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Telltale Games Confirms Game of Thrones Episodic Game for 2014
PS4 Hits Almost 800k Gameplay Broadcasts, Over 7.1m Spectate Sessions
Multiplo Open Source Robotics Kits (video)
iTunes Match Lands In More European Countries
CableKeeps Look Like Sea Creatures and Control Apple Cable Messes
Nokia Inviting Users to Test Lumia Black Update
The Spin Raspberry Pi Case With Optional Power Module (video)
Assassin’s Creed 4: Blackbeard’s Wrath DLC Available Today
AOC Super PLS 27 Inch Monitor Announced With WQHD Resolution
Xbox One And PS4 Emulators Might Be Possible
Nokia Lumia 2020 8.3-inch Tablet launch Imminent?
Facebook Launches New Artificial Intelligence Lab
Catchbox Throwable Microphone Enhances Audience Engagement (video)
South Park The Stick Of Truth New Gameplay Trailer From VGX (video)
iPhone 5S Shipping Time Improves to 24 Hours
DigiPixel Arduino LED Game Shield Lets You Build Your Own Games (video)
Microsoft May Lose Android Patent Income In Europe
Samsung Galaxy S5 and Note 4 To Come With PLS LCD displays (Rumor)
86Duino ZERO x86 Arduino Development Board Available For $40
Codecademy iPhone App Launches For Hour Of Code Campaign
Nest Protect Gets The iFixit Teardown Treatment
Oppo N1 Launched In Europe And The US
AVG PrivacyFix For Android Will Block WiFi Location Tracking
Circuit Scribe Rollerball Pen Nears $500,000 in Funding With 21 Days Remaining (video)
Xbox One CronusMAX Mod Enables Keyboard And Mouse Support And More (video)
Apple iWatch May Use New Curved Touch Screen Display Technology
Titanfall Ogre Titan Mech Teaser Trailer Released (video)
Last Camera Kit Lets You Build Your Own SLR With Interchangeable Lenses
Google Glass WordPress Plugin, wpForGlass Unveiled
LG Sells 2.3 Million LG G2 Smartphones (Rumor)
Google Hangouts for Android Updated with MMS Fixes
The Lego Movie Game Announcement Trailer (video)
McLaren MSO 12C Concept Car Announced
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active with Snapdragon 800 Spotted in Korea
Google Lets You Create Your Own Street View Maps
Halo Spartan Assault Xbox One Game Launches December 24th 2013 (video)
Dead Zebra Android Christmas Tree Ornaments Announced
LG G2 Mini with 4.7-inch Display In Works
ProtoRack Raspberry Pi Professional Rack Mounting Solution
Amazon Cloud Drive Photos Gets iPad Support And More
HiddenRadio 2 Bluetooth MultiSpeaker Blasts Past Kickstarter Goal In 4.5 hrs (video)
Giada F300 Haswell Powered Mini Desktop PC Unveiled
DHL Delivery Drones Announced
Jupiter Ascending Movie Trailer Released (video)
Qualcomm Gimbal Proximity Beacons To Take On Apple iBeacon
Apple 12 Days Of Digital Gifts App Available In U.S. For The First Time
Asus PadFone E T008 Appears In Bluetooth SIG
Driving With Google Glass May Be Banned In Illinois
Android 4.4.2 Update Rolling Out To Nexus Devices
10 Million Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Devices Shipped In 2 Months

Telltale Games Confirms Game of Thrones Episodic Game for 2014

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 07:32 AM PST

Telltale games was tipped to be working on a new video game based on Game of Thrones back in November. Telltale has now officially confirmed that a video game based on Game of Thrones is in the works. This won’t be a normal game, it will be an episodic title. Telltale has had great success […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 07:30 AM PST

Sony previously announced that the PS4 console had 6.5 million "Shares" since the console's launch, and today they have more numbers for us. Sony has announced nearly 800,000 gameplay broadcasts have been achieved with over 7.1 million spectator sessions as well. These 800,000 gameplay broadcasts and over 7.1 million spectate sessions have been counted across […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 07:23 AM PST

Fancy building your very own basic robot the Multiplo open source robotics kit might be worth a more investigation as it provides everything you need to get started in robotics. The Multiplo open source robotics kit includes a DuinoBot controller, 2 x gear motors, an IR remote (plus sensor), 2 x IR sensors, 2 x […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 07:22 AM PST

Apple has expanded their iTunes Match to more countries in Europe, the service is now available in the Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway. Apple has also made iTunes in the cloud available in these countries, and also added support for iTunes in the Cloud to Bulgaria and Portugal to include movies. iTunes […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 07:22 AM PST

