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BlackBerry announced the latest model in the BlackBerry 10 range today, and despite it being mere hours since the new Z30 model smartphone was unveiled to the world, we're already seeing pre-orders go up online. With the likes of the iPhone 5S also launching in a similar timeframe, can Blackberry …

EVGA and Nvidia have just announced their partnership to bring you the world's first Tegra 4 powered tablet: The Tegra Note 7. It's hurtling on to the shelves in October, with a price tag of £180, just in time for the holiday season. Here's what we know so far about the specs; …

The popular open source software company, Mozilla, has officially released the latest version of its well-known internet browser Firefox, bundling the program with 17 fixes to the original security system. Firefox 24 was released to the public earlier today and is downloadable from the Mozilla website now. This version of …

The next iteration of the iPhone from Apple has been predicted to shift huge numbers at the official launch this weekend, but some reports have been coming in that paint a very different picture for the hardware company. Various mobile operators in the US have reportedly spoken with Allthingsd about …

Media lobby groups like the MPAA and RIAA in America and the BPI over here in the UK, have been using all sorts of nefarious tactics over the past few years, to try and block sites related to piracy. They've used DMCA takedown requests – that have even targeted their …

Yesterday it was revealed that one of the most anticipated launch titles for the Xbox one would run at 1600×900 natively and instead be upscaled to 1080p. Aaron Greenberg, chief of staff for devices and studios at Microsoft, mistakenly tweeted that both Forza 5 and Ryse: Son of Rome would run at …

Our very own Facebook king, lord Carl, wrote a great piece this morning about how the Daily Mail has completely missed the point when it comes to many of Grand Theft Auto's digs at society, or the fact that it has an an 18 age rating, describing it instead as …

Legally embattled Kim Dotcom, founder of Megaupload, worker on Baboom and one day possible political driving force, has announced that his cloud backup service MEGA, has won a prize for security and privacy in 2013, from the Australia and New Zealand Internet Awards. Known as the ANZIA, these prizes are …

Rumours of the next potential handset from Google, the Nexus 5, have been going strong for some time now despite the company remaining tight lipped about the unconfirmed project. Those same rumours may have come to fruition, as the smartphone seems to have been leaked last night in a bar. …

Diablo III was a big hit. It sold millions and millions of copies and remained a headline grabber for many sites and publications for quite some time. Unfortunately though, quite a few of those headlines revolved around gold hacks, or items being stolen from accounts – all of which stemmed …

Grand Theft Auto has always been a franchise to court controversy and there is no doubt that Rockstar really don't seem to care. They have never shown an interest in being politically correct, or even fitting into what many people deem as ‘acceptable'. There is also no doubt that Grand …

Occipital have developed a product called the Structure Sensor, a clip on accessory for the iPad which is designed to allow the user to scan 3D objects as well as to play augmented reality games. Occipital have clearly seen the potential of the Kinect for 3D applications. want to bring …

The world of prosthetic body parts can be a strange one for people outside of that particular circle. Advances in technology have made it so that losing a limb isn't as bad as it could have been even just a few years ago, and now we're seeing more and more …

Gabe Newell, the man behind Valve and the much loved Steam platform, gave a keynote presentation at Linuxcon yesterday, during which he went over how his vision for the future is to bind Linux and gaming together. However, the most exciting thing about his keynote was towards the end, where …

Vodafone has announced its pricing plans for Apple's upcoming iPhone 5s smartphone ahead of its release in just three days time, along with potential upgrade options for those that haven't quite reached the end of their contract yet and still want to get in on the latest fruity fashion item. …

The prize pool for the DreamHack Counter Strike: Global Offensive tournament just got a whole lot bigger, thanks to an injection of a bucket-load of cash from a crowd funded, in-game item sale. Ultimately players bought so much stuff that the Dreamhack tournament will receive an extra $250,000 to dole out …

If you aren't already a regular reader of our Facebook page then you don't know what you are missing – we have over 113,000 likes and counting! The social side of Kitguru is very interactive and we share funny tech images, with more serious stuff including competitions and reader rigs. …

In what must be seen as an attempt to draw attention to the local branch of the Pirate Party and to highlight problems with invasions of privacy, a German election rally for chancellor Angela Merkel, was interrupted when an unmanned drone was flown within metres of her campaign podium during …

For all our technological advancements, our ability to communicate across vast distances instantaneously, our large hadron colliders, smartphones and our Mars rovers, we're still a bunch of head scratching apes when it comes to the awesome power of the sun. Despite our best predictions that our lone star should be …

Upon release of what could be this generation's biggest game launch, the first bug has been highlighted by developer Rockstar. Don't worry though it's not that bad: Xbox 360 players have to run the second disc straight from the DVD drive as installing to the HDD will cause some textures …

Kitguru reviews hundreds of products every year and having high performance, up to the minute test systems at hand to partner with the latest components is extremely important. This is especially true when reviewing the latest graphics cards. Several of our systems have been relegated to the storage room and …

While companies like Intel might be hammering away at improving the efficiency of components while maintaining performance, we're not quite at a stage yet where mobile electronics like laptops are able to sustain their operating life between charges much over 10 hours, if that. However, that doesn't matter so much …

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Google have announced a new series of Chrome devices at the Intel Developer forum last week which will feature the latest Intel Haswell processors. The company highlighted some models from HP and Acer and they promoted the fact that Toshiba and Asus joined the Chromebook ranks. The Google Chromebooks have …

Many KickStarter campaigns crash and burn, but every so often one raises so much money that it easily surpasses the initial goal outline. A gadget company based in New York called Omate recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for their TrueSmart smartwatch. They claim the product is a ‘truly standalone' device …

A new study explains why it is so difficult to swat a house fly – they process information at up to seven times as quickly as a human. Hitting them with a rolled up paper is tricky as they would see the movement almost as if  they were Neo in …

Microsoft's touch screen Surface ambitions might not have ended with the tablet if its most recent deal with Nokia hadn't gone to plan. Had it not been able to snap up the Finnish phone maker, Microsoft may have forged ahead with support, developing its own line of Surface handsets. However, …

While often times with big franchises, you hear mostly about big chain stores or online retail giants benefiting the most from huge releases, the Grand Theft Auto franchise has a history of supporting the smaller companies and those same companies support Rockstar and its games in turn. With the release …

With the early leaks of Grand Theft Auto V beginning to trickle in, it's no wonder that people have been hacking it apart to look at its innards. Hidden inside the game's source code, one intrepid code explorer has found a reference to not only the long dreamed of PC …

It's quite clear from looking at the current state of copyright law, that it's being massively abused. Whether you consider stories of little girls having their laptops confiscated by the police, or Apple and Samsung going at one another in court rooms over minor patent disputes that could block the …