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Anonymous hack MIT website after death of activist

Anonymous hacked and defaced the website of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for their connection to the events that led to the alleged suicide of online activist Aaron Swartz. The attack came hours after MIT president Rafael Reif said the school would investigate MIT's involvement in the events that led …

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Antec GX700 ready for battle at £69

At CES 2013 in Las Vegas, Antec was on hand to launch the brand new GX700 chassis. KitGuru has done some investigation into the UK and European launch pricing. Seems attractive, so what are you getting for your money? There was a time when Antec chassis ruled the world (of …

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Double Fine could be buying up THQ properties

Tim Shafer

We  spoke earlier this week about how EA is in the running for a few of bankrupt THQ's intellectual properties but now there's a new name in the acquisition talks: Double Fine. That's Mr Tim Shafer's company. Tim Shafer of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango fame. …

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Microsoft gives warning to new console makers

Phil Harrison

We've talked a lot recently about all of the companies that are looking to get into the console market with small form factor, low cost gaming machines. Whether it's the Ouya, the Game Stick, Nvidia's Shield, Valve's Steam Box, there's plenty of new players in this game. Microsoft though has …

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Beats Audio to launch music streaming service later this year

Due to its recent acquisition of music streaming service MOG, Beats Audio is looking to launch its own service later this year. The service from Beats Audio, who are better known for overpriced headphones and software equalisers on some of HTC's smartphones and HP laptops, will be in direct competition with the …

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Amazon offering free digital copies of CDs

Autorip

In a move that seems like it should have been made sometime in the last decade, Amazon has announced that thanks to a new feature called AutoRip – unfortunately only available in the US at the moment – those that buy CDs via the site or have done so since …

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Google introduces Chrome Beta channel for Android

Google has today announced the Chrome Beta channel for Android 4.x devices based on Chrome 25 over the stable channel's Chrome 18. Chrome Beta 25.0.1364.8 brings improved HTML5 support and Javascript support over the current stable channel version. Furthermore, the Beta version will be the first to receive any neat …

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Apple Cook courts China in Year of the Snake

We are now living in the last days of the USA being the biggest power on Earth. Buried under a tremendous amount of debt and a continuing struggle to understand which direction to take in order to stimulate growth, American companies are now looking at the ‘East' for solutions. KitGuru …

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Nintendo Wii U sales top 460,000 in December

The latest report from Nintendo shows that total sales for the Wii U in December have topped 460,000 units. Nintendo have generated around $300 million from American sales of the console. Nintendo sold 2.65 million units in December and they also sold 580,000 copies of New Super Mario Bros. U. …

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Nokia sales boosted by Lumia, climb by 50%

Nokia were once one of the market leaders however in recent years they have dropped off the radar, leaving the market open to Android and iOS devices. Two years ago Stephen Elop, Nokia CEO painted their future as a difficult battle to regain market share. He ditched the in house …

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Tablets and smartphones hit global PC shipments: down 6.4%

International Data Corp (IDC) have said that global PC shipments in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 are down by 6.4 percent from last year. The figures fell short of IDC expectations and some of the responsibility has to be directed towards the growing popularity and versatility of smartphones and …

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Cheaper Apple accessories start to appear

Under Steve Jobs, Apple was aimed fair and square at the ‘aspirational' side of town. Forget how much you had, this is the product you want – why don't you save up or borrow to get it? That thinking appeared to fail Apple the first time around and, eventually, Jobs …

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First Pirate Bay server becomes museum exhibit

TPB

The Computer Museum in Linköping has continued to expand its exhibition on the past 50 years of file sharing by showing off the first ever Pirate Bay server. It's a pretty unremarkable looking PC base case filled with simple hardware, but what it represents to the online world is huge. …

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Foxconn confirms bribery investigation

Foxconn

Foxconn has confirmed that it is currently undergoing an internal investigation, as well as one from the Chinese police forces, into whether staff at the company took bribes from suppliers. So far one man has been detained, with the Taiwanese manufacturer apparently investigating a further 10 individuals. According to Next …

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Pebble watch to ship this January

Pebble

The Pebble watch, which so enamoured funders back in April 2012, is now ready to ship and will begin landing on the doorsteps of backers in the coming month. No word on what date they'll actually begin leaving the Pebble HQ, but it will be in January. Raising over $10 …

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CES: Samsung flexible phone prototype shown

Samsung showcased their ‘Youm', the brand they are using for their flexible display technology is a prototype that is not going to launch in the near future. The Telegraph said that Samsung's focus on this technology is going to be worrying their competitors. Their demo model highlighted the Windows 8 …

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KitGuru loves the quirky and unusual

While we know that most of the world will tread the same path, there are those who will ‘step off the reservation' and do things in a different way. We like those people. But then there are the others. People who stray so far from ‘regular' that, for them, the …

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Talking about your Xbox support job can get you fired

Gates

Two ex-Microsoft employees have spoken out about losing their positions as Xbox support staff, suggesting that the reason they were let go from the company was because they spoke about their experiences in a comment thread on Kotaku. Now granted, some of what these guys say is a little derogatory …

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Jessops in administration – shutter closes

One of the oldest camera retailers in the world is desperately on the ropes. KitGuru takes a look at Jessops' predicament and likely outcomes. Established in 1935 by Frank Jessop in Leicester, more than 2,000 people work for the chain and all of their jobs are now at risk. The …

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Sony’s Kazuo Hirai claims console market not going away

Kazuo Hirai

While some people might point at the losses sustained by both Sony and Microsoft with the current generation of consoles, as evidence enough that the market is dying, Sony's relatively newly appointed CEO, Kazuo Hirai believes otherwise, saying that consoles “aren't going away any time soon.” Mr Hirai should know …

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Do you want to be the first to live on Mars?

No really. Mars One, a Dutch non-profit organisation that hopes to fund the trip and everything involved by making the “biggest media event,” that's ever existed, is looking for a team of individuals to begin the colonisation of Mars, as soon as 2023. The selection process is said to be …

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Windows Live Messenger to depart us on March 15

Microsoft have previously made their plans clear about the closing of its Windows Live Messenger service last November and have recently sent a notice out to users confirming the closure will take place on March 15. “On 15th March 2013 we are retiring the existing Messenger service globally (except for …

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Gabe Newell clears up Steam Box confusion

Gabe Newell

Ok so yesterday I might have jumped the gun a bit saying we were looking at “Valve's console.” It isn't. Still, it will be part of a new lineup of Steam compatible hardware that are designed as small form factor PCs for gaming in your lounge. Yes I also said …

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