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Razer announce the Razer Blade 14

Razer are pretty new to the laptop market, but made a big impact when they brought the original Blade to the market around 2 years ago. The original blade offered serious gaming potential in a thing and light form factor. There's no hiding that the design philosophy of the Razer Blade laptops follow closely with the Apple Macbooks. The new addition to that range continues the Apple impersonation trend. The ...

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HTC One Official Flip Case Review

The HTC One is one our favourite phones currently on the market and in this review we will look at the official case, made by HTC, to go along with this super-phone. HTC are rather shy about making accessories for their phones and often many of them have been branded as failures or not as good as their third party counterparts. Let’s see if HTC can shake off that bad form, and improve on their brand name fo ...

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Intel’s 4th Generation / Haswell Core processors have been released!

It's that time of year again! Intel have released their latest generation of processors codenamed Haswell. These processors are the successor to the 3rd Generation Ivy Bridge processors currently in laptops and desktops at the moment. The processors offer a 5-10% increase in per core performance, and a large increase in onboard graphics performance. The headline desktop processors are the i5 4670k and the i ...

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Spotify launches the discover page

Spotify have launched a new page which compiles the latest tracks which your friends listen to on one page. Spotify have often been critiqued for poor music discovery options, this aims to remedy that. The page is being rolled out across its web client today and desktop and mobile clients in the near future. This is the first time Spotify will take advantage of its nearly 30 million users to make the servic ...

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Xbox One announced!

The successor to the highly popular Xbox 360 console has been announced, the Xbox One. The box gains its name from it's newest feature, the unification of the living room. Using clever technology such as HDMI In ports on the console the Xbox will control the whole of you're living room set up, be it your gaming, Netflix/ streaming or even watching normal TV. Furthermore Xbox Kinect 2 will come standard with ...

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Introducing the Culture!

So for a long time we have wanted to write about general culture, philosophy and changes in our world. Recently our interest has peaked in this and we want to expand on this further. Instead of flooding the whole of GadgetCore with these articles we are going to write them in our new Culture sub-blog. A lot of the articles will be co-written and the first ever culture article appeared a few days ago. These ...

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The step between the ISS, the Moon and beyond!

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. That quotation is possibly the most memorable quotation in terms of science and exploration. In 1969 humans accomplished the seemingly impossible; they landed on the Moon. 44 years later yet another astronaut has been to space and returned safely, but no-one has improved on the step made in the Apollo missions 40 years ago. Today human space trav ...

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Google unveil a Samsung Galaxy S4 variant!

Today at Google IO, Google's developer conference, a variant of the popular Samsung Galaxy S4 has been announced. The variant is externally and internally the same as the GSM/International variant of the GS4, but running stock android. So far no pricing or availability has been confirmed for the UK, but the US price is $649 or £428 excl. VAT. This puts it in the same price range as a normal GS4 which is unu ...

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Apple tweaks software for iPhone 5

If you’re the proud owner of an iPhone 5 16GB then keeping it up to date with the very latest software might be something that you consider important. The last big update for the Apple handsets was iOS 6, which was announced at the firm’s Worldwide Developers Conference last year. But since then users have also continued to be provided with various tweaks to the software in order to iron out any issues that ...

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BBM / Blackberry Messenger comes to Android and iOS!

Blackberry's parent company RIM have announced that their extremely popular BBM application will come to Android and iOS later this year. No windows phone mention though. For a long time BBM has been exclusive to Blackberry's devices, with lots of users in the UK this is an interesting move. According to RIM's CEO Thorsten Heins the Blackberry 10 platform is good enough to cope without the exclusivity of BB ...

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Nokia Lumia 925 announced!

Earlier today in London the Nokia Lumia 925 was announced, this is not a successor to the 920 but a slimmer lighter and possibly nicer version minus one or to features. The Lumia 925 is significantly lighter than its predecessor at a mere 139g. The body is polycarbonate with a aluminium trim much in the same light as the iPhone 4 and 4S. The trim acts as antenae as well, even more like the iPhone. The scree ...

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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo breaks the sound barrier!

SpaceShipTwo is part of Virgin's Richard Branson's vision of commercial space flight. Starting with novel trips to space and eventually super-fast intercontinental travel. Whether the second dream will ever be realised or wanted the first is ever closer to coming true. SpaceShipTwo is the first space ship with humans on board. During the test flight the space ship disengaged from it's mother-ship WhiteKnigh ...

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Gambling, big business on your tablet; Top casino games for your tablet..

Four out of five people who enjoy online gaming say that their favourite device is the tablet, and it beats smartphones, laptops and PCs all put together. Not surprisingly most games developers see the tablet as their main market, and as a result there are many excellent games available for it. Around ten percent of tablet game players also play casino games at a mobile casino for real money. Here ...

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The best network / carrier provider in the UK, 4G/2013 edition

The best network/ carrier is often disputed in the UK, due to variations in price, coverage, and network technology, as well as data usage. 4G and 3G have definitely made this a more interesting debate since we last approached this topic. This depends solely on what you are looking for, so I am going to break it down into coverage, Data, Mobile Internet, and best of all price by carrier. The carriers that I ...

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HTC One Review

This is GadgetCore's HTC One UK version review, this complements the living with the HTC One piece which will be continually updated over the next few weeks. The review is in video form for the first time. Though we might as well give it a go! Enjoy!   Sorry for my terrible voice and the background music. ...

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