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By Desire Athow Two of the biggest names in technology have come together to release a starter kit for those interested in the Internet of Things, commonly known as IoT. Big Blue, which is trying to reinvent it as a Cloud-first company, will provide with the back-end infrastructure including paid-for cloud-based tools to analyse data…

By Desire Athow Mainstream and entry level laptops are expected to get a boost as AMD unveiled its new range of Accelerated Processing Unit products, codenamed Carrizo. But don’t expect them to challenge mainstream Intel mobile processors though as AMD is focusing more on power gains rather than on improving performance. Doing so is becoming…

By Desire Athow Mainstream and entry level laptops are expected to get a boost as AMD unveiled its new range of Accelerated Processing Unit products, codenamed Carrizo. But don’t expect them to challenge mainstream Intel mobile processors though as AMD is focusing more on power gains rather than on improving performance. Doing so is becoming…

By Desire Athow Biostar has announced a motherboard, the Gaming Z97X, that comes with two very peculiar features that extend its appeal beyond the gaming community it is targeting. It offers two 4K-capable HDMI ports, albeit at 24Hz, which should make gaming impossible but might be suitable for office usage. It is also the first…

By DealRadar It’s Monday and we’re back with more hot deals on tech and games from the UK’s biggest online retailers. Today we’ve got deals on a whole range of awesome stuff so let’s get stuck straight in to the good stuff… TODAY’S HOT DEALS Nintendo Wii U: If you’ve been waiting to pick up…

By Kane Fulton Nvidia has gone back on its decision to prevent owners of GTX 900M GPU-series notebooks from being able to overclock their gaming machines. The GPU giant removed the ability to underclock or overclock notebooks in the release of GeForce R347 (version 347.29), telling owners that they could “risk serious damage” by cranking…

By Kane Fulton Nvidia has gone back on its decision to prevent owners of GTX 900M GPU-series notebooks from being able to overclock their gaming machines. The GPU giant removed the ability to underclock or overclock notebooks in the release of GeForce R347 (version 347.29), telling owners that they could “risk serious damage” by cranking…

By Kane Fulton Introduction After tucking its USB cable neatly to one side, my gleaming mechanical keyboard was lowered back into its box like a sinking sea vessel accepts its watery fate. Having only owned the Corsair Vengeance K65 for six days, you might call my decision to return it premature. But almost a week…

By Kane Fulton Introduction After tucking its USB cable neatly to one side, my gleaming mechanical keyboard was lowered back into its box like a sinking sea vessel accepts its watery fate. Having only owned the Corsair Vengeance K65 for six days, you might call my decision to return it premature. But almost a week…

By Desire Athow There’s an entry for a humble microprocessor on Urban Dictionary which was written back in 2006. The author decided to vent his frustration using very colourful language to describe, what is essentially, a piece of silicon. That product is the Intel Celeron, and the post ends with the parting shot: “Anyone with…

By Desire Athow There’s an entry for a humble microprocessor on Urban Dictionary which was written back in 2006. The author decided to vent his frustration using very colourful language to describe, what is essentially, a piece of silicon. That product is the Intel Celeron, and the post ends with the parting shot: “Anyone with…

By EZ Bardeguez Introduction Ten years ago, monitors were nothing more than necessary accessories. Today, they can be luxury items that dramatically improve all aspects of computing and content consumption. There are so many types of monitors that suit so many different needs. Screen resolution, response time, panel weight: everything should be considered when choosing…

By Cameron Faulkner New technologies usually take a few stumbles before finding their winning stride. Decades went by before the boxy and cumbersome form factor of early mobile phones chiseled down to the appealing standard we see in devices like the LG G Flex 2 and iPhone 6 today. Similarly, today’s VR headsets face a…

By Marcos Burnett At the beginning of 2014, there was a lot of chatter about it being the year for the enterprise storage industry, with many commentators using “phenomenal” as their preferred description. However, it is doubtful that anyone fully appreciated just how big the change would be. Flash technology is changing how we work,…

By Marcos Burnett At the beginning of 2014, there was a lot of chatter about it being the year for the enterprise storage industry, with many commentators using “phenomenal” as their preferred description. However, it is doubtful that anyone fully appreciated just how big the change would be. Flash technology is changing how we work,…