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Ireland is currently fighting in Apple's corner in an effort to try and get the European Union's to change its mind on this year's €13 billion tax ruling against Apple. We heard that Ireland had planned to appeal the ruling earlier this year but since then, the appeal has been …

While Nintendo has already announced the Nintendo Switch at this point, there are still several unanswered questions on the hardware side of things. However, this week, reports have revealed the CPU and GPU clock speeds of the Switch while in mobile mode and while docked. We also know a little …

Star Citizen's first-person shooter game mode, ‘Star Marine' was announced back in 2014 and since then, we have seen some impressive demos but delays have kept it out of the hands of backers for quite some time. However, this week with Star Citizen's ‘Alpha Patch 2.6.0', players will get their …

Tesla and Space X founder Elon Musk could well be set to add another feather to his already rather busy cap. Annoyed by traffic on a recent commute, he has unofficially laid out plans to dig giant tunnels under cities in order to better facilitate cars of the future. Although …

Nescafé is looking to spice up the Christmas season at one of its Japanese coffee shops with the installation of an interactive, mixed-reality, Rube Goldberg machine that plays music while you wait for your coffee to brew. Available in the Harajuka district of Tokyo Nescafé coffee shop, visitors can listen …

The Resident Evil franchise is looking to make a big return in 2017 with the launch of Resident Evil VII in January and while many PS4 players have already had the chance to test out a slice of the game, PC players can now join them. The demo is available on …

Nvidia's Pascal graphics chips have proved to be dominant in this GPU generation and that goes for clock speed totals as much as raw power. At the finals of the GALAX GOC 2016 overclocking series in Wuhan, China, several teams of ‘clockers were able to push the GP106 – the …

It looks like bendable smartphone displays might be the future as not only is Samsung working on the technology, but LG also stepped into the ring earlier this year with a massive £1.3 billion investment. Given the huge investment, we should expect to see more foldable displays over the next …

Right now one of the big focusses for Virtual Reality headset makers is removing the wire. Valve has been working on turning the HTC Vive wireless and Oculus revealed its own wireless prototype just a few short months ago. However, we may not need to wait for next generation of …

Samsung has been dipping its toes in the virtual reality market for a couple of years now with the help of Oculus and next year, the company will be stepping things up. Not only will there be a successor to the Gear VR but there will also be a mixed …

Apple's AirPods were delayed by almost two months but on the 19th of December, they will finally go on sale. However, there were still some unanswered questions. Given that these headphones are wireless, it will be easier to lose one, so how much will it cost to replace a lost …

Back in late September, BlackBerry officially threw in the towel and dropped out of the hardware business, meaning the company will no longer be developing smartphones going forward and will instead focus on software. However, that doesn't mean BlackBerry phones will never hit the market again. Similarly to Nokia's recent …

Nintendo officially brought Super Mario to mobile last night with the launch of Super Mario Run on iOS and while we have known that the game will cost somewhere in the neighbourhood of $10 for quite some time, it looks like some investors only figured that out today, as shares …

A few weeks ago we teamed up with Aria and Gladiator PC to organise a ‘spec and win’ competition, calling all KitGuru readers to put together the best £800-£1200 build possible and in exchange, the best entry would be rewarded with a brand new PC, built by Gladiator. After much …

With Christmas being the season of giving, this month we wanted to give back to our readers by running a giveaway for £3000 worth of PC hardware. More than 15,000 of you entered the giveaway over the last couple of weeks and today, we are happy to reveal the winner! …

Football fan app-maker, GameOn, has announced a partnership with Sky Sports, to bring an interactive chat and commentary bot to a number of social networking messaging platforms. Able to understand natural language requests from users, GameOn's bot can provide commentary on ongoing games, answer questions and can provide news and …

Nintendo's newly released NES Classic Mini has sold close to 200,000 units in the U.S. alone, making it an impressively hot seller in a short period of time. So much so in fact that it has outsold the Wii U, not just during the same period, but even when you …

Administrators and moderators of the original KickassTorrents file sharing website have helped bring about its resurrection. Without access to the original database and code, they had to start from scratch, but the end result is a site that looks and feels very much like the KAT of old. KickassTorrents was, …

Adobe has managed to increase its annual revenue to near $6 billion, an overall rise of some 22 per cent year on year. Quarterly net income is said to be at record setting levels also, thanks to rapid growth in its digital media segment, and expansion of its Creative Cloud …

ARK: Survival Evolved is coming to virtual reality, but not in the exact same guise as its original release. This isn't some Survival of the Fittest game mode either, but an educational, open world of dinosaurs and environments to explore. Coming in 2017, virtual reality is getting tickets to Ark …

While Intel has yet to officially launch its Kaby Lake desktop CPUs, plenty of people seem to have got their hands on the Core i7 7700K already, with plenty of benchmarks already floating around the web. One of the worrying aspects about these early reviews has been reported temperatures, which …

As we reported last weekend, Crytek appears to have hit a financial roadblock once again and sources speaking with KitGuru confirmed that employees haven't been paid on time for months and no pay has been received for October, November or December. While Crytek has yet to comment publicly on all …

If you haven't updated your graphics drivers in a while, then Nvidia users may want to this week as the latest WHQL driver, version 376.33 contains some very important fixes that address security vulnerabilities and kernel faults. These issues were reported via Google's Project Zero and Nvidia has been working …

Arizona Sunshine was one of the most exciting games releasing for virtual reality this year. However, the game swiftly began drowning in controversy upon release after certain parts of the game were found to be exclusive to Intel Core i7 owners. This led to quite the outcry upon the game's …

Yahoo is facing a lot of scrutiny right now after the company revealed yet another massive hack to its customers. Earlier this year, Yahoo finally admitted to having 500 million user accounts compromised during an attack back in 2014 but it turns out that wasn't even the worst of it. …

Ubisoft is back on its feet with The Division following the hugely successful system overhauls that came with patch 1.4. Since then, players have been returning to the game but if you haven't given it a chance yet, then you will get the opportunity this weekend as the game will …

If you happen to be shopping around for a pre-built system for Christmas and you haven't landed on one just yet, then you may want to check out Cyberpower this week as the boutique system builder is giving away up to ten games with its systems, including some of 2016's …

At the end of last year, we learned that Asus had managed to snap up around 40 percent of the gaming monitor market in 2015 thanks to the success of its ROG Swift line of monitors. This year, the gaming monitor market got very competitive with companies like Acer and …

If it seems like every online entity is looking to employ digital assistants to help improve their customer's experience, that's because they are. Everyone from Twitch, to Facebook are now looking to algorithms to help them out and it turns out pornography streaming site, Pornhub, is no different. It's just …

If you have a favourite mod of 2016, or if your choice last year didn't quite make the grade and is still going strong, ModDB wants to hear about it. As it has every year for the past decade and a half, ModDB is looking to crown its Mod of …