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More tech news from around the web

There’s a lot to choose from when it comes to tech news and reviews on the web, so to help here’s a round up of some of the best elsewhere this week: T3 Samsung Galaxy S3 review Motorola Razor Maxx review   CVG The 10 Games that will save Nintendo Console games need to ditch [...]

Reviews and news from around the web

There’s a lot to choose from when it comes to tech news and reviews on the web, so to help here’s a round up of some of the best elsewhere this week: Games Radar E3 2012 news and rumours Why Half-Life 3 will definitely be at E3 2012 T3 Sony Vaio T13 review D3200 review [...]

Why motion control is the next big thing

Forget keyboards and touchscreens; gestures and hand signals are taking over our world. Whether it’s the full body motion control of Microsoft’s Kinect, or the simple command to ask Siri a question just by lifting your iPhone, our tech is getting more clever at working out what we want to do or find out. Take [...]

Google Knowledge Graph tells you what you need to know

When Google burst on to the search scene it had one defining factor that separated it from its rivals. The homepage was simple, just a logo and a text box, and the results it returned from a search categorised as a straightforward list based on its infamous PageRank algorithms. Nowadays, of course, there’s much more [...]

10 of the best Google Chrome add-ons

Google’s Chrome browser is now the most popular in the world. Over 1 in 3 internet users are looking at the web through Chrome, and with good reason. Like all the best of Google’s services, it’s laid out simply, uncluttered and fast. If Chrome seems a little too simple after some of the more feature-heavy [...]

Are you ready for Diablo III?

PC gamers are about to get their hands on one of the most anticipated games of the year. Next week will see the third part of the Diablo franchise arrive in the UK, when the next game in the fantasy role-playing series goes on sale. Diablo III is set in the world of Sanctuary, and [...]

Why your iPad needs a Bluetooth keyboard…

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook recently said that he thought bringing together tablets and notebooks was akin to fitting a toaster to your fridge and ‘not pleasing to the user’. No doubt he was aiming his comments at Android tablets with keyboards, like the excellent ASUS Eee Pad Transformer, and the emmergence of Microsoft’s tablet-friendly Windows [...]

Have smart TVs come of age?

The age of the smart TV is finally upon us. New TVs with built in net connections are fast, easy to use and – crucially – more convenient for watching movies stored on another PC than any  other method. The last year has seen a huge improvement in interface design and processing power. Smart TVs [...]

Everything you need to know about Thunderbolt

Last week Intel launched its new range of PC and laptop processors, which promise to be a major leap forward in power and performance for all computers, but especially thin and light notebooks. One aspect of these new CPUs, dubbed ‘Ivy Bridge’, hasn’t been written about as often as others – they support Thunderbolt out [...]

What’s cooking in online privacy?

Have you heard of the EC directive officially known as The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2011? No? The chances are that you’re not alone, and yet this obscure-sounding piece of legislation may be about to have more impact on the way you browse and use the web than any other piece of law over [...]