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I love a big television, and until this morning I thought my 50 inch Sony screen was worth a discussion. Not to be outdone, Sharp have released their latest Aquos television, weighing in at a whopping 90 inches. The new LED television (LC-90LE745U) is a full 1080p screen with Active …

Facebook have bought Face.com – the Israeli facial recognition system. Techcrunch initially reported that the cost was around $100 million, but they revised the cost to $55-60 million. Facebook will be adopting the facial recognition technology for their own projects. Face.com have been developing mobile facial recognition and the theory …

Yesterday Microsoft showcased their new tablet which runs on the upcoming Windows 8 operating system. They are diverting resources to mount a viable attack on the Apple and Google machines. Ballmer said the device would offer “Windows without compromise”. The new Microsoft Surface tablet has a built in stand and …

We all know that the memory market is going through a harsh evolutionary phase. As processes shrink and improve – so the overall capacity of the world's foundries is increasing – with a corresponding drop in price. Regular KitGuru readers will know that Kingston as dropped the price of a …

With a strong brand and excellent reputation for quality, Antec has decided to spread its (product) wings and launch a whole series of Antec Mobile Products under the banner ‘AMP'. KitGuru scans the line up and brings you the best bits. Pause for a second and think to yourself, “So …

During the week of Computex 2012, five overclocking records have been achieved with G.SKILL high performance DDR3 memory by several renowned extreme overclockers. Super Pi 32M – 4mins 44.734sec With the astonishing G.SKILL memory speed of DDR3 2646MHz CL5-9-7-18 1T, the two legendary overclockers, Fredyama-san and Shamino have both achieved …

Its has been a tough couple of years for Research In Motion and Nokia. Both companies have been struggling in the face of competition from Apple and Android powered devices. A handful of years ago Nokia were one of the world's biggest phone makers. Since then they have lost 90% …

Facebook has agreed to pay out $10 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the site of violating users' rights to control the use of their own names, photographs and likenesses. Court documents were released over the weekend. Facebook are paying the $10 million to charity. The lawsuit was initiated …

Apple's Siri assistant has been getting a lot of headlines since it was released however it has also been receiving its fair share of criticism from the press and user base. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said he doesn't have a lot of appreciation for the voice recognition application. He added …

Speaking with our correspondents after the world's best technology show ended, one thing became clear. There has been a sea-change in the market and the new world order has been established. KitGuru opens up a nutshell in which to store this new truth. During the first 10 days of June, …

During a BBC documentary that aired just ahead of the Facebook IPO, one of the more worrying aspects of Facebook's future advertising policy was exposed. And quite shocking it was too. But there is a way around it. KitGuru shows you how to hide behind the sofa when Facebook wants …

Nokia said today that they are planning to cut another 10,000 staff globally by the end of 2013. They are also selling luxury phone maker Vertu in a bid to cut costs even though they plan to boost investments in creating new smartphones based on Windows Phone. Nokia also announced …

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the producer of many chips (the non-potato variety) that we love to enjoy and abuse daily has told media that its 28nm foundry will fail to meet demand until next year. This will effect the supply of newer products from AMD, NVIDIA and Qualcomm. Right …

We’ve written about a fair few of the new motherboards on display at Computex, but we haven’t even touched upon some of the smaller board makers, nor have we covered all of the products from the bigger guys. Take a deep breath and follow KitGuru down the rabbit hole for …

Yesterday we asked the question …. could Apple's new Retina display for the MacBook Pro match the class leading Dell Wide View IPS RGB LED that was a £410 optional extra on the high end Dell Precision M6600 laptop. Anand Lai Shimpi of Anandtech seems to think the new retina …

There has been a lot of talk about Thunderbolt and we’ve already seen motherboards from all of the major manufacturers that support the new standard, as well as many Ultrabooks and even a tablet and that doesn’t even take Apple into account. What we haven’t really seen a lot of …

We got a quick guided tour of the Thermaltake booth at Computex and the company is working on a wide range of new products, but for the first time Thermaltake is also looking at making some products for the console market as well as your average consumer. We’ll start with …

The TB_Header on Asus’ recently launched Z77 and H77 motherboard cause a lot of confusion at first, but once the company announced it was working on an add-in card that would allow users to upgrade these boards with Thunderbolt support, things became a lot clearer. At Computex the company was …

Contrary to popular belief, Apple did release a Retina version of their MacBook Pro and Macworld have posted a first hands on, detailing their initial findings. We are wondering if the new screen can compete against the Wide View IPS RGB LED panel that Dell employed in the 17 inch …

Eugene Kaspersky, the chief executive of Kaspersky labs has said that part of the Flame virus program code is almost identical to code from a 2009 version of Stuxnet. He spoke out at the Reuters Global Media and Technology Summit on Monday. The information was confirmed later in the day …

BitFenix has gone from strength to strength and its latest cases are getting increasingly impressive with the relatively large-small Prodigy mini-ITX case taking the world with storm. At Computex the company also unveiled a second new model which is known as Ghost, much more traditional case but with a few …

Ah yes, yet another Thunderbolt equipped motherboard. Well, not quite, as ASRock has actually come up with a clever way of making its Z77 Extreme6/TB4 work with discrete graphics cards, although, just as with Asus, it does require an external cable. In fact, ASRock pretty much did what Asus did …

One of the biggest problems ADATA claimed it has had with regards to its product branding has been that it have been lacking a clear strategy, with many of its products looking identical with the expectation of the model name. This has recently started to change and the company was …

At Computex Intel was speaking about the future of Ultrabooks and was making a very big deal out of it, but judging by the current crop of products, the future has yet to arrive. Some of the models that are launching later this year are getting closer to Intel’s vision, …

No one in the enthusiast desktop sector may actually appear to want it, but ASRock are the first motherboard manufacturer to get Windows 8 hardware certification. They proudly announced “With the outstanding R&D capability, ASRock motherboard is hardware ready to support the newest operation system Windows® 8, delivering a safest …

When it comes to gaffs, the bigger they are the funnier it is. Earlier this week Microsoft organised a PR event in Norway to promote a set of updates to Windows Azure cloud computing platform. As with most of these events Micorsoft’s PR team arranged the obligatory song and dance. …

Linkedin have been reassuring its business customers that their data is safe. They said they received no reports that member accounts were breached after experiencing a password theft targeting 6.5 million people. These passwords were stolen and then published on a website last week. Security experts said  that Linkedins protection …

Experts spoke out last night to say that the Flame computer virus has received orders to self destruct. Symantec said in a blog post last night that the Flame “command-and-control servers sent an updated command to several compromised computers. This command was designed to completely remove (Flame) from the compromised …

Corsair surprised at Computex by launching a new range of SSDs based on a controller from a so far unheard of company in the consumer SSD controller space called Link_A_Media Devices or LAMD for short. In addition to that the company launched its new Dominator Platinum memory modules as well …

Networking products are in general fairly dull things, although it’s something none of us can live without in this day in age, at least not if we want to stay connected to the internet. Broadcom jumped on the 802.11ac or 5G Wi-Fi bandwagon very early on and at Computex the …