Author: James O'Malley
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Battlefield Hardline Open Beta launches next week
EA has announced that an open beta of Battlefield Hardline will be available from February 3rd. The hugely anticipated Cops 'n' Robbers 'em up will come with three playable maps - Dustbowl (which supports up to 64 players!), Downtown and a Bank Job - the latter enabling players to try out heist mode. (Who'd have…
The first Surface Pro 4 rumours emerge – two screen sizes?
When Microsoft launched the Surface Pro 3 last summer, it was a breath of fresh air - and was perhaps the first decent attempt at a laptop/tablet hybrid (the first two Surface devices weren't great). Six months on though and we're hearing rumours of what we can expect from the Surface Pro 4. According to…
BT planning to launch 1000Mbps broadband in 2016 or 2017
BT has announced plans to roll out its "G.Fast" broadband technology, which could see speeds rocket up to 1000Mbps - up from a maximum of about 80Mbps now. According to ISP Review, the new service will be faster as it will replace the current "Fibre to the cabinet" technology - in that your connection is…
Huawei Ascend P8 coming in April
Huawei will be launching a new flagship smartphone in April - the Ascend P8 - and it will be makings its debut in London. According to Gizmodo UK, the company won't be announcing this year's iteration at Mobile World Congress, which is being held a month earlier in March because there the focus will be…
Definitive proof that The Simpsons is getting worse
It's almost a law of the internet that any discussion about The Simpsons will inevitably turn into a discussion of when The Simpsons stopped being good. For the first decade, it was some of the finest television ever made - and yet now, 25 years on each new episode feels more and more like they're…
WATCH: People reacting to “insane mode” on the Tesla P85D
So it turns out that electric cars can go pretty fast - with the new Tesla P85D capable of reaching 60mph in about 3 seconds - in what the company calls "insane mode". Check out this video of unsuspecting members of the public experiencing this without warning... and then get depressed that you probably can't…
Sky planning to launch a mobile network
Sky has announced plans to move into mobile phones - having secured access to create a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), piggybacking on the O2 network. As an MVNO, Sky won't be building its own phone masts or anything like that - but it is leasing space from Telefonica, which owns O2 - similar to…
Nintendo finally agrees terms for YouTube streamers
Whilst the rest of the world has been on board with video game streaming via Twitch and YouTube for a number of years now, old man Nintendo has only just agreed to legally allow it - announcing the launch of the Nintendo Creators Program. Peace is breaking out across YouTube as the Nintendo Creators Program…
Apple is now selling as many phones as Samsung, apparently.
Apple sold 74.5 million phones last quarter - which is about the same as Samsung according to one analyst, meaning that Apple could also be the number one phone seller, as well as the most profitable. The claim is being made by Strategy Analysis Inc (by way of Bloomberg), and would be another reassertion of…
Sky Go finally launches on PS3
Sky's on demand TV service has finally launched on PS3 - two months after the PS4. Sky's app is available for download on the Playstation Store now, and will let subscribers to Sky Go Extra (which is a fiver a month on top of your normal subscription) access TV content live and on-demand. In a…