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This is the question being asked today by Bit Torrent inc. in a new initiative to help detractors of the file sharing medium understand the true benefits, beyond those that use it to get free copies of the latest and greatest movies. With a new site called, doesbittorrentequalpiracy.com – try …

Dot-com millionaire Mark Cuban and Minecraft fortune holder Marcus “Notch” Persson, have each donated a quarter million dollars (£153,000) to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, to help the non-profit organisation fix the current problems with software patent law. With these donations the EFF will be able to hire on another patent lawyer in …

Nokia has been teasing its own Windows RT based tablet as early as March when Nokia's lead designer, Marko Ahtisaari, was said to be spending up to a third of his time working on a tablet design. No results have come of this week just yet but reports are now …

In what is unlikely to be a surprise for anyone at this point considering the downward turn the publisher has taken in the past year, THQ has filed for bankruptcy. Fortunately though, it already has a buyer that is willing to keep all staff on and continue all current game …

2,100 registered sex offenders in New York have been kicked out of online gaming, so the safety of children can be protected. Gaming accounts have been wiped from various platforms in a new move. The initiative is called ‘Operation: Game Over', and this is the second stage. It is the …

If you are shopping for a new smartphone today, the chances are that you are looking at either an Android or iOS handset. That is the feedback we are getting from many of the UK retail stores before Christmas. Both of these platforms account for almost 90 percent of all …

Many people said that no leader could replace the late Steve Jobs, but it would appear that he is finally getting some recognition from the masses. Time Magazine gave their ‘Person of the year' to US President Barack Obama, but Apple CEO Tim Cook claimed second runner up place. The …

SAPPHIRE Technology has just announced a new graphics card in its HD 7000 series – the SAPPHIRE HD 7870 XT with Boost. Like the other cards in the HD 7000 series, the new card is based on the highly acclaimed Graphics Core Next architecture from AMD. The SAPPHIRE HD 7870 …

An executive at Dell warned Microsoft that their planned ‘RT' branding for the tablet operating system would confuse consumers, especially as it doesn't run traditional Windows applications. Jefferey Clarke, vice chairman at Dell and the president of its PC business said at the Dell World conference last week that he …

These days Apple's iPhones are not the pinncale of the smartphone world; and mainstream media outlets now refer to smartphones as smartphones instead of iPhones. Android is currently the most popular smartphone operating system across the world and could quite easily take the tablet throne in 2013. The infographic below …

Capcom has reduced its earnings predictions for the year in the wake of sales of Resident Evil 6 not being as high as expected, as well as a delay in the release of upcoming 3DS title, Monster Hunter 4. Previously Capcom had forecast that it would be making 105 billion …

In order to prevent the organisation and the individuals behind it from facing financial crisis, Loz Kaye and the other members of the Pirate Party (PPUK) have taken the difficult step to take down the Pirate Bay Proxy, in the face of BPI legal threats. Back at the end of …

We had a lot of entries for our Corsair competition and today the winners are announced – a day later than we hoped, but this month has been crazy busy! The winner of the AX760 is Luciano Rivera from Argentina! The winner of the AX860 is Carrie Cousins from Crowborough! …

Currently, NVIDIA's Tegra 3 mobile chipset is the oldest of the bunch when compared to the equivalent offerings from Samsung's Exynos team and Qualcomm and is the most in need of a refresh so it is no surprise that details over Tegra 4 “Wayne” have been leaked online. The Tegra …

We reported yesterday how a change in photo sharing and retro-ifying service, Instagram, seemed to suggest that it had impunity to sell photos uploaded by users, as well as using their name, username, location and any other data it saw fit as part of marketing campaigns. Now though, in the …

2 Player Productions, the same people working with Double Fine on its documentary, are set to release its original creation, Minecraft: The Story of Mojang this weekend, debuting it online on the 22nd December – if the world doesn't end before then of course. The movie follows Mojang's founder and …

Users who are heavy into Android and other Google services have today been given another reason to use the Play Music service. The competing iTunes and Amazon services have had library matching for a while now, at a charge of $25 per year. Google will take record label charges on …

Samsung have dropped the injunction applications against Apple in five European countries. This is a major development in a long running patents battle between the two companies. Samsung will drop injunction applications in Germany, France, Italy, UK and the Netherlands, a senior executive told The Wall Street Journal. It will …

Facebook are going to release a new application in the first half of 2013 that will stream video advertisements to a user's news feed. Ad Age have issued the report after speaking with several industry executives who have been briefed on the companys plans over the past couple of weeks. …

An Australian Internet Service Provider (ISP), iiNet, has walked out of talks with copyright lobbyist groups, claiming that it shouldn't have to “perform work on their [copyright holder's] behalf,” and that instead, the real problem behind piracy in the country was down to the limited legal availability of much of the protected …

S2 Games has announced that its MOBA title, Heroes of Newerth, has been hacked and the passwords of user's accounts have been breached. To counter it the developer has reset everyone's passwords and is recommending that any players change any login information elsewhere that shares details with HoN. Showing a …

Instagram, the now Facebook owned image sharing and retro-filtering site, has just changed its terms and conditions, allowing the site to have complete say in what happens with your photos once uploaded. It could use them in adverts or sell them to other organisations, all without telling you a thing. …

The Westboro Baptist Church is a deplorable group at the best of times, but in the last couple of days it's received an extra helping of hate from the world at large after it announced its intention to protest the funerals of the the 20+ children that died during the …

Thus far HTC have announced and released two Windows Phone 8 devices; the Windows Phone 8S by HTC and Windows Phone 8X by HTC. Both devices are somewhat small by today's standard and neither carry specifications worthy of a true flagship. Back in late June specifications were leaked for a …

If you haven't check out our Facebook page, then now is the time to do so. We have an active community over there, and have given away 10 games this weekend to our Facebookers. We are giving away games all week, so be sure to head over here and join …

No, it has nothing to do with Arnie and the search for John Conner. Back in the day, T1 lines were the stuff of legend, with so much bandwidth that you'd be running an enterprise and a half on the throughput. But how does it stack up today? KitGuru downloads …

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IBM have published their annual list of innovations and they claim that computers will gain human like abilities to receive input through senses such as smell, touch and taste. IBM are calling the development the ‘era of cognitive systems' and claim that it will herald a completely new way for …

A federal judge has rejected a request from Apple to ban U.S. sales of smartphones from Samsung. Lucy Koh, a U.S. District Court Judge denied Apple's request saying that they were unable to show that Samsung's actions support an injunction. She said “Apple's evidence does not establish that any of …

After being announced nearly two weeks ago, it has been revealed that the ‘international' model of HTC's 1080p flagship device is not destined for European markets. Japanese and United States variants have already been announced and released in the form of the J Butterfly and Droid DNA. Right now, the …