It appears that Toyota still doesn’t quite know what to make of electric vehicles (EVs). The Japanese auto giant was among the first to deliver a production hybrid vehicle to the public with the Prius. The Prius rode a wave of popularity starting with its first-generation and peaking with its third-generation.
However, as traditional internal

In the lead up to last year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, Google offered Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL owners Play Store credits. Fast forward to now and it appears Google is once again gifting some Pixel 3 and Pixel XL owners a $2 credit (or more) in the Play Store that can be redeemed on any app or game that costs more than $2 (or the

Netflix might be the king of streaming, but what some might find surprising is which services the company views as its biggest business threat. Rather than name another streaming media service, Netflix said it primarily competes with Fortnite for screen time, and loses. How’s that for being frank?

“We compete with (and lost to Fortnite)

Facebook is not exactly a pillar of privacy, that much is clear based on its history of blunders and subsequent apologies. Things may have finally come to a head, however, as the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) mulls slapping Facebook with the agency’s biggest privacy fine to date, which would exceed the $22.5 million fine it

Most of the security vulnerabilities we write about at HotHardware fortunately won’t affect the vast majority of readers. Either these exploits require user interaction to kick-start, or you have to be of particular interest as a target for someone to go through the effort of executing more complex attacks against you or your devices. But

If you’re looking for a big screen TV to impress all of your friends who come over to watch the Super Bowl, Best Buy and Amazon have some excellent deals that are definitely worth checking out. For instance, one of the best deals Best Buy has going is on a Toshiba 43-inch LED Smart 4K UHD TV with HDR (Fire TV Edition) for $199.99. 

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A new rumor is going around concerning Spotify’s in-car music player that features voice controls. This device was tipped in pop-up ads that some users saw in the app back in April of 2018. That pop-up invited people to pre-order the device. We never heard anything about Spotify’s in-car plans after that, but this new rumor claims the device

A new trailer for Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 depicts Washington D.C. in a state of ruin as the United States descends into anarchy. It’s a post-apocalyptic setting seemingly caused by some sort of virus outbreak that “crippled our country.” A civil war has erupted in its wake, and it is up to agents of The Division to restore order.

The

If you’ve been putting off installing the Windows 10 October 2018 Update — for obvious reasons — avoiding it will soon become a lot harder in the coming weeks. Microsoft announced yesterday that it is now pushing out the October 2018 Update to all but a select few systems.
If you recall, back in December, Microsoft began making the major

Microsoft has started pushing out a new preview build of Windows 10 (build 18317) to Windows Insiders who are subscribed to the Fast ring, and with it comes a pretty big change. The latest preview build separates Search and Cortana in the taskbar so they can be developed independently.

“Some Insiders have had this update for a few weeks