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2015- Apple's year in beta. Thanks OS news via Ant. As 2015 comes to a close, Windows 10 surpasses 200 million installs. Thanks HARDOCP. Seven Tech Trends From 2015. Thanks HARDOCP.

U.S. says its Internet speeds triple in three-and-a-half years. Thanks HARDOCP. Mozilla Firefox version 43.0.3. Thanks Frans.

T-Mobile- We're Not Throttling YouTube, We're 'Optimizing' It. Thanks HARDOCP.

Beatsplosion For Kinect Is Now Available For Xbox One.

World of Warcraft Pet Battle Bonus Event Dec. 30 Jan. 4.

Team Fortress 2 Update Released.

When it comes to bugs, the Adobe Flash Players cup runneth over. Thanks HARDOCP. AVG Forcibly Installs Vulnerable Chrome Extension That Exposes Users' Browsing History. Thanks Slashdot via Ant....

Thanks Ant. 15 technology trends for 2016. Top Linux Distributions To look Forward To In 2016. Thanks Linux Today. Intel's Core i7-6700K CPU In Short Supply.

Holiday PlayStation Sale Week 4: Final Week Brings Fallout 4, Dark Souls II.

War Is Boring - The Witcher 3 Understands War. Thanks JDreyer. "Many video games are power fantasies, and most that involve warfare depict the glory of combat and put the player in the lead role....

There's another story brewing about game comings and goings on GOG.com besides the above and the recent report of the imminent departure of Duke Nukem games. A post on reddit notes that though the...

Complaint factory: Angry Internet subscribers tee off against Comcast, Verizon, AT&T. Happy New Year- Dish, DirecTV-AT&T, Time Warner Cable All Raising Rates In January Because They Can. Thanks...

Google confirms next Android version won't implement Oracle's proprietary Java APIs. Thanks Slashdot.

GOG.com announces the rerelease of TrickStyle, an arcade hoverboard racer first released for in 1999 for windows and as a SEGA Dreamcast launch title. Gamasutra has the explanation for the game's...

Happy New Year with Interplay on GOG.com. Steam Winter Sale - Day 8 - 12/29. Tomb Raider- Anniversary, Legend, and Underground all added to the Humble Square Enix Bundle 3.

Microsoft patents a slider, earning EFFs Stupid Patent of the Month award.

Google probes AVG Chrome widget after 9m users exposed by bugs. Recently Bought a Windows Computer? Microsoft Probably Has Your Encryption Key. Thanks Slashdot.

Intel launches new desktop and mobile CPUs. Thanks HARDOCP.

Add-on Compatibility for Firefox 44. Thanks Ant. Twitter Rules updated. Thanks HARDOCP.

The Iron Banner Returns Today in Destiny- The Taken King.

Players Choice - Indie of the Year 2015 feature - Indie DB. Players Choice - Mod of the Year 2015 feature - Mod DB. Here's the game lineup for GDC 2016's Alt.Ctrl.GDC showcase.

A new feature on IGN with a first look at a couple of the characters in Battleborn, the teamplay shooter in development at Gearbox Software for release in May. These are Ghalt, "the veteran...

Four Key Things to Keep an Eye On in Virtual Reality in 2016. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Ford Patents The Batcycle Back Tire.

Editorial: Wikipedia fails as an encyclopedia, to sciences detriment. Updated Adobe Flash Player. Thanks Ant. TigerDirect Has New Owner, Wont Accept Returns. Thanks HARDOCP. Report: Holiday...

For Sympathetic Ear, More Chinese Turn to Smartphone Program.

The first 15 Apple TV games you should play. Thanks Ant. Xbox Stores Countdown Week 2 List Of Official Deals. PlayStation Developers Name Top 2015 Gaming Moments.

10 for the Developers - Roberts Space Industries.

Psychonauts 2 now has $3 million in the vault with two weeks of crowdfunding to go.

Dota 2 Update - December 29th 2015.

A tweet from last week from Chris Wynn reveals he has parted ways with BioWare where he had been serving as Senior Development Director on Mass Effect Andromeda. He says: "It is with heavy heart...

Internet-connected homes open the door to hackers. Thanks HARDOCP. University of Connecticut Information Security Incident. Thanks j.c.f. Cisco wins U.S. patent dispute over wifi technology. Thanks...

The Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Continued Evolving In 2015.

New Google Glass model hits the FCC website, images included.

New Rock Band 4 DLC on Dec 29.

League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 12.29 - 01.01. SEGA Midweek Sale on The Humble Store. Steam Winter Sale - Day 6 - 12/27. Steam Winter Sale - Day 7 - 12/28.

G Prime -- Steam Greenlight. "In your role as sounding officer onboard Ptolemy Station, you are tasked with launching sub-etheric reconnaissance rockets into increasingly challenging gravity fields...

There's news of more trouble at Red5 following their layoffs last month, as GameInformer says the developer of the Firefall MMORPG missed payroll last week, making for a rough holiday for their...

Degica announces plans to bring Deathsmiles to Windows PCs via Steam in Spring 2016, which will offer another way to play CAVE's bullet hell shoot-em-up. A teaser website is online for the project,...

New report shows how eSports is rivaling plain ol' sports.

Just Cause 3 on Just Adventure.

Regulators have a warning for ads that masquerade as real content. Thanks HARDOCP. Yandex worker stole search engine source code, tried selling for just $40K.

How to Destroy a Hard Drive--Permanently. Thanks HARDOCP. Destruction can be temporary? Mysterious collector opens worlds largest private Apple exhibition in Prague. PopTrayU 5.2.6 Released. Thanks...

How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.

The App-ocalypse- Can Web standards make mobile apps obsolete? Rumor: Samsung Galaxy S7 will cost you more money, but comes with an iris scanner. Thanks HARDOCP. Samsung Gear S2 Issues With Water.

The industrious folks at GfK Chart-Track did not let a holiday weekend derail their weekly rundowns on the bestselling games in the U.K. There certainly isn't much movement to report, however, as the...

A post on GOG.com warns that the end of the year will also mark the end of their sale on various Duke Nukem games, and that they will cease offering their DRM-free versions of these games shortly...

How to Track Data Use, and Choose the Right Smartphone Plan. Thanks HARDOCP.

How Blizzard turned a costly failure into the highly anticipated 'Overwatch' - LA Times.

Hearthstone December 2015 Ranked Play Season Ending Soon.

Valve offers the final listing of the year of the 10 bestselling games on Steam for the preceding week: Grand Theft Auto V Fallout 4 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege...