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Qualcomm has gone ahead and sold off its augmented reality business for a hefty $65 million. The former Qualcomm subsidiary is known as Vuforia, and it had been under the chip maker's wing for the last few years, creating tools for developers to create AR content for smart devices. Right now, Vuforia …

Eurocom has announced something pretty special this week, the ‘Sky X9' gaming notebook, featuring both a desktop processor and a desktop graphics chip. Nvidia recently announced that it has found a way to bring the full desktop GTX 980 GPU to gaming laptops and several companies have already prepared some …

There are tons of companies out there that have attempted to jump in to the smartphone market, we've had Amazon try it, we've had Facebook try it and now Pepsi is making its own line of Android smartphones. Yes its own line… as in more than one. The Pepsi-made smartphone …

As I'm sure most of you have heard by now, DICE is holding a Star Wars Battlefront open beta- it has actually been live for a few days already. The beta test was scheduled to finish off today but the studio has decided to extend things a bit further at …

Microsoft's biggest exclusive of the year is about to roll around in a few weeks time and it looks like retail copies are leaking out already. Halo 5: Guardians is due out on the 27th of October but just days after the game going gold (meaning ready to ship), images …

Dell has announced that it is going to take over data centre giant, EMC in a massive $67 billion acquisition deal, the largest ever in the history of the tech industry so far. EMC has apparently agreed to the sale price, which is worth around $33.15 per share, though some …

Nvidia has suffered a major blow to its patent infringement campaign against tech giants Samsung and Qualcomm, after in a preliminary hearing it was ruled that neither company had used two particular pieces of Nvidia technology without permission. While it received a glimmer of hope when a third patent was …

Up and coming game developers in the UK now have another avenue to explore in the quest for production budgets, as the UK Games Fund, a self-described “community interest company,” non-profit designed to aid the British game making economy, has just received a £4 million grant from the government. That …

As much as car companies are touting automated features like autonomous emergency braking, lane assist and smart cruise control as important safety systems that could severely cut back on road collisions, they aren't as big a focus for consumers as you might expect. Drivers are more interested in dashboard cameras …

One of the more obvious disagreements between politicians and security services, and technology leaders and journalists in recent years, has been the topic of encryption. Law makers and law enforcement have painted it as a dangerous weapon of terrorists and paedophiles, whilst many others consider it an important tool to avoid …

Star Citizen feels like it must have an inverse problem to a lot of developers. While many of those making games struggle to come up with the necessary funds to keep the company afloat during development, Cloud Imperium has more than $92 million, meaning it must almost be a struggle …

Qualcomm has started to sample a new 24-core ARM processor aimed for use in servers and data centres, the company has revealed. The new chip in question is a pre-production system on chip (SoC) based on the ARMv8-A instruction set, which will be purposed for tackling common data centre workloads and …

Treyarch has said in the past that it is aiming to make a solid PC title this year with Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, it even gave us a list of system requirements and PC-specific features way ahead of time. Now, after a proper beta test back in August, …

Some new information regarding the ever elusive Half-Life 3 has been found in a file within the latest update to Dota 2. Steam Database came across several new files, including one titled ‘hl3.txt', along with a few other out of place text files, which detail RPG style quest mechanics, virtual reality …

Sony's range of smartphones is actually quite well received and liked by many. We know quite a few of our readers are sporting Xperia devices but unfortunately, Sony hasn't been making any money off of its smartphones for years, in-fact, it has been causing losses. Now, Sony's CEO has said …

Microtransactions in full-priced $60 game releases is a trend that is catching on scarily fast at the moment. The latest title to incorporate them is Rise of the Tomb Raider, the sequel to the highly rated 2013 Tomb Raider reboot. In Rise of the Tomb Raider, you won't be buying …

Windows 10 has been out for a few months and for the most part, people seem to like it. However, at the moment there are two systems for changing system settings, the classic control panel that we've grown familiar with over the years and the new ‘Settings' menu. Now as …

The Star Wars Battlefront open beta kicked off yesterday and swarms of players have rushed to try it out, so much so that EA and DICE need to round up a few more servers to support the load. According to the Battlefront Beta support page, new servers are currently being …

Earlier this week, Riot officially took a stance against the controversial, grey market key selling site G2A. The site was banned from sponsoring any more professional League of Legends teams and its logo was to be immediately removed from any merchandise or marketing material present at the up coming League …

Ark: Survival Evolved was set to be one of the first popular titles to support DirectX 12 this year following the release of Windows 10 back in July. The highly anticipated DirectX 12 update was originally set to release back in August, before being delayed in order to wait for …

This week the rumour mill is churning out some news about Nvidia's budget friendly GTX 960 graphics card. According to an add-in board partner source, Nvidia wants to reduce product supply of the 2GB GTX 960 and eventually only offer a 4GB version. This move could potentially put the GTX 960 …

CPU watercooling has become fairly simple over the years, these days you don't even need to throw together a custom loop, as we have plenty of decent all-in-one units around. So what's the next step? Well some researchers working at Georgia Tech University have come up with something a little …

MSI is well-known for its gaming laptops and today it is revealing its brand new GS40 Phantom series of notebooks, based on Intel's latest generation Skylake processors and Nvidia's Maxwell-based graphics chips all packed in to a powerful 14-inch form factor, bringing you a truly capable gaming experience on the …

Yesterday news spread that one version of the iPhone 6s seemingly greatly outperforms the other. The A9 chip inside of the new iPhone could be manufactured by either TSMC or Samsung, with the former's version expanding battery life by as much as 20 per cent. This news has since reached …

One of the biggest persistent rumours in the tech world over the past year or so, has been that Apple is working on an electric car design under the codename of Project Titan. There's plenty of evidence to suggest that too, with the hiring of many members of the auto …

Although commercial grade CGI is incredibly expensive to develop, sets aren't cheap either. Some Bollywood directors have been playing around with a middle ground however, whereby they create sets virtually first, before developing them in the real world and adding in the computer generated effects later. Beyond making 360 degree …

A team of students from ETH Zurich, Switzerland are hoping to help change the perception many people still have about electric cars, by having their home-spun, F1 inspired vehicle beat petrol racers in an annual contest known as Formula Student. Their car, known as the Academic Motorsports Club Zurich (AMZ) Fluela, …

Microsoft's Surface Book was one of the more surprising announcements of the Surface Pro 4 event held earlier this week, as right after Microsoft hailed its new two-in-one as the ultimate laptop replacement, it announced a ‘laptop' that could also operate as a tablet. Still, it's not just interesting because …

Anyone who's a fan of Michael Chrichton will have bumped into the idea of gene patenting back in the mid '00s with the release of Next, showing a terrifying future where companies can patent our very genetics in a bid to capitalise on them – be that through commerce or …

Corsair and MSI recently revealed that they would be teaming up to launch the GTX 980Ti Seahawk edition, featuring an all-in-one liquid cooler for better temperatures, quieter operation and a higher out of the box overclock. Now potential buyers can get a look at what that extra performance will get …