entertaining caption to this image from Star Wars. It means you can put all …

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This man’s working lego car took 500,000 bricks

That's a little bigger than the pirate kit I had as a kid and it's certainly more than most people would ever play with, but the results of what one Australian and his Romanian pal have achieved with just some Lego is incredibly impressive. The little yellow, kit-car looking machine …

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Netflix will start streaming 4K in February

Yesterday we reported that Amazon was going to begin filming all future projects in 4K, in that same article we talked a bit about Netflix filming season one of its original series ‘House of Cards' in ultra high definition as well as testing 4K streams. Netflix has now confirmed that …

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Check out the first AMD Mantle gameplay demo

The graphics card wars are heating up again folks, but not just with performance, with features too. Nvidia is gunning for its GSync technology which fixes screen tearing without the need for the performance drop associated with Vsync, but AMD has something potentially more exciting. AMD has Mantle, its DirectX …

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Guess who has the most bitcoins in the world?

In terms of total bitcoins? It's rumoured to be the currency's creator, who no one has ever identified. His supposed name is Satoshi Nakamoto, but really it could be anything as nobody knows anything about the man (if it is even is a man or a single person at at …

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It’s official- EA is being sued

Last week we reported that legal firm Holzer Holzer and Fistel, was investigating EA's public statements about Battlefield 4's progress. This probably would have led to a lawsuit eventually but for now, another firm has beat it to the punch as Robins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, has launched a class action …

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Pirate Bay hop skips back to Swedish domain

The Pirate Bay has been playing a game of hopscotch for the past week as it changed domains multiple times, moving initially when its .SX domain was shutdown/seized, heading to Ascension Island's .AC, then to Peru and Guyana now back to Sweden with the .SE domain it used back in …

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Britain’s internet archive is now officially offline

Don't worry your internet hasn't crapped out and somehow I'm telling you this through a loaded webpage, but the British internet as we know it is now officially offline. Or at least, it's accessible from an offline facility. This is all part of the British Library's attempt to store the …

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Warhammer Online rides off into Sigmar’s sunset

“Shutting down now, thanks for all the Waaaaaghs!” read the message to gamers logged in a the time of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning's shut down. While there might have been a reasonable number of players still willing to slaughter one another across the Old World, with the licensing deal …

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Well this Zelda game is a bit different

Nintendo has a lot of well loved franchises and bankable characters – even if they haven't been selling systems for it. There's Mario and all of his side characters, Kerby, Samus, Donkey Kong , Link and more, and all of them tend to star in games that are somewhat similar …

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