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Firefox, Opera popular with malware authors

24th Aug 2009 Research has revealed the browser choices of drive-by malware download site creators - with Opera making a strong showing. [9]

GT5 has 1000 cars, including hybrids

24th Aug 2009 Gran Turismo 5 will have more than 1000 cars according to reports, including hybrid vehicles like the Tesla. [39]

Intel buys parallelism companies

24th Aug 2009 In order to boost development of multi-core aware applications, Intel has bought two software companies in the last month: parallelism specialists Rapidmind and Cilk. [11]

Sega: "Words can't describe Bayonetta"

21st Aug 2009 GC 09: Sega reckons that upcoming action game Bayonetta must be seen to be believed. [11]

RUSE PC beta coming late 2009

21st Aug 2009 GC 09: Ubisoft has confirmed that a PC beta of RUSE will be available before the end of the year. [1]

PC simulation games still have a future

21st Aug 2009 GC 09: Developers insist that PC simulations aren't dying out despite recent worries. [22]

The Cars of GamesCom 2009

21st Aug 2009 GC 09: It's time for a quick game of Guess the Car! [22]

New Men of War multiplayer expansion revealed

20th Aug 2009 GC 09: 1C Publishing has revealed a new, unnamed and multiplayer focused expansion to Men of War. [1]

New AVP has suicide feature

20th Aug 2009 GC 09: The new AVP game from Rebellion has a potentially controversial suicide feature in the Alien campaign. [22]

The Mods of GamesCom

20th Aug 2009 GC 09: A gallery of all the mods we've seen at GamesCom. [16]

DDR3 memory review competition winners announced

19th Aug 2009 We've been looking for new ideas on memory coverage on bit-tech and last month we announced a competition asking your opinion. [8]

Molyneux: RPG design is flawed

19th Aug 2009 Microsoft's Peter Molyneux has claimed that there is something wrong with modern RPGs. [30]

Fable 3 announced

19th Aug 2009 GC 09: Microsoft has announced Fable 3. [12]

Asus and bit-tech competition update

19th Aug 2009 Asus, bit-tech and Custom PC have combined their powers to host an event where you can try new Asus hardware, quiz the engineers and take the kit home at the end [6]

Sony announces new PSN features, Home content

19th Aug 2009 GC 09: Sony has announced a host of new PSN features, including retail vouchers and iPlayer support. It's also detailed new content for the PlayStation Home service. [7]

Digital Comics coming to PSP, PS3

19th Aug 2009 GC 09: Sony has unveiled a new digital comics platform for the PSP and PS3. [8]

Get Gran Turismo PSP for free

18th Aug 2009 GC 09: Sony has issued details of how to get Gran Turismo on the PSP for free. [13]

Sony unveils PlayStation AppStore

18th Aug 2009 GC 09: Sony has unveiled the PlayStation equivalent of the Apple AppStore, dubbed Minis. [4]

Sony announces PS3 Slim

18th Aug 2009 GC 09: Sony has officially announced the PS3 Slim, plus a price cut for existing models. [66]

Ubisoft announces Silent Hunter 5

18th Aug 2009 GAMESCOM 09: Ubisoft has announced the next installment of sub sim Silent Hunter, and it will be a PC exclusive title. [15]

Announcing the Custom PC & bit-tech Awards 2009

18th Aug 2009 We're pleased to announce that voting for this year's all-new Custom PC & bit-tech Awards is now open. Read on to win some great prizes! [25]

Best of Blogs

17th Aug 2009 Catch up on what's been happening on the busy bit-tech blogs this week, including rants, raves and our very cool Asus competition!

Best of the Blogs

8th Aug 2009 Catch up on what's been happening on the busy bit-tech blogs this week, including rants, raves and our very cool Asus competition

Security breach downs Mozilla Store

7th Aug 2009 The Mozilla Foundation's online store - where fans can buy Firefox-branded goodies - has been taken offline by a security breach at the ecommerce provider. [2]

AMD releases OpenCL SDK

7th Aug 2009 AMD has released a beta edition of its Stream SDK - version 2.0 - which introduces support for the OpenCL GPU offload specification. [12]

iPhone takes third of smartphone profits

6th Aug 2009 Apple's iPhone is responsible for an impressive 32 percent of overall profits in the smartphone sector - despite accounting for a mere 8 percent turnover. [15]

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What we're reading

An interview with Jen Hsun Huang
t-break tech
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Clive Webster on 23rd Nov, 16:55
Video: The Amazon.co.uk warehouse
Guardian
Mute it first, but this is a decent look inside Amazon's HUGE stock centre
Alex Watson on 23rd Nov, 13:09
Visual Clarity in Character Design II
designreboot.blogspot.com
A continuation of the previous article focusing on character design in games.
Joe Martin on 23rd Nov, 10:42

Why Britain's watchdogs have fewer teeth than goldfish
PC Pro
Terrific invective from PC Pro about how consumers are let down by their supposed watchdogs.
Alex Watson on 20th Nov, 17:41
Apple machines are less reliable - The Inquirer
theinquirer.net
Asus, Toshiba and Sony laptops are more reliable than Apple's
Antony Leather on 20th Nov, 17:00
Why cars are greener than buses (maybe)
BBC
Fluffy maths but it is worrying when you see busses and trains mostly empty.
Jamie Cuthill on 20th Nov, 14:39

Scroll Bar Clock
Tok Wok
It's a clock made of scroll bars.
Alex Watson on 19th Nov, 10:17
Google Holding Chrome OS Event Thursday. Complete Overview And Launch Plans To Be Revealed.
TechCrunch
Chrome OS imminent?
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Fun Photo of the Week: GF100 (the first GeForce GPU based on Fermi
Nvidia
Not a fake, this time.
Alex Watson on 18th Nov, 15:42