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By Parker Wilhelm Because having tens of millions of unique items for sale, a mail-by-drone service in the works, its own line of mobile devices, and an original TV streaming service still left some holes in its resume, Amazon just added a new service to its repertoire: photo printing. Enter Amazon Prints, an on-demand printer…

By Joe Osborne Thanks to the Raspberry Pi 3, BBC Micro Bit and countless others, the DIY PC movement is roaring along – but, something’s been left behind: full-fat Windows 10. Custom developer board maker SolidRun will change that with its SolidPC SoM IB8000. This is a $139 (about £107, AU$184) MicroSOM, or Micro System…

By Darren Allan If you’re a Mac owner with a Razer peripheral, and you’re thinking of upgrading to macOS Sierra following its release yesterday, then be warned – there are apparently compatibility issues with the Synapse software and Apple’s newest desktop OS. This has meant that we’ve witnessed an outpouring of complaints from people with…

By Darren Allan Samsung has revealed the world’s fastest consumer SSD and its professional-targeted counterpart, the 960 EVO and 960 Pro respectively. These are NVMe M.2 SSDs which use V-NAND – vertical NAND, meaning the chips are stacked on top of each other to enable better capacity and performance – and they certainly up Samsung’s…

By Kevin Lee MakerBot hasn’t made many announcements since introducing its complete lineup of 3D printers at CES 2014, but today the replicating giant is back to announce new 3D printers, software platform and 3D printing materials. While MakerBot has classically been known for producing 3D printers for consumer, the company has announced a new…

By Kevin Lee SanDisk has taken the unveiled the world’s first 1TB SDXC card, doubling the current maximum capacity seen with all other memory cards. The new 1TB SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-I memory card only exists as a prototype. However, just two years ago at Photokina 2014 SanDisk announced 512GB capacity card that was…

By Kane Fulton Introduction Greetings, denizen of the virtual reality realm. Make yourself comfortable, because I’ll be using this new weekly column to be taking you through some of the most coin-worthy new VR games on Steam. The not-so-good ones? We’ll cast a glance at some of those too. You see, it’s all to save…

By Darren Allan Logitech has just purchased Saitek, the company known for its seriously heavyweight flight (and space) sim controllers and accessories, for $13 million (around £10 million, AU$17 million). While Logitech already makes steering wheels for driving games, in a blog post, the company notes that it wants to expand into the wider simulation…

By Darren Allan Want to know how powerful Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will be? Well, handily enough the spec of the juiced-up 1080 has been leaked. According to the spillage of details which was spotted by OC3D thanks to a denizen of its forums, the GTX 1080 Ti will allegedly run with a base…

By Desire Athow Top 5 best scanners Far more powerful computers coupled with much better tools (like cloud-based services) have slowly transformed the way scanners are being perceived – not to mention the arrival of smartphones with multi-megapixel sensors. While these multi-purpose, ubiquitous devices can compete with dedicated scanners in ad-hoc scenarios, they are inadequate…

By Darren Allan Apparently Samsung is ready to push out a new SSD, and the company is set to launch the 960 EVO next month, according to the rumour mill. Samsung’s 960 EVO is an M.2 SSD which will use the firm’s new Polaris NVMe memory controller and will be packed with 48-layer TLC V-NAND…

By Kane Fulton Introduction Not long ago, a monitor was as essential a purchase as a refrigerator. Without one, you wouldn’t be able to complete tasks as basic as accessing your email and typing up documents. Now, however, we can accomplish that and more from an amazing device that lives in our pockets, making monitors…

By Darren Allan SteelSeries has released a new mouse pitched at the MOBA/MMO genres which the company claims ‘reinvents’ the mousing experience for players of these highly competitive games. With the Rival 500, the company has essentially thought carefully about the placement of multiple buttons to ensure that hand movements and clicks are as natural…

By Darren Allan Samsung is selling off its printer division, complete with a huge library of patents, to HP for the sum of $1.05 billion (around £760 million, AU$1.4 billion). The deal is the largest printer-related acquisition HP has ever made, and is expected to be sealed within the next year, providing the usual regulatory…

By Kane Fulton Introduction Keyboards matter more than you might think. Sure, they are among the most prosaic of peripherals, so we tend to take them for granted. But given the sheer percentage of our lives that we spend clicking away away at them, finding the right ones can be surprisingly beneficial – may even…