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Tim Cook to explain Apple tax position to Senate

Like many of the world's mega corporations, Apple is guilty of doing some tax… avoidance. Not tax evasion, that would be illegal, but tax avoidance; everyone does it. Amazon and Google have been dragged across the public coals for their schemes that help them pay very little, despite their billions …

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Mega launches event notifications and zipped downloads

Kim Dotcom's cloud based file locker, Mega, has launched a new feature called Event Notifications, which informs you of all “relevant activities” of your cloud partners, meaning you can keep an eye on what everyone's doing when they access your files and folders. On top of that, you can also …

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Ouya’s E3 appearance is an odd one too

Last Friday we heard how Nintendo was going to be holding mini-E3s around the US at Best Buy stores, showing off unreleased Wii U games to the public as well as or instead of the journos at the actual event. Ouya are doing something a bit different too. Its E3 …

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Futuremark preparing PCMark 8 release

For the first time in the series, PCMark 8 will combine performance testing with battery life measurement. You can estimate battery use from each benchmark test or use Battery Life mode to loop a test until the battery is almost empty for more accurate results. New Adobe and Microsoft application …

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100 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute

Even if you wanted, there is no way you could sit and watch every video that is uploaded to Youtube. The website has just turned eight years old and they have released some interesting information about their services. Every minute, 100 hours of video are uploaded to the servers. This …

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Explosion on Moon – visible to naked eye

An explosion on the surface of the moon was visible from Earth with the naked eye. Bill Cooke, a NASA scientist said “It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything we've ever seen before.” According to NASA reports, the blast “glowed like a 4th magnitude star …

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Nintendo doing things a little different at E3

By… not doing things at E3. This is of course not too much of a surprise, as Nintendo did tell us it wouldn't be doing a big reveal at this year's E3 and would instead by hosting a lot of smaller events, but this one is a pretty smart one. …

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Yahoo might buy Tumblr

When the name Yahoo pops up I have to do a double take, because I always forget it still exists. Every time someone emails me from a @yahoo.com account or there's some talk of the company doing something, business like, I'm reminded that it's still around and not only that, …

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Rupert Murdoch pokes fun at Facebook’s falling usage

Rupert Murdoch has compared Facebook to Myspace, suggesting the fall from grace for the social network could be already beginning, poking fun at the falling time spent by the average user through his Twitter account. “Look out Facebook!” begins the Tweet by the BSKYB owner. “Hour's spent participating per member …

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Sony buys up Angry Birds film rights, coming 2016

Sony has secured the international distribution rights to the animated feature film adaption of crush-the-castle-avian-edition, Angry Birds. It's not wasting time either, announcing that the movie will debut worldwide on 1st July 2016. It's not handing off to some large studio though, but keeping it all in-house. Rovio, the developer …

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Exclusive Interview with AMD’s Roy Taylor

We were given the opportunity to interview Roy Taylor, Corporate Vice President Global Channel Sales for AMD. Roy is a busy man, but he still found time to sit down and chat with Kitguru. First, a little background history – before Roy joined AMD on January 2nd this year, he had …

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Valve is running a beta for Steam Cards now

Yesterday we talked about the new leveling system that Steam profiles are getting, but apparently that's not the only shake up Valve is introducing. Another new feature which is now in beta, is a Steam trading card system. This isn't a game though, but more like achievements, that aren't just achievements, if …

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Google knows which of your photos is the best

Google is looking to make your Google + page that bit better looking, by helping sift through all your awful photos to find the best ones. Using a new algorithm, the search giant is now able to highlight the “best” photos that you upload to make a collage of great …

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Designers are using 3D printers for fashionable fungus

3D printers might be hitting headlines for their new ability to make guns, negating all real fears of a future zombie apocalypse, but they have other uses too. According to one designer, they can also be used to make fashion items – that are inspired by a parasitic fungus, Cordyceps. …

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Nintendo is claiming ad money from Youtube user content

A Youtube user by the name of Zack Scott, who runs Let's Play videos on the site, has been targeted by Nintendo for using its games in his videos and the video game giant is now claiming advertising revenue from him, despite the fact that his commentary of the games is covered …

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EA Games is ditching online passes

Thank god. EA Games has announced that due to its player base not really taking it up on the offer of paying for games' multiplayer content, after they bought the game second hand or borrowed it from a friend, that it was dropping the much hated Online Pass system. “We're …

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Arctic launches latest Carbon Neutral cooler

Without doubt, one of the biggest problem areas for the environment is the professional segment of the market. It's a huge consumer of all things elec-tricky. While a regular user might accept a small issue with a system – and wait patiently while repairs etc are effected by the store …

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Buy a Raspberry Pi camera module now

If you're a Raspberry Pi user and you've been hankering to use the mini-PC to make something that'll snap pictures, then you're in luck, as the module to give it photographic capabilities, has now gone on sale via official Pi suppliers: RS Components and Element14. You'll have to be fast …

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Hawken CEO embraces equal sexual representation

Ruby Underboob and Bro-sie the Riveter now sit side by side in the lobby of Hawken publisher Meteor Entertainment, thanks to a brilliantly intuitive way of addressing sexual representation in not only the office environment, but in games too. Initially, CEO Mark Long, had a comic art inspired poster of …

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