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Last month it was reported that the Turkish ministry has begun investigating Minecraft, deeming it as potentially ‘too violent'. The results of the investigation have now been revealed and it turns out that the Turkish Social Policies Ministry does want Minecraft banned. Turkish sites, Hürriyet Daily News and LeaderGamer (Via …

Medical technology is advancing so fast, that a partner in Google's investment department believes that as long as we can live for another 20-30 years, we'll be able to make it to the ripe old age of 500 without too much difficulty. His reasoning? The ultra fast development of new …

In some strange amalgamation of biting off its ball to take it home and spite its face, an Indian government body called the Tamil Film Producer's Council, has announced that it plans to halt the release of all movies in the region for three months in an attempt to send pirates out of …

Microsoft's creative director of important technology like the Kinect camera and HoloLens augmented reality headset, Kudo Tsunoda, is being moved and promoted to head of new vision and experience development for Xbox, making him in charge of a number of internal developers like Lionhead, Rare, Press Play and Decisive Games. …

There has been a lot of exciting Valve news over the last week or so, the company just started demoing its own virtual reality headset, it showed off a new Portal technical demonstration running on the Source 2 engine and HTC managed to end up teasing a new Half-Life game …

Android may soon be hitting virtual reality headsets as Google has apparently tasked a group of engineers with developing a version of the operating system that can power virtual reality applications. The team currently consists of ‘tens of engineers', according to the Wall Street Journal report. The report cites two …

Phony DMCA takedowns have been a staple of anti-piracy lobby groups for years, the debate often being not whether they did it, but whether it was their fault or the over-zealous reporting of their automated takedown tools. Even in the case of clear unjust use of the law however, it's rare …

Even though some members of the House of Lords want to see tighter regulations on drone usage in the UK, that may not be the best way to help grow the industry on the British Isles, as the US' own restrictive governance of the technology has led to it falling behind international developments. …

The man himself, Gabe Newell, is confident that Valve has solved the virtual reality motion sickness problem with its new headset, ‘The Vive', claiming that “zero percent of people get motion sick” while using Steam VR technology. Virtual Reality had some initial problems with causing motion sickness, although over the …

uTorrent has been caught secretly bundling and installing a Bitcoin miner with its latest client update. The latest update has been found to secretly install EpicScale without user permission, which uses a certain amount of CPU power to mine Bitcoin in the background. Since the program comes automatically as part …

Since the original Edward Snowden revelations came out just over a year and a half ago, it's become very easy to feel despondent about the whole thing. “Of course they're spying,” is almost as often said now in the comment sections of these articles as the “if you have nothing …

Researchers working for the NASA space agency have announced that they've found evidence on Mars for an ocean that covered almost 20 per cent of the planet's surface, which formed shortly after Mars itself 4.3 billion years ago. At its peak, it would have covered much of the northern hemisphere and …

Huawei announced its own entry in to the smartwatch arena earlier this week, showing off a sleek design, circular watch face and Android Wear integration. Unfortunately though, all of this could come at a serious price as the watch may go for as much as $1000 once released. The device …

The House of Lords EU Committee wants to see more restrictions placed on the use of drones in the UK, with users forced to register their ownership. This would include both commercial and personal uses of the technology, which is counter to American legislation which recently gave the thumbs up …

The Apple Watch is widely expected to bring wearable technology to the mainstream but it seems that Samsung isn't in a rush to compete this time around. Samsung is taking on a new strategy by cutting down on releases and going back to the drawing board. Samsung isn't shrinking down …

Even though it barely seems to be operational these days, The Pirate Bay is the most iconic torrent search site in the world and is frequently cited by media lobby groups as a URL that ISPs should block – often with the courts backing that decision. While some ISPs might …

US President Barack Obama has criticised Chinese plans to implement new anti-terror laws which would see all tech firms doing business in the country forced to hand over encryption keys and to provide back doors in software to allow the military to gain digital access to whatever they want.  While …

AMD is getting in to the virtual reality space with its own development kit called LiquidVR. Rather than creating its own headset, AMD has focused on the software side of things in hopes that developers will be able to make better VR experiences on its own hardware. At the Game …

HTC has had its own smartwatch in the works for a while but so far, it has yet to show anything but the CEO is maintaining that the company is still working on it and that it is trying to be careful with how it approaches wearable technology. The HTC …

Oculus VR is continuing to siphon up some of the world's top tech talent with a rumoured new hire right from the heart of Google's X facility. Mary Lou Jepsen, who for the past three years has headed up the display division there, is reported to have left to join …

To help crack down on nuisance and menacing individuals on Twitter, the social network has enacted a new policy whereby US visitors attempting to set up new accounts via the Tor anonymising browser software will be required to activate a phone number before being able to access it. Setting one …

Google has been both a friend and a foe for organisations like the MPAA over the years. While it has acquiesced to DMCA takedown requests and helped block certain websites from being accessible through its search results, it's also been more reactive than proactive in doing so and therefore is …

Although Gigabyte has more of a name for its internal components than anything else, that doesn't mean it doesn't have a business focus too and with the likes of HP and several of its contemporaries focusing on offering software and data analytics these days, clearly there's a little more room …

Last year, Unreal Engine 4 launched a $19 per month subscription model in an effort to try and win indie developers back from Unity. Cryengine followed with a similar business model. However, Epic Games has now decided to just make Unreal Engine 4 free for all developers instead. You can …

Cyanogen has announced that it will be re-branding this soon, moving away from its custom ROM roots even further. the company is ditching its previous Android mascot logos in favor of cleaner, simpler look. In addition to this, Qualcomm will be using Cyanogen built software on its own reference design …

UK retailer GAME has made quite the comeback since its 2012 bankruptcy. Now the company is venturing in to new territory by acquiring Multiplay, who many of you will know as being behind the I-series Insomnia LAN events here in the UK. GAME is managing to nab Multiplay for £20 …

Although it seems to be the case that most media corporations and lobby groups have moved on from attempting to target movie and TV show pirates with lawsuits, that was a pretty popular tactic in the '00s. Not only was it designed to financially punish those that were found to …

Generating clean energy is a bit of a minefield. Nuclear is incredibly powerful but has some horrific dangers, solar power is still expensive and inefficient on a large scale and nobody wants a wind turbine in their back garden due to their size and noise. But what about wave power? …

Motorola is apparently finally going to let potential customers customize the Moto 360 smartwatch, something that has been rumored ever since the device was originally unveiled. The Moto 360 has been added to the Moto Maker, Motorola's own customization suite that debuted with the original Moto X smartphone. According to …

The Open Rights Group is a big proponent of, above all else, open rights. That means it champions the rights of individuals online, including freedoms of expression, freedoms of speech, information and privacy. With all of the Edward Snowden revelations and similar in the past couple of years, it's had …