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By Alastair Jennings best 3d printers Note: Our best 3D printers round-up has been fully updated. This feature was first published in May 2015. 3D printers print 3D models, in a process called Additive Manufacturing or AM. This process uses computer control to lay successive layers of material to build a 3D model. ABS (Acrylonitrile…

By Alastair Jennings best 3d printers Note: Our best 3D printers round-up has been fully updated. This feature was first published in May 2015. 3D printers print 3D models, using a process called additive manufacturing or AM. This process uses computer control to lay successive layers of material to build a 3D model. Two plastics,…

By Desire Athow The top 10 processors What makes a processor great depends on two factors: how much you want to spend on it and what you want to do with it. It doesn’t seem logical to spend £100 on a processor destined to be at the heart of a gaming rig and you would…

By Desire Athow The top 10 processors What makes a processor great depends on two factors: how much you want to spend on it and what you want to do with it. It doesn’t seem logical to spend £100 on a processor destined to be at the heart of a gaming rig and you would…

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

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

By Desire Athow You can now customise your own Raspberry Pi hardware thanks to an agreement signed by the company with its long time partner, Element14. Various options are available for the bespoke service which will be initially targeted at hardware partners with a long term plan to potentially get individual orders shipped. Element14 acknowledged…

By Desire Athow You can now customise your own Raspberry Pi hardware thanks to an agreement signed by the company with its long time partner, Element14. Various options are available for the bespoke service which will be initially targeted at hardware partners with a long term plan to potentially get individual orders shipped. Element14 acknowledged…

By Nick Broughall Despite Australia’s advanced contactless payments ecosystem, we’re still waiting for Apple Pay to officially launch around the country. While indications point to a profit sharing dispute with the banks as the main hold up, some eagle-eyed Apple Maps users are hoping that we’re about to see a shift in strategy from the…

By Chuong Nguyen Dell announced two new series of printers at Dell World 2015 to target the needs of SMBs and enterprises. The H-Series multifunction printers are designed for SMBs with cloud access, while the S-Series smart printers are tailored to the security needs of larger organizations. The new printers share similar device IDs, with…

By Chuong Nguyen Dell announced two new series of printers at Dell World 2015 to target the needs of SMBs and enterprises. The H-Series multifunction printers are designed for SMBs with cloud access, while the S-Series smart printers are tailored to the security needs of larger organizations. The new printers share similar device IDs, with…

By Paul Taylor HP has revealed its upcoming range of laptops, convertibles and all-in-ones that, it hopes, are ideal for employees in BYOD businesses. Three of its devices top the range, including the HP Spectre x360 Convertible, a combo tablet and laptop, the HP Spectre x2 that looks like it’ll worry Microsoft’s Surface Pro, and…

By Kane Fulton Introduction Some say Apple perfected the keyboard in 2007. I’m not one of them, which is why I’ve spent more money than I care to think about getting my supple digits accustomed to different Mac keyboards throughout the years. The Cupertino-based company pulled off a one-two suckerpunch in 2015 by launching not…

By Kane Fulton Introduction Some say Apple perfected the keyboard in 2007. I’m not one of them, which is why I’ve spent more money than I care to think about getting my supple digits accustomed to different Mac keyboards throughout the years. The Cupertino-based company pulled off a one-two suckerpunch in 2015 by launching not…

By Jamie Carter Introduction and hype Is it anyone’s fault if the industry they work for gets overhyped, saddled with huge expectations for immediate profit, consequently overvalued, and then suffers a mini-crash as investors realise it’s not quite the overnight sensation they had hoped for? Nowhere is there more convincing evidence of a ‘tech bubble’…