If you're planning to get into the 'festive spirit' this holiday season, British telecommunications company Ofcom says that you should also be aware of possible home networking issues surrounding this trend.

Ofcom claims that electrical interference created by 'fairy lights', or other powered Christmas decorations, are an often-reported issue over the holiday season, with users unaware of how these products may have effect on their signals and speeds.

While this issue can occur year-round, it has been noted that the holiday season sees a massive spike in consumer related complaints, often pointed towards Christmas decorations. So when you're hanging lights this year, try to dangle them away from the antennae.

Described by ZDNet as "the world's largest independent, nonprofit, consumer product testing organization," Consumer Reports is a fully independent testing community free of advertising and endorsement.

In a recently run survey, this community posted findings that will likely annoy most anti-Apple fans, showcasing report on thousands of laptops over three years of ownership. Ranking in the top spot with only a 10 percent breakdown rate was the tech giant Apple, followed by 16 percent for Samsung. Bringing up the rear were systems ranking in at between 18 to 19 percent breakage rates, with these companies being Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba, HP, Dell and ASUS.

In addition, these findings also pointed out that Windows machines are used, on average, for 20 hours a week compared to Apple's 23, but these Windows products are breaking down more often. This report doesn't showcase or pinpoint that Apple products are far superior in every shape or form, it simply notes that within this community of 58,000 people, Apple products seem to break down less over long periods of time.

HLTV has just released the latest edition of its top 10 CS:GO team rankings, seeing the top six remain completely unchanged. With the French team EnVyUs sitting perched squarely on top with 904 points, second place goes to TSM on 893 and the last podium finish is presented to fnatic on 847.

While the top six spots remain steady, it's a turbulent road underneath, seeing Australian organization Team Immunity kicked out of the top 20 completely and its Aussie brethren 'Renegades' creep up two spots to 15. Other large changes are the Americans in Team Liquid rising five spots to ninth position and the Canadian squad of conquest jumping up six spots, to 16, in order to make a debut in the top 20.

Another large fall is Dignitas, seeing a five place fall down to 17th. While these rankings help give a general indication of how teams are performing, it is not uncommon for all top 20 squads to defeat each other at various tournaments. What interests me the most is that the number ranked team is sitting on 904 points with 20th place having only 72.

Starting in 2016, smartphones are rumored to double system memory from 4GB to a whopping 8GB of RAM. Jumping all the way up to 8GB will see tremendous gains for handsets everywhere, and it's all thanks to a beefier CPU.

According to Chinese analyst Pan Jiutang, Qualcomm is working on a new Snapdragon 830 processor that supports up to 8GB of RAM. Armed with the Snapdragon 830, smartphone-makers like Huawei and Oppo will be able to push the onboard system memory well past today's threshold.

"Now Huawei / OPPO / vivo flagship comes with 4GB, and next year will come out with 6GB phone with 8GB you may want to the year after, because the fire-breathing processor Qualcomm Xiaolong 830 seems to support 8GB (code 8998, made burned lifetime ah, 820 not listed)," reads a post on Weibo.

If you've always wanted to combine a workstation and gaming PC in the same case, then Phanteks' latest chassis is right up your alley.

Phanteks has just announced the Enthoo Mini XL Dual System, its latest chassis that supports two PC builds--a MicroATX and Mini-ITX--that can "run two fully functional system independently of one another.". The Mini XL chassis comes outfitted with a pre-installed ITX upgrade kit and power splitter to ensure both independent builds can be powered by the same PSU, and mirrors the hidden Power Supply and HDD style found in the original Enthoo Mini XL design.

The case itself sports a pump bracket, PWM control hub and radiator bracket as well as dual removable HDD cages, 2 Drop-N-Lock SSD brackets, dust filters and cable ties that make for sleek cable management. The chassis is outfitted with three different fans to ensure airflow to system components. As far as aesthetics, the Enthoo Mini XL Dual System has a 10-color lighting system as well as a sandblasted aluminium faceplate with matte finish.

Reports indicate that Microsoft is indeed developing a Surface Phone, so you may want to hold off on picking up a Lumia 950 XL after all.

