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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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Panasonic to invest $2.7 billion for restructuring

Panasonic

Japanese electronics giant Panasonic, has announced a company restructuring with an investment of $2.7 (£1.8) billion over the next two years, with a particular focus on expanding the company's automotive and housing developments, while scaling back on consumer electronics. It's not clear from this fresh round of investment if job …

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Windows Blue, the true successor to Windows 7?

Microsoft have acknowledged the existence of Windows Blue, the operating system they hope will win the hearts and minds of the enthusiast audience. Microsoft's vice president of corporate communications Frank X has made a mention of Windows Blue. He wrote in a March 26th blog post “With a remarkable foundation …

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Unsuspecting users involved in Spamhaus DNS attacks

There may be hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting British computer users involved in cyber attack, because their router has been compromised. Spamhaus, which runs a filtering service used to stop spam emails has been under attack from 18th march after they added a Dutch hosting organisation called CyberBunker to their …

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Corsair updates adds Dolby support to Vengeance headset

Vengeance

Owners of the Vengeance 2000 gaming headset rejoice, with a simple software update you can now get access to Dolby features, such as Dolby Headphone 2.0 and Dolby Pro Logic Ilx. Surround sound quality and game compatibility have also been improved. You'll need something like the Vengeance's 7.1 setup to …

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