If you travel a lot with your iPhone or iPad, you know that no matter how carefully you coil up the charge cable, it almost always ends up in a mess. You also end up with lots of excess cable on the desk when you are charging that is unsightly. A company called Nice by […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 07:14 AM PST

Several Nokia devices are expected to receive the Nokia Lumia Black update along with GDR3 early next year. There’s no word from the Finnish maker about the availability dates for its devices, but it seems that it may not be too far. WPCenral reports that users who submitted feedback to Nokia are getting emails from […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 07:11 AM PST

If you are looking for something a little different to the standard plastic Raspberry Pi mini PC cases that are currently available on the market for around $5. You might be interested in this refined Spin Raspberry Pi case which has been developed by Jay Pierson based in Los Angeles California. The Spin Raspberry Pi […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 07:10 AM PST

Ahoy matey! If you enjoyed Assassin's Creed 4, and many gamers did, you’ll like this news. The very first DLC for the game is available right now for your consideration. This DLC is all about the multiplayer aspect, so if it is more solo play you want you are out of luck. Sorry guys and […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 06:56 AM PST

AOC has launched a new computer monitor, the AOC q2770Pqu, which is a Super PLS monitor that features a WQHD resolution, the display measures 27 inches. The new AOC Super PLS Monitor feature a wide quad high definition resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels, and the display is an LED backlit version. AOC decks out […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 06:44 AM PST

In an interview with Slashdot software engineer Ben Vanik who's hobby is building emulators in his spare time, he suggests that it might be possible to create Xbox One and PS4 emulators in the near future due to the very PC like hardware architecture of the new next generation consoles. The x-86 chips and AMD […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 06:40 AM PST

Last month, we heard a rumor that the Finnish maker is working on a bunch of new devices, which also includes an 8-inch tablet. Now, some more evidence of the purported tablet, possibly Nokia Lumia 2020, with model number RX-115 emerged from Zauba, a logistics website that tracks imports and exports in India, which is […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 06:31 AM PST

Google are working on their own robots, Amazon are working on drones, and now Facebook is working on artificial intelligence, maybe they can all work together to build Skynet. Facebook are going to expand their research laboratory which is dedicated to artificial intelligence, and they have now hired professor Yann LeCun from the New York […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 06:30 AM PST

Timo Kauppila, Pyry Taanila and Mikelis Studers have designed a new type of microphone called the Catchbox which has been designed to provide an easier way to the the audience engaged in a discussion or debate. The Catchbox throwable microphone has been designed to provide users with a professional wireless microphone, that communicates with a […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 06:06 AM PST

Unfortunately the new South Park The Stick of Truth Game didn’t manage to make its original launch date which would have been today. But is now expected to be officially launched early in 2014 possibly around March time. Allowing South Park fans the ability to play their favourite characters as they quest for the Stick […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 05:59 AM PST

Not too long ago, Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster claimed that iPhone 5S has reached 100 percent availability across the United States retail stores and all variants were readily available in all store locations surveyed. It turns out that he was right as Apple just updated the iPhone 5S product page that lists the shipping time […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 05:51 AM PST

Have you ever wanted to create your own electronic games console? You might be interested in the new DigiPixel Arduino LED game shield which is definitely worth more investigation. The DigiPixel Arduino LED game shield has been specifically designed to allow you to make programming fun and enable you to creating your own games, animations […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 05:47 AM PST

Microsoft makes a considerable amount of money from patents that it owns that are used by Google’s Android OS, and the majority of smartphone manufacturers have deals in place with Microsoft to pay them a fee for each Android device they sell. These payments from Android manufacturers to Microsoft generate a lot of money for […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 05:46 AM PST

There’s no shortage of Samsung Galaxy S5 rumors. The rumor mill is generating all sorts of rumor, ranging from its display to its specifications. While we’ve heard several times in the past that it will come with a 5-inch Super AMOLED display sporting a resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels. However, if the latest rumor […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 05:33 AM PST

If you enjoy building projects using Arduino, you might be interested in this 86Duino ZERO x86 Arduino development board which is available to purchase for $40 and offers a Vortex86EX Processor, 300MHz 32-bit x86, 128MB DDR3 as well as Ethernet connectivity, USB 2.0 and a microSD card slot. The 86Duino ZERO x86 Arduino development board […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 05:22 AM PST

