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Lamborghini 200mph V10 LP 570-4 Squadra Corse

Lamborghini, the car maker for teenage bedroom walls have announced their latest model will be making a world premiere at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show. The car is based on Lamborghini's Super Trofeo track cars. The Squadra Corse has a 570 bhp, V10 engine and can accelerate from 0 to …

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Overclockers UK to sell Phanteks Enthoo

Regular readers will already be aware that KitGuru has been following the development of the Phanteks Enthoo case now for months. In the United Kingdom Overclockers UK have struck a deal with the company – selling direct to the enthusiast user. We are excited about this case and have one …

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Edward Snowden accepts temporary Russian asylum

Edward Snowden, the NSA contractor who leaked documents pertaining to the NSA's PRISM campaign and set off a worldwide revelation of how much governments are able to keep track of their citizens, has been granted asylum in Russia by President Putin, on the condition that he stops leaking U.S. secrets. …

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Of course the NSA is defending its data gathering

Well you wouldn't expect it to do a Microsoft now would you? Putting its big dog forward, the NSA chief General Keith Alexander spoke out at a cyber security conference yesterday, where he addressed security professionals from around the world, promising to answer any questions they had. While Wired points …

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Boob Jam hopes to offer different breast perspective

“The Boob Jam is a game jam,” reads the official site. “We’re inviting game developers to make games about one of video games’s very favourite subjects: Tits!” It might sound like something one of the more misogynistic developers might decide to do, or something you'd see as part of a game show …

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Sony to limit launch day PS4 pre-orders

Sony has announced that it is going to have to cut back on pre-order promises to supply its next-generation console on launch day, as apparently the numbers are just getting too lofty to deal with. However, that doesn't mean pre-orders made today, or tomorrow won't be fulfilled as you might …

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Cryptozoic saves Kickstarter scam game

The Doom that came to Atlantic City, was an ironicly named game for a Kickstarter, since ultimately the story surrounding it became about the doom of the campaign itself. After over a year of development, the man controlling the money for the thing announced that the whole project had been …

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MSI giveaway! Win a Z87-GD-65 Motherboard

MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING, the No. 1 and Only Best Choice Golden Awarded Motherboard at Computex 2013. The Z87-GD65 GAMING motherboard is the latest joint effort of MSI and FNATIC, the world-renowned gaming champion team. Consolidating the cutting-edge Intel 8 series chipset and Killer E2200 Game Networking, the Z87-GD65 GAMING effectively eliminates …

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Researchers create malicious charger for Apple devices

Researchers from Georgia Tech's Information Security Center (GTISC) say they have managed to get a malware ridden application through Apple's inspection procedure and have also discussed their concerns about ‘malicious chargers' for the iPhone. The team have documented their research online and say their application “rearranges its own code to …

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Facebook offer up embeddable posts

Facebook have introduced a new feature, which lets organisations include status updates, videos and photographs in stories. The posts operate in a similar way to embeds from YouTube and Twitter. Once the account is enabled you will get the option to ‘Embed Post'. That then creates a code which you …

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Win games in the KitGuru Steam Channel!

A couple of days ago we announced the new KitGuru Steam Channel – it seemed apt as we hit over 100,000 likes on Facebook to interact more with our community. Over the next 5 days you have a chance to win a game of your choice by entering our simple …

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Nintendo Wii U sales are still awful

Poor Nintendo. Its “next-gen” system has had a horrible start, despite having a year lead in on both Microsoft and Sony's systems. New figures announced during Nintendo's quarterly earnings report, suggest that worldwide, it only sold 160,000 of the machines between April and June this year. Game sales were a …

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Orsto Plus+ smartwatch has smartphone functionality

While the world waits for smartwatch products from Google, Apple and Microsoft there are models already in the field from smaller, sometimes unknown companies. One of the latest to hit crowdfunding, is the Orsto Plus+. Orsto are a UK based team who say the Plus+ is the first smartwatch to …

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Apple iOS 7 3D Maps to dominate ?

Apple oriented website AppleInsider have published an article showing how Apple Maps will look in the upcoming iOS7 operating system. They say that the new mapping system will have a full screen mode which focuses on how easy the new Apple 3D Flyover imagery is to navigate. Appleinsider say that …

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Microsoft losing money over Surface tablet

The Microsoft Surface tablet has not been the big money maker that Microsoft had hoped. The device has earned the company less in revenue than it paid to write down unsold stocks. The company have said in their regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the Surface …

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KitGuru community on Facebook passes 100,000

KitGuru was born in May 2010 and our team has worked very hard over the last 38 months to seek out the finest hardware on the market, review it and bring the results direct to you, our readers. Alongside the hardcore testing, we have also managed to find time to …

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Drone tech to keep endangered rhinos safe

Thanks to PRISM, Tempora, the Snooper's Charter and a handful of other privacy invading revelations about our technological lives, it's nice to see one bit of spying tech that is being used for the power of good. After a successful Indiegogo campaign, an anti-poaching drone is set to be launched …

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