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By Kane Fulton Introduction Stealing whatever thunder Google’s Project Ara had left, the LG G5 has been grabbing headlines over at MWC 2016 on the back of its modular functionality. By sliding out a cartridge-like base, the smartphone lets you bolt add-ons to the smartphone – such as a battery grip with physical camera controls…

By Desire Athow The news made the headlines a few days ago: a team of scientists at the The news made the headlines a few days ago: a team of scientists at the University of Southampton managed to produce a support, 5D or Superman memory crystal, that has a shelf-life of nearly 14 billion years…

By Desire Athow The news made the headlines a few days ago: a team of scientists at the The news made the headlines a few days ago: a team of scientists at the University of Southampton managed to produce a support, 5D or Superman memory crystal, that has a shelf-life of nearly 14 billion years…

By Darren Allan Backblaze uses a hell of a lot of hard drives for its cloud backup and storage services, and every year (since 2014) the firm produces a report on what it has found to be the most (and least) reliable drives, with the review of 2015 just having been published. So what brand…

By Darren Allan Backblaze uses a hell of a lot of hard drives for its cloud backup and storage services, and every year (since 2014) the firm produces a report on what it has found to be the most (and least) reliable drives, with the review of 2015 just having been published. So what brand…

By Darren Allan Fancy nabbing a free copy of Ubisoft’s The Division? Lucky for you, Nvidia is running a deal for those who purchase its higher-end GPUs. The Division is an open-world tactical shooter with strong RPG elements set in New York after it’s been ravaged by a virus. From February 17 you’ll snag a…

By Darren Allan Fancy nabbing a free copy of Ubisoft’s The Division? Lucky for you, Nvidia is running a deal for those who purchase its higher-end GPUs. The Division is an open-world tactical shooter with strong RPG elements set in New York after it’s been ravaged by a virus. From February 17 you’ll snag a…

By Parker Wilhelm Talk about a backup plan to end all backup plans. Scientists at the University of Southampton are storing history’s greatest documents on an “eternal” format capable of outlasting the human race. The technology uses a femtosecond laser, emitting pulses a quadrillionth of a second apart, to write optical data onto specialized glass…

By Parker Wilhelm Talk about a backup plan to end all backup plans. Scientists at the University of Southampton are storing history’s greatest documents on an “eternal” format capable of outlasting the human race. The technology uses a femtosecond laser, emitting pulses a quadrillionth of a second apart, to write optical data onto specialized glass…

By Darren Allan AMD has announced the release of the Vulkan 1.0 spec (ratified by the Khronos Group), the API which stems from (and uses parts of) Mantle. It means that Vulkan will soon be packaged into a beta version of the firm’s Radeon driver for its graphics cards. This new driver, the company claims,…

By Darren Allan AMD has announced the release of the Vulkan 1.0 spec, an API built from the company’s Mantle GPU tech. It means that Vulkan will soon be packaged into a beta version of the firm’s Radeon driver for its graphics cards. This new driver, the company claims, will enable game devs to “remove…

By Darren Allan AMD is pinning a great deal on its Zen processors due out this year, but fortunately the more we hear about them, the more promising their overall chances seem. And some further info has been leaked out, courtesy of a CERN engineer who gave a talk at the IT Technical Forum on…

By Darren Allan AMD is pinning a great deal on its Zen processors due out this year, but fortunately the more we hear about them, the more promising their overall chances seem. And some further info has been leaked out, courtesy of a CERN engineer who gave a talk at the IT Technical Forum on…

By Darren Allan Intel has made a move to stop the overclocking of its standard (i.e. not unlocked ‘K’ model) Skylake processors. News that such overclocking was possible first emerged last December, when Asrock revealed a new BIOS update that permitted it on the firm’s Z170 motherboards. This meant users could take a cheap Core…

By Darren Allan Intel has made a move to stop the overclocking of its standard (i.e. not unlocked ‘K’ model) Skylake processors. News that such overclocking was possible first emerged last December, when Asrock revealed a new BIOS update that permitted it on the firm’s Z170 motherboards. This meant users could take a cheap Core…