Author: The Tech Guy

A new gameplay trailer for Metro 2039 has been releasedThe first-person action game will feature “a return of close and claustrophobic stealth-action gameplay” and a new protagonistMetro 2039 launches in February 20274A Games has revealed a brand new gameplay trailer for Metro 2039, as well as a February 2027 launch window for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X and Series S.Unveiled during the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, the three minutes of gameplay footage captured in-engine offers the first look at Hunter, the new Fuhrer, “who has washed the Metro in lies and propaganda to gain the ultimate power.”The trailer showcases…

Emphere, a Seattle cybersecurity startup building an AI-driven vulnerability remediation platform, this week announced raising $2.1 million in pre-seed funding from AI2 Incubator and Outsiders Fund. The startup’s approach to vulnerability remediation falls in line with modern software development trends, where code is no longer built from scratch but assembled from open source packages, runtimes, dependencies, and OS layers. Any vulnerability in these components, Emphere says, is the shipping company’s or the vendor’s problem, even if they did not write a single line of code. The startup aims to resolve the infrastructure problem of addressing the discovered security defects without…

NASA announced the Massachusetts Institute of Technology project, Exploration-Class Lunar Integrated Power SystEm, as the first place winner for the 2026 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition, which challenges students to bridge gaps in aerospace technology by innovating new system concepts and prototypes.  Another team from the same university won second place overall for their project, Mars Exploration Layered Infrastructure for Operations, Research, and Advancement, while Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University took third place with the Mars Pylon Network.   Empowering the next generation, the competition also supports the agency’s workforce development priorities by offering university teams hands-on experience in mission architecture development, systems engineering, and technical communication.  “The winning teams demonstrated how academic innovation can support Artemis mission goals,” said Daniel Mazanek, program sponsor for RASC-AL and senior space systems engineer, NASA’s Langley…

I love testing new apps on my iPhone. Every year, new apps get installed and removed, with very few sticking around for the long haul. Despite my habit of testing and switching apps regularly, some have stuck around, which is a testament to their quality.  These are also the most used apps on my iPhone and the first ones I install whenever I set up a new iPhone from scratch. Here are 5 iPhone apps I cannot live without in 2026.  Arc Search: browse smarter, not harder Arc Search is a mobile browser that has completely changed how I search…

Self-hosting sounds like a big ordeal that you’ll need loads of super-specific hardware for. For a long time, I thought the same, to be honest, that I’d need at least a NAS or something along those lines to make self-hosting worthwhile. It turns out I was wrong, and that couldn’t be further from the truth. The machine running my self-hosted server sat on the floor of my office, covered in dust for years, and some of the other hardware I was going to use I found lurking in a cupboard I’d not opened for years. Related 5 things you shouldn’t…

The Xiaomi 17T and Xiaomi 17T Pro, which were unveiled last month and went on sale last week, continue to be available with their launch offers intact. The flagship Xiaomi 17 and Xiaomi 17 Ultra are also currently discounted. In addition, deals are available on select Google Pixel models and several other smartphones. Xiaomi 17T is available with a £150 discount at checkout, whereas the Xiaomi 17T Pro is eligible for a £200 discount. The standard 17T comes with a 6.59-inch display, a Dimensity 8500 Ultra SoC, triple rear cameras, and a 6,500mAh battery. Meanwhile, the…

Cisco informed customers on Thursday about yet another SD-WAN product vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild – the seventh whose exploitation was detected in 2026. The new vulnerability, which has yet to be patched by Cisco, is tracked as CVE-2026-20245 and it affects the command-line interface (CLI) of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. An authenticated local attacker can exploit it to execute arbitrary commands as root via specially crafted files. “This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input,” Cisco explained in its advisory. “An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by uploading a crafted file to the affected…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The coal industry has been in decline for decades. But tell that to president Trump, who’s firmly convinced he’d rather save coal from dying than the Earth’s climate. Extolling the power of “clean, beautiful coal,” Trump announced Thursday that the federal government will heap $700 million towards supporting the coal industry, which will go to existing coal-burning plants as well as fund the construction of two new ones. “We’re into energy that really works,” Trump said during a briefing at the Oval Office,…

The Oppo Pad 5 Matte Display has a 12.1” IPS LCD that is optimized for reading and note-taking. It has 2,800 x 1,980px resolution, runs at 120Hz refresh rate and renders 12-bit colors. As the name suggests, this has a matte display instead of a glossy one. The panel is TÜV Rheinland certified for a 97% cut to reflections and a 70% reduction in harmful blue light. You can check out our unboxing post to learn more about the slate and its key selling points. Here we will focus on performance – how good is that Dimensity 7300 Ultra? Note…

You are not alone if you opened Oracle VirtualBox and found the Virtual Media Manager missing from the File menu. This problem often appears after an update or when the sidebar is collapsed. Fortunately, it’s not a big issue and can be easily resolved. In this article, we will explore all the solutions to restore full access to virtual disks and ISO images. Virtual Media Manager not showing in VirtualBox If you find that the Virtual Media Manager is missing when working with Oracle VM VirtualBox, execute the solutions mentioned below. Check the new location Expand the hidden sidebar or…