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Samsung Electronics indicated that it plans to start volume production of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) next year at the Intel Developer Forum this week. At the trade-show, the company revealed its current vision and expectations concerning HBM. Samsung foresees that eventually high-performance applications (such as GPUs) could feature up to six …

It is no secret that Apple has been working on a fairly large 12-inch iPad Pro for some time now and it is currently expected to launch later this year to breathe new life in to the product line. However, it looks like Samsung might be looking to upstage Apple… …

Earlier today, Spotify updated its terms and conditions and thanks to the wording, it sounded like the streaming service wasn't taking user privacy very seriously at all. Fortunately, the company's CEO, Daniel Ek, is eager to clear things up a bit and try to stop people from freaking out. In …

Earlier this week, Google delayed the launch of its modular smartphone, Project Ara. The device will now only be available publicly sometime next year. At the time, the Project Ara Twitter account tweeted that it would be ditching the electromagnet system in favour of something new following a failed drop …

The slow downfall of Adobe Flash continues, as Amazon announces that from September onwards it will no longer be accepting flash based advertisements on its site. The decision was apparently driven by recent updates to several popular web browsers, including Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. In recent years, Flash has …

Seasonic has announced that Dancop, a professional computer tweaker from Germany, and his team Hardwareluxx.de are now ranked as the No.1 overclockers crew in the world at Hwbot, the world’s leading community of PC enthusiasts and overclockers. Dancop, whose real name is Daniel Schier, exclusively uses a high-end Seasonic power …

Warner Bros has been pretty quiet in the weeks following the launch of Arkham Knight on the PC. Last we heard, the publisher was due to push out an'interim patch' for PC gamers at some point in August, which would then be followed by a bigger patch that would help …

Remember Dallas Buyers Club? The film featured Matthew Mcconaughey dealing with his personal prejudices, a deadly diagnosis and helping others along the way. It was a beautiful movie about altruism, determination and a struggle against insurmountable forces. When it comes to those that pirated the movie though, the company behind …

In response to claims from the company, that Ashley Madison customer data revealed earlier this week might not be real, the hackers responsible have released almost twice as much data again, this leak containing emails from the company's CEO and founder, Noel Biderman. The dump also contained source code for the …

Although the fact that Google tracks an awful lot of data about individuals is perhaps a bit ironic considering this particular data set, it's hard to argue that it's not interesting to see emerging trends among different sections of society. In this case, Google searches related to personal privacy, hacking …

XCOM 2 is a game that assumes you failed to stop the alien menace in the original. It assumes you failed so hard that you didn't even put up much of a defence, but that doesn't matter, as you can put up one now. With a new mobile base, new …

Pokken Tournament is a Tekken-like beat 'em up but with Pokemon, that was released in mid-July in Japanese arcades only. It's expected to head over to the west eventually though and it may bring with it something that has the potential to be a huge earner for Bandai Namco and …

When Nintendo last year announced intention to release gaming platforms that improve “quality-of-life”, the idea was considered as a way to significantly expand the reach of Nintendo’s gaming devices beyond core and casual gamers. Many believed that it could be the next big thing for the company, whose Wii U …

Intel Corp. this week reaffirmed plans to release the next generation of its multi-core Xeon E5 v4 central processing units code-named “Broadwell-EP”, which were rumoured to be cancelled earlier this year. The new chips will emerge later this year, they will increase core-count, memory bandwidth and will also feature micro-architecture-level improvements. …

In the recent years, Advanced Micro Devices has reduced the amount of new graphics processors it releases per annum, which lead to massive erosion of its market share and revenue. While the company hopes that its latest product lineup will help it to regain some of the lost share and …

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is set to release on the PC on the 1st of September, after having its release date brought forward by two weeks.While most game publishers have caught on to the fact that pre-loading is generally quite helpful, especially for those who pre-order games, …

Update: Cities Skyline's first expansion, ‘After Dark', was announced a few weeks back and now, we have a release date. The new expansion is going to bring several changes to the game and it is going to allow players to build cities with a more active night life. Some new …

Samsung and Apple have been locked in a legal battle for a number of years now and while Samsung initially lost the fight several years ago, it has kept fighting back since. While the courts originally ordered Samsung to pay close to $1 billion to Apple in damages, Samsung has …

A few weeks back, Capcom kicked off the street Fighter V beta. Unfortunately, it had some immediate issues that stopped many from actually being able to launch the game. As a result, the dev team took the beta build back behind closed doors, spent a few weeks fixing it up …

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a socialist,” begins the poetic version of Pastor Martin Niemöller's famous statement about the cowardice of German intellectuals during the rise of the Nazi party. It's a speech that has many applications when the topic of free …

Nvidia Corp. on Thursday introduced its second graphics card based on the GM206 graphics processing unit. The GeForce GTX 950 is the lowest-cost second-generation “Maxwell” solution that sports modern feature-set and decent performance in almost all games in full-HD (1920*1080) resolution. Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 is powered by the GM206-250 …

In case you hadn't heard, after successfully beating Pokemon, Twitch has since moved on to a new challenge with Twitch plays Dark Souls. Now Dark Souls is a difficult game that requires pretty precise timing with your attacks, blocks and rolls- surely thousands of people spamming commands in to a …

Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it would be continuing the Windows Insider program following the release of Windows 10, in order to get feedback on future builds and smaller updates before pushing them out to the public. Unfortunately, the first Insider build has caused some issues for Google Chrome users it …

Google is attempting something pretty different with Project Ara. The idea is to build a modular smartphone, where customers can upgrade individual components easily by sliding them on to the back of the device. In previous prototypes, the modules were attached by electro-permanent magnets, unfortunately, it seems that they just …

Intel Corp. and Inventec demonstrated external graphics processing solutions featuring Thunderbolt 3 interface at the Intel Developer Forum this week. The devices are based on reference designs and it is unknown when the products could hit the market. Intel’s Thunderbolt 3 interface offers 40Gb/s of bandwidth (about 5GB/s), which is …

With all the excitement of Space X's recoverable launch attempts and the Philae lander telling us all about comets, we're almost spoilt when it comes to exciting advances in space. However it doesn't stop there, as in March next year, NASA is launching its InSight lander to Mars, where it …

It's almost as if Square has realised that its most well remembered game is actually still worth something as an IP, as beyond the PC-re-release a couple of years ago, it's finally announced a full HD remastering is  in the works – albeit with a modified combat system – and to top …

The music sharing, streaming and networking service BABOOM, originally founded by Kim Dotcom, has now officially launched. Designed to be a competitor of the likes of Spotify and Apple Music, BABOOM offers a mixture of free and paid for streaming content to users, as well as a premium account service …

Although the hackers behind the recent data theft of infidelity website AshleyMadison.com claimed that they were doing so due to the twisted morality of the site, they also wanted to point out that the unscrupulous owners were happy to charge people to delete accounts and then not do so entirely. …

The court room drama that's been taking place between 3D Realms and Gearbox over the past year and a half with regards to who really owns the Duke Nukem brand, always felt a bit like a pair of dogs fighting over a dead horse, that they both wanted to beat …