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The HP Spectre Folio is an eye-catching hybrid that surrounds its components with leather – and that’s not the only area where it stands apart from the competition. It’s got a unique moving mechanism involving two hinges, for starters, and it has a CPU that promises increased efficiency when compared...

Since Theresa May invoked Article 50, there has been a mystifying surge in video games set in Britain. They come in all shapes and sizes, from Nintendo’s Pokémon Sword and Shield, which riffs on the architecture of Oxbridge and London, to PanicBarn’s anti-Brexit polemic Not Tonight. Most began development long...

Dutton SurfPrice £22,000MPG 30Top speed 85mph On sea 6mph (timdutton.com)Is it a boat? Is it a car? Actually, it’s the best of both – an amphibious vehicle. It’s the ideal solution for anyone who fancies driving to the coast and then… well, motoring out to sea. For the past 50...

Protests have greeted plans to remove a cap on the price of web domains that end in .org, .biz and .info.This change could hit a lot of charities, many of which use the .org domain for their websites.The organisation overseeing web domains wants to let the companies behind the suffixes...

A class action filed on behalf of thousands of taxi and hire-car drivers against Uber alleges the global rideshare company operated illegally in Australia.Maurice Blackburn Lawyers says more than 6,000 people have joined the action, covering drivers across Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia.It alleges Uber’s operations in...

Huawei should be completely banned from supplying 5G mobile networks in the UK because its operations are “subject to influence by the Chinese state”, according to a report by a Conservative MP and two academics.They argue that a decision announced by Theresa May last month, following a fraught meeting of...

For luckier people than me, this week will have been the first time they’ve ever heard of Carl Benjamin (or Sargon of Akkad, as he is better known online). The fact that a Ukip candidate has been discovered to have said something hideous felt like such routine news, it would...

The BBC wants to "pop your bubble" with unexpected and challenging content on its streaming service, BBC Sounds.The broadcaster is developing a "public service algorithm" that's "built to surprise you," said the BBC's director of radio and education James Purnell.His hope is that audiences will stumble onto something new, instead...

Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Google are to give secret evidence to the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA) as it examines the growing problem of online exploitation.Representatives of the four global tech companies will make part of their submissions in closed sessions of the inquiry, which is being held...

US lobbying against the use of Huawei in British 5G phone networks will step up when the embassy in London hosts an event on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the situation with telecoms companies operating in the UK.The extraordinary meeting comes a day after an official at the US state department...

Google’s latest phone, the Pixel 3a, offers the firm’s fantastic camera and software for less than £400, cutting a few corners on the way.The pitch for the Pixel 3a is simple: everything that made the £739 top-end Pixel 3 good, but at a lower price.From the outside it’s not immediately...

IntroductionHyperX Cloud MIXHyperX took the gaming world by storm years ago when they released the Cloud headset. Back then, it proved to be one of the best performing, best made and competitively priced headsets on the market. Even now, I know people who have that same headset. However, since then,...

World War ZThere are few games these days that truly manage to get me hyped. It might be the fact that I’m getting older, but I suspect it’s more to do with the fact that after having my fingers burnt on more than a few occasions, I generally tend to...

Part of the British Transport Police's (BTP) website has been hacked, the force has confirmed.BTP said it was made aware of "a threat to the newsroom section" of its website - hosted by an external supplier.The main page was unaffected but clicks on the "latest news" link are directed to...

Waterblock For Intel Xeon W ProcessorsIntel launched their 28-core/56-threaded Xeon W-3175X CPU last month. Giving enthusiasts a powerful unlocked CPU to play around with on the LGA3647 platform. Understandably, overclocking this CPU outputs a lot of heat. Which means, it also requires a considerably powerful cooling solution.Enter EKWB with their...

Vodafone To Launch UK’s First 5G NetworkWith the next-generation release of wireless technology just on the horizon, the vast majority of the UK should look to start seeing 5G networks at some point in 2020. Vodafone, however, has really been pushing hard with their implementation of the technology with them...

Environmental and financial crises loom and we feel we have no influence. If society has already reduced us to a childlike state of weakness, isolation and vulnerability, it is perhaps no surprise that modern pop culture and technology tend towards infantilisation, and that many video games function as childish wish...

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Twitter Is Keeping Your Deleted Direct MessagesIn this modern world of social media, I’m sure that at this point nearly everyone has dropped a messaging faux pas. This can, of course, vary. Perhaps an ill-advised comment. Perhaps a message to an ex you wish you’d never sent. With Twitter, however,...

Powered by NZXT CAMNZXT is launching the V2 upgrade to their HUE 2 RGB ambient lighting kit, which is part of their HUE 2 RGB products.Simply called the HUE 2 RGB ambient lighting kit V2, it improves upon the design of the original which came out 7 months ago. Pricing...

End of an EraIt seems that Intel as of late have been snapping up everybody. We’ve seen the likes of Raja Koduri and Chris Hook both leave AMD for pastures bluer? Along with Ryan Shrout from PC Perspective and next in their sights was editor-in-chief of [H]ardOCP; Kyle Bennett who...