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Mark Zuckerberg might not be everyone's favourite person when it comes to privacy, but he has pledged to give away 99 per cent of his Facebook shares throughout his lifetime – worth an estimated $24 billion. To help him do that without losing control of the company, Facebook's board has …

Twitter might have helped push the livestreaming model forward with its Periscope platform, but it's brought us more vertical, shaky video than perhaps any source gone before. That may change in the future though, as it's just acquired a London start up which could help clean up terrible quality footage …

Ever since the big exclusivity debate kicked off between the likes of Oculus and the virtual reality community, Palmer Luckey has been rather quiet online. Once a regular Redditor and Tweeter, he's been almost silent for the last few months. At E3 though he made a few statements, one of …

Back at the start of this month sources began claiming that Nvidia may skip the GTX1080M this generation and bring a modified/lower TDP version of the desktop GTX 1080 to laptops right off the bat. Nvidia already proved it could put desktop graphics in a laptop with the GTX 980 …

Bethesda set out to bring mods to consoles with Fallout 4 and earlier this year, the console mod system launched. Unfortunately though, people have been abusing the system and re-uploading other people's creations from Nexus Mods to Bethesda Net without permission and it has caused quite a stir, to the …

We have been hearing about the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 for a while now. At this point we have heard quite a bit about release plans and even the device's specifications but now we also know when Samsung is planning to announce it, with sources pointing towards a 2nd of …

At this point, Sony has officially confirmed the existence of the PlayStation 4 Neo, a more powerful console aimed to drive better PlayStation VR experiences and while many were expecting the console to show up at E3, it was nowhere to be seen. However, according to sources speaking out this …

Back in 2014, Marvel pledged to start stepping up its video game efforts and now, at E3 2016, we are finally seeing that come to fruition with the announcement of Insomniac's upcoming Spiderman title for the PS4. There is plenty more to come as well, but Marvel will only be working …

The Investigatory Powers Bill is something that almost no one has approved of since its first announcement, with repeated debates and analysis heralding many concerns and problems, few of which have been rectified. Now the Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) committee has raised its own issues with the bill, citing …

China continues to be the owner of the world's most powerful supercomputer, easily surpassing the U.S. in what feels like a 21st century version of the Cold War space race. The newly ranked #1 Sunway TaihuLight was built and designed in China, using Chinese micro-processors and is capable of a whopping …

During Computex 2016 Leo Waldock visited Gigabyte's HQ in Taipei for a quick tour followed by an interview with Raymond Tseng, Senior Associate Vice President Innovation & Creative Value Centre Motherboard Business Unit, which is one of the longest job titles we have ever seen. As you can see Gigabyte …

Although services like Spotify, Netflix and Amazon Instant Video have gone a long way to make buying content legitimately an easy and affordable way to consume media, piracy is still alive and well. If there was any need for proof of that fact, KickassTorrents has just entered the top 70 …

Blue Origin's new Shepherd has once again launched and landed successfully, making this the fourth re-use of the same rocket hardware. This not only continues to prove the viability of the passenger rocket, but showed that even with a deliberate parachute failure, the capsule can come down safely. [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYYTuZCjZcE'] …

You wouldn't know it, but for the past three years developer of No Man's Sky, Hello Games, has been embroiled in a legal battle with BSkyB, the owner of the Sky TV service in the UK. The cable TV company wanted the explorative space title to change its name, but Hello …

While Bethesda has been putting a lot of effort into publishing games recently, it has also been working on plenty of projects of its own in-house. With Fallout 4 out of the way, there has been a lot of talk about when the next Elder Scrolls game will come out …

The GTX 10-series has been in the public eye for over a month and now both the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 can be found for purchase at many retailers. However, not every store can offer the same variety of partner cards, or secure the same amount of stock, so where is …

A short while after first announcing that it would be bringing Android apps to Chrome OS, Google has officially begun rolling out the Android Play Store to some Chrome OS devices. This is a test build, so it isn't perfect yet but this is the first iteration of the Play …

Valve has been greatly expanding the software capabilities of its Steam Controller ever since its launch with frequent and meaningful updates. This week, Valve launched the ‘Activators' update, making the Steam Controller one of the most flexible gamepads on the market with the ability to customise each button press. The …

Microsoft is currently readying the launch of a new tool that will make it easier to do a clean install of Windows 10, free of bloatware. With its latest OS, Microsoft offered users the ability to ‘reset' a PC which restores it back to a previous time, this new tool …

Earlier this week, a fairly interesting article hit the web accusing both Asus and MSI of sending out modified GTX 1080s to the press, which would perform around 1% better than a typical retail card. The post came from a GPU reviewer by the name of Damien Triolet, who claimed …

While Dead Rising 4 was announced on Microsoft's E3 stage as a Xbox and Windows 10 title, the game will apparently show up on other platforms eventually, according to a developer over at Capcom. According to a tweet from Capcom Vancouver, the team behind Dead Rising 4 and Frank West's …

Although Magic Leap's augmented reality headset technology is still mostly under wraps, every time it releases a new demonstration of what it can do it's even more impressive than before. The latest release sees Industrial Light and Magic creating some star wars assets for it and the effect is simply …

Creative Assembly initially wasn't going to allow mods with Total War: Warhammer – we suspect because of Games Workshop influence – but it must be glad it turned things around, as already there are over 1,000 of them. From adding new playable armies, to increasing the size of the battles, …

Considering politicians and public figures prefer to lambaste piracy as a hateful crime more often than not, it's rare to hear those in any form of office decrying copyright trolling. That's exactly what happened in the House of Lords this week though, where Ralph Palmer took a swipe at several companies …

If you are a regular KitGuru reader then you will know we like to give away as much cool hardware as possible! This week, we are teaming up with NZXT to give away an S340 mid-tower PC case! You can find all of the details below… We have reviewed the …

Uber is looking to do more than just pick you up next time you need a lift, it now wants to deliver food to you too. UberEats is an application that extends its service and lets you order food from as many as 150 restaurants around London that do not …

Earlier this year Disney made the surprising move to end the game development branch of its business. That meant the incredibly popular and profitable Disney Infinity is also set to be shut down. Rival mixed reality game series Skylanders however, is gunning hard to pick up the leftover audience, with …

Poor Gabe Newell. It seems he can't go five minutes without someone emailing him asking about Valve's stance on exclusive games. We should know it by now: it doesn't like it. Still, it does seem like each time he opens up about it, Newell tells us a little more. In …

Earlier this year, AOC launched its AGON series of premium gaming monitors, aiming to take on the competition by offering high-refresh rate 2560×1440 displays. Now, the line-up has just got better, with the addition of G-Sync variable refresh rate technology and IPS panels. The AGON AG271QG is a 2560×1440 IPS …

Google has gone ahead and pushed out the fourth Android N developer preview this week, which means we should be nearing a public release for the still yet to be named OS update. The fourth developer preview update adds in some finalised APIs and the final SDK for developers, there …