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BitTorrent is a great technology to share media, but playing the files across different devices can be quite a hassle. New startup Streamza aims to change this by allowing people to stream torrents directly from the cloud. Whether it’s music or video, Streamza downloads it all and lets users stream securely to their PC, TV, iPhone or iPad. The service comes with a search engine to add torrents on the fly, has subtitle support, and can be used free of charge.

Billed as the world’s smallest desktop computer, CuBox lives up to that billing with a very tiny 50mm all round displacement . We’ll take a look at it running the GeeXboX Linux distribution along with XBMC and RUTorrent, which turns this little black box into a nifty torrent client and media center thriving on just three watts of power.

RSS feeds are a great tool for keeping up to date with the latest information across the web, whether that be plain news updates or other fresh content. Now a new website allows users to transform any RSS feed into a torrent-enabled RSS feed which can be imported into a torrent client for automated downloads of a limitless array of content.

As citizens around the world endure Internet censorship of all types, a Japanese university has stepped in to level the playing field. Whether you’re in Iran or China and blocked from YouTube, Twitter or Facebook, or in the UK desperate to get back on The Pirate Bay, KAT or H33T, a new tool from researchers gives instant access to dozens of VPN services. Not only is the system simple to use, but it’s also completely free.

The main way for people to begin downloading content from BitTorrent is to visit one of the Internet’s many hundreds of torrent sites. There they can download either .torrent files or, in the case of The Pirate Bay, magnet links. This week it became possible to go on a YouTube-like “related video” journey through BitTorrent’s Distributed Hash Table to find similar content to that being already downloaded, all without visiting a torrent site.

While BitTorrent Inc.’s hugely successful uTorrent client grabs most of the headlines, there is another mainstream client that every BitTorrent user should be aware of. Vuze, previously known as Azureus, is a ridiculously powerful torrent client with more features than you ever knew you needed. Today we hand over to the guys at Vuze for a handful of power tips to transform straightforward downloads and improve productivity.

When it comes to BitTorrent clients, uTorrent is the most popular one around. Tips and tricks are always welcome and today we have a selection straight from the guys at BitTorrent Inc., including an exclusive peek at a new money saving feature set to appear in uTorrent Android.