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Tech Bargains: Best printer deals in the UK: Our top 15 recommendations for 2015

By Desire Athow Remember talks of a paperless office/world where everything would be digitised, available only on a display near you? Well it never happened. We’re printing more than ever before and mobile devices have, ironically, been fueling the growth of printing. We gathered the best printer deals around in three categories: Laser printers, inkjet…

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Smartphones will look the same for years, says LG

By JR Bookwalter LG may have bent over backwards to bring the world flexible smartphones, but when it comes to further innovation on current form factors, the Korean manufacturer shrugs off any notion that something cool is on the immediate horizon. TrustedReviews today published curious comments from an LG executive that shed light on why…

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Smartphones will look the same for years, says LG

By JR Bookwalter LG may have bent over backwards to bring the world flexible smartphones, but when it comes to further innovation on current form factors, the Korean manufacturer shrugs off any notion that something cool is on the immediate horizon. TrustedReviews today published curious comments from an LG executive that shed light on why…

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NSA copycat spyware could be snooping on your hard drive

By Jamie Hinks A new US National Security Agency (NSA) spying campaign has been uncovered that involved baking spying software deep inside hard drives made by some of the world’s largest hard drive manufacturers. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab discovered that spies acting on behalf of the government found a way to exploit the source…

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NSA copycat spyware could be snooping on your hard drive

By Jamie Hinks A new US National Security Agency (NSA) spying campaign has been uncovered that involved baking spying software deep inside hard drives made by some of the world’s largest hard drive manufacturers. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab discovered that spies acting on behalf of the government found a way to exploit the source…

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Intel’s battery-boosting Skylake chips to land in August

By Jamie Hinks Intel’s sixth-generation Skylake processors won’t be ready in time for Computex 2015 in June and will debut at some point in August with a showcase at the Intel Developer Forum being tipped as the date for the diary. A recently leaked product roadmap shows that the Skylake-U mobile chip and Skylake-S desktop…

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Intel’s battery-boosting Skylake chips to land in August

By Jamie Hinks Intel’s sixth-generation Skylake processors won’t be ready in time for Computex 2015 in June and will debut at some point in August with a showcase at the Intel Developer Forum being tipped as the date for the diary. A recently leaked product roadmap shows that the Skylake-U mobile chip and Skylake-S desktop…

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Lenovo confirms that it will build ARM servers

By Desire Athow Lenovo has revealed that it is teaming up with the Hartree Centre, part of the STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council), to build server solutions that use ARM-based processors. The first prototype uses NextScale’s dense computing platform technology, which Lenovo acquired as part of IBM’s x86 server clearout last year. Cavium ThunderX…

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Lenovo confirms that it will build ARM servers

By Desire Athow Lenovo has revealed that it is teaming up with the Hartree Centre, part of the STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council), to build server solutions that use ARM-based processors. The first prototype uses NextScale’s dense computing platform technology, which Lenovo acquired as part of IBM’s x86 server clearout last year. Cavium ThunderX…

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Apple could give your next MacBook the finger(print)

By JR Bookwalter With all the feature sharing going on between Mac and iOS, it’s not hard to imagine Apple might one day allow Touch ID to unlock notebooks or even desktop systems, but could it be coming sooner than we think? An Apple-centric blog out of Taiwan called AppleCorner (via AppleInsider) seems to think…

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Apple could give your next MacBook the finger(print)

By JR Bookwalter With all the feature sharing going on between Mac and iOS, it’s not hard to imagine Apple might one day allow Touch ID to unlock notebooks or even desktop systems, but could it be coming sooner than we think? An Apple-centric blog out of Taiwan called AppleCorner (via AppleInsider) seems to think…

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DealRadar: TechRadar Deals: Panasonic camera bargain, headphones, games and more

By DealRadar We’re back with more deals and today we’ve found a fantastic deal on a brilliant Panasonic compact camera, so let’s drive straight in with that… TODAY’S HOT DEALS Compact camera: The brilliant Panasonic TZ60 is a versatile camera that’s ideal for taking on trips either for business or pleasure, and its huge zoom…

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DealRadar: TechRadar Deals: Samsung Galaxy Tab S, speakers, games and more!

By DealRadar TechRadar searches the web every day to bring you the best deals on the best tech and games from all the biggest retailers. Let’s kick today’s post off with some deals on gaming hardware. You can currently pick up the Nintendo 3DS XL with its 90% bigger screen for just £99 at Tesco…

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Nvidia disables overclocking, says it’s for your own good

By Kane Fulton Sorry, owners of GTX 900M GPU-series notebooks: Nvidia has taken away the ability for you to overclock its beefy mobile graphics cards, and it’s apparently for your own good. According to a post by a customer care representative on Nvidia’s forum, it was only possible to overclock (and underclock) the GPU prior…

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Nvidia disables overclocking, says it’s for your own good

By Kane Fulton Sorry, owners of GTX 900M GPU-series notebooks: Nvidia has taken away the ability for you to overclock its beefy mobile graphics cards, and it’s apparently for your own good. According to a post by a customer care representative on Nvidia’s forum, it was only possible to overclock (and underclock) the GPU prior…

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