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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.
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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.
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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.
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Happy to wait for the Core? Razer’s Blade Stealth is now available

Although the Core external graphics module isn't quite ready yet, the Razer Blade Stealth is and you can pre-order it now for just shy of $1,000.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Will you buy into Bitcoin if Mike Tyson tells you to?

Hot off of endorsing Bitcoin ATMs, Mike Tyson is now putting the value of his name and unique way with words behind Bitcoin Direct's digital wallets.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Want an entry-level curved monitor? Check out Samsung’s CF591

Samsung has announced a new 27-inch, curved display with a 1080p panel that looks set to bring curved displays to the masses with its jack-of-all-trades approach.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.