Codecademy the team behind the awesome website which has been setup to help people code has this week announced the launch of their very first iPhone application to help you commit to a daily hour of basic computer-skills education. The new Codecademy iPhone app has been created to help get you started by introducing you […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 05:21 AM PST

The Nest Protect was launched recently, the device is a smart smoke detector, which is designed to be much more user friendly than current smoke detectors on the market. Now the guys over at iFixit have decided to take the Nest Protect apart to find what was inside this new smart smoke detector, have a […]

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Oppo N1 Launched In Europe And The US

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 05:08 AM PST

The Oppo N1 is now available to buy in the US and Europe, the handset is available for 449 Euros in Europe and $599 in the US, this is for the 16GB model of the device, there is also a 32GB model which retails for 479 in Europe. The Oppo N1 is equipped with a […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 04:49 AM PST

AVG is a company well know for making free and paid versions of antivirus software for computers, and now the company has announced a new app for Google’s Android platform, AVG PrivacyFix. The app has been available for Apple’s iOS platform for a while, and it is now available for Android, the app is designed […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 04:40 AM PST

Some of our readers might remember the awesome and very innovative Circuit Scribe Rollerball Pen which launched on Kickstarter last month and allows you to create electrical circuits by simply drawing them onto paper or material. With steel 21 days to go the Circuit Scribe Rollerball Pen project is now fast approaching $500,000 in funding […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 04:22 AM PST

Fancy adding support for a keyboard and mouse to your new Microsoft next generation Xbox One games console? If you do you might be interested in a new modification which has been discovered that allows you to unlock support for a wide range of controllers including a PC mouse and keyboard. In the video below […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 04:07 AM PST

Apple has been awarded a patent for curved touch screen technology, the patent is described as a ‘curved touch sensor’ and it comes with the US Patent No. 8,603,574, and it is possible that we could see this new technology in the Apple iWatch. The patent covers the use of this new curved touch screen […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 04:00 AM PST

Gamers looking forward to the official launch of the Titanfall first-person shooter video game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts are sure to enjoy this new Titanfall trailer that has been released revealing a new Titan in the form of the Titanfall Ogre Titan. The Titanfall game is an exclusive game launching […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 03:40 AM PST

If you enjoy building gadgets and devices and are looking for a project to keep you busy for a few hours, you might be interested in this new SLR Last Camera Kit. The Last Camera kit allows you to create a DIY 35mm camera which can be customised to suit your style and needs, with […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 03:21 AM PST

If you are lucky enough to own a Google Glass eyewear device you might be interested in a new but unofficial Google Glass WordPress plugin wpForGlass, which has been created for the revolutionary Google Glass eyewear and allows users to publish images directly to their WordPress powered websites. The new Google Glass WordPress wpForGlass plugin allows you to […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 03:17 AM PST

The LG G2 is the company’s flagship Android smartphone, the handset comes with some impressive specifications, and now according to a recent report, LG has sold 2.3 million handsets since launch. The LG G2 launched around 4 months ago, and sales of the handset are below what LG had previously predicted, the company expected to […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 03:07 AM PST

Recently, Google released an update to the Google+ Hangouts application that brings a few bug fixes and enhancements, updating it to version 2.0.2. The latest update brought a few fixes that appeared to be costly for a bunch of Hangouts users. The latest Google Hangouts v2.0.2 gives users the ability to turn of group MMS […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 02:57 AM PST

Lego fans looking forward to watching the new Lego movie which is launching on February 7, 2014 and stars the voices of Chris Pratt, Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks, Morgan Freeman, Will Ferrell, and Liam Neeson. Might also be interested to know that a Lego movie video game is also being released to accompany the movie. Watch […]

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McLaren MSO 12C Concept Car Announced

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 02:53 AM PST

MacLaren has announced a new version of the 12C, called the MSO 12C Concept Car, this new supercar has been customized by McLaren Special Operations, who provide a bespoke service for customizing McLaren cars for their owners. The McLaren MSO 12C comes with a new bonnet, front wing louvres, rear wing vents, an air brake, […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 02:45 AM PST

Earlier this year, we heard a rumor that Samsung is working on a new version of Samsung Galaxy S4 Active with LTE-A and a powerful quad-core Snapdragon 800 chipset for Korea. The updated Galaxy S4 Active was spotted in SK-Telecom’s smartphone line-up in Korea. The most eye-catching feature for this version is the quad-core Snapdragon […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 02:30 AM PST

Google has announced that you can now create your own street view maps using either your DSLR camera or Google’s own Photo Sphere technology. You can then upload your images to Google’s Views service, this can then be used to connect your photos to maps, to create your own street view. Have you ever tried […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 02:26 AM PST

