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Apple apologise to Chinese consumers

Apple boss Tim Cook has apologised to Chinese customers and has changed the iPhone warranty policies after dealing with bad press for their after sales service. Newspaper publications and television channels have bashed Apple for their arrogance, protesting that their one year warranty service was shorter than in any other …

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Winners of Phanteks and NZXT hardware!

Another competition to close recently was the amazing competition with Phanteks and NZXT. The prizes got a lot of people excited as we had many thousands of entries from hopeful candidates. The answer to the question was a bit of a no brainer – it was YES ! it can …

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Winners of Bequiet! hardware competition

We recently held a competition with BEQUIET! to win some very nice hardware indeed. The competition closed a short while ago, but due to site upgrades and EASTER weekend, we have been a little late in picking the winners. The details of all the winners will be winging their way …

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Aerocool prize winners announced!

Our Aerocool competition was popular and today we selected five winners to walk away with some very nice prizes! The winners are as follows! 1st Prize AeroCool GT-1050SG Power Supply The winner is Giuseppe Maielli 2nd Prize Aerocool Strike X ST Super Tower Case. The winner is Nathan Owen 3rd …

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Super Mario to enter augmented reality on 3DS cards

Augmented reality is a technology that's truly in its infancy, but it has potentially huge applications. It could be used to leave messages for friends as they explore the real world, turn board games into fully animated, digital displays and now, have Mario and his friends, interact wherever you want. …

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Google’s April Fool’s gag is Nose

Anyone that remembers when 1st April rolls around will be expecting it. The slew of news sites, offering up somewhat believable – and usually attention grabbing – stories, that ultimately turn out to be a ruse – “Hi the 1930s called and they want their words, clothes and…” Google has its own …

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Here’s some other Unreal Engine 4.0 Games

Last year Epic treated us to our first look at the next-generation of the Unreal Engine, 4.0, with its whistlestop tour of particle and lighting effects. It was impressive stuff, but the Infiltrator demo from a few days ago took it over the top with how smooth it looked – …

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Synology DS213 AIR NAS winner announced!

We recently ran a competition for the chance to win a lovely DS213 Air NAS! system courtesy of Synology. The company said it was a great success with several thousand entries applying for the chance to win the product. When we reviewed the DS213 air it won our top award …

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Battlefield 4 release date leaked

Battlefield 4

Microsoft may have leaked the date that Battlefield 4 is set to launch, after it revealed it on the official Xbox blog, before immediately removing it. Fortunately, some intrepid users were able to snatch a screenshot, so we can confirm that the rumoured date is 29th October, 2013. Whether this …

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NASA takes a closer look at super-bright comet

Researchers at the University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP) have been using the Swift telescope to take a closer look at ISON, a comet that could be the brightest one for the past 50 years – though it won't hit its peak luminosity until it grazes the sun, at a …

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Win Enermax power supplies! (1200W/750W/500W)

Tech aficionados will be in seventh heaven today because we are working with one of the industries most highly respected power supply companies – ENERMAX. They are giving away three of their finest products. Enermax have been releasing quality power supplies now for many years, and many of the Kitguru …

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Meep meep, Roadrunner Supercomputer shuts down

The world's first sustained petaflop supercomputer, Roadrunner, has been shut down by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, ending its five year run of trend setting and virus modelling. Record breaking for its near 1.5 petaflop peak performance, Road Runner also made waves in 2008 by being incredibly …

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EU wants to force telecoms firms to work together

EUC

If we've learned one thing from the way that our British telecoms companies handled the auction for the 4G spectrum, is that give and take isn't a phrase they're particularly fond of. The EU Commission is just as familiar with this practice and it's keen to put a stop to …

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Miiverse inflating into PC and 3DS space

Aliens

Nintendo's Miiverse, the social networking hub of its poorly selling console, the Wii U, is set to expand its influence to include both PC and smartphone platforms, with Nintendo looking to debut the latter of those two systems sometime between April and May. Initially the functionality won't be great, with …

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Ebay looking to take the fight to Amazon

Ebay

Ebay is looking to challenge big names in the retail game, with plans to expand its business to double the current user base – which would bring the total to over 200 million – within the next three years. If successful, this would see the total money changing hand on …

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War Z producer gives ‘sage’ advice

Hammerpoint

Sergey Titov, executive producer of problematic, recycled idea-fest, The War Z, has been speaking out at the Games Developer Conference with some advice for anyone trying to release an online game, or one with micro-transactions. According to Titov, one of gamer's favourite features about The War Z, is that despite …

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Google testing same day delivery service in San Fran

Google are testing the water in the retail sector, announcing that they are testing a same day delivery service of online goods in the San Francisco Bay Area. A small number of testers, aged 18 and over are able to purchase goods online via partners such as Staples, Target and …

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Would you deliver your neighbour’s food for a discount?

Walmart

Walmart is looking into crowd-sourcing its delivery service, offering discounts to customers that deliver their neighbours' food. You'd need to tell the supermarket where you live, but once done, Warlmart says it would highlight delivery routes for customer orders. It's not something the grocery chain is expecting to implement soon, …

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PC games sales made £13.24 billion in 2012

Microtransactions

An organisation that combines the two giants of gamer chip creation, AMD and Intel, has announced through a new report that PC gaming grew once again in 2012, managing to generate well over £10 billion. Known as the PC Games Alliance, a non-profit organisation with aims to further PC gaming …

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