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The pre-release leaking of The Expendables 3 was one of the biggest stories of 2014 and eventually led to arrests of those said to be responsible. No doubt authorities will be on the hunt for new torrent leakers in the near future too, as big name releases like Quentin Tarantino's …

Adobe's Flash Player is continuing its steady demise with another major blow to its usage: Facebook has now killed off all flash videos on its site. With more than eight billion views a day, the switchover to HTML 5 will see the number of flash videos watched every day immediatly decline …

Apple has once again raised concerns about the British government's plans to introduce the Investigatory Powers Bill, waiting until the final moments of the public consultation to submit its eight page brief on its problems with the snooping act. It joins a number of consumer groups and other tech firms …

Space X made history in the early hours of this morning, when it launched its new and improved Falcon 9 rocket into Low-Earth Orbit, separating the first stage booster part-way through the ascent, and returning it safely to Earth. This is Space X's first successful landing of the first stage …

Oculus VR has known about virtual reality's chicken and egg problem since day one. Without games and experiences ready to play, nobody would buy a VR headset, but without VR headsets, nobody would develop them. It's assuaged that issue with developer kits over the past couple of years and to make sure …

There is quite a bit of money to be made in streaming, but throughout the year plenty of Twitch streamers host charity events in order to raise money for good causes and this year, a substantial amount was raised, with the Twitch community generating over $17 million for charities. Twitch …

Toshiba is facing hard times right now, the company's former President and CEO Hisao Tanaka stepped down around six months ago, following a revelation that the company had $ 1.2 billion in declared false profit. Obviously, this is a serious offense that will require Toshiba to pay out a hefty …

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it would be bringing more of its Xbox One exclusive titles over to the PC, including Gears of War: Ultimate Edition running on Direct X 12, along with its fighting game, Killer Instinct. It's been a while since we have heard anything official, but …

Earlier this year, plenty of people got excited about the Steamboy, the first handheld portable Steam Machine, which would be capable of both running some titles natively and streaming games from a more powerful gaming PC. Things picked up a bit more this month, as the portable Steam Machine had …

Think you've got what it takes to be a reviewer? Well we would like to give you the chance to prove yourself. Over the Christmas break, are giving our readers the opportunity to win a Sapphire R9 380 graphics card, an OCZ Trion 120GB SSD or a Logitech G600 gaming …

Taking the initiative following the British government's interest in bringing forward the Investigatory Powers Bill, Sky has announced that it will be introducing its filtering system automatically for all new customers (it won't even ask first) and will even go so far as to instigate a watershed-like system. Before 9PM, …

“Punting 24 hours,” sounds like a very relaxed way to push back the launch of a $50 million rocket, but that's exactly what Space X CEO Elon Musk did on Sunday, via Twitter. His announcement means that the improved Falcon 9 rocket carrying 11 ORBCOMM satellites will instead head into …

Even though Oculus VR had a big lead in with fans of the head mounted display (HMD) technology, Valve and HTC have gone a long way to garnering their own following with the Vive and its Room Scale VR set up. However they've taken some flak as of late, as …

Despite being one of the most recognisable technological brands in the world, Toshiba has announced that it will be cutting as many as 7,000 jobs in its electronics divisions following its accounting scandal from earlier this year. On top of that it will be selling its TV manufacturing facility in …

Valve is set to head to court in Europe once again, after another consumer group announced it was suing the Steam owner for not providing its users the ability to resell games that they had previously purchased. This time though, the group is French and they're annoyed at other things …

Tracking our hands in virtual reality has been something all of the big VR makers have been working on for the past year or so. Oculus has its Touch controllers which will release soon after the Rift CV1 and Valve/HTC have their motion tracking controllers, which will come with the …

A new trial of an interesting technology is set to take place in London in the near future, designed to combat public urination. Instead of highlighting those responsible, filming them or threatening legal action later, this particular bit of tech is a hydrophobic paint job for local surfaces, that when …

In a leak on the HTC website, excited virtual reality fans have discovered the final, commercial version of the HTC Vive headset. It looks quite similar to the original, with a few noteworthy changes, but it's the controllers that really look different. Overall though, everything is just much more polished, …

Although the music and movie industry have largely stopped going after individual pirates with lawsuits – unless you're the makers of Dallas Buyers Club – it hasn't stopped trying to take down those responsible for uploading content. In the finale of arrests made in early 2013, four men from the UK …

Working for the big tech companies has a lot of advantages. Earlier this year Netflix, Adobe and a number of other firms announced that they now offered their employees unlimited parental leave following the birth of a child, as well as unlimited holiday allowance. Facebook is upping the game again, …

Danny Trejo might be that guy that you see in movies and go, “oh yea, him,” but he's got quite a life-resume on him. He was a prison boxing champion, actor, voice-over artist and star of a number of music videos and games. His latest project though seems pretty apt …

Most PCs, laptops and tablets use just a few gigabytes of memory and even the average gaming PC sports just eight gigabytes according to the Steam hardware survey. But there are people out there that want more than that: the uber-high-end enthusiasts, renderers and heavy photo editors. It's for them …

Although it started life as an indie developer back in the mid-00s, Riot Games has been anything but for a long time. That's why over the past few years it's courted investment from companies like Tencent, a Chinese game publisher and holding company. And now Riot has sold itself body …

As much as the idea of walking around websites, rather than interacting with them on a 2D display might seem like a relic  from a '90s future-tech story (anyone remember Net Force?) it's actually something that some are already experimenting with. It's hard though, so Mozilla has developed a technique …

It was way back in May 2015 that we were given a sneak peak at what the recommended specifications for the Oculus Rift CV1 headset would be and they weren't insubstantial: a GTX 970, i5-4590 and 8GB of RAM. You also needed two USB 3.0 ports, but that's now been …

Although it's usually easier to buy someone a Christmas present with money you've already earned, for those that would rather give the gift of effort and smart-technology, Netflix has put a guide online on to make a pair of socks with a special ability. They keep your feet warm of course, but …

When it comes to buying illegal weaponry online, people often think of darkweb markets like the long-closed Silk Road, but it's actually far easier to get a hold of such items it seems, as Amazon sells most of them. As part of an investigation into the retailer's sales practices, it …

Of all the games currently in development, there are a few which visually blow the rest out of the park. Star Citizen is one, but another more firmly rooted to the ground, is Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Those who like to get an early look at such games will finally be …

Following the years of failed-attempts by politicians and copyright lobby groups to have the world accept distasteful bills like PIPA and SOPA, it's no surprise that the tactics to push them through have changed. Nowadays they're hidden within legislation like trade bills in the case of the TTIP and TPP, …

Every year a lot of companies – ourselves included – give away some great prizes to loyal fans around the Christmas period, and be quiet! is one of the most altruistic of the bunch. Once again it's launched its advent calendar initiative, giving away great gear every week. This week it's …