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1 week ago | 
techspot.com | Shawn(Sharn) Knight
What just happened? The hype surrounding Grand Theft Auto VI took a serious hit earlier this month when Rockstar announced that the highly anticipated game would miss its planned fall 2025 release window. However, the developer offered fans a consolation this week with an unexpected second trailer that dives deeper into the game's storyline and its two main characters, Jason and Lucia.
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1 week ago | 
techspot.com | Shawn(Sharn) Knight
The big picture: The global smartphone market grew by just 0.2 percent in the first quarter of 2025. Shipments reached 296.9 million units during the first three months of the year and while growth is growth, Q1 2025 became the third consecutive quarter in which growth slowed. Market research firm Canalys cited several reasons for the continued sluggishness in the smartphone industry.
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1 week ago | 
techspot.com | Shawn(Sharn) Knight
TL;DR: A new study analyzing more than 19 billion passwords from relatively recent data breaches between April 2024 and 2025 has found that the vast majority are weak. Alarmingly, only six percent of the leaked passwords were unique, leading researchers to describe a widespread epidemic of weak password reuse.
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2 weeks ago | 
techspot.com | Shawn(Sharn) Knight
In a nutshell: Subtitle use is on the rise, and Netflix is catering to the trend with a new viewing options. Up to this point, watching with subtitles on Netflix in the original language involved toggling the Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH/CC) option. In addition to spoken dialogue, this setting also creates subtitles for audio cues like dramatic music swells and environmental noises, and also labels speaker names.
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2 weeks ago | 
techspot.com | Shawn(Sharn) Knight
In brief: Discord will enter the next phase of its journey under new leadership. Co-founder and CEO Jason Citron shared the news with employees in a recent memo, which was also made public on the company's blog. Discord was conceived by Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who wanted to create something akin to a virtual living room where friends could chat with each other about games they like.
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3 weeks ago | 
techspot.com | Shawn(Sharn) Knight
TL;DR: California is on pace to run out of license plate character combinations by the end of the year. Since 1980, the state has used a sequence consisting of one number, followed by three letters, followed by three more numbers. Fortunately, the state already has a solution and it's relatively simple: they're just going to reverse the current order. The current sequence for non-commercial vehicles started with 1AAA000 and will end with 9ZZZ999.
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3 weeks ago | 
techspot.com | Shawn(Sharn) Knight
In a nutshell: Universal Pictures is hard at work on its next video game movie adaptation. After striking gold with Five Nights at Freddy's and The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the studio is said to be developing a film based on the iconic OutRun arcade driving game. Sega's OutRun debuted in arcades way back in 1986 and was lauded for its impressive graphics, selectable soundtrack, and nonlinear gameplay.
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3 weeks ago | 
techspot.com | Shawn(Sharn) Knight
In brief: A team of researchers in the US claim to have unlocked a color that no human has ever seen before, and they did it using lasers. Not everyone, however, is convinced of the achievement or its merits. Five individuals participated in the experiment, which involved shooting pulses of visible-wavelength laser light directly into their eyes to stimulate individual photoreceptor cells on the retina.
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3 weeks ago | 
techspot.com | Shawn(Sharn) Knight
In context: Actor Paul Rudd has reprised his role as a Nintendo fanboy in new commercial to hype the upcoming Switch 2. Rudd famously starred in a 1991 commercial for the then-new Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The original 30-second spot featured a young Rudd walking into an abandoned drive-in theater and playing games like F-Zero, Super Play Action Football, Pilotwings, SimCity, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on the big screen.
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3 weeks ago | 
techspot.com | Shawn(Sharn) Knight
What just happened? Bethesda is offering a rare opportunity to own a unique piece of online gaming history. In celebration of the 10th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls Online, the Rockville, Maryland-based publisher is selling pieces from original servers that hosted the game. The Elder Scrolls Online launched in 2014, so technically this 10th anniversary keepsake is a bit behind schedule – but as they say, better late than never.