According to reports from Windows Central, Microsoft's Panos Panay will be working closely with the team responsible for the new Surface Book to adapt the new handset. The Surface Phone is supposedly timed for a release in the second half of 2016, and may converge with the release of Windows 10 Redstone, Microsoft's latest OS iteration.

Right now details are quite slim, and we don't know if the Surface Phone will be as powerful and productive as recent Surface tablets. The publication notes that Microsoft is experimenting with different technologies for the handset's design, and Intel has been tapped to possibly develop a x86 chipset that will outperform today's Qualcomm CPUs.

Renowned hard drive maker Western Digital is now shipping the world's first 10 terabyte (TB) hard drive in the HGST Ultrastar He10.

The He10 is a helium drive that features perpendicular magnetic recording and is said to provide the lowest power consumption per TB on the market (56% fewer watts/TB than competing helium HDDs). Additionally, it includes a five-year warranty and claims a 2.5 million mean-time-between-failures rating. I might be inclined to be skeptical of this figure, but WD's reputation precedes it, and my own WD drive has been going strong for more years than I can remember.

The drive is aimed at enterprise customers that run media and cloud-based application businesses among other outfits, so enthusiasts with large appetites won't be able to get their hands on it. Netflix sure seems excited about it: its director of content delivery architecture David Fullagar says, "We've been using the HGST HelioSeal drives for a long time and not only do they give us more capacity, they have contributed to a lower overall power envelope and higher storage density, which has allowed us to maximize our data footprint and create a network that is optimized for TCO."

While there has been some interesting names 'invented' in the last decade during the rise of 'millennial parents', research from BabyCenter.com was used to analyse 340,000 parents and subsequent naming choices for their brand new bundles of joy.

A concerning trend was a rise in parents naming their children after Instagram filters, a smartphone tool often used by people to alter images quickly before posting them on this massive social network, aiming to give photos a slightly modified and improved look in order to impress peers or market products. While News.com.au reported that none of these Instagram babies ranked in the top 10 most common, they are certainly on the rise.

The name Lux was at the top of the list, rising 75 percent in popularity over recent times. This was followed by other popular filters (and names) including Ludwig which saw a 42 percent increase, Juno at 30 percent and other various filters such as Amaro, Reyes, Hudson, Kelvin, Valencia and Willow.

While Adobe Flash became the main 'victim' of HTML5's stellar launch, this company has finally decided to ditch the Adobe Flash Professional branding and name, opting now for Adobe Animate as a main product.

Reported by Gizmodo as found in a recent Adobe announcement regarding Animate CC, it seems like the management at Adobe wants to let its long-standing Flash name die off without too much publicity.

With Adobe Flash Professional now no longer around, the new Animate program logically focuses on HTML5 and is set to hit the public by January 2016. With Flash no longer the internet standard, users may feel free to disable it on all systems.

There's no denying that Samsung isn't a big player in the NAND flash game, with a report now confirming exactly how much dominance that this company asserted over the market in recent times.

DRAMeXchange and Storage Newsletter reported that not only did NAND flash pricing decline in the third quarter of 2015, but the global flash revenue raised 2.4% as a result. This gain in revenue was seemingly soaked up mainly by Samsung, with this piece further confirming that the technology giant controlled 31.5% of all NAND revenue during this time period.

With second place going to Toshiba at 20.5% and Sandisk lagging behind at 15.4%, it becomes apparent that Samsung are well ahead of its competition. This percentage difference gap is smaller than quarter 2 though, with Samsung posting a 32.6% market share compared to 19.1% for Toshiba and 13.4% for Sandisk. It's also interesting to note that Micron has recently slipped out of third place from Q2 - Q3, dropping a 1.4% share.

If you're anything like me, then you've been experimenting with Fallout 4's console commands on PC to set up some insane battles. YouTubers like Tyrannicon and Cosmic Contrarian have recorded some pretty epic wars, and now the latest over-the-top battle pits 300 Brotherhood of Steel against a GPU-crushing 30,000 Deathclaws. Who will win?

