Author: The Tech Guy
Shandong Provincial Hospital In a bizarre first, the South China Morning Post reports, doctors in China have surgically grafted a patient’s severed ear to her foot. The patient, a woman identified by their surname Sun, suffered a horrific workplace accident involving heavy machinery which tore off a large part of her scalp and her ear with it, according to Qiu Shenqiang, deputy director of the microsurgery unit at Shandong Provincial Hospital in Jinan. The damage to her scalp and vascular network was so severe that restoring the ear at the time was impossible, so the procedure was performed to save…
When I saw my Spotify Wrapped for 2025, there was a little bit of disappointment in the sense that it didn’t really reflect my listening tastes for the year. As I review lots of audio products each year, I tend to use services such as Spotify for testing. When it comes to battery drains or using sports headphones, I usually plug in a playlist and let it go. So seeing some of the choices that made it to the top of my list and I felt that wasn’t quite representative of who I am. But more than that, was the…
Windows 11 isn’t as perfect as Microsoft wants you to believe. Nearly five years since its launch, Windows 11 still feels like a work in progress, and Microsoft has been hard at work fixing bugs, random glitches, and bringing its latest OS into the modern era. While some of its attempts have succeeded, Microsoft’s AI obsession is scaring me. Regardless, Microsoft’s new announcement seems to be a sign of good news. Windows Server 2025 now has native NVMe support, significantly speeding up data transfers. The same feature is also hiding in Windows 11, but the tweak comes with some serious…
Wear OS 6.1 hit Pixel Watch devices earlier this month, bringing a handful of improvements along with it. But users are reporting that both the latest version on Pixel Watch and Wear OS 6-based One UI 8 Watch on Galaxy Watch are interacting with third-party watch faces in a particularly annoying way, making the watches worse at, well, being watches. As PiunikaWeb tells it, users have been reporting on both Google and Samsung forums that, on Wear OS 6 and 6.1, third-party watch faces have been getting caught between their always-on display versions and the full watch face that shows when the…
If you’re like me, you probably prefer to stay home with the family and watch a good movie on New Year’s Eve. To those of you unsure of what movie to watch this New Year’s, Netflix has got you covered. The streaming giant has so many films in its extensive library that will turn December 31 into a memorable movie night. Picking just one film is a challenge in itself, as there is a wide variety of movies available on Netflix that came out in 2025 or in years past. However, if you want to ring in the New Year…
With any new piece of tech, it’s wise to take a few minutes to learn more about it and configure it the way you like. For a separate home theater example, consider a smart soundbar. It can potentially sound excellent out of the box, but I like to turn on any vocal clarity features, and doublcheck the EQ if I feel like bass is missing some oomph. I’m not expecting the rumbling of a dedicated subwoofer, but any decent soundbar should bring me a step closer to a movie theater. Likewise, there are a number of important settings to tweak…
A team of scientists are staring climate change in the eye, the New York Times reports, setting sail for the infamous “Doomsday Glacier” in Antarctica in an attempt to study it up close. The enormous Thwaites Glacier, at roughly the size of Florida, harbors enough water to raise sea levels across the globe by over two feet should it melt completely. Research has suggested that it’s already undergoing rapid melting — but its future, which holds the fate of our planet in the balance, is uncertain. On Saturday, a crew of nearly 40 researchers left on a ship from a port…
The iQOO Z11 Turbo’s teaser campaign continues in China, where the brand has now showcased its rear design in all four colors in which it will be sold. As you can see, it will be offered in pink, black, white, and blue. iQOO Z11 Turbo colors The phone has a metal frame, a glass back, a 6.59-inch flat LTPS OLED screen with “1.5K” resolution and 144Hz refresh rate, a 200MP main camera, an 8MP ultrawide, a 32MP selfie snapper, an ultrasonic in-display fingerprint scanner, and a 7,600 mAh battery with support for 120W wired charging.…
Good sci-fi shows are pretty plentiful these days. Apple has scored hits with series like Severance and Pluribus, and of course everyone is eager to see how Stranger Things will wrap up over on Netflix. But just because they’re the most popular sci-fi shows currently on TV doesn’t mean they’re the best. In fact, there’s one series that’s easily as good or better than any of them, but which doesn’t get talked about nearly enough. For All Mankind is fantastic A masterpiece in the making For All Mankind was created by Matt Wolpert, Ben Nedivi, and Ronald D. Moore, the…
Aoostar AG03 eGPU delivers PCIe 4.0 x4 support for external high-performance graphics cards.The dock includes dual Thunderbolt 5 ports and OCuLink connectivity.Power delivery reaches 140W, allowing laptops to charge during operation.Aoostar has officially launched the AG03 eGPU dock, attracting interest for its mix of added features and some notable omissions.The dock is intended to be an all-in-one solution for external GPU users, but it falls short of delivering full desktop replacement functionality.Third-party listings show that the AG03 supports dual Thunderbolt 5 ports and OCuLink, offering broader connectivity than earlier OCuLink-only models. You may like Missing M.2 and LAN ConnectionsThe Aoostar…