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BBC to bring back classic ‘Robot Wars’ TV show

Battling bots are set to return to our TV screens in the near future, with a reboot of classic British TV show, Robot Wars.
Emerging Tech News
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PC sales are slumping, but PC gaming is booming

Even though mainstream desktops and laptop sales have declined in the past few months, PC gaming is booming and this year could see an overall resurgence.
Computing News
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Facebook, Instagram director of products joins the virtual reality revolution

Oculus VR has a new head of product management: experienced director, Peter Deng, who has previously held jobs at Facebook, Google and Microsoft.
Computing News
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Windows 8 dropped by Microsoft in latest Patch Tuesday

Microosft has ended full support for Windows 8 and certain versions of Internet Explorer and now encourages everyone to update to newer versions.
Computing News
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First mini-STX mobos show up, promise tiniest upgradable PC platform yet

CES 2016 had a lot of monstrous new hardware on show, but also some micro-computing solutions, like mini-STX motherboards with upgradeable CPU sockets.
Computing News
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Oculus' Store will have exclusive titles, but can work with other headsets

Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey has taken to Reddit again in an AMA to discuss Oculus exclusivity and what that actually means for consumers.
Computing News
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Alienware and Dell debut Oculus Ready desktop and headset bundles

If you don't have a PC that's ready for VR, Dell and Alienware have a solution: buy one of their pre-built systems with the new VR headset.
Computing News
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AMD ends multi-socket madness with next-gen AM4 chipset

AMD has stated that with the next-generation Zen CPUs and APUs, its multiple sockets per generation will slim down to a single option called AM4.
Computing News
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AMD confirms GlobalFoundries to produce entry-level Polaris GPUs

AMD has confirmed that it will use its fabrication spin-off GlobalFoundries to produce much of the next-generation of Polaris GPUs.
Computing News
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Samsung debuts durable, portable solid state drive with up to 2TB of storage

Samsung is expanding its range of portable solid state drives with the new T3 range. They're bigger and more durable, but the same speed.
Computing News
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EVGA reveals its first gaming laptop, and a new desktop case, at CES 2016

CES is expanding out of its comfort zones at this year's CES, showing off a new gaming laptop packed with a GTX 980M, and a brand new desktop case.
Computing News
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Gigabyte debuts Skylake equipped Brix mini-PC at CES 2016

CES 2016 has a lot of great stuff on show, but Gigabyte is banking on you liking your hardware small: specifically its new BRIX micro-PC with Skylake CPUs.
Computing News
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Dell channels Mr T and colors its new XPS 13 gold

Dell is showing off a new version of its XPS 13, sporting a gold paint job. It's exclusive to the high-spec version, too.
Computing News
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Bring window support to Android with Remix OS, available for free on January 12

Set to become freely available on January 12, the Android based Remix OS offers multi-window app support and access to Google's Play Store.
Computing News
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Toshiba offers up new storage options and a thin Dynapad at CES 2016

Toshiba is going out of its way to talk up the Type-C USB standard at this year's CES 2016, as well as showing off a new Dynapad.
Computing News
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Intel turbocharges the Compute Stick with Core M, revises Atom model

Intel's Compute Stick has pushed the tiny computer category to minuscule sizes, but performance was hampered by Atom CPUs. Now, Intel has a solution.
Computing News
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Samsung shows Surface Pro 4 alternative at CES 2016, along with a pair of revised laptops

Samsung's newly announced Galaxy TabPro S is a Windows 10 2-in-1. The company also announced updates of its 13-inch and 15-inch ATIV Book 9 notebooks.
Computing News
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Oculus to give free, special edition headsets to early Kickstarter backers

The few thousand earliest backers of the Oculus Rift Kickstarter campaign are going to be given a special edition of the consumer Rift for free.
Computing News
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Star Citizen’s long-promised virtual reality support arrives in 2016

