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Earlier this week, we got wind of talks taking place between Toshiba and Sony. Now, Sony has confirmed that it is planning to buy out Toshiba's image sensor business, which will in turn boost its production capabilities. Right now, terms are still being negotiated but we do know that Toshiba's …

Earlier this year, a Harvard Law School student launched a petition to the US Copyright Office to allow for abandoned online games to become exempt to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This would mean that games abandoned by publishers with dead DRM servers could legally be cracked and played again. …

As much as many media groups around the world have attempted to combat media piracy with the aid of legal action, take down tools and threatening letters in the post, more often than not it's been shown that legal alternatives to piracy have had the greatest impact and now the …

If you thought Apple was rich before, having the biggest, most financially settled company in the world, think again, as this year has eclipsed all others that came before it. In-fact it's eclipsed every single company's most profitable year ever, netting the fruity firm a staggering $53.4 billion (£35 billion). …

Sound waves have long been postulated as a potential avenue for movie-like tractor beam technology, as it's been possible on a small scale to levitate objects or droplets of water using a pair of speakers or a single set and a reflector. Now though, scientists have been able to achieve …

We should have seen it coming. The '90s were all about dinosaurs, and the '00s were all about zombies, so of course this decade would be all about dinosaurs again. Not every game needs to be like Ark: Survival Evolved though. In-fact, the games we play with dinosaurs should be …

While rumours are suggesting that Samsung may have lost Apple's business when it comes to the manufacturing of its A-series SoCs, the company is still interested in its rival's displays. According to new reports, Samsung is now in talks with Apple to get its displays on to the next iPhone …

The European Parliament has passed a law today that will put a stop to mobile roaming data fees by June 2017. This law was passed as part of a larger legislation, which also wanted to strengthen Net Neutrality laws but unfortunately was left with some major problems that could allow …

Intel has announced that it has acquired Saffron Technologies in an effort to improve its machine learning efforts. Saffron Technologies has previously offered predictive analytical data to industries across the spectrum. For now, Intel intends to keep Saffron running as its own standalone business, though it will look in to …

Today at Games Week in Paris, Corsair announced its new Katar gaming mouse, built with a compact and lightweight design and fully programmable features. It is an ambidextrous mouse, which means it should work perfectly fine with both left and right-handed users. Additionally, like most mice these days, this one …

It has been over two years since the Phonebloks concept was made famous on YouTube. Since then, Google has brought the concept to life with Project Ara, which is due to launch some time next year and now, a Finland-based company is hoping to stir up some competition with a …

Over the last week, Overkill Studios have found themselves in quite a bit of trouble after introducing microtransactions to PayDay 2. The studio didn't offer any official comment until the weekend, when Overkill's Almir Listo responded to questions in a Reddit AMA, explaining that PayDay 2 needed the extra revenue …

The UK police have managed to track down and arrest a suspect in the TalkTalk hacking case, which saw the financial information of customers stolen. The suspect is just 15 years old and was arrested in Northern Ireland, the police's own report also says that the boy's premises will be searched …

Fallout 4 is exactly two weeks away from launch and since the game has already gone gold, meaning initial development has wrapped up and the game is ready to ship, Bethesda is now ready to talk about its pre-loading plans for PC and consoles. In short, Bethesda is joining the …

Earlier this year, we heard that Samsung was experimenting with a massive 18.4 inch tablet, potentially in response to Apple's own 12-inch iPad Pro, which was heavily rumoured for some time prior to its announcement back in September. We now know quite a bit more about the Galaxy View tablet, …

Microsoft officially announced its Surface Book laptop earlier this month, featuring Intel's Skylake processors and a custom Nvidia GPU. At the time, Microsoft compared its new offering to the Macbook Pro and now, it is targeting Apple users once again with the launch of a site aimed at helping OS …

One of the more requested features for the Xbox One, backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 games, is coming in just a couple of weeks' time. Announced during the launch event for Halo 5: Guardians last night, 360 support will come hand in hand with a number of other improvements to …

Last night was a big one for Microsoft, a big one for 343 industries and a big one for British Halo fans especially, as along with Halo 5: Guardians being released, the UK had a huge launch event last night. Hosted by Xbox social marketing manager Graeme Boyd and TV …

Over the last year, we have been hearing a lot about DirectX 12 and now we are finally starting to see just what the new API can bring to the table. So far, DirectX 12 performance has been measured with Ashes of Singularity on both AMD and Nvidia GPUs, but …

Last week it emerged that TalkTalk was hacked, causing a significant amount of personal and financial user data to be stolen. Now though, the ISP is looking to calm its four million customers by claiming that the cyber attack was ‘not as bad' as previously thought. In an update on …

AMD officially launched its tiny Radeon R9 Nano graphics card a while back, bringing the full power of a Fiji graphics core and High-Bandwidth Memory to a tiny 6-inch PCB. Several AIB partners have already launched their own branded models and now, it looks like Asus is planning to release …

Toshiba is apparently in advanced talks to sell its image sensor business to Sony for as much as $165 million. This comes just a few weeks after we learned that Sony also acquired sensor start-up company, SoftKinetic. So far, this news is coming from multiple sources, ranging from Japanese newpaper, …

Last year, footage of an awesome looking Darth Maul game surfaced on the web, causing many to wonder why it never saw the light of day. Now, the developer behind the title, Red Fly Studios, is planning on re-pitching the game in order to get the project revived. The concept …

The October MCM Comic Con kicked off in London over the weekend and I was fortunate enough to attend. While I wasn't there in any sort of ‘official' capacity, I did take a few pictures of what I saw there on Saturday to share with our readers today.   As …

Sony already has the more powerful console when it comes to the current generation but it turns out that it may consider a ‘high-power' model at some point in the future too. This PS4 would offer improved hardware, while also still being able to play all of the current games …

Earlier this month, Blizzard officially announced that it would be launching the Overwatch beta, with a release date set for the 27th of October. At the time of the announcement, the beta was only scheduled to launch over in the US, cutting out the rest of the world. However, tomorrow's …

A few Apple customers were pretty annoyed when they discovered the WiFi Assist feature within iOS 9. The feature comes switched on by default and switches out your WiFi signal with 3G or 4G when it gets too weak. As a result of this happening, some customers found themselves using …

Warner Bros is finally putting Batman: Arkham Knight back on sale on the PC this week, after a good four months of re-working the game and making it run as well as people expected it to at launch. The game's return will be accompanied by one last performance patch, which …

Intel is making big pushes into a number of different markets this year, driving its low-power, small form factor chips into wearables and micro-systems, and looking to make its Xeon CPUs dominate in the hotly contested server market with the help of Oracle. Together they're hoping to convince enterprise customers …

Along with a push for legislation like TTIP and TPP, British and American governments have all but declared a brand new ‘war' against encryption. They've both made efforts to paint the technology as a tool for terrorists and a serious security threat to all nations, as well as pushing for …