Xbox One gamers anciently waiting for the release of the new Halo Spartan Assault game, will be pleased to learn that today its developers have announced a release date for Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox One games console version of the game, which will be December 24, 2013. For gamers still running Microsoft’s older Xbox 360 consoles […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 02:17 AM PST

Dead Zebra have released a number of cool Android mascots over the last few years, and now the company has launched some Android Christmas tree ornaments. These fun Android Christmas tree ornaments will give your tree a geeky look, and they are available in two colors red and blue, they will cost $10 each. First […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 02:17 AM PST

LG G2 is one of the best Android smartphones available in the market at the moment. It has become a norm for every OEM to launch a mini version of their flagship devices. Samsung launched a bunch of mini as well as HTC. But, the problem with them is they downgrade the specifications which differs […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 02:12 AM PST

Raspberry Pi developers and hackers looking for an professional way to store and manage more than one Raspberry Pi mini PC might be interested in this new rack system designed specifically for the Raspberry Pi called the ProtoRack, which supports up to three Raspberry Pi systems at a time. The Raspberry Pi ProtoRack has been […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 02:05 AM PST

Amazon has updated its Amazon Cloud Drive Photos app for Apple’s iOS, the latest version of the application now supports the iPad and iPad Mini. As well as adding in iPad support, Amazon have also added in the ability to upload videos to the Cloud Drive Photos, this feature has been available on Android for […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 01:58 AM PST

After successfully turning to the Kickstarter crowdfunding website to raise capital to make their original HiddenRadio a reality. The team behind the Bluetooth speaker have now returned to Kickstarter with a newly updated next-generation Bluetooth multi speaker in the form of the HiddenRadio 2. The HiddenRadio 2 Bluetooth multi speaker now includes new technology and […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 01:43 AM PST

Giada has this week added a new additions to their range of mini desktop computers, in the form of the newly launched Giada F300 and Giada F310 mini PCs, which measure roughly 10.2 x 6.9 x 1.4 inches in size. The Giada F300 is fitted with an Intel Core i5-4200U Haswell processor and the Giada […]

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DHL Delivery Drones Announced

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 01:37 AM PST

First we had Amazon’s new delivery drones, then UPS ann0unced that they were working on drones to deliver their parcels, and now DHL has announced their new delivery drones. Deutsche Post DHL tested out their new delivery drones in Germany yesterday, a drone was used to fly a package of medicine from a pharmacy in […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 01:26 AM PST

Anyone looking forward to the release of the new Jupiter Ascending movie that will be launching in theatres on July 25th 2014, are sure to enjoy this official Jupiter Ascending movie trailer which has been released today. Jupiter Ascending stars Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis and has been created by Lana and Andy Wachowski, famous […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 01:22 AM PST

Last week we heard that the new Apple iBeacon service had rolled out to Apple stores in the US, and now Qualcomm has announced their new Qualcomm Gimbal Proximity Beacons. The Qualcomm Gimbal system will work in a similar way to Apple’s iBeacon system, and it is designed to provide messages to your mobile device […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 01:12 AM PST

U.S. residents that wished they could get their hands on the Apple 12 Days of digital gifts app which has been available in other countries, will be pleased to learn that they too can now enjoy the fun of free gifts from Apple, this year for the first time. From 26th December – 6th January the […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 12:57 AM PST

We recently saw some leaked photos of the Asus Padfone Mini, the device will apparently come with a a 4 inch display for the smartphone part and a 7 inch display for the tablet part, and now another new device has turned up, the Asus PadFone E T008. The Asus PadFone E T008 has been […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 12:40 AM PST

We recently heard about Cecilia Abadie, who got a traffic ticket for wearing Google Glass whilst driving in California, and is currently fighting the ticket in court. We also heard that some states were looking into Google Glass, and now it looks like driving with Google Glass in Illinois may be banned in the future. […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 12:24 AM PST

Google has released another version of Kit Kat for its Nexus devices, the latest version comes in the form of an Android 4.4.2 update, and it is now rolling out to Nexus devices. The Android 4.4.2 update is rolling out to the Google Nexus 4, Nexus 5, the Nexus 10, and the Nexus 7, the […]

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 12:13 AM PST

Samsung has announced that they have shipped over 10 million Samsung Galaxy Note 3 smartphones in 2 months, this makes the Note 3 Samsung’s most popular Phablet to date. It took Samsung 4 months to ship 10 million units of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, and 9 months for the company to ship 10 million […]

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