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    Microsoft Flunks Antivirus Tests. Who Aced Them?

    Honestly think that you could have the best AV in the world but if your one of those idiots that clicks on pop ups or opens dodgy email attachments you will still get viruses. I can honestly say that after surfing the web for the last 15 odd years i could count the amount of viruses i've had on...
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    Buying iPhone 6? This is How Long You'll Wait

    Lol at the fan boys it just reminds me of the bbc documentary about super brands, i'll quote a bit "And when a team of neuroscientists with an MRI scanner took a look inside the brain of an Apple fanatic it seemed the bishop was on to something. The results suggested that Apple was actually...
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    Your iPhone May Be Rigged to Spy on You

    When will you realise that its not these tech companies that are evil its the US government! These companies have no choice but to comply, Google is always the first to take on the government to protect its data but at the end of the day they have to comply or they cant operate in the USA...
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    Email Scam Targets Netflix, AOL, Comcast Users

    If your stupid enough to click such links and input your details then you deserved to be robbed.
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    Critical Linux Flaw Threatens More Systems Than You Think

    no internet enabled device is 100% secure and it never will be. All you can hope for is that once these flaws are found they are fixed ASAP. I will note though for the money you pay for Apple products and Windows you would assume that they would fix their problems faster than Linux which is free
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    Sex With Google Glass Gives You a Different Perspective

    might as well have a wank in front of a mirrori mean seriously how vain would you have to be to actually want to watch yourself having sex rather than your partner
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    Tech Giants Launch Site for Government Surveillance Reform

    @razorblaze42 The NSA collects data it intercepts in transit which means that even if these companies dont store your data, its still not safe from them. Also how do you think these companies make money? i mean do you think that free email service/web browser/video sharing service/cloud storage...
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    LG Smart TVs Found Snooping on Home Networks

    "LG clearly states that it gathers customers' personal information and uses it to suggest content and target advertisements." This really annoys me, you pay god knows how much for a TV that LG have made a profit on and yet they still target ads at you. Its what annoyed me about the xbox 360...
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    How to Use Malwarebytes' Anti-Virus App for Android

    Malwarebytes on the PC is hands down the best program for removing viruses, it will be interesting to see how good their android version is
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    Microsoft Sends Mixed Messages on Xbox One Kinect Privacy

    People need to stop trying to blow kinect up into a big privacy invasion. They wont be recording you which is what everyone seems to be trying to scare you into thinking. I mean can you imagin the bandwidth that would take up for starters? let alone storage of all that footage. I mean even if...
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    First iPhone Fingerprint Reader Hacker Could Win Cash, Booze

    This would involve me buying a 5S and as i refuse to buy anything apple it wont be happening anytime soon. I hope someone does though and really soon just so i can lol at the arrogance
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    Half-Life 3 May Be Delayed Over Mo-Cap Tech

    g00fysmiley how are valve anything like blizzard? they are about as anti-blizzard as any AAA gaming company can be. They waited a stupidly long time before they released half-life 2 and has to be one of the only games to actually be as good as the hype behind it after such a long development...
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    First 3D-printed Rifle Gets Hand Fired in New Video

    looking at the numbers i will concede that you are slightly more likely to be robbed in the UK than in the US but in the US you are still more likely to get raped or burgled. Even so, are you really telling me that you think that having 4 times more people killed a year is a fair exchange for a...
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    First 3D-printed Rifle Gets Hand Fired in New Video

    Joseph Leo , August 6, 2013 9:05 AM Banning said weapons does not work: http://ibnjuferi.us/top-ten-countries-highest-number-crimes-capita-world/ that is reported crime, it does not distinguish between crimes. in 2012 there were 2.97 gun related homicides per 100,000 pop in the USA but in a...
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    15 Ways to Speed Up Your Boot and Shutdown Times

    easiest way is run mscongfig.exe and just disable everything that isnt a driver or windows related. Job done