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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In context: Viktor Antonov designed one of the most iconic locations in Half-Life 2, Valve’s seminal first-person shooter. His former colleagues broke the news about his passing on social media, highlighting how Antonov’s work made a significant contribution to several video …

Viktor Antonov, the artist behind Half-Life 2’s City 17 and Dishonored, dies at 52 Read More »

It separate the disc’s layers They’re virtually indestructible by spinning Choose your answer and the correct choice will be revealed. Correct Answer: It might explode A brief explanation why Although it’s unlikely to happen with most discs in most drives, there have been occasional reports of discs exploding inside CD/DVD drives. In the majority of …

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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In brief: Chinese researchers have developed a synthetic diamond that is significantly harder and more resilient than those that occur naturally here on Earth. If commercially viable, the new diamond could be a boon for industries that rely on the hardened …

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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. WTF?! A hacking collective has released what some call the “largest breakthrough in Windows/Office piracy ever.” The new method permanently activates most Microsoft products, bypassing Redmond’s DRM system entirely. Yet, the company doesn’t seem to care. Massgrave, an elusive team behind …

Hacker group releases updated tool to activate almost all modern Microsoft software Read More »

There’s nothing worse than trying to get work done offsite and realizing your laptop is nearly dead. OK, there are plenty of worse things, but running out of battery when you’re not near an outlet can be seriously inconvenient. Laptop power banks are similar to other rechargeable banks you may have used to top off …

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Sonic the Hedgehog shows no sign of slowing down — so to speak. The blue blur’s third movie was a hit at the box office, and it’s sooner than you might have expected. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 will land on the streaming service in the US and Canada on February 18 i.e. tomorrow. The film …

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 zooms onto Paramount+ on February 18 Read More »

Elon Musk is taking aim at federal workers and organizations, through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Now, Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) is blocking Signal.me links, a URL used by encrypted messaging service Signal that allows people to quickly contact others directly, the blog Disruptionist reports. Federal workers have used Signal to covertly report relevant …

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DeepSeek, the massively popular Chinese AI assistant, has been temporarily unavailable from app stores in South Korea since February 15. A press release from the country’s data protection authority, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), stated that downloads will resume once the Chinese AI company complies with local data protection laws, while those with the …

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Apparently President’s Day was created to honor George Washington’s birthday. But now on a Monday in February we celebrate every US president by shopping for deals. Nixon, Taft, Coolidge, Polk, Johnson, Hoover and all those other guys — they’d be quite proud of us. In our searches we found quite a few deals on the …

The best Presidents’ Day deals on Apple, Samsung, Dyson, Peacock and more Read More »

Something’s been bugging me about how new devs and I need to talk about it. We’re at this weird inflection point in software development. Every junior dev I talk to has Copilot or Claude or GPT running 24/7. They’re shipping code faster than ever. But when I dig deeper into their understanding of what they’re …

New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code Read More »