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AMD’s Wraith cooler brings its ice age to two more FX-series processors

AMD's Wraith Cooler is now available with two more AMD processors, the FX 8350 and FX 6350, cooling them well while maintaining low noise levels.
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PlayDate is a smart pet toy that lets you play fetch from your phone

PlayDate is looking to make playing with your pet that much easier, with the introduction of a campaign for the smart ball, which lets you play from afar.
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Magic Leap’s latest video continues to wow, but questions remain

Magic Leap has once again shown off the huge potential of its mixed reality system, though we don't know much more beyond that it's functional.
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12-inch MacBook finally upgraded to latest Intel hardware, and a rose gold finish

Apple has refreshed its line up of 12-inch Retina MacBooks with new Skylake hardware, better battery life and a fancy new Rose Gold coating.
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Malware watchdog: Here’s what Google does to keep Android devices uninfected

If you owned an Android handset in 2015, you were likely to be one of the many millions who experienced a malware-free experience thanks to Google.
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Fantastic Contraption dev says Oculus Touch and HTC Vive controllers ‘almost identical’

The developer of Fantastic Contraption has said that developing for the Vive and Rift controllers was almost exactly the same.
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Xbox One may slim down in E3 showing, if a Brazilian leak is to be believed

A telecoms regulator in Brazil may have let slip about a new design of the Xbox One, possibly set to be unveiled at E3 later this year.
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HTC Vive can already play Rift ‘exclusive’ games

Oculus Rift games and experiences now work on the HTC Vive, thanks to the efforts of one fan, who created a patch to make it possible.
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PowerShell is certainly powerful, and that’s why hackers love it

The same technology that makes Microsoft's Windows operating systems so easy to use, is also the tool many hackers use to steal your details.
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Alcantara coils itself around Microsoft’s Surface Pro for new Signature cover

Making the Surface Pro line more of a premium, designer product, Microsoft has coated it in Alcantara fabric for its new signature cover.
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Firefox’s future is more Chrome-like than you’d imagine

Mozilla could change up the core technology that powers its Firefox browser by wrapping Electron around Gecko to build something new ... and Chrome-like.
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Sony exec hints PlayStation VR might not be exclusive to the PlayStation 4

Getting VR on your PC may be that little bit cheaper if you could get the PSVR system working on it and that may be possible in the future, as per Sony.
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If you don't know, just guess! IP tracking firm caused family a decade of headaches

MaxMind's IP tracking database has been causing headaches for many families for years, without anyone knowing - all because of a default location.
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Hourglasses unite! Samsung celebrates curves after its one millionth sale

Samsung is pleased as punch today, as it celebrates the sale of its one-millionth curved display, so someone must be buying them.
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Deepcool Captain EX cooler dodges patent troubles with new pump design

Deepcool has launched its new Captain Ex series, with a dual chamber block that should offer a good performance improvement, without impacting noise levels.
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Gigabyte is the latest to shoot its GTX 950 with a shrink-ray

Gigabyte has released a a new GTX 950 that lacks any form of external power, making it quite the compact little gaming card.
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Microsoft asks Outlook early adopters to join waiting list and cross their fingers

If you want to try out some of the new features of the new version of Microsoft's Outlook email client, you can sign up to this waiting list.
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Nvidia’s prototype 1,700Hz display could unlock frame rates for future VR

Nvidia has shown off a new 1,700Hz display at this year's Graphics Technology Conference. VR displays of the future may have almost no latency.
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HP’s Envy laptops go on a diet, but bulk up on CPU power

HP has refreshed and updated some elements of its Envy line up, making them more modern, better equipped and ready to face the competition.
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Five forgotten gaming genres that the HTC Vive will make popular again

Virtual reality might be great, but it's particular wonderful using an HTC Vive. So great in fact, that it could bring back classic genres of gaming's past.
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The Core M Compute Stick could be the perfect micro-PC, and you can now pre-order it

Intel's Core M Compute Stick is now available to pre-order, though that performance does come at a higher price than ever before.
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Skulls in the living room? Intel's NUC brings the pain with powerhouse internals

Intel has finally launched its Skull Canyon NUC, bundling a high-powered i7 Skylake CPU with Iris 580 Pro graphics and up to 32GB of RAM.
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Performance art: Google USB Type-C cable reviewer fries his own Chromebook

Benson Leung, the man behind recent tests of various USB Type-C cables, has found a real dud. The Surjtech USB cable fried his Chromebook.
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HP plans to bring FreeSync to its affordable AMD laptops later this year

HP is looking to kill off screen-tearing once and for all on its laptops, by offering them with FreeSync compatible displays later this year.
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Nvidia offers $30,000 bounty for most innovative VR project

Nvidia is offering a prize of a combined $30,000 to the most innovative virtual reality software solution at this year's Graphics Technology Conference.
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Microsoft is selling DirectX12 hard in its latest video

Microsoft is keen to sell you on the big advantages of DirectX12, so it has gone hard in its new video, showcasing all it has to offer.
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Intel Core M Compute Stick beats out old discrete GPUs, desktop CPUs in first tests

Intel's Core M Compute Stick performed impressively in a recent batch of tests conducted to see how well it runs in the real world.
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Fitbit teams up with Alexa to offer voice-activated fitness data

Finding out how active you've been recently just became a whole lot easier, as Amazon's Alexa now supports Fitbit stat tracking.
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It might be pricey, but building your own broadband network might be the way forward

Getting fed up with waiting on legal matters to come to their conclusion, a Tennessee man has spent $400,000 to build his own broadband network.
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Forget gaming, the future of VR could be in business

Virtual Reality is getting its biggest push ever in 2016, but it might not be gaming that takes it over the top, but business.
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Leak confirms Intel’s Broadwell-E range Extreme Edition is just around the corner

Intel's upcoming Broadwell-E flagship chip, the I7-6950X Extreme Edition, will feature a massive 25MB of L3 cache and a boosted frequency of 3.5GHz
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Everything old is new again as widgets come to the Windows 10 action center

Windows 10 is getting a revamped Action Center when this Summer's Anniversary Update rolls around, just before the end of the free upgrade period.
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USB 3.1 gives Seagate world's biggest, uber-portable external HDD

Seagate's new Innov8 external drive is a different beast than we're used to, offering 8TB of storage space, all powered by USB.
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AMD's Radeon R9 280 is now the most affordable VR-ready graphics card

Valve has managed to get the recommended specifications for the HTC Vive VR headset down. Now you only need a R9 280.
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GDR5X may not compete with HBM, but it’s fast … and coming soon

Micron has now outed the specifications for the new standard GDDR5X memory chips, and they're quite impressive.
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Leaker braves Nvidia's ire with images of GTX 10 series cooling shrouds

Nvidia's upcoming Pascal range may have had its coolers prematurely pictured by a machine worker, who snapped shots of the shroud in the factory.
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Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney: Oculus storefront is anything but 'open'

Tim Sweeney of Epic Games doesn't think Oculus' new "open" storefront is anything close to that in reality, claiming it's restricting sales.
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Corsair gets all sensitive with its new M65 Pro RGB's 12k sensor

If you want raw sensitivity, Corsair's M65 Pro RGB has it, with a newly installed 12,000 DPI sensor that can be tweaked in the back-end CUE system.