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It's hard to remember anything undermining Apple's position in the market more than the maps debacle that accompanied the ousting of Google from iOS in favour of a self-branded product that struggled to find its butt with both hands. Now Apple has its heart set on a different kind of …

Today torrent search site Isohunt lost an appeal against the MPAA which would have seen it able to halt the filtering of its search results. However, backing up the initial 2006 ruling that forced the filtering into place, the court did not rule in the site's favour. Isohunt has been …

After a whole host of unofficial price cuts at UK retailers that are looking to shift their stock of Wii U consoles, Nintendo has pledged to meet with them to help assuage fears that everyone is going to make a big loss on the company's new machine. Despite the price …

It's generally accepted that whatever created the 180km wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico was the giant rock that wiped out all non-bird-like dinosaurs around 65 million years ago. However there's a new suggestion that it may not have been an asteroid, but a comet. The reason behind this thinking was …

The parent company of League of Legends creators, Riot Games, Tencent, now owns a 40 per cent stake in Epic Games after its $330 million buy up of shares last year, giving it the chance to add a couple of its own executives to the Unreal developer's board. These are likely …

All the big gaming review sites are sitting on their own review of Bioshock Infinite, since they've had the game for a few days and have been beavering away to make sure that they had their review ready for Monday, when the official NDA is lifted and everyone can say …

As reported on KitGuru a while back, the new Samsung S4 products will have the kind of processing power and storage specification that would not have looked out of place in a desktop PC 10 years ago. It now seems that the UK launch spec for the S4 has been …

Are you waiting to get hold of Crysis 3 and Bioshock Infinite? You may want to enter our little competition running on Facebook for the next couple of days. We are giving away codes for both, meaning you can keep your hard earned money for something more important such as …

An interesting story broke which appears to link Amazon with the CIA. According to Federal Computer Week, a magazine that deals with technology and the federal government it would appear that Amazon have signed a deal with the CIA, agreeing to help the agency develop cloud computing technology over the …

You gotta love IBM. While the world plus dog runs around trying to sell a better tablet or phone or hamburger, the blue-suits at International Business Machines are happy focused on one thing: Creating tomorrow. Now Dr Parkin, one of IBM's Fellows, has spoken with Science Magazine and revealed an …

Fuji have launched the FinePix XP200 camera which is built to withstand a rough environment. Ideal for people on an ‘adventure holiday' as the camera is designed to cope with water, knocks and bumps. The camera is waterproof to a depth of 15 meters and FujiFilm say it has ‘crystal …

The blockade of a fresh batch of file sharing websites has begun, with the major ISPs in the UK blocking their customers from accessing Fenopy, Kickasstorrents and H33T. Of course this won't stop 99 per cent of visitors who already have ways around the blocks thanks to a plethora of …

The Fox engine is a cross-platform development that will be used in upcoming games like Pro Evolution Soccer 2014, The Phantom Pain and the next Metal Gear title, but beyond that, we don't know much about it. Fortunately, Hideo Kojima has spoken out on Twitter to give us some ideas. The original …

Yesterday South Korean computers were hit by a big systems crash across banks and major media, prompting many to point the finger at North Korea. A few sources have suggested that a certain piece of malware was used in the suspected attack that wiped the Master Boot Record – but …

While you've been able to buy your way into a few games' alpha builds for a while now, Valve has created a special section of Steam just for that. Called, “Early Access,” those of you that want to pay early to get a chance to play unfinished games, can now …

If you thought NASA chief, Charles Bolden, speaking to the US House of Representatives on the subject of world ending asteroids, would bring us some solutions to the potential threat, you'd be sorely mistaken. If it happened within the next few weeks, Bolden believes the best course of action would be …

Are you waiting to get hold of Crysis 3 and Bioshock Infinite? You may want to enter our little competition running on Facebook for the next couple of days. We are giving away codes for both, meaning you can keep your hard earned money for something more important such as …

Apple are being sued by Intertrust Technologies Corp, a leader in digital copyright protection. They are alleging patent infringement on 15 of Intertrust patents. According to the Wall Street Journal, the suit against Apple covers a lot of products, including the iPad, iPhone, computers and laptops, Apple TV and even …

Go almost anywhere in the world and ask people what kind of building they want to work in – and Google's creations are discussed early on and with passion. The company prides itself on integrating humanity into one happy unit. KitGuru wonders how this will work in Israel. Opening a …

YouTube has been one of the most successful websites in the history of the internet. When Google bought them in 2006 for $1.65bn they upgraded their server system to cope with huge amounts of traffic. Recently however Google have been investing more money into improving the experience for Youtube visitors. …

In 1969 five engines of the Apollo 11 disengaged from the spacecraft to plunge into the Atlantic Ocean, sitting three miles under the surface for more than 40 years. Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO wanted to rescue these engines from the murky depths with the goal of resurrecting them. …

While the kick off point of the Leveson Report was the hacking of celebrities phones, the final solution to the problem seems to be shrouded in a cloud of uncertainty and contradiction. KitGuru ponders life behind bars for those found to be on the wrong side of at least one …

Despite the horrible beating EA and Maxis have gotten for the recent gaff with the new Sim City, it looks like they aren't the only companies considering the idea of always on systems. Microsoft could very well be pushing for it with the next Xbox and this could lead to …

Jason “Wee-man” Acuna, of Jackass fame, has distanced himself from the producers of a direct to DVD movie he starred in, known as Elf Man, after they announced their intention to sue over 200 Bittorrent downloaders for pirating the movie. Initially taking to Twitter to voice his concern, Acuna posted: …

After nearly two decades as part of one of the world's most dominant chip firms, ARM's CEO, Warren East, has announced his retirement, with his replacement, current president Simon Segars, set to take over the CEO position from 1st July. East has done a good job during his tenure too. …

Just a day on from the developers of Remember Me discussing how difficult it was to get the lead character accepted as a female, one of the writers for Mass Effect 3, Ann Lemay, has spoken out about the approval process for adding a female Turian to a DLC release. …

When KitGuru caught up with Patrick Moorhead from Moor Insights at Distree last month, one of the things that most interested us was the way that Patrick went into some detail about how he sees the actual deployment of Intel's Computing Continuum rolling out. How much is it worth? This …

Are you waiting to get hold of Crysis 3 and Bioshock Infinite? You may want to enter our little competition running on Facebook for the next couple of days. We are giving away codes for both, meaning you can keep your hard earned money for something more important such as …

Google have added the option to search for animated GIF's in their image search. The new ‘animated' filter is now available on their image search. From this point today when you want to look for moving images, you head into ‘search tools' and then ‘animated' under type filter to search …

According to industry insiders I spoke with last night close to manufacturing, it would appear that Samsung will be in a position to release their new electronic watch before Apple. There have been many rumours of Apple releasing their upcoming ‘iWatch', a device that they reckon will sell very well, …