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VivaInk's $1 Digital Tattoo is the simplest way to unlock the Moto X

30 June 2014, 12:45

The temporary tattoos can sync with a Moto X and authenticate the wearer with just a tap.

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Copper foam cooled fanless PC seeks crowdfunding

30 June 2014, 12:00

SilentPower of Germany aims to make the "smallest high-end PC in the world".

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Criticism looms over Facebook's newsfeed emotion study

30 June 2014, 11:00

Some say the emotion-manipulation experiment was disturbing, possibly dangerous.

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Microsoft Sleep Study: a tool for Windows 8.1 battery use analysis

30 June 2014, 10:07

The tool can highlight sources of battery drain during your device's sleep mode.

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Amazon is giving away £100 / $100 of free apps until Sunday

27 June 2014, 14:38

There's a choice of 30 entertainment, productivity and games titles to be had.

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Ofcom imposes 48 hour repair limit on most telecoms faults

27 June 2014, 12:45

The UK telecoms regulator also makes switching fibre supplier cheaper and easier.

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Tablets are now the most popular gaming device for UK children

27 June 2014, 11:45

Data shows that tablets have overtaken Nintendo's 3DS for the first time.

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Google boots up Project Ara in public for the first time

27 June 2014, 11:00

And is still looking for completely new ideas to plug into the Ara modular phone.

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YouTube previews nine new features including 60fps video

27 June 2014, 10:04

Meanwhile Yahoo has bid $250 million for the Fullscreen YouTube network.

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Rock Simulator 2014 jumps to No.9 on Steam Greenlight

26 June 2014, 15:16

But will this RPG simulation be as good as Goat Simulator?

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AMD: three more blockbuster games titles with Mantle support

26 June 2014, 12:46

Battlefield Hardline, Dragon Age: Inquisition, and Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare.

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Google Cardboard is a DIY VR headset on a budget

26 June 2014, 11:36

Utilises your Android smartphone and a few "everyday items" you can find online.

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Google I/O: Android Wear, Android Auto and Android TV

26 June 2014, 10:49

Samsung and LG Android Wear smartwatches are launched.

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Google announces Android One, a low-cost smartphone program

26 June 2014, 10:00

The company also told us it has reached the 1 billion Android users milestone.

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NASA scientists have created 460GHz vacuum tubes

25 June 2014, 14:15

Because solid state transistors seem to be reaching their limits.

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Google announces revised Glass hardware with 2GB of RAM

25 June 2014, 12:30

Also Google I/O will kick off later today - what are we expecting to see unveiled?

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Oculus VR acquires Xbox 360 joypad designers, Carbon Design

25 June 2014, 11:45

The hardware designers are already working on multiple unannounced projects with Oculus VR.

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Gigabyte announces the BRIX Gaming DIY PC Kit

25 June 2014, 10:56

Features an Intel Core i5 4200H processor and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 GPU.

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Nvidia releases video showing HairWorks in The Witcher 3

25 June 2014, 09:57

A wolf in the PC game uses approximately 200,000 simulated strands of hair.

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Microsoft offers $650 off Surface Pro 3 with MacBook Air trade-in

24 June 2014, 14:15

The trade-in program is the company's latest strategy to promote the Surface.

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AOC launches g2460Pg 24-inch Nvidia G-SYNC gaming monitor

24 June 2014, 13:29

TN panel monitor also offers a refresh rate of 144Hz and a response time of 1ms.

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Microsoft expands free One Drive cloud storage to 15GB

24 June 2014, 11:46

Office 365 subscribers also get a boost to 1TB of storage space.

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Intel details microarchitecture of its new Xeon Phi processors

24 June 2014, 11:01

Up to three times faster than its predecessor, the chip will be available from H2 2015.

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Google Glass Explorer open beta comes to UK

24 June 2014, 09:52

The wearable tech costs £1000 in the UK.

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Mozilla may be working on a Firefox OS streaming dongle

23 June 2014, 13:51

Streaming stick is said to rival the likes of the Google Chromecast and Roku.

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Battlefield 4 Dragon's Teeth DLC officially revealed

23 June 2014, 13:00

The expansion pack brings players new maps, game modes and weapons.

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AMD to launch an FX series CPU and liquid cooler bundle

23 June 2014, 12:11

But there's not a lot more info on this Twitter tease from Roy Taylor yet.

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Russia building 'Baikal processor' to replace AMD and Intel chips

23 June 2014, 11:03

Considers it unsafe to rely on US microchips for government and state business.

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SFF Giada PCs combine Haswell CPUs and GeForce graphics

23 June 2014, 10:11

Highest spec model includes an i7-4500U and GTX 750.

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EVGA introduces the SuperNOVA 1200 P2 power supply

20 June 2014, 15:15

This PSU offers greater than 92 per cent energy efficiency and a fully modular design.

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32,000 Supermicro motherboard passwords exposed as plain text

20 June 2014, 12:52

Advisory warns that servers expose admin passwords despite patch being issued.

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IDC PC monitor survey sees slight sales downturn in Q1 this year

20 June 2014, 11:59

When will cheaper 4K monitors and new powerful GPUs result in a market uplift?

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AMD plans to deliver 25x APU efficiency gains in next six years

20 June 2014, 11:17

Thanks to design optimisations, intelligent power management and HSA.

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