As someone who's spent a good chunk of time setting up his own battles, I can say that this sequence is quite impressive, and I'm really amazed that the user was able to squeeze that many Deathclaws in without the game crashing or bogging down to an unplayable 2 frames-per-second. My AMD Radeon R9 290 starts to lag when I set up battles with around 1,000 or so NPC's, so I can only imagine what kind of rig Cosmic Contrarian uses for these videos.

If you'd like to set up your own insane battles like these, be sure to check out our Fallout 4 console commands tutorial that tells you everything you need to know to recreate epic wars. You'll be surprised how easy it actually is. You can spawn any NPC in the game, from the Terminator-like Robot Bosses and interstellar aliens to the destructive Legendary Assaultron Dominators and Legendary Brotherhood of Steel Commandos.

For quite some time, the realm of portable gaming has been met with limitations, including small low-res screens and rather uncomfortable control schemes. With the advent of Microsoft's HoloLens AR headset, however, gamers will soon be able to bring full-scale console gameplay with them everywhere they go.

Windows Holographic project manager Varun Mani shows off some of the HoloLens' potential by streaming Halo 5 gameplay from his Xbox One over to the headset. The HoloLens then projects the overlay onto a nearby wall, fully mirroring the gameplay in real-time. The dev showed how users can drag the streaming pane across surfaces, making everyday objects into screens. "Wish you could take Halo with you everywhere you go? Now you can with HoloLens," reads the video's description.

We've seen Microsoft demo off the HoloLen's amazing AR gaming capabilities in the past, and the company has affirmed that its Xbox One console will be a centerpiece to power its cross-platform games streaming. HoloLens is but a piece of Microsoft's unified Windows 10 ecosystem, which manifests in various features including Xbox One to PC game streaming (with PC to Xbox One streaming coming soon) as well as Lumia-specific features like Continuum.

Seagate Technology has teamed up with Newisys to create "the industry's fastest flash storage design," as published in a recent press release. This advancement in technology allows for a new Newisys NSS-2601 storage server to achieve block I/O performance of 1TB/s.

This number is achieved by pairing the NSS-2601 with dual NSS-HWxEA Storage Server Modules containing Seagate SAS 1200.2 SSDs within, ensuring these blisteringly fast speeds are achieved by a single 42U rack. In addition, the press release notes that Newisys 2U servers packed with 60 Seagate SSDs is able to post an impressive bandwith of 49GB/s.

Aimed at the industrial crowd, this advancement is a large "breakthrough in storage system performance," says Seagate VP Brett Pemble. Partnered with Newisys, this new technology is designed to assist metadata caches and prediction servers for industries such as finance, oil and gas, weather and more, due to needing this high bandwidth option in order to processes microsecond alterations.

With DICE & EA's Star Wars Battlefront posting decent sales figures on release week, we've reported on numerous and alarming player drops over recent times, seeing this new game fall much lower on PC in game-time than competing titles like Team Fortress 2, CS:GO, Fallout 4 and more. We've also noticed player drops even over peak periods, where other games saw an increase in players, Battlefront did not.

In yet another disappointing advancement, statistics from Steam and Battlefront Stats has shown us that there are now almost more Fallout 4 players on PC alone than Star Wars Battlefront gamers across all platforms - PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Battlefront has posted a 24-hour peak of 24.9k on PC, 60.8k on Xbox One and 106.6k on PlayStation 4, this marks a 192.4k total player-base through all three major gaming platforms, sitting alongside 158.8k people playing at the time of writing this article. This is compared with a 162.3k 24-hour peak of Fallout 4 on PC only, backed up by 124.2k at the time of writing this article.

It looks like AMD is ready to fully announce its dual Fiji-based video card, which should arrive as the Radeon R9 Fury X2. But according to the latest rumors from Benchlife.info, it'll be a paper launch of the Fury X2, with real market availability to kick in sometime in Q1 2016.

The source continued, adding that scheduling issues in production of the new video card could see delays occur. This isn't something new, as AMD paper launched the Fury X before it reached the market weeks later, but this delay will reportedly be months, not weeks. We should know for certain very soon, as we've been invited to an AMD event in Sonoma, California this week (I'm sitting in the Brisbane, Australia airport to board my plane to LA, and then SFO). We're expecting to see AMD unveil the Fury X2, but we won't know for certain until later this week.

