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Last year it was revealed that Zenimax would be launching a lawsuit at Oculus VR, which had recently been acquired by Facebook at the time. The lawsuit seemed to be based around the accusation that Oculus stole trade secrets from Zenimax. As you would imagine, Oculus immediately appealed to have …

It looks like Spotify might be preparing to limit its free streaming tier from early 2016 onwards in order to keep record labels signed on to the service. Spotify is apparently facing pressure from labels, including Sony and Universal to offer less music in the free tier in order to …

Pixels launched earlier this month and the movie is not off to a good start with critics, with an abysmal score of 17% on Rotten Tomatoes. However, it seems that Columbia Pictures is still pretty worried about piracy as the company has been sending out mass amounts of DMCA claims, one …

Don't you dare go using the name of some little halfling creatures from Middle Earth without paying first. A glamping company which wanted to build a Hobbit Hole holiday house for those looking for an authentic experience, has been forced to remove all mention of the diminutive little characters, after lawyers …

Laughing out loud, or “lol”, has been the go to phrase to communicate amusement online (no matter how small) forever. However according to new statistics, that may no longer be the case, with many Facebook users rarely, if ever using the acronym any more, preferring more speech-like “haha” and “hehe,” as …

In a move that no one was expecting, Google has given itself a new boss, by creating a brand-new parent company, called Alphabet. This will also splinter off some of Google's different entities, with the traditional company handling Youtube, Android, its search engine and its applications, while the new firm will take …

Having a child is difficult in any number of different ways, and balancing a new born with work commitments is just one of them. Following on from Netflix's recent announcement that it would take away some of that difficulty by offering parents 12 months of paid leave following the birth of …

Late last night, Time Magazine went ahead and showed off its brand new cover story for this month, covering Virtual Reality and the Oculus Rift success story. Unfortunately the picture on the cover was pretty awful, showing a photoshopped Palmer Luckey on a beach with his Oculus Rift headset on. …

Earlier this year Nvidia refocused its Tegra business from consumer electronics to automotive industry. Sales of Nvidia’s system-on-chips for vehicles are growing rapidly, but still represent only a small fracture of the company’s revenue. But going forward a lot may change. Nvidia said this week that as many as 50 …

TV and movie companies are constantly throwing around bogus DMCA notices and copyright claims around, though they are usually placed with the intention of combating piracy, rather than shutting down the competition. This week, the official YouTube live-stream of Sky News was pulled thanks to a copyright claim from Fox …

Despite being the crest of a wave of change in the way we get about our roadways, Uber, the app based taxi service which in just a few years has grown to be worth an estimated $50 billion, is said to be a financial sinkhole, losing tens of millions a …

If you've used iTunes CD ripping feature recently, did you know you were breaking the law? If you backed up your PC to a remote cloud platform, did you know you were taking part in an illegal activity? Yes, thanks to a recent overturning of revised copyright legislation by the …

Since the Edward Snowden revelations about the NSA, GCHQ and international data gathering and sharing came out in 2013, the world has been trying to figure out the right balance between privacy and security. To that end, the European Commission has been in talks with U.S. representatives to renegotiate “safe …

The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCO) was launched earlier this year atop a Space X Falcon 9 rocket and it currently sits within a Lissajous orbit 930,000 miles from Earth. It's been sending back data on the ozone, vegetation, cloud height and aerosols in the atmosphere since and it's all been …

Following the unfortunate news that an EE Power Bar caught fire and caused injury to a student last week, the company has gone ahead and issued a recall for some models. EE began giving out Power Bars to some customers earlier this year as part of a promotion, unfortunately, some …

BitTorrent Inc. the parent company behind the Utorrent peer to peer sharing software and more media focused ventures like the BitTorrent bundle, has always maintained that it does not endorse piracy or the use of its programs for such sharing. The RIAA is now calling on it to make good …

Buying and selling Bitcoins in Australia should be a little easier going forward, as the government has declared that digital currencies should now be considered as real money, making their taxation far simpler. It will mean more work for exchanges however, which will now need to monitor their services for …

Dealing with the inevitable fact that long term employees are likely at some point to have children and require leave, is a difficulty faced by all businesses. While some companies, like Google and Apple, have looked to make the corporate playing field more even, by offering to freeze eggs and …

Hitchbot, the robotic hitch-hiker that was travelling across America as a scientific and artistic experiment, has found its journey cut short after a stop in Philadelphia saw it decapitated and vandalised to the point where it can no longer operate. While they won't be seeking those responsible to press criminal …

Cooler Master held a Press briefing at their European HQ in Eindhoven. In part they wanted to show off their new building but mainly they wanted to talk some more about their ‘Master' concept. In the past Eindhoven was a Philips town but these days their manufacturing is subcontracted which …

As much as graphene has been seen as the darling of scientists and researchers since it was first created in the early '00s, it's not the only honeycomb, single-atom-thick structure to have fantastical properties. It sparked a gold rush to see what else could be latticed together at the atomic …

Konami has been making headlines a lot this year. First the publisher had a pretty vague but very public falling out with Metal Gear Solid creator, Hideo Kojima, then we learned that the Silent Hills reboot was cancelled and now, it turns out that Konami in general is just a …

As you are probably well aware by now, Windows 10 launched last week, with 14 million people installing the update on day one. This time around, Windows 7 and Windows 8 users got a free upgrade to Microsoft's latest OS, though even if you use the upgrade tool rather than …

While the United States has been pretty tight lipped about its ongoing attempts to extradite and imprison internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, the German native has been very vocal about his side of the equation. In a recent Q&A on Slashdot, the Megaupload founder even suggested that the U.S. had attempted …

Along with the claims of Silk Road founder, Ross Ulbricht's defence team that he was the real Dread Pirate Roberts, Mt. Gox's old CEO, Mark Karpeles has been linked with the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of bitcoins worth many tens of millions and it looks like enough evidence has …

Although far from the mobile powerhouse it once was, Nokia still has a name and some services that are worth an impressive sum. Now it's down one, after selling its HERE mapping service to a consortium of German car manufacturers for 2.8 billion euros (£2 billion). Together BMW, Audi and …

If you couldn't get your hands on the Fallout 4 Pip-Boy Edition, then all hope is not lost as a fan of the series has gone ahead and created a schematic to 3D print a pip-boy from scratch. The specific model is the Pip-Boy 3000 Mark IV. Just as Bethesda's …

When we reviewed the Piper iControl security camera hub a few weeks ago, we noted that one of its best features was the fact that it allowed for free cloud storage of recorded footage, something that other companies charge an ongoing subscription fee for. At the time you could only …

The currently ongoing discussions by politicians from various countries about the implementation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), has drawn the ire of many privacy advocates, doctors and technological professionals the world over, despite us knowing only a little about it. However following further Wikileaks reveals, the wool is gradually being pulled …

The intrepid pair of exploratory spacecraft, Rosetta and Philae, made history last year when they enabled the first landing on a comet. Although it was a somewhat bumpy touchdown and we haven't heard much from Philae lately, it turns out we did learn a lot about the comet in the …