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Lenovo have announced their latest addition to the Thinkpad range with the new Helix hybrid. The ThinkPad Helix is based around a removable ‘rip and flip' touchscreen (their words, not ours). The device can be operated in four different modes, including a Tablet mode. The 11.6 inch screen has in …

At a recent event Nvidia were expected to just announce Tegra 4, but instead the focus was placed on a new handheld console they are calling Project Shield. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said that the Shield comes with its own controller and has a 5 inch ‘Retinal' display with 720p …

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson are due in North Korea on a visit which the US government has described as ‘unhelpful'. Mr Richardson said that the visit was ‘a private humanitarian mission'. The former governor has been to North Korea several times before, including …

With the first CES related press conferences taking place this morning, details about other products to be shown off at the world's largest technology conference has begun to leak. One of the victims is a 10 inch Android tablet from ASUS. The ASUS ME301T Memo Pad 10 is said to …

The enthusiast audience waited throughout 2012 for AMD to come up with a dual GPU HD7970 solution. In the end they failed to deliver, so it fell onto partners to create a solution. Powercolor, VTX3D and Club3d all released the HD7990 last year – a monster dual GPU designed to …

Love them, or loathe them – few tech companies can inspire enthusiast users to debate the worth of a product in the way that Apple can. 2013 looks set to hold a list of goodies for fans of the shiny technology fruit maker. According to Analysts Gene Munster and Douglas …

We all believe that supermarkets have the slickest, most amazing systems for processing products and delivering them to the public at competitive prices. Recently, the emphasis has been less on ‘price match before purchase' and more on ‘refunding the difference after'. But what if parts of the Tesco purchasing team …

How many times can a company get fined millions of dollars for acting illegally – yet still carry on with the same kind of practices? When it comes to LCD panels, there doesn't seem to be a limit. KitGuru gets word that the Chinese government themselves are now fining the …

It's just a rumour at this point, so take it with a pinch of salt, but there are some suggesting that if you buy a pre-owned Nintendo Wii U console, that you can download games bought by the previous console's owner, as they remain registered to the hardware. While it's …

HTC took the fast track to smartphone fame in 2010 but spent much of 2012 going nowhere. While we were relatively impressed by the One X flagship Android smartphone and its Windows Phone 8 devices are impressive, HTC went on to release many handsets for no apparent reason – an act …

With all the hate its received and the lack of acceptance of Sergey Titov's apology over the whole War Z “saga,” we should have seen this one coming. Hackers managed to take down zombie survival MMO The War Z for a short period and at the time of writing, Steam …

Eric Schmidt is set to visit North Korea as part of a humanitarian mission, along with Bill Richardson, a former democratic New Mexico governor who is known for his skill in sensitive negotiations. While there are a few reasons the pair are thought to be going, the US government has said they …

Another year and another version of Corning's Gorilla Glass has been announced. As you might expect the third iteration of Gorilla Glass is even tougher than its predecessors. According to Corning, Gorilla Glass 3 has a three times the scratch resistance, a 40 percent reduction in the number of visible …

While it still remains a bit of a rumour at this point, Sony is said to be looking to launch its own internet based TV channels and is currently talking with “at least two” major content creators to secure the rights to their programming. This bit of hear say comes …

Child therapists say that rebellion is a healthy and natural part of growing up, but just how far is healthy and when would rebellion become a problem? KitGuru ponders the nature of ‘too far' while researching the actions of a 16-year old girl in the USA, who tried to bypass an internet …

This Christmas -we were giving away 4x  FX8350 processors, courtesy of AMD. We had over 4,000 entries for this competition and it seems there are a lot of AMD lovers who want a system upgrade! To win one of these processors, all we wanted was a reason why one of …

In recent months it has become clear that social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook have been used as a means to locate people who are breaking the law. There have also been some cases of authorities finding people who have twitted abusive comments to others. The latest news …

Today we are going to look at Silverstone's latest small form factor case, the Sugo SG09. This case is designed for those users who want to build a powerful compact system, boasting enough room for a long graphics card and a full size power supply. This makes it ideal for …

Gingerbread is still the most widely used version of Android, although latest reports show that 4.2 Jelly Bean has now broken the 10 percent barrier adoption rate. The information was released via the Android dashboard, correlated from data measured across a two week period. Devices were analysed as they accessed …

Accusations have flown back and forth from both camps since the beginning of Megaupload founder, Kim Dotcom's extradition inquiries – the trial still has yet to start – and the latest one to be aimed at US authorities, is that they lied to the court to get hold of the …

If you've ever moved abroad and attempted to take your Xbox Live account with you, you'll know what a headache it can be. It might take weeks to sort and you might need to actually use the telephone to talk to someone. Fortunately the days of that sort of interaction …

Tizen is another open source mobile platform, similar to Google's Android, that is instead maintained by a primary decision making group. As you might have guessed from the title, one half of this governing body is Samsung; the other is Intel. Other partners include Huawei, Panasonic and the United States' …

Samsung first introduced their Chromebox in late May of 2012 that reminded us perhaps too much of Apple's Mac Mini. In this latest version the aesthetics of the miniature desktop has been modified to look more original. Over its predecessor the new Series 3 Chromebox running Google's Chrome OS has only updated the …

Microsoft has bought up R2 Studios, a startup from the makers of the Slingbox, in a deal that had both Apple and Google in the running for highest bidder. However it looks like Microsoft was able to secure the top spot, winning itself several patents in the process. Combined with …

British telecoms regulator OfCom has announced its intention to push for a law change on current mobile contracts. It wants it to be possible for consumers to leave their mobile, landline or broadband provider mid-contract, if said provider raises prices at all. As it stands, consumers are only allowed to …

Another big competition we ran across Christmas last month has came to a close today. We have some winners to announce now ! Three lucky people out of the thousands of entries we had will be enjoying some new hardware in 2013! The prizes were as follows: 1st Prize winner: …

Another popular competition comes to a close today – two lucky readers will walk away with some very sexy hardware! The prizes were: EpicGear – one set of MeduZa + CompoXite + Skorpios and: Thortech – one Thunderbolt PLUS 850W The answers to the questions were easy – they were …

We just wanted to bring this matter to the attention of our readers. We received a few emails from readers saying they had bought the Cooler Master Seidon 120M cooler and were unable to fit it to their AMD motherboard. Reader Jay Ford said “The CoolerMaster Seidon 120M is not …

Well we had over 8,000 entries for our PC Specialist Gaming System competition and it has taken some time to work through them all to announce the winner. The answer to the question was b: Corsair. Not very difficult! The winner is David Larkin in Manchester, UK. David check your …

The OUYA has received a lot of attention from the press, but another tiny console has been getting some visibility lately – the Android powered ‘GameStick'. This console is actually even smaller, and less expensive than the OUYA. The console is based inside a unit around the same size as …