Now, what about price? We should be expecting the Radeon R9 Fury X2 to be priced quite high as it features dual Fiji XT GPUs, as well as two separate sets of 4GB of HBM. The Fury X has an MSRP of $649, so we should expect the Fury X2 to be as high as $1049-$1099, or even more. Remember the Radeon R9 295X2 launched at around $1500, but floated down to $1000 after a while.

Returning to his nearly 40 year old love/ hate relationship with the franchise that made him a household name all over the world in 'The Force Awakens', Harrison Ford has revealed to 'Good Morning America' that he's seen the final cut of the eagerly awaited upcoming film, three weeks before us simple nerds. So what did he think?

On the publicity trail for the film, Ford told GMA's host that the film is "is great... it's a wonderful movie, it's got great production values. It's a real big movie and I was delighted to see it." Justifying his past criticism of the Han Solo role, Ford continues that his 'Force Awakens' role is part of "a more complex story... a little bit more of an emotional context than perhaps there was before".

Naturally, you'd expect the top-billed star to say nothing less, but nonetheless his praise does bode well for a film that the world will devour in just a few short weeks from now.

Nokia has been quiet lately, until its media event in LA yesterday where the company unveiled its new VR camera, OZO. Nokia's new OZO camera is a professional-grade VR camera capable of capturing 360-degree spherical video.

The OZO costs an arm and a leg too, with Nokia unveiling its huge $60,000 price tag - requiring a $5000 deposit to secure one of the first when it ships in Q1 2016. The new VR camera from Nokia features 8 x synchronized 2K x 2K camera sensors, and a 500GB SSD that the footage is recorded to (it holds up to 45 minutes of video).

Jaunt are apparently using the Nokia OZO for their VR content, with Nokia also offering a $1500 docking station, and more.

According to the latest rumors, Apple is preparing two new MacBook Air models for 2016, something we should see unveiled at their WWDC 2016 event in June. The actual launch of the new MBA models will be in Q3 2016.

The thinner MacBook Air models would arrive in 13- and 15-inch, but the 11-inch model is still up in the air. The new models will be thinner thanks to "fully redesigned" internal components, with Apple working with its suppliers to develop these new, thinner components. Apple expanded its MacBook Air range earlier this year with the new MacBook, which featured a 12-inch Retina display and used Intel's new ultra low voltage chips for its fanless design.

It's shaping up to be one of the most eagerly anticipated films of 2016, and Warner Bros are certainly keen for you not to forget it. Today, the studio has released a new teaser for 'Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice' which shows just how much of a grudge match the film will be.

Less of a sequel to 2013's Superman reboot 'Man of Steel', 'Batman v Superman' will serve as a trojan horse for DC Comics and Warner Bros to introduce the superhero collectice 'The Justice League', which will be in direct ocompetiton with Marvel's Cinematic Universe, and particularly 'The Avengers'.

'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice' will be released in 3D and 2D cinemas as well as IMAX screens on March 25th 2016 worldwide.

It looks like USB Type-C just took a step in the right direction, with the reversible USB port being upgraded to include the Thunderbolt 3 transfer protocol from Intel.

The latest USB Type-C based devices can be found in the new Dell XPS 12, XPS 13 and XPS 15 systems that were announced in October being the first to feature the new port. Intel has called Thunderbolt 3 "port nirvana" thanks to it being capable of transferring data at 40Gbps, twice as fast as Thunderbolt 2, and four times as fast as USB 3.1 which has a ceiling of 10Gbps.

Thunderbolt 3 is quick enough to transfer a 4K video in less than 30 seconds while the port itself can drive two 4K displays at 60Hz, and it can quick charge notebooks at up to 100W. Getting Thunderbolt 3 into the USB Type-C protocol is a big win for Intel, as Thunderbolt connectivity has never reached the high hopes of Intel, but direct integration with USB Type-C is something exciting for Thunderbolt and especially Intel.