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StarCraft Universe hits KickStarter

A project set up by Upheaval Arts is set to interest many gamers who enjoyed  StarCraftII. StarCraft Universe is set in an ‘alternative reality' where the ending of StarCraft II:Wings of Liberty has a grim conclusion for Kerrigan. Without the Queen of Blades to stop the hybrid’s assault, the protoss …

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Microsoft ditch mandatory Kinect policy

Microsoft have told gamers that they will no longer need to have an always online, all seeing online camera attached to their Xbox One. Just another in the latest line of 180 degree changes for the company who have been facing a lot of negative press for a series of …

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Elon Musk details Hyperloop transit system

You may not immediately know the name Elon Musk, but he is the man behind SpaceX, Tesla Motors and Paypal. He is currently working on a futuristic style transit system, called Hyperloop. To this date very little has been detailed about the system, except that it would serve as a …

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ZTE Firefox OS smartphone to hit US and UK eBay

ZTE will be selling their new Firefox OS smartphone soon via Ebay stores in America and the United Kingdom. The smartphone will mean that consumers can buy an affordable smartphone based completely on open Web standards. The phone ships unlocked and will cost £59.99 in the UK and $79.99 in …

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LG release retro TV with old fashioned dials

Our younger readers may never have seen an old television set with ‘dials', but LG are attempting to hit the nostalia button by releasing a new television with several of them next to the screen. Their retro classic TV, model 32LN630R features a creamy white fascia with volume and channel …

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Google Glass testers get Google Now cards, voice commands

Google Glass is still with the early testers and while videos and information showing the device in action have popped up online, the mass public still haven't been able to get their hands on it. Google have recently applied some updates to the device. Google Now features in the update. …

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Blackberry struggles to find a strategy – up for sale

You can tell when a company becomes hopelessly lost. Things it once took for granted, like leadership and innovation, become nervous half-choices and an urge to copy answers from the kid you're sitting next to. Blackberry had it all, but those days are long gone. What next for the old …

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Pirate Bay release PirateBrowser, bypasses censorship

The Pirate Bay have released a new dedicated web browser which will defeat blacklisting ISP filters. In a celebration of their 10th anniversary, The Pirate Bay have launched the new PirateBrowser. This is a web browser system which will allow users to bypass ISP filters that will block access to …

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Vietnamese BlackBerry Z30 video leaks

A five minute video is the latest in a series of leaks of the upcoming BlackBerry flagship model to hit the web. This particular video is in Vietnamese. [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX62bqi9sWI'] The new smartphone, originally called the Blackberry A10 is said to rest at the top of the mobile phone range. …

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New iPhones will be called 5S and 5C say Macotakara

A Japanese website say they have confirmation that Apple will be calling their new iPhone the iPhone 5S, and that Apple's rumoured low cost iPhone will be known as the iPhone 5C. Macotakara are saying they know ‘sources in Asia' have confirmed the names are correct. The ‘C' moniker is …

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Pirate Bay Launches Browser to Sidestep Censorship

Still looking for ways to help internet users bypass the censorship imposed by many countries, the UK included, The Pirate Bay has launched its own web browser called PirateBrowser. Based on a Tor client and version 23 of Mozilla's portable edition Firefox browser with foxyproxy add-on, PirateBrowser is a simple …

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Google celebrate Erwin Schrodinger

Google are celebrating the life of Austrian scientist Erwin Schrödinger with a Google doodle image. If he was still alive, he would be 127 today. Schrödinger was a nobel prize winning physicist best known for his mind experiment known as Schrödinger's Cat. This was an equation that lies at the very heart …

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Clear skies ahead for Perseids UK meteor shower

Forecasters say the weather conditions are looking good for the Perseid meteor shower which should be clearly visible from late evening tonight to early Tuesday morning in the United Kingdom. Matt Dobson of MeteoGroup, the weather section of the Press Association spoke out “It's looking pretty good for people to …

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SATA-IO completes SATA 3.2 Specification

The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) has announced that it has completed the SATA 3.2 Specification. The latest iteration of the specification brings with it increased data transfer rates, improved power management and SATA Express. SATA Express will allow drives to use two lanes of PCI Express 3.0, increasing available bandwidth …

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New iPhone may be released within a month

The latest news from AllThingsD would suggest that Apple may introduce the follow up to the iPhone 5 at a special event held on September 10th. This is almost a full year after Apple introduced the iPhone 5 at a media event in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Arts Center on …

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Asus will make next Google Nexus 10

Asus were the manufacturer of the original Nexus 7, and the redesigned model which was released earlier this year however Samsung were responsible for the bigger Nexus 10 model. Asus bid for manufacturing of the new model, and they won, aiming to release the Nexus 10 in time for Christmas …

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SSD price war in full flow with Crucial and ADATA

Just a few weeks ago, KitGuru was chatting internally and wondering what happened to all the cool SSD deals from last summer. We remembered a time when drives dropped below £70 and then headed down to settle around £60. Why were 2013's prices so much higher? Looks like movements in …

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G.Skill TridentX breaks world record at 4400MHz

G.Skill has reclaimed its position as performance king after professional overclocker James “YoungPro” Trevaskis reached 4400MHz using G.Skill's TridentX memory earlier this morning. The set-up used to achieve this result consisted of an Intel Core i7 4770k, ASUS Maximus 6 Impact and G.Skill TridentX DDR3 3000MHz C12 4GB. As is …

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BMW i3 (2013) 170bhp hybrid available on order

The new BMW i3 has gone on sale priced from £25,680 with the £5,000 OLEV Government grant. The car can be ordered now, but the official UK launch date is on the 16th November 2013. The BMW i3 is a hybrid design, powered by a synchronous electric motor with the …

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LG G2 specs and price detailed

Many people are waiting on the new G2 phone from LG. At their event in New York the company highlighted the features of the watch, calling the G2 ‘The most ambitious phone in history'. Key features of the LG G2 are a new edge to edge display (‘near zero bezel'), …

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OverclockersUK have something ‘big coming’

OverclockersUK are teasing everyone with news that they have something ‘big' coming to market. They just sent us a press release which reads “For quite some time Overclockers UK have been working on a top-secret project, a project soon to be unveiled but not first without a taste. In the …

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