Content and news by Jamie Fletcher

In a rather sudden and somewhat controversial sale, one of the UK’s biggest technology firms, ARM Holdings, has been sold to a Japanese Telecom company, SoftBank, for an impressive £24.3 billion – or $31.6 billion USD at current exchange rates. This is approximately a 40% markup of the company’s last estimated value.…..

I bet that was the console you weren’t expecting! In what appears to be a rather sudden and very un-Nintendo like move, a modern but mini NES system will be coming out this November, pre-loaded with 30 games, and sold for the cool price of $59.99. Nintendo is a very odd company…..

Everything is better with lasers, and the same with magnets. While we don’t have any magnetic lasers for you today, Corsair has now launched its new Magnetic Levitation (ML) range of PC fans. These new fans swap out the standard sleeve and ball-based bearings with sleek new magnetic bearings – oh, and…..

The original Auralux came out back in 2012, right as the app boom was in full swing in the mobile world. It introduced a simplistic real-time strategy game of using planets to take over the galaxy, with a regular musical beat. It was the sound of mass destruction at the tap of…..

With greater demand and access to our digital lives, storage solutions have been changing from pure density, to quick access and connectivity. The new WD Pro range of storage solutions is meant to provide that instant access to storage, wherever you may be. So far, the WD Pro series encompasses three products;…..

Need a headset for gaming, but find gamer gear to be sorely lacking? Never mind the flashy lights and pretty plastic exteriors – get a pair of decent headphones and then stick a microphone on them! Antlion’s ModMic range is all about keeping the focus on audio quality, and letting you build the perfect headset without compromising sound or comfort.

While companies continue to produce new and updated models of mechanical keyboards for different price points, SteelSeries is keeping its latest board simple, yet powerful. While the APEX M500 is a fairly standard board, it’s a refined design that promises to deliver all the essentials a gamer needs to take over the world!

If your storage requirements for the home stretch beyond that of a 2-bay NAS, and you need hardware transcoding for your mobile devices, Synology has a new NAS for you. The 4-bay DiskStation DS416play is a feature rich, high-capacity NAS for the demanding home. Like many of the other NAS units that…..

Computex has been delivering wave after wave of announcements from various companies, but all eyes were on one today: AMD. For what has seemed an eternity, we were finally given confirmation of three new product ranges – The latest generation of mobile APUs, the first Polaris GPU, and AMD’s biggest update in…..

As Computex continues to roll forward, so do the press releases. Corsair’s up next with some interesting updates, as well as new products. From new chassis designs, a new range of fans to keep systems cool, some impressive clocks on a new batch of memory, oh – and a graphics card. OK, so the…..

At the annual Taiwan event, Computex opens up its doors for a world of new products. To begin with, we take a look through ASUS’ latest creations that will find their way into the market over the next year – and there are quite a few cool new concept pieces, too. While…..

As is customary now for a CPU refresh, Intel is releasing a new set of high-performance, enthusiast grade CPUs. Like previous generations, these new CPUs are based on the previous architecture, but are fine-tuned for performance. The new Core i7-6950X and its siblings are Broadwell-based CPUs, rather than the newer Skylake – but…..

Only a couple of weeks ago, NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1080 specifications and benchmark results were released by reviewers, and just a couple of days ago, the cards went on sale – kind of, since everyone sold out very quickly. Well, it’s time for the 1080’s younger sibling to get the spotlight as…..

After a short delay, SteelSeries’ latest gaming mouse, the Rival 700, is now available for purchase direct from SteelSeries for people in North America. The Rival 700, which was originally announced back at CES this year, is a new generation of high-tech gaming peripheral. It breaks new ground in rodent technology by…..

Enterprises that deploy large-scale virtual desktops and environments that require some graphics compute on the side will soon find a new compute card available: NVIDIA’s Tesla M10. While server-side workstation graphics deployments to virtual environments is covered by the Tesla M6 and M60, the new M10 is about user density, rather than…..

After nearly six years, the latest Civilization game is announced and will be available this autumn. Originally, we were tipped off in an email last year about a possible summer release for the latest Firaxis title, and while not completely accurate, the timeline matches up (we should have said announced instead of…..

It’s been a while, but Cooler Master is finally launching its highly anticipated modular PC chassis design, the MasterCase Maker 5. We saw it showcased back at CES 2016, and even further back at Computex, so the design has been gaining attention for some time. In what CM calls its FreeForm Modular…..

It’s all coming together. NVIDIA’s Pascal comes to consumer cards with the launch of the GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070 GPUs. They’re both faster than a TITAN X, they’re priced lower than a TITAN X, and there’s a whole lot of software unveiled, too. Ansel introduces free-camera screenshots, multi-viewport rendering increases VR processing by 40% – It’s a lot to take in, so here we go.

Network Attached Storage is something that all of us want at some point, and Synology has be providing many options for it over the years. Under review today is the DS216+, one of the first generation NAS units to feature Btrfs and Snapshot support with 4K video Transcoding. We take a look at media support, some of the business features, and what’s new with DSM 6.0.

It’s not often a unique product shows up in our email and news feeds, but we became curious over something a little different today: a USB compute module for neural networks and machine learning. Movidius’ new Fathom Neural Compute Stick is an ultra-low power processor featuring a Myriad 2 VPU (vision processing…..