Alphabet brings balloon internet to Kenya
Loony Tunes? We don't think so
A division of Alphabet – Google's parent company – has struck a deal with Telkom Kenya to bring the internet to people of the country.
Nest man leaves the nest
Flies to roost under Google's wing
The CEO of Nest is stepping down from that position as the fledgling company becomes integrated with Google.
HTC axes 1,500 people
Restructures business
Troubled Taiwanese manufacturer HTC has laid off 1,500 members of its staff as it continues to restructure its business.
Core i7-8086K gets delidded and overclocked to 7,243MHz
By Roman "Der8auer" Hartung
We already had a hunch that Intel's 40th anniversary Core i7-8086K could be an impressive overclocker and Roman "Der8auer" Hartung has already delidded it and overclocked it to an impressive 7,243MHz under LN2.
Intel: X86 not sexy, oily data is
Submerge yourself in a deep data lake
The CEO of chip giant Intel has looked into his crystal ball, read some tea leaves and shuffled his Tarot cards and predicted that Big Data will have the same impact on human existence as oil.
Man posts porn on Ebay by mistake
Owl be seeing you later
A man trying to flog a Beswick figurine of an owl on auction site Ebay snapped a screen on his HP laptop that displayed naked porn stars.
Facebook screws up on privacy front again
Grovels to 14 million people
A Facebook bug means that 14 million people may have posted their private information to the whole of the world that uses the social media tool.
Google fights Amazon on assistant front
Sorry, can I hear an echo?Sorry, can I hear an echo?
A report suggests that Google is so alarmed by Alexa's dominance on the home intelligence assistant front that it is pouring vast amounts of energy to play catch up with Amazon.
Amazon announces Fire TV Cube
Combines Echo with Fire TV for US $119.99
Amazon has officially announced the Fire TV Cube, a small cube which combines Echo with Fire TV to bring, what Amazon calls, the first hands-free media player with Alexa.
G.Skill memory hits 5543MHz at Computex 2018 O.C World Record stage
Team MSI managed to break the world record
G.Skill is quite present at the Computex 2018 show and while it brought some impressive memory kits to show, including the first DDR4-5066MHz 2x8GB kit and the fastest 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4-4600 kit, it is also hosting the 7th Annual OC World Record Stage and the 5th Annual OC World Cup, where another world record was broken by Team MSI by hitting DDR4-5543 on LN2.