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Update: Following a vote in the House of Commons, MPs have passed the Investigatory Powers Bill with a majority of 444 to 69. With backing from both Labour and the Conservatives, the opposition from the Liberal Democrats, Green Party and the Scottish National Party failed to make much of a …

Even though Oculus and HTC/Valve did a great job of slimming down the lenses used in the new generation of VR headsets, they're still one of the reasons the headsets are as big and as thick as they are. That could well change with the second generation though, as a …

Computex is now over and our team have arrived back in the UK. However, given the sheer amount of news coming out of the show last week, a few smaller bits here and there did slip through the cracks- so we are going to go over those now in a small …

Google's Artificial Intelligence researchers at DeepMind have proposed that a ‘kill switch' be built for AI to prevent machines from outsmarting us and taking over. The idea is to create a way to “repeatedly safely interrupt” an algorithm, according to a new paper created in association with the University of Oxford …

Although Tesoro had a lot of mice and headsets on show at this year's Computex, it was its keyboards that stood out the most. Amongst all of the Cherry MX equipped, RGB backlit boards though, was one stark, white one, with a brand new type of infrared mechanical switch under …

If you were looking for a new peripheral at this year's Computex, Roccat's booth would have been worth checking out, as it threw everything at it apart from the (gaming) kitchen sink. There were mice, headsets and more, but it was the new Suora keyboard that it was particularly looking …

One of the stories we ran last week broke down Nvidia's big VR showing at the Grand Hyatt Hotel during Computex 2016, where it debuted a number of HTC Vive's powered by Nvidia GTX 1080 graphics cards and a few desktop stations with the same internal hardware too. What we didn't …

Antec made an appearance at this year's Computex last week, but while it talked up cases of the future, the actual hardware it had on show was mostly coolers. They might have been big and red, but it's the chassis that Antec has planned that had us most interested.   …

A student in Chicago managed to get himself arrested after going into a cinema and live streaming the film to Facebook. As you might expect, a smartphone was used to handle the streaming but the guy only got caught because an anti-piracy outfit in India saw the stream and reported …

Aerocool introduced us to a brand new line of products at Computex this year known as ‘Project 7', which spans across new power supplies, fans and all in one liquid coolers.   Aerocool has some new watercooling parts in, including the P7-W240 Pro (pump on reservoir mounted on the radiator) …

SilverStone had quite a bit to show off at Computex this year, including some new prototype cases, power supplies and even a Virtual Reality demo using the HTC Vive. As far as cases go, we got a look at the PM-01 ATX chassis as well as a PM-01 RGB prototype. Then …

FSP arrived at Computex this week armed with a new range of power supplies falling under the ‘Dagger' name. There is also a new line known as ‘Twins' which is a new concept of power supply that packs two PSUs into a single ATX chassis, aimed at home servers.   …

We managed to spot Super Micro at Computex this year showing off a brand new computer chassis. This case is known as the Super Micro S5 and is the company's second attempt, putting a new emphasis on modding and liquid cooling options.   There was just one S5 on show …

Although AMD might have begun showing off its first Polaris cards at this year's Computex show, Sapphire is still looking to the previous generation to power its systems and yours. At its booth, we found it showing off a HTC Vive VR headset which anyone could try, all powered by …

The Facebook of today is much more than the evolution of Mark Zuckerberg's Facemash. It has fingers in all sorts of pies, from free internet to virtual reality, so in-case Zuckerberg goes off and heads one of these other projects, the Facebook board wants to curtail how much say he …

It looks like Bitfenix isn't the only case manufacturer loving tempered glass panels right now. At its booth at this year's Computex, Lian Li is also sporting some brand new, glassy cases, this ones ditching much of the usual front panels, making the entire thing as see through as possible. The …

Bitfenix is looking to do away with the windowed side-panels of old on its chassis, instead replacing the entire thing with tempered glass. It provides an unprecedented look inside the interiors of the cases it's been showing off at this year's Computex, giving the lighting plenty of room to shine …

Deepcool had quite a bit to show at Computex this year, including some new cases, one of which is Republic of Gamers certified, along with a new RGB air cooler and all-in-one liquid cooling units.   Deepcool is showing a variant on Genome called New Ark, which now has support for …

We managed to catch up with Gigabyte at Computex today to check out their entire floor. Gigabyte's focus for 2016 so far is laptops with Skylake, new Nvidia Pascal graphics cards, new X99 motherboards for Broadwell-E, a brand new BRIX PC built for gaming and Thunderbolt.   In order to …

Amazon has begun taking legal action against sellers that pay for positive reviews on their products. In part of its effort to stop sellers from using these shady tactics on the Amazon marketplace, the company has launched lawsuits at three separate companies, using fake Amazon accounts for positive reviews. In …

We had a chance to catch up with Ozone this week at Computex, taking a look at their new range of peripherals, including colourful new headsets, some new gaming mice and a brand new RGB keyboard that makes use of Cherry MX switches.   First up is the new Rage …

Although the engaging characters and story arcs are what keep viewers watching Game of Thrones, there's no denying that the nudity and violence help draw in first time viewers and titillate regulars. HBO wants to keep that eye candy for itself though, as it's taking down nude clips of the …

Nvidia might have debuted its new hardware before the start of Computex, but that doesn't mean people weren't interested in seeing it. In-fact the GPU maker ended up taking over almost a whole floor of the Grand Hyatt hotel, just to show off its GTX 1080 graphics card and its ability …

Backing up your content to somewhere else on your network is a smart plan, but keeping lots of local storage can get a bit hefty considering the size of your average hard drive. What then, if you used a much more contemporary alternative like M.2 storage? That's what QNAP is …

There is a good mix of new blood and old in the PC hardware game and MSI is one of the latter crowd. At Computex 2016, it hosted a party for some of its friends and the media, to celebrate 30 years of operation. Of course being the high-flying tech …

Over at the Asus Republic of Gamers booth at Computex this year, we ran into 8Pack, showing off a stunning new system known as Orion X, featuring brand new Broadwell-E hardware, along with triple GTX 1080s and an impressive liquid cooling set up to boot. In this £18,000 build you …

Phanteks brought quite a lot with it to Computex this year, including a few new cases and even some of its own liquid cooling blocks for CPUs and GPUs.   Kicking things off is the Phanteks Enthoo Elite, a big budget case for big budget builds. The Elite comes priced …

Our Computex coverage continues today, with Leo stopping by the EVGA booth, where we got a good look at a new laptop, some new graphics cards as well as new motherboards and power supplies.   First up is the SC17 gaming laptop, which comes with a 17-inch screen, which we …

Along with its big debut of the new RX series of AMD graphics cards, this year's Computex was also home to the first showing of its upcoming Zen CPU architecture. The new processors are designed to bring improved efficiency and power to the table. To throw more fuel on the …

Youtube has never been a fan of the sites and browser extensions that make it easy to download videos from its site, in their entirety or when converted to MP3s. It's been going after them with legal action for years and it shows no sign of stopping. It's latest target …