You can finally order a $35,000 Tesla Model 3 TechSpot

Tesla has been planning to launch a $35,000 version of their mid-range Model 3 sedan for years now, but it has always been unable to deliver on its promises - manufacturing issues and PR disasters are probably some of the main reasons for that.





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YouTube disables comments on videos featuring kids TechSpot

YouTube announced on Thursday that it would be disabling comments on videos featuring children. The move comes after a “soft-core pedophilia ring” was exposed last week.





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Respawn's 'Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order' will be unveiled on April 13 TechSpot

Fans of the Star Wars universe have been hoping for a modern, high-quality game set in the universe to launch for some time now.





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Samsung's Galaxy S10 will come with a screen protector pre-installed TechSpot

Samsung will ship its flagship Galaxy S10 with a screen protector pre-installed from the factory. While seemingly a kind gesture, the real reason Samsung made the decision has to do with the technology behind its in-screen fingerprint reader.





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Streaming services are 'killing' piracy, New Zealand study claims TechSpot

Recent studies conducted by Vocus Group NZ (a New Zealand-based telecommunications organization) reveal that media piracy is primarily caused by failures on the content provider side, and not an innate desire to break the law among pirates themselves.





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Plague Inc adds anti-vaxxers following community petition TechSpot

Anti-Vaxxers are a fringe movement of people who deny the overwhelming science surrounding vaccines in favor of a more natural approach to disease prevention. As any doctor would tell you, this is of course very foolish and threatens the health of everyone involved. That is exactly what the players and...





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Ricoh's prosumer 360-degree camera, the Theta Z1, is a tough sell at $999 TechSpot

Ricoh recently announced its latest 360-degree camera, the Theta Z1. Now the highest-end model in the Theta lineup, the new shooter incorporates dual 1.0-inch back-illuminated CMOS image sensors to generate 360-degree images that are roughly equivalent to 23-megapixel stills (6,720 × 3,360 pixels).





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Disney reportedly negotiating with AT&T to buy its Hulu shares TechSpot

According to Variety, an anonymous insider has confirmed Disney is in talks with AT&T to pick up its interest in Hulu.





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Microsoft and Facebook undersea cable breaks data transfer speed record TechSpot

In 2016, Facebook and Microsoft joined forces to build and deploy the highest-capacity undersea cable in history, dubbed the MAREA cable. The cable spans from Virginia Beach to Bilbao, Spain, and had a design capacity of 160 Tbps, with each of the line's eight fiber optic pairs capable of 20 Tbps.





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Amazon rolls out Project Zero, a three-pronged approach to curbing counterfeits TechSpot

It starts with automated protections. Partners provide Amazon with their trademarks, logos and other information about their brand. Using machine learning, Amazon then scans over five billion product listing updates daily to look for suspected counterfeits.





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Intel unveils tool to speed up development of quantum computers TechSpot

Intel, along with partners Bluefors and Afore, has created the first Cryogenic Wafer Prober which will test and validate qubits needed for quantum computing.





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Apple self-driving car layoffs hint at division's direction TechSpot

More information has surfaced regarding the nearly 200 Apple employees working on Project Titan that will soon be out of a job.





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The Amazon Day delivery option is now available for all US Prime members TechSpot

Amazon Day first appeared as an invite-only service back in November and has now been rolled out to all Prime members. It will no doubt be welcomed by prolific shoppers, who would prefer to receive all their weekly purchases in one go and on a day they’re off work.





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Cellebrite's phone hacking tools going cheaply on eBay, many still contain unwiped data TechSpot

First reported by Forbes, eBay sellers are now offering Cellebrite tools for between $100 and $1000, with one person auctioning off ten used pieces of Cellebrite equipment for between $50 and the current top bid of $127. The company sells comparable new equipment for a starting price of $6000.





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Samsung is loading McAfee antivirus software on smart TVs TechSpot

Partnering with software vendors is fairly common practice for large hardware manufacturers. Laptop makers frequently preinstall bloatware in return for some sizable payouts and smartphone OEMs are no different. Samsung is now installing McAfee antivirus software on its 2019 TV lineup.





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Coinhive, the browser-based cryptomining service loved by hackers, is closing down TechSpot

Having launched in 2017, Coinhive, a legitimate service, offered website owners a way to make money by earning Monero. It did this by inserting a JavaScript file on web pages that mined the cryptocurrency by utilizing visitors’ CPUs. The company made headlines when its service was discovered on The Pirate...





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Google Chrome is getting a new cache that will massively speed up mobile browsing TechSpot

The Chrome team is working on a back/forward cache that is designed to make revisiting pages drastically faster. By preserving the JavaScript and DOM state in memory, loading times of cached pages will be significantly improved.





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