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The value of bitcoins over the past year has been an interesting ride to watch, since it ballooned in just ten months from around $30 per coin, to a massive $1,200 at one point. Since then it's cruised at around the $950 mark but most recently, it's tumbled spectacularly after …

Man at Arms is a series of Youtube videos that has an experienced bladesmith crafting all sorts of weaponry from video games and movies, but for his latest project, he's building a Halo energy sword. Of course it doesn't have the power to one shot kill an Elite, but it …

While Kim Dotcom may have been forced to scrap his Party Party earlier this year, he's still going ahead with his Internet Party, not a celebration, but a political organisation. In-fact, he's even more likely to push it forward with it after hearing the news that one in five New …

It only feels like yesterday that the world and his dog's website voluntarily blacked themselves out to protest the SOPA and PIPA bills, but while those bits of restrictive legislation are thankfully long gone, new threats have emerged. Today the problem is mass surveillance, with citizens of every country the …

Sophisticated electronics is used in nearly everything today, including military gear and weapons. The electronics has become necessary for operations, but it is almost impossible to track and recover every device used on the battlefield, which means that some of them might be captured by the enemy and repurposed or …

IBM has reportedly started to search for a buyer for its semiconductor manufacturing business. While the move itself seems like a milestone for the whole industry, the potential transaction will not have a huge impact on the market since IBM is not a leading maker of chips. Moreover, chips today …

Internet entrepreneur, Megaupload founder and now musician, Kim Dotcom, released his first full length album “Good Times,” recently, with a big campaign on his still-in-beta music service, Baboom and with real world posters. Now though he's offering up a total prize pack of $15,000 for whoever makes the best remix …

Law enforcement officers and federal agents the world over that are committed to stopping international drug trade no doubt held a big party when they shut down the original tor accessible drugs marketplace Silk Road back in September last year. They probably did so again as it first two successors, …

One of the founding fathers of the internet and creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee has spoken out about the current state of the internet in the March issue of Wired magazine, stating that he doesn't want to see countries developing their own closed off internet infrastructure in …

Across Eurasia, around 300 million Russian speaking folks will have powered up their favourite search engine to be treated to a peacock display of pro-gay messaging. Has any country's state policy ever backfired so badly and so publicly?  KitGuru looks for rainbows in the skies over rain-drenched Blighty. Some battles …

If you've followed the story of the tor accessible marketplace Silk Road, you'll know all about its closure last year and the arrest of the alleged owner, Ross Ulbricht. However it didn't take long after that initial shut down for other sites to take its place, one of them being …

Despite all the negative attention that the privacy destroying revelations surrounding the NSA's PRISM scheme has brought to the US and the huge fallout because of that in the US technology sector, the government is continuing to extend its tentacles around the world and is getting local governments to force …

If you were participating in the Will Ferrell AMA on Reddit yesterday, chances are you were excited to hear about a potential sequel to Step Brothers, or find out just exactly what Mark Wahlberg smells like, but what you wouldn't have expected was Snoop Dogg/Lion to show up and try …

Amazon really is starting branch out. Last year it jokingly hinted at possible drone deliveries, but this year it's kicking things off by buying up the developer of Xbox One exclusive, Killer Instinct, Double Helix Studio, throwing more wood on the rumour-fire that Amazon is developing its own console. While …

Ten thousand developers signed up to make apps for Razer's upcoming smartband, ‘Nabu', just 24 hours after it was unveiled at CES last month. Razer is taking a detour from its usual line of gaming peripherals and laptops to create its own piece of wearable tech, it's not just developers …

Youtube has announced that it plans to target those that inflate their video view counts, likes, subscriber numbers or favourites via artificial means, by periodically reviewing all view counts and changing them to their validated amount if they're phony. According to Youtube software engineer Philipp Pfeiffenberger, the act of increasing …

We've all got our favourite games and we know how they perform on our regular system. But every now and then, something new comes along and you feel the urge to splash the cash and upgrade your hardware. Which is normally followed by a game-buying fix. The latest move from …

While Folding@Home was a noble project and still continues delivering excellent data for scientists to pour over to this day, it had one major flaw: it used up idle cycles. While this meant you could have it running whenever you weren't using your PC, it makes it much harder to …

As many as one thousand new top level domains are expected to go live in the near future, with the first one rolling out today. It's pronounced dot shabaka, but looks like  شبكة and is the Arabic translation of the word “network,” making it a very apt one to begin with. …

The Oculus Rift is obviously a fabulous gaming device and has a lot of potential once it gets past its current novelty stage, but it has much more going for it than just being an immersive display. We've seen before how it has the potential to help alleviate problems like …

David Cameron spent a lot of time last year talking up the porn filters he wants UK ISPs to ‘voluntarily' implement and praising Chinese censorship firms like Huawei who he's been welcoming with open arms, but when they began being implemented, as detractors pointed out before hand, they ended up …

Barack Obama might have been pretty non-committal in his response to the Edward Snowden leaks about NSA and GCHQ spying on native and international citizens, but David Cameron has shrugged them off, suggesting that they shouldn't be a surprise to everyone, since TV detective shows are always using potentially illegal spying …

This is the question Twitter is hoping you'll answer “yes,” to in the coming months, as it plans to try and monetise its service to a much greater extent, by setting up an e-commerce platform within the Twitter experience, giving you the option to buy products talked about through tweets. …

Imagine a world where the overly friendly young chaps and chap-esses in an Apple store didn't actually have a clue what they were talking about, regularly make up technology to describe what your looking at and were happy to accept bribes. KitGuru checks out secret cam footage of this alternative reality.

The term PC or Personal Computer covers a broad spectrum of systems – with everything from hand built from the ground up, through to off the shelf systems where everything is done for you.  KitGuru casts an eye over YOYOTech's latest range of offers. Just how lazy are we? We're …

While Google's fourth quarter earnings fell just short of analyst expectations on Thursday, the firm did manage to post strong Nexus 5, Chromecast and Google Play sales. Wall Street expected Google to generate $16.75 billion in revenue,  and while it did manage to surpass that, generating $16.86 billion, share prices …

One of the most distasteful elements of the copyright lobbyist vs piracy conflict over the past few years, has been the former group targeting individual file sharers with enormous lawsuits that try to force them into bankruptcy by demanding huge payouts per movie uploaded/downloaded. These got even worse when companies …

It's been a while since the internet's freedoms were threatened by something as paltry as legislation, we've had PRISM and Tempora to worry about for the last 10 months. But before that, we took on the likes of SOPA, PIPA and ACTA and won, so it's somewhat surprising that the …

Edward Snowden, the man that, regardless of how you feel about his motivation behind it, gave us confirmation that our governments have been doing what we suspected all along: spying on everything we do online. It gave us evidence and details that may eventually pave the way for a return …

Ever wished your personal site was [yourname].bike? What about [yourhobby].guru? Or .financial? Those are some options you'll have starting today, as US net firm Donuts has begun the regulation of the new domain suffixes, as well as allowing other domain registrars to sell them to people like you and me. …