Wish Star Citizen had better support for virtual reality? We do too, so it's good to hear that Cloud Imperium will put more effort into it for 2016.
Gaming News
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Lenovo brings super-thin Yoga 900S, Razer-branded desktop to CES 2016

Lenovo is coming in strong at the New Year's CES show, debuting not only new laptops, but new desktops and peripherals too.
Computing News
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Nvidia warns most PCs can’t handle virtual reality

Can your PC run commercial grade virtual reality hardware at a decent FPS? Nvidia doesn't think so, not unless you've got one of its new GPUs.
Computing News
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Movidius’ new Visual Processing Unit help your next phone power VR experiences

Virtual reality is coming, but will we power it with something other than a GPU? Movidius believes so, and it's putting forward its VPU as proof.
Computing News
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Panasonic’s Toughpad FZ-Q1 is ready for the rough-and-tumble

CES 2016 has a lot on show, but Panasonic is betting the business tech-heads out there will be interested in its new, rugged Toughpad FZ-Q1.
Tablets Computing
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AMD’s Polaris is much more efficient than current-gen Nvidia hardware

AMD's next-generation graphics architecture, Polaris, is vastly more efficient than what it offers now and even beats current-gen Nvidia hardware too.
Computing News
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Thanks to this, you may never need another software update

MIT and Adobe have developed a new system of code that can automatically optimize itself to run faster and more efficiently.
Computing News
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Think your PC is packed with midi-chlorians? Think again.

If you're feeling in a Star Wars mood right now and have deep pockets, how about a custom Star Destroyer PC mod?
Computing News
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50-person private notes and dark mode added to Twitter for Mac

Ever find yourself squinting to ward off those bright tweets in the dark? Well, no longer, as the Twitter for Mac app update has added a dark mode.
Social Media News
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Emulated Pokemon can run on a PS4 with fail0verflow hack

Hacking group fail0verflow, perhaps most well known for cracking the PS3, has managed to install Linux on a PS4, even emulating Pokemon on it.
Computing News
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AMD’s next graphics chip architecture could be called Polaris

Although details are still thin on the ground, AMD's next-gen graphics core architecture is rumored to be called Polaris, named after the star.
Computing News
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Privacy advocates protest Microsoft’s backup of user encryption keys

Microsoft may have copies of every Windows 10 user's decryption key, as it automatically backs up all encryption keys as a safety measure.
Computing News
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AMD pushes back anticipated dual-GPU video card to coincide with VR launches

If you were hoping for a new, dual GPU graphics card from AMD before the end of the year, bad luck. The Fiji XT x2 isn't coming until 2016.
Computing News
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‘Remember that one?!’ Stroll through gadget history in Prague’s Apple museum

Think you know historical Apple tech? Bet you can't name everything in the new Apple Museum in Prague, which boasts the biggest collection in the world.
Computing News
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Smach Z, the portable Steam Machine, drops off of Kickstarter following lackluster support

The crowd-funding campaign for portable Steam Machine Smach Z has ended early, after developers realised they wouldn't reach their goal.
Computing News
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Too stressed for games? Watch whispering gamers play them on YouTube

Let's Plays are typically loud and brash, but what if they weren't? What if they took a note from ASMR's playbook and were quiet instead? 
Gaming Features
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The update debate: Why the latest version of software isn’t always the best

Updating software is something we're always being prompted to do, whether it's driver updates on our desktops and laptops, or application patches on our smartphones. But is it always a wise choice? And are those that don't update regularly on to something?
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Wi-Fi criminals beware, tampering with wireless devices can be wirelessly detected

Wireless devices might be stored out of sight, but not out of mind. Wi-Fi can be used to detect tampering with routers and wireless devices. 
Computing News
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AMD has already rolled out a new Crimson driver

AMD has released a new 15.12 driver which certifies all of the fixes it applied in the previous 15.11.1 beta driver.
Computing News
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Toshiba shows there’s still life in old storage standards yet

Toshiba knows that there's still a lot of people using USB 2.0 and SD Card devices. 
Computing News
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