Author: The Tech Guy

There are plenty of 4K TVs available to buy these days, but the ones we’ve hand-selected here truly stand out as the best of the best. If you want to do real justice to 4K HDR, then buying a cheap TV won’t really offer the benefits you’re after. Instead you’ll need to buy one of the best 4K TVs on our list, which have all been selected for different budgets. We’ve aimed to include at least one model from each major manufacturer. Every TV has been tested and reviewed by our expert team. They’re assessed by how easy they are…

Summary Claude Design lets anyone create polished designs, prototypes, slides, and marketing visuals from simple prompts. Initial designs can be refined with further prompts, inline comments, and sliders. Claude Design is included with Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans. Anthropic has been on a tear lately. On April 16, the company released a major model update with Claude Opus 4.7. And today, April 17, Anthropic announced a powerful new tool called Claude Design that aims to do for design work what Claude Code does for development. Related Grok does one thing that ChatGPT and Claude still can’t — and I…

Chromebooks offer outstanding value for users who don’t need a fully fledged Windows or macOS laptop. They’re portable, simple to use, and there are plenty of affordable options. One of our top picks at the moment is this Asus CX14 Chromebook Plus at Best Buy for $239 (was $429).That’s a ridiculously good price for a 14-inch laptop that offers a full HD screen, an Intel Core 3 processor, 8GB of memory, 128GB of eMMC storage, and Google AI built in. If you’re using web services like Gmail and Google Docs 99% of the time, then a Chromebook like this is…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Two dozen unmanned surface vessels — autonomous boat drones, basically — were left floating in the Pacific ocean after a massive outage of SpaceX’s Starlink internet service left them adrift. That event, first reported by Reuters, left the experimental robots disconnected and bobbing in the ocean for nearly an hour off the coast of California. It was one of several Pentagon experiments disrupted by the Starlink blackout, according to Reuters. That global outage left millions of Starlink customers in the dark back in…

Geely, the Chinese auto giant that also owns Volvo, has just unveiled a new RV that really does not look like it belongs anywhere near the budget end of the market. The company has just kicked off the presales in China for the Galaxy Starshine 7, with its pricing starting at 112,900 yuan or about $16,550. For that money, buyers get a midsize electric sedan with a sleek fastback silhouette, full-width lighting, a richly trimmed cabin, and even an available dual-motor all-wheel-drive setup that can hit 0 to 100 km/h in 5.4 seconds. Why it looks too fancy for its…

The Motorola Moto G Stylus (2026), unveiled last week, is now on sale in the US and Canada. In the US, the Moto G Stylus (2026) is available unlocked through Motorola’s US website, Best Buy, and Amazon in Pantone Lavender Mist and Pantone Coal Smoke colors with two memory options – 8GB/128GB and 8GB/256GB, priced at $499.99 (€425/INR46,395) and $599.99 (€510/INR55,675), respectively. Motorola Moto G Stylus (2026) Those buying the 256GB model through Motorola’s website will receive the Moto Watch, the Moto Tag, and a pair of Moto Buds Loops earphones free. The Moto G Stylus (2026)…

The NASA planned 2028 nuclear powered ion drive spacecraft, SR-1 Freedom will have a 20 kilowatt nuclear reactor. SR-1 Freedom will use 20-plus kilowatt fission reactor fueled by High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium and Uranium Dioxide, encased in a Boron Carbide Radiation Shield. This will power a xenon ion drive. Previous nuclear spacecraft designs involved more powerful direct usage of nuclear to achieve propulsion. Those there nuclear thermal to achieve 2-4 times the temperature and thrust speed or nuclear electric direct drives. The most powerful flown gridded xenon ion engine is NASA’s NEXT (NASA Evolutionary Xenon Thruster) at 6.9 kW producing up…

Google is, these days, releasing multiple AI updates every few hours. Following on from the creation of personalized images in Gemini, now the search giant is unveiling a new AI Mode experience in Chrome. Now if you click links that AI Mode has presented you with, they will open side by side with your chat, all in the same browser tab. This will simplify navigation and reduce tab clutter – no need to switch back and forth between tabs anymore. It’s also obviously easier to ask AI Mode follow-up questions in this setup. One example Google gives is searching for…

Ethernet is supposed to be the fast lane. Solid, stable, and always better than Wi-Fi. But when it comes to smart TVs, that rule doesn’t always hold up. Not because Ethernet is flawed, but because of that slow, limited Ethernet port most TVs come with. Yes, the Ethernet port on most smart TVs is only capable of handling speeds up to 100 Mbps, which is basically the bare minimum internet plan these days. So even if you’ve gone through the effort of setting up a wired connection on your TV, you might not actually be getting the speeds you’re paying…

Rita El Khoury / Android AuthorityTL;DR Android 17 Beta 4 makes internal reference to an in-development notification tool called Pixel Glow. Pixel Glow uses “subtle light and color” when your phone is face-down to let you know when things happen. Requirements for hardware lights might mean that Google’s adding RGB LEDs to upcoming Pixel devices. Android 17 Beta 4 just landed, bringing us closer than ever to Google’s upcoming stable release. At this late stage, we’re not seeing Google make a ton of user-facing changes — but that doesn’t mean that progress hasn’t been moving swiftly along under the hood.…