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DirectX 12: unlocking the full potential of Xbox One gaming

Will the Xbox One become the most powerful console? DirectX 12 is coming, and it promises to change the Xbox One from top to…

MetaWear will bring wearable tech to the masses

MetaWear is a tiny development board meant for people who want to create or hack their own wearable tech. The Kickstarter project raised its funding goal…

PS4 more powerful than Xbox One, but does it matter?

The console war, a mythical battle between the top tier current-gen machines, namely the Xbox One and PS4, is a one-sided skirmish Sony’s already…

Amazon Fire TV is a Roku, Chromecast, Apple TV killer

Chromecast kicked off the inexpensive TV streaming revolution, but it wasn’t the definitive device. Sneaking in under the radar and packed with every feature…

EA apologises for childish Wii U April Fools’ joke

Did EA take it a step too far with its Wii U April Fools’ twitter prank? Thirteen1 reports that earlier this week on April…

Samsung intros new 7, 8 and 10.1″ Tab4 tablets

With every new Samsung Galaxy comes a refresh of its “Tab” tablet line and today, the company announces three new tablets ranging from 7″,…

PS4 ‘Watch Dogs’ graphics significantly downgraded, here’s the proof

When it comes to games, we’re not graphics people, we’re gameplay lovers. Saying that, we at least expect the PS4 to produce “next-gen” quality…

Microsoft Surface Pro ready to roll out 9 February

Software giant Microsoft has announced the release of the Intel-powered Surface Windows 8 Pro for 9 February, starting at US$899 for the 64-bit version….

Mozilla Firefox OS demoed on mystery dev phone

After making a surprise appearance at CES 2013 on an unknown smartphone and just in preview form (see video at the end), Mozilla has…

Leaked specs for next Xbox reveals blu-ray drive, 8GB ram and 8-core CPU

This site reports that it is has supposedly received the leaked system specs for the next-gen Xbox. The site also reports that in the coming…

LG’s Optimus G Pro is a 1080p 5-inch Phablet with style

Mobile World Congress 2013 is teasing us a range of ultra-desirable 1080p phones such as LG’s Optimus Pro G. LG previously released the well-received…

‘Landscape House’ to be worlds first 3D printed home

3D printing has evolved quite exponentially from its initial coinage in 1995 by graduate students Jim Bredt and Jim Anderson when they altered and…

Samsung outs 8-inch Galaxy Note, just in time for MWC

Mobile World Congress is fast approaching and with it, a slew of phones you never heard of, or needed. Take the recently-announced 8-inch Galaxy…

The Medias W N-05E proves that two screens are better than one

We’ve said before. If any nation deserves the acronym “crazy”, it’s the Japanese. “Hey, let’s make a smartphone with two screens that fold together”…

iOS 6.0 Jailbreak in progress, but far from ready

It’s been quiet on the jailbreak front. Apple’s latest, iOS 6 is a tough nut to crack but famed hacker Planetbeing, in conjunction with…

The new Sony Xperia Tablet Z: lo and behold it’s thinner than the iPad

Steve Jobs may have coined the “thinner and lighter” idea and pushed extensively for it in the quest for perfection, but Sony it seems…

This could be the HTC M7

Rumours abound of HTC’s latest flagship smartphone, the M7. This site (and this one) were some of the first to publish pictures of the…

Sony’s DualShock controller set to change after 16 years

The old faithful Sony PlayStation DualShock controller, synonymous with PS consoles, could be at the end of its day. What has over the last…

Almost affordable: Apple sells $1 439 refurbished Retina Display MacPros

Yessir, Apple’s refurbished computer section at the Apple store now sells refurbished 13.3 inch Retina Display MacPro’s for US$1 439. Not only that, but…

Asus WL-330NUL is ‘world’s smallest USB wireless router’

It was mentioned (albeit very briefly) in the official Asus press release (translated) for CES 2013, and during the show it went almost unnoticed….

CST-01: a watch so thin you won’t even feel it on your arm

Started as a Kickstarter concept, the CST-01 has amassed more than US$500 000 in funding since 8 January. At just 0.8mm thick and weighing…

Next-gen console madness from Sony and Microsoft

How many years have we been speculating about the release of Sony and Microsoft’s next-gen consoles? Five years? Ten? How long have the rumours…

Further Exynos security updates being pushed OTA to Galaxy owners

Just two weeks ago Gearburn reported on the security issue that affected Galaxy owners with Exynos processors (and probably other devices with the same…

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