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Facebook now officially has over 20 per cent of the world's population as regular members, as its active logins this month topped 1.35 billion people. Daily visitors weren't far behind, with around 864 million people logging in every day – that's more than the entire population of Europe. Revenue and …

V-Sync has been a necessary evil for some time. Fortunately though, in the past year Nvidia came up with its own version of the technology which makes for a smoother synchronisation between GPU and display and does away with input lag. You do need a compatible monitor for it though …

Dying Light has been shuffling along through development for some time now, with plans that when it was released, it would be made available on not only the current generation consoles and PC, but the last-gen ones too. However, now developer Techland has released a statement saying that as much …

Lisa Su, the recently appointed chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices, plans to visit China and Taiwan to discuss future plans with the company’s partners. It is highly likely that Ms. Su will update the company’s allies in the southeast Asia regarding her vision of the company’s future and possible …

In accordance with the plan, Microsoft Corp. and its partners will halt production of personal computers based on Windows 7 operating system for consumers this Friday, on the 31st of October. All consumers will have to buy PC s with Windows 8.1 OS after sales of the previous-generation operating system …

Seagate Technology said this week that sales of its solid-state hybrid drives started to rapidly grow in the recent months. The company expects shipments of SSHD products to remain strong in the current quarter, which may be an indicator that at least some of the company’s customers are deploying hybrid …

Although Google’s Chrome OS continues to command a small fraction of the world’s PC market, it still attracts a lot of attention from PC makers who hope to improve their sales with the help of non-Windows-based personal computers. At present Chromebooks – notebooks that run Chrome OS – are offered …

Last month, Apple quietly killed off the iPod Classic, 13 years after the product was initially revealed by Steve Jobs. Now, Apple CEO Tim Cook has finally explained why the iconic MP3 player is no longer available- to put it simply, Apple just couldn't source the parts to keep putting …

Razer has officially announced its latest product, the Leviathan, a 5.1 Surround Soundbar featuring two 2.5 Inch drivers, two 0.74 Inch tweeters and a separate subwoofer unit. The Leviathan will take input from analog and digital optical sources such as consoles, blu-ray players, set top boxes as well as PCs. …

Modern gaming laptops can be equipped with very powerful central processing units and graphics processing units. While such notebooks can offer performance on par with leading-edge desktops, they still feature one of the main drawbacks of mobile PCs: they cannot be easily upgraded. Alienware, a boutique PC maker, this week …

Microsoft will be implementing greater trackpad functionality in the Windows 10 Technical Preview, bringing the Windows trackpad experience closer to what you would find on a Macbook Pro, with multiple new finger gestures to make users more efficient whilst flicking through programs on the OS. Microsoft first started improving its …

According to recent reports from gaming industry analysts, EA is planning to launch Battlefield 5 in 2016. This way, DICE will have more time to work on its Battlefield 4 follow up while also giving Visceral Games plenty of time in the spotlight with Battlefield Hardline, which is due to …

Rockstar has revealed a list of exclusive items and missions/activities to be included in the long awaited PC, Xbox One and PS4 versions of Grand Theft Auto V, although this new content will only be available to returning players, meaning those of you who had the willpower to hold out …

Alienware and Roccat have just announced that they will be partnering up to bring Alienware FX lighting to several Roccat gaming peripherals. So far, supported products include the Roccat Tyon, which we recently reviewed, the Kone XTD mouse as well as the Isku FX gaming keyboard. Drivers for the compatibility …

I'd be surprised if any of our readers told me that they had heard of ELSA before. Apparently, ELSA is a Japanese graphics card manufacturer and it is all set to release its own custom GTX 980, featuring 4GB of VRAM, a 1253 MHz boost clock and a stealthy black twin …

You can get some pretty decent gaming laptops these days but they'll never be able to quite compete with a fully fledged desktop system, which is why Alienware has decided to launch a new desktop graphics card adapter for those who choose to game on a desktop replacement laptop. This isn't …

While Edward Snowden's whistle blowing document dumps to the likes of The Guardian have given us invaluable information about how the intelligence agencies of the US and British governments see the public and their rights, the reveals were always a little to big for one man alone. Some of the …

The British national weather service, the Met Office, is set to be granted a big boost to its climate modelling and weather prediction systems, with the introduction of a £97 million supercomputer. When finally set up, the new platform will run up to 13 times as fast as current computational …

Just over a year and a half on from the first fallout surrounding the creation of blueprints for a 3D printed gun and a man in Japan has been given a two year prison sentence for using his three dimensional printer to put out quite a little arsenal of firearms. …

One of the problems with game adaptations of epic fantasy worlds, is that they often make them the subject of the wrong thing. In Lord of the Rings games, as much as we love playing as ‘Aragorn', the story and the real struggle is with Frodo. Likewise in Game of …

Do you like to do your game streaming topless? If so, you may need to find yourself another site to do it on other than Twitch, as the now-Amazon owned property has announced its own dress code. You don't have to wear anything in particular, but you do have to …

Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a temporary $50 price-cut on its Xbox One video game console. The new price will initially be effective only in the U.S., but potentially the company could offer something similar in other regions as well. From the 2nd of November, 2014, through the 3rd of …

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced that Forrest Norrod, a former vice president and general manager of Dell’s server business, has joined the company as senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s enterprise, embedded and semi-custom (EESC) business group. “Forrest is an industry veteran whose strong track record of …

Intel Corp. plans to release the most powerful microprocessors based on the code-named “Haswell” micro-architecture in the second quarter of next year, according to a media report. The new chips will be aimed at ultra-high-end servers and will feature various reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS) features that are required by mission …

In a surprising move late last week, Larry Page, chief executive officer of Google, appointed Sundar Pichai to the position of the senior vice president of essentially all Google’s products. It is believed that the appointment will allow Mr. Page to concentrate on long-term projects. Until recently, Sundar Pichai was …

If you signed up for the Evolve ‘Big Alpha' then you're going to need to make sure that your PC can actually run it, so TurtleRock Studios has released the system requirements alongside a few other details about the game and its progression system. Chances are you PC can run …

The former head of EA, John Riccitello, has now been appointed as the new CEO of Unity Technologies while company co-founder and ex-CEO, David Helgason, will be taking a step back to serve as the Executive Vice President of Strategy and Communications. Riccitello had resigned from EA during March of …

Sledgehammer Games co-founder, Glen Schofield, has spoken out about the recent Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare leak and he's not particularly happy about it. The game was apparently stolen and then streamed live via Twitch, showing off a bunch of unannounced details ahead of the game's official release next week. The …

Google executive and Vice-President of Knowledge, Alan Eustace, has broke the world record for highest altitude jump, skydiving from the edge of space at 135,908 feet. This record was originally set two years ago by Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from 120,000 feet, making him the first free-falling human to break …

Earlier this year Nike disbanded development team that created Nike+ FuelBand smart-band, which naturally caused questions whether the company plans to continue development of wearable computing devices. Officially, the company remains quiet about its plans for the future, but its chief executive officer implied that Nike could team up with …