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21 best VR games: best virtual reality games for PC and mobile

By Dan Griliopoulos Picking the best VR games at the moment is a tough one. Sure, there’s a modest selection of great titles to choose from on both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. But, games like Battlezone and The Climb – titles specifically authored for the 360-degree format – are substantially more enticing than some…

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Self-driving cars take to UK streets for first public road tests

Self-driving cars take to UK streets for first public road tests

By Darrell Etherington Self-driving car startup and Oxford spinoff Oxbotica put a modified Renault car with autonomous driving tech on UK roads for the first time, in a trial in England’s Milton Keynes at a very slow 5 miles per hour. It’s a tentative start, but it’s a start nonetheless, as the car handled cornering…

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National power grid carries data to smart appliances in UK experiment

National power grid carries data to smart appliances in UK experiment

By Devin Coldewey Part of the goal of the Internet of Things, if we must continue calling it that, is improved efficiency for our newly intelligent appliances. But we could effect that in a much simpler way by passing data over the energy grid itself, suggests a successful trial in the UK. Read More …read…

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40 best PC games: the must-play titles you can’t afford to miss

40 best PC games: the must-play titles you can’t afford to miss

By Kane Fulton With the gap in graphical capabilities growing wider every day, there’s never been a better time to make the switch from consoles to PC. Unlike the Xbox One S or PS4 Pro, a PC lets you configure your system however you want it, on nearly any given budget, complete with the best…

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10 best gaming laptops 2016: top gaming notebook reviews

By Kevin Lee Investing endless hours finding all the right components and locking them into place sounds like a chore. You don’t want to “build” a computer. You’d rather get to the fun part: actually playing games. Luckily, there are more than enough gaming laptops on the market to choose from. The convenience of taking…

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10 best gaming laptops 2016: top gaming notebook reviews

10 best gaming laptops 2016: top gaming notebook reviews

By Kevin Lee Investing endless hours finding all the right components and locking them into place sounds like a chore. You don’t want to “build” a computer. You’d rather get to the fun part: actually playing games. Luckily, there are more than enough gaming laptops on the market to choose from. The convenience of taking…

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Seagate unleashes the world’s biggest portable hard drive

By Darren Allan Seagate has launched a new BarraCuda drive which offers the biggest capacity you can currently get for an external HDD, alongside a fresh FireCuda model which is targeted at gamers boasting speedy performance levels. For those who want the most space to cart about their photos, videos, documents, presentations or other files,…

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Seagate unleashes the world’s biggest portable hard drive

Seagate unleashes the world’s biggest portable hard drive

By Darren Allan Seagate has launched a new BarraCuda drive which offers the biggest capacity you can currently get for an external HDD, alongside a fresh FireCuda model which is targeted at gamers boasting speedy performance levels. For those who want the most space to cart about their photos, videos, documents, presentations or other files,…

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PS4 Pro: Release date, news and features of the new PlayStation 4

By Jon Porter The PS4 Pro has to be one of the most complicated console’s ever released. We first heard about the new hardware at the beginning of 2016 thanks to a substantial leak of its developer documentation, but we had to wait until September 2016 before it saw an official announcements. That’s not what…

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PS4 Pro: Release date, news and features of the new PlayStation 4

PS4 Pro: Release date, news and features of the new PlayStation 4

By Jon Porter The PS4 Pro has to be one of the most complicated console’s ever released. We first heard about the new hardware at the beginning of 2016 thanks to a substantial leak of its developer documentation, but we had to wait until September 2016 before it saw an official announcements. That’s not what…

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What’s your favorite gaming moment of the past year?

What’s your favorite gaming moment of the past year?

By TechRadar The first time you flew the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars Battlefront; getting the play of the game in Overwatch; Uncharted 4’s car chase. It’s been a great year for gaming moments. But which is the absolute best? It’s a tough question – and you’re needed to help answer it. The Golden Joystick…

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Western Digital revisits SSDs with speedy Blue and Green drives

By Kevin Lee Western Digital has been the king of hard drives for the longest time and its recent acquisition of SanDisk signaled the company ambitions further establish itself in the SSD world. And so months after the merger, the company is introducing its first WD Blue and WD Green SSDs. As with its hard…

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Western Digital revisits SSDs with speedy Blue and Green drives

Western Digital revisits SSDs with speedy Blue and Green drives

By Kevin Lee Western Digital has been the king of hard drives for the longest time and its recent acquisition of SanDisk signaled the company ambitions further establish itself in the SSD world. And so months after the merger, the company is introducing its first WD Blue and WD Green SSDs. As with its hard…

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Top 50 best free games you should play today

By Andrew Williams,Jamie Hinks PC gaming is by no means “affordable”. By the time you blow hundreds on future-proofing your hardware to compete with the upcoming PS4 Pro or Project Scorpio, the games themselves may be financially out of reach. But, who says the best things in life aren’t free? It’s 2016, and no longer…

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A Flint, MI university turned vacant land into autonomous vehicle proving grounds

A Flint, MI university turned vacant land into autonomous vehicle proving grounds

By Matt Burns Kettering University unveiled this week an automotive proving grounds in a bid to lure companies and students to the Flint, MI area. The test track is on the school’s grounds, housed on land that once contained a massive General Motors’ manufacturing facility that was torn down and left abandoned. The Kettering University…

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