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We have already heard plenty of behind the scenes reports surrounding Apple's difficulties producing the iPhone X. These reports were essentially confirmed at Apple's launch event, when it was announced that the phone would start shipping in November, much later than the iPhone 8. Unfortunately, it seems that those looking …

Whenever there is a major controversy surrounding a game or a developer, we often see fans resort to ‘review bombing'. This is essentially where players flood a game's Steam page with negative reviews as a way to get their point across. Sometimes these negative reviews aren't relevant to the game …

In a move meant to combat AMD's Ryzen Threadripper launch, earlier this year Intel announced a new line of Core i9 processors, ranging from a 10C/20T chip all the way up to an 18C/36T behemoth. We have already seen what the 10-core 7900X can do but we have seen very …

A few weeks back, we decided to continue our series of high-end audio giveaways by offering you guys the chance to win the incredible Grado GH2 Heritage Series headphones. These are a £650 headphone and very limited edition, with just 1,200 being made in the world. We've had a chance to …

So far, 2017 appears to be the year of expensive flagships. Back in August, Samsung launched the Galaxy Note 8 with a $930 price tag. Now this month, Apple has upped the ante further with the iPhone X, which will launch for a staggering $999. What is perhaps more staggering …

Earlier this week, a fairly interesting discovery was made on the Nintendo Switch. Some users managed to unearth a hidden copy of NES Golf embedded in every console. At the time, we were unsure why this Easter egg existed but as it turns out, it is actually a tribute to …

This week, well-known overclocker and delidder, Der8auer, decided to take a look at what was going on under the hood of AMD's Threadripper processors. We already know that this particular CPU uses two dies containing eight cores each, connected via Infinity Fabric. This is how AMD managed to hit 16-cores. …

After several months of developer testing, IOS 11 is set to officially roll out to iPhones and iPads later today in a huge update that brings along Augmented Reality, improvements to Siri and more. The update was first showcased at WWDC earlier this year but is now ready to roll …

At E3 earlier this year, long-time fans of the series were pleased to see Monster Hunter: World presented live on the Sony stage. Now at TGS, more of the game has been revealed, with a world wide release date planned for the 26th of January 2018 for consoles, with PC …

Over the weekend, plenty of Fortnite players on PS4 discovered that they were being matched up in games with Xbox One players. This was particularly strange as so far this generation, Sony has been a roadblock for developers looking to implement cross-play between PS4 and other consoles. Now, Epic Games …

Avast owned CCleaner hasn’t been clean itself for the past month, with hackers piggybacking malware on the software for at least a month. As the maintenance tool is free, its downloads are well into the millions meaning up to 3.9 million users could be affected. Researchers at Cisco’s Talos Intelligence …

We have known for several months now that LG is planning to follow in HTC's footsteps by releasing its very own SteamVR headset. Now it seems we could be edging closer towards a launch, as the headset was recently spotted being shown off at an event in South Korea. The …

Over the weekend, torrenters across the web noticed something a little different about The Pirate Bay. A new cryptocurrency miner had appeared in the code for the website, which used some of the CPU resources from visitors to mine Monero coins. At first, there was some backlash due to the …

Earlier this month we watched PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds ascend to the top of the Steam charts, taking over Dota 2's top spot that week. Now over the weekend, the game has set another record, PUBG has now had the most concurrent players of any game in Steam history. As seen by …

Even if most smartphones are supplied with a reasonable set of in-ear earbuds, there is a lot that can be gained by switching to a third party brand. Choosing which of course, is never easy, but Rock Jaw is hoping that you will consider its new Resonate ear buds, with …

This week most major advertising organisations all cried out in pain after Apple announced that it would be improving user privacy on macOS. Apple is planning to integrate cookie-blocking technology into its Safari browsers for desktop and mobile, which will limit the amount of information marketing agencies and advertisers can …

Facebook has had a lot of difficulties developing its AI, particularly in its inability to discern hate speech. This has now resulted in the social media giant having to temporarily suspend advertisers from targeting people via employer or education, as the AI continued to let keywords like “Jew hater” slip …

Apple has revealed that its upcoming smartwatch won’t support international roaming, which means that the Apple Watch 3 might breach new EU law. This is due to the European Commission having tackled roaming charges in June, making them a thing of the past in a bid to enable people to …

This has been a big year for AMD so far, we've had Ryzen, Threadripper and Vega but there is still more on the roadmap. AMD still has its next generation Raven Ridge APUs lined up, featuring a Ryzen CPU and Vega graphics combined. Now, we are starting to get a …

Google is going to war with sites that autoplay media with sound

Activision is hoping for a resurgence in popularity for Call of Duty this year, as the series heads back to the past to explore World War II. Those of you who are intrigued by a ‘back to basics' Call of Duty title will get the chance to try it out …

Every time a new competitive game hits the market, cheaters are going to find exploits they can take advantage of. Squashing cheaters in itself can be a challenge for many developers but it seems that Bluehole is up to the challenge with PUBG as over 150,000 cheaters have been banned …

DDR4 RAM speeds continue to rise this week as Corsair has announced its fastest ever Vengeance LPX 16GB kit ever. The latest kit was co-developed with ASRock's X299 OC Formula motherboard in mind, allowing the modules to hit 4600MHz. The 2x8GB Vengeance LPX kit takes advantage of Intel XMP 2.0, …

After months of leaks and rumours, today Google officially confirmed that it will be launching its next smartphone on the 4th of October. The Google Pixel 2 is currently being manufactured by HTC, meanwhile the larger XL version will be made by LG. Google's confirmation comes just two days after …

With the RX Vega now out in the wild and Nvidia remaining tight lipped about Volta, there has been a lack of graphics card news recently. However, one new rumour did pop up this week, pointing towards the existence of a GTX 1070Ti, presumably to combat against the RX Vega …

On Tuesday, during Apple's big iPhone X and iPhone 8 launch event, the company suffered an embarrassing moment when a live demo of the iPhone X's new Face ID tech did not go as planned. This has spread across the web like wildfire but as it turns out, the issue …

The Nintendo Switch's Year One game library just got a bit stronger as last night, Bethesda surprisingly announced that it would be bringing both DOOM and Wolfenstein 2 to the console. DOOM will be arriving this year and is the surprise game release Bethesda alluded to last week.  DOOM Switch …

With the RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56 now out and in the hands of consumers, it looks like it is time for Radeon Technologies Group head, Raja Koduri, to take a break and catch up on family time. Koduri will be taking a three month sabbatical from RTG, …

This evening, Tim Cook and several other heads over at Apple all took to the stage at the Steve Jobs Theatre to formally show off a new batch of iPhones to the world. There are three iPhones on the way, the iPhone 8, the iPhone 8 Plus and the iPhone …

It looks like Samsung won't be the only company jumping in to the mega-wide 32:9 monitor market as Philips has revealed plans to launch its own. Similar to Samsung's CHG90 monitor, the Philips 492P8 will go a step further over 21:9, with a 32:9 aspect ratio and 3840×1080 resolution with …