Author: The Tech Guy

The skies above us are teeming with satellites. The latest figures estimate there are over 12,000 satellites currently active, with thousands more defunct craft left to decay in orbit. All that activity has caused numerous complications for astronomers and researchers alike, interfering with radio telescopes with “unintended” radiation leaks. Now it turns out that they’re also contributing to a massive leak of personal, corporate, and government data, as researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland were alarmed to discover. First reported by Wired, the joint study uncovered glaring holes in satellite security enabling “anyone with a few…

SteelSeries is launching the second generation of its mid-range Arctis Nova 7 wireless headset today and it comes with a 40% improvement to its battery life, leaving you go longer between charges. The Arctis Nova 7 Gen 2 line is said to run for up to 54 hours on a single charge, with a quick top-up giving you around six hours in 15 minutes – easily making it a contender for our best gaming headsets list. What’s new? In addition to a boosted battery, the Nova 7 Gen 2 comes with “real-time audio control” through the app, which tweaks the…

Spotify announced on Tuesday that it’s making Managed Accounts, a shared account feature that allows parents to control what their children listen to, available to users in more countries. Managed Accounts are now rolling out in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, Germany, France, and the Netherlands following a pilot launch last year. Managed Accounts are available to Spotify Premium Family plan members and allow account holders to manage a separate music-only listening experience for their kids under the age of 13. Since these accounts are separate, your kids’ music choices won’t impact your algorithm or show up in your annual…

I’m at GITEX Global, Dubai, one of if not the biggest tech exhibition in the world. All the big names that you would expect are here, Microsoft, AWS, Google, and of course most are talking about AI. And, part of that conversation is energy. Is there enough, where do we get it from, and how do we get it to where it needs to go? Greg Jackson, Co-founder and CEO of Octopus Energy is here as a speaker to go over those things and just before he got on stage, we grabbed a coffee.I met Greg just outside the speakers…

Voice AI company ElevenLabs is now letting authors publish AI-generated audiobooks on its own Reader app, TechCrunch has learned and the company confirmed. The announcement comes days after the company partnered with Spotify for AI-narrated audiobooks. ElevenLabs, which raised a $180 million mega-round last month, started inviting authors to try out their publishing program through their app on a trial basis last year, TechCrunch previously spotted. That program is newly open to all authors as of today. Image Credits:ElevenLabs The company confirmed the development to TechCrunch, explaining the idea is to provide affordable and accessible tools for audiobook creation, which…

Home » Science » SpaceX Heat Shield and Starship Mass Production SpaceX removed about 72 tiles in 18 key locations for Starship Flight 11 and there was no catastrophic failure. This could allow SpaceX to optimize the heat shield and remove 10-20% of tiles over lower heating areas. SpaceX will choose to remain extra cautious but they can eventually reduce heat shield tiles. SpaceX is scaling up to making 1000 heat shield tiles per day which will be enough to reach a mass production target of 10 Starships per month. Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular…

If you’re shopping for a projector between $500 and $1,000, prepare to face a sea of clones. Sizes, designs and even button layouts are often nearly identical from one brand to the next. But there’s something different about the BenQ HT2050A. Although it has a similar price to the competition, it’s larger and there’s a more aesthetically pleasing, curvy design. It looks less like the repurposed business projector and more like something you’d want in your house. And the difference is more than skin deep: This projector’s performance is a step above as well.  Like Bright picture with great contrast …

When it comes to AI, many enterprises seem to be stuck in the prototype phase. Teams can be constrained by GPU capacity and complex and opaque model workflows; or, they don’t know when enough training and customization is enough, and whether they’ve reached the highest level of performance and accuracy (or not). This is because they’re doing fine-tuning wrong, according to RapidFire AI. The company says it can get enterprises over that hump with its “rapid experimentation” engine. Now in open-source release, the platform is designed to speed up and simplify large language models (LLMs) customization, fine‑tuning and post‑training. Hyper-parallel…

Apple increased the monthly price of its video streaming service three times in three years – even so, the subscriber count has been growing faster than we suspected. The rumor was for 45 million subscribers. However, Apple Services SVP Eddy Cue appeared on Hollywood-focused podcast The Town and stated that the actual subscriber count is “significantly more than that”. However, Cue refused to give a specific number. Based on numbers from FlixPatrol, the rumored 45 million count would have put the newly renamed Apple TV service just above Peacock’s 41 million. For what it’s worth, the estimated number on this…

2025 was supposed to be the year of "AI agents," according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and other AI industry personnel. And it has been, in many ways, with numerous leading AI model providers such as OpenAI, Google, and even Chinese competitors like Alibaba releasing fine-tuned AI models or applications designed to focus on a narrow set of tasks, such as web search and report writing. But one big hurdle to a future of highly performant, reliable, AI agents remains: getting them to stay on task when the task extends over a number of steps. Third-party benchmark tests show even…