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Microsoft’s big Windows 10 Fall Creators Update launched today and along with it brought the company’s answer to virtual reality. Competing with HTC and Oculus, Windows Mixed Reality headsets are now available to order from a variety of developers including Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo among others. To quell any …

AMD's Raven Ridge APU launch appears to be getting close, with HP amongst the first laptop makers to pick up the Ryzen 5 2500U with Vega graphics.

After five long years going through the court system, this week a judge ruled that Apple must pay $439.7 million to patent-hoarding firm, VirnetX. The company holds four patents that were apparently infringed on by Apple’s FaceTime software amongst other iOS apps. VirnetX first filed a lawsuit against Apple in …

After plenty of rumours and even some talk of the Surface line up getting scrapped, today Microsoft announced the Surface Book 2, it’s most powerful Surface Book ever. The new laptop comes with an updated design and bumps up the internals to feature Nvidia GTX 10-series graphics and an Intel …

Previous UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Tracey Crouch has responded to Cambridge Labour MP Daniel Zeichner's two questions regarding the concern that loot boxes are a form of gambling.

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Yesterday some worrying news hit the web, with a new exploit known as KRACK becoming public knowledge. This exploit allows attackers to read WiFi traffic between devices and wireless access points, the issue also works against common WiFi encryption methods, including WPA and WPA 2. Android and Linux devices were …

Over the last few years, the idea of modular smartphone add-ons has been explored by a myriad of companies. The latest smartphone to offer modular add-ons is the Essential Phone, from Andy Rubin, the co-founder of Android. Unfortunately, it looks like this feature has landed Essential with a lawsuit, with …

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s report that Nintendo is opening itself up to more mature games on the Switch, Bethesda has announced its release date for DOOM on the console. If shooting demons on the go appeals to you at all, then you’ll be able to do so starting …

Noctua has a reputation for making the best fans and air-coolers around. The only major issue putting off some buyers has been the beige/brown colour scheme. That is changing this year, as Noctua has just introduced its new ‘Chromax’ line of fans, cables and heatsink covers, allowing users to customise …

While Oculus started off with a focus on seated virtual reality experiences, Valve has always focussed its efforts on ‘room scale’. At the moment, SteamVR supports two Base Stations for detecting 12×12 feet playspaces. With SteamVR Tracking 2.0, this will be upgraded to support four base stations and up to …

It’s no secret that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is the fastest growing game around at the moment. The game has sold tens of millions of copies and can even pull in more than two million players concurrently at peak times. As with any popular game though, cheaters are drawn into the equation, …

With the success of The Witcher franchise, CD Projekt Red has quickly grown into one of the most esteemed studios around. As work on Cyberpunk 2077 gets under way, the number of developers at the studio has also grown, hitting as high as 400. However, over the last few months …

Apple and Qualcomm have been embroiled in an ugly legal battle throughout the course of 2017. Apple has blasted Qualcomm’s practices as monopolistic, while Qualcomm has hit back at Apple for using patents without a license. Recently, Qualcomm has been taking things a step forward, following a move to ban …

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At Gamescom this year, Microsoft announced that it would be reviving the Age of Empires series exclusively for PC. This was set to kick off later this year with Age of Empires: Definitive Edition. Unfortunately, it seems that the developers need some more time to get everything prepared, so the …

Over the last few years, the Humble Bundle and Humble Store have grown to become very prominent in the PC space. Not only do monthly Humble Bundles give you an opportunity to support a good cause and get some cheap games, but the Humble Store has also taken off. While …

The Apple Watch has just entered its third generation, bringing better health tracking and LTE capabilities to the table. However, it is already time to look to the future, which could involve self-adjusting watch bands to automatically find the perfect fit for your wrist. Last week, Apple was granted US …

Western Digital is looking to usher in the future of hard disk storage using microwave-assisted technologies.

In line with the launch of Coffee Lake processors and accompanying Z370 chipsets, G.Skill released memory kits optimised for Intel’s latest offering. While the standard versions are able to achieve astounding speeds, the RGB variants were unfortunately capped, which has since resulted in the company further fine-tuning its 32GB kit …

The Nvidia Shield tablet has had a long life at this point. Both the original 2014 tablet and the updated K1 from 2015 went on to become highly regarded in the Android tablet space and received plenty of timely updates but it is time to put them to rest. This …

This version of the Aero15X is a little more expensive than the model we’ve reviewed before – and it’s more expensive than the Razer Blade, which is its key rival.

While the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus are already out in the wild, Apple still has one more iPhone up its sleeve for 2017- the iPhone X. One of the big flagship features for the X is Face ID, which may replace Touch ID across the board next year. According …

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War launched earlier this week and while Warner Bros attempted to keep it locked down with Denuvo's DRM system, it seems crackers have managed to figure out a way around it. Over the last year, game cracking groups have gotten a lot quicker at removing Denuvo, with …

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MSI is bringing its Tri-Frozr cooler to the GTX 1080Ti GAMING series.

A few weeks ago, The Pirate Bay began testing out a new cryptocurrency miner as a potential way to replace flash ads. The miner appeared in the website’s code and would borrow CPU resources from visitors of the site in order to obtain a currency known as ‘Monero coins’. The …

Since rolling out Windows 10, Microsoft has pushed out its fair share of buggy updates and unfortunately, it looks like the company still hasn’t fully ironed things out even two years after launch. This week, Microsoft began rolling out a Cumulative Update for Windows 10, preparing machines for the incoming …

DinoPC is going for the throat with their Primal Ragnarok gaming PC as the name describes a mythical battle that results in the death of Norse Gods such as Odin, Thor and Loki. A gaming PC that combines high frame rates, mythology and the end of a colossal movie franchise …

Update: There has been an update to this ongoing story. It turns out that one of the two defendants in this case is a 14 year-old boy who simply posted a video online showing the cheats in action. He did not create the cheats being shown as originally thought and …