Author: The Tech Guy

Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary systems — trained in just four days using 48 of Nvidia's latest B200 graphics processors.The model, called NousCoder-14B, is another entry in a crowded field of AI coding assistants, but arrives at a particularly charged moment: Claude Code, the agentic programming tool from rival Anthropic, has dominated social media discussion since New Year's Day, with developers posting breathless testimonials about its capabilities. The simultaneous developments underscore how quickly AI-assisted software…

Months before it mysteriously vaporized into thin air, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency ravaged the National Weather Service, leading to severe staffing shortages. While the Trump administration promised to rehire most of the around 550 lost jobs at the agency last summer, effectively admitting that DOGE had gone too far, the agency’s offices across the country are still struggling with many roles that remain unfilled. And given the latest blunder, those who remain are seemingly struggling to keep up — relying on flawed AI tech to come up with broken visuals for social media feeds. As the Washington…

Spotify is rolling out a new set of social features designed to make your listening experience more visible, interactive, and, whether it’s for better or worse, less private. The features, Listening Activity and Request to Jam, are starting to appear for Android and iOS users in the United States (broader availability by February 2026). Of the two, Listening Activity seems to be the most radical addition to the platform in a while. On the one hand, it lets you see what your friends are listening to in real time, directly in the Spotify app. It shows the exact song, artist,…

Credit: Jakks Pacific / Amazon / Pocket-lint Technological advancements within the consumer electronics space are rapid, whether we’re talking about mobile devices, PCs, or even home theater setups. Television sets in particular might not have as hasty a refresh cycle as some other product categories, but they nonetheless benefit from year-over-year enhancements and generational improvements. Over time, these advancements add up, resulting in more substantial changes over time. Taking a look at an old-school CRT tube television from the early 2000s and comparing it to a state-of-the-art OLED flat screen panel from today demonstrates the overall progress that has been made…

xAI completed its upsized Series E funding round, exceeding the $15 billion targeted round size, and raised $20 billion. Investors participating in the round include Valor Equity Partners, Stepstone Group, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Qatar Investment Authority, MGX and Baron Capital Group, amongst other key partners. Strategic investors in the round include NVIDIA and Cisco Investments, who continue to support xAI in rapidly scaling our compute infrastructure and buildout of the largest GPU clusters in the world. Not officially confirmed by xAI, but widely reported in the $230 billion+ range based on pre-round discussions and the upsized nature of…

Motorola unveiled the Signature earlier today as its newest flagship smartphone. Unfortunately, the company didn’t share pricing at that time, but now the Signature is listed on Motorola’s websites for the UK and Germany, and it does thankfully come with a price in both places: £899.99 / €999. This amount gets you the device with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, the only option that’s been listed. It will be available in Pantone Carbon and Pantone Martini Olive. You can’t even pre-order the phone yet, however, all you can do right now is register your interest in it and…

If you’ve ever had a game crash out of nowhere with no error message, there’s a good chance memory leaks are to blame. I’ve run into this with Horizon Zero Dawn when it first launched on PC, Escape from Tarkov, and more recently Grey Zone Warfare—games that chew through RAM until they eventually crash. Tweaking your RAM settings can help in some scenarios, but it won’t clear out the cached data Windows keeps hoarding in the background. That’s where Intelligent Standby List Cleaner (ISLC) comes in. It’s a small, portable tool from WagnardSoft—the same developer behind Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU)—that…

Lenovo has revealed a new version of the Legion Go 2 at CES 2026The new handheld runs SteamOS and will launch in June 2026The starting price is $1,119, which is $100 more than the base MSRP of the Windows 11 versionWe’re deep into CES 2026 and we’ve finally got our first major announcement for a new handheld gaming PC launching later this year, although that’s using a liberal definition of the word ‘new’ admittedly.As reported by VideoCardz, Lenovo has unveiled a SteamOS version of the Legion Go 2 at CES 2026. This fresh spin on an existing handheld formula is…

On clear days in Hartbeespoort, South Africa, satellite images often reveal a reservoir with shades of deep blue interrupted by drifting patches of vivid green. These shifting features indicate algae blooms, which can affect water quality, ecosystems, and nearby human communities. In this animation, from June 2022 to July 2023, an algal bloom grows, moves around the reservoir, and then fades. The animation is composed of images from Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS), a NASA product that combines imagery from the NASA/USGS Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites and the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2A, 2B, and 2C satellites. Algae is…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. My colleagues in the USA are busy covering CES, but HP didn’t want Australia to miss out – so the company shipped me a pre-release version of the new business-focused EliteBook X G2i running the newly released Intel Core Ultra X7 358H CPU.Sadly, one of the conditions is that I can’t regale you with benchmarks (for now), but I can give you a sneak peek at a very impressive…