Author: The Tech Guy

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. HEDD HEDDphone D1: Two-minute reviewThe HEDDphone D1 are a quite frankly astonishing pair of over-ear headphones, trucking in a new line of innovative thought from the Berlin brand that also brought AMT technology to the wearable market. They’re open-back and passive, with eyes locked both on the world of pro audio and at-home audiophile listening.While most brands struggle to occupy both spaces in any meaningful way, it’s my view…

If you’re constantly jumping between AI tools and agents, you’ll quickly realize that good prompting only gets you so far, and at some point, you’re just repeating the same instructions. Fortunately, skills for AI tools exist to solve exactly that problem. There are skills that can do anything from making Claude turn any document into a mind map to running, make OpenClaw turn data into actionable reports, or just summarize that massive documentation folder on your drive. And the best part: you can use the same one across all AI tools you want. Related I finally caught up and tried…

It’s an open secret that electronic devices connected to the internet are telemetry hungry. This is doubly true for smart television platforms like Roku OS, webOS, and Fire OS / Vega OS. In many cases, manufacturers subsidize the cost of their hardware by inserting advertisements into the experience, whether it be on the home screen or within screensavers. Banner ads are pesky enough on their own, but in a lot of cases, they’re actually more of a privacy violation that initially meets the eye. This is because of data harvesting, in which your content viewing habits are tracked, analyzed, and…

Cybersecurity startup Empirical has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $37 million. The new investment round was led by Brightmind Partners, with additional support from Costanoa Ventures, Hyde Park Angels (HPA), and other investors. Founded in 2024, Chicago-based Empirical will use the fresh funding to accelerate the development of its two flagship products that help organizations predict and identify threats in the agentic AI era. Empirical provides organizations with Foundation, a global cybersecurity model that monitors over 18,000 exploited CVEs for threat prediction, and Radiant, a predictive engine…

SpaceX Starlink V5 satellite terminal directly integrated into the Cybercab’s roof structure (alongside the GPS antenna, 5G LTE antenna, FSD computer, and various cameras). This is a clean, factory-integrated design rather than the external Starlink Mini dishes spotted on earlier prototypes/testing vehicles (often mounted on the trunk lid). Starlink V5 directly integrated in Cybercab pic.twitter.com/FxzTtzjB6I — Tesla (@Tesla) July 20, 2026 Higher-Resolution/Dual GPS The Cybercab includes a dedicated dual GPS (or dual-frequency GPS) system for significantly higher positioning accuracy and redundancy compared to standard consumer Tesla vehicles. This supports SAE Level 4 autonomy requirements (full self-driving in defined conditions without…

Assassin’s Creed Shadows only launched last year, and Switch 2 owners can already pick it up at almost half its original price. That reduction comes from a limited time deal that cuts Assassin’s Creed Shadows on Switch 2 from its usual £49.99 down to £25.99, a 48% saving that brings one of the franchise’s best reviewed games within easy reach. Assassin’s Creed Shadows for the Switch 2 is almost half price today, in a time limited deal This critically acclaimed Assassin’s Creed Shadows on Switch 2 drops from £49.99 to £25.99, a 48% saving on one of this year’s best…

If you’re tired of buying ink cartridges every few months, this is a good time to switch to a cartridge-free tank printer. Right now, the HP Smart Tank 5101 is $170 (was $260) at Amazon, and comes with 2 years of ink already included in the box.For home, dorm room, home office, and small businesses printing a mix of monochrome and color documents and photos, it’s an ideal pick. Particularly as HP’s ink tank printers tend to have larger tank reservoirs compared to rivals like Epson’s EcoTank range.Today’s top HP printer dealShould you buy it?✅ Buy it if…You want to save…

A critical remote code execution vulnerability that was recently patched in the ServiceNow AI platform is reportedly being exploited in the wild. The security hole is tracked as CVE-2026-6875 and it has been described as a sandbox escape issue that an unauthenticated attacker can exploit in certain circumstances to execute arbitrary code. When it announced the availability of patches on July 14, ServiceNow said a security update addressing the vulnerability had been deployed to hosted instances. However, self-hosted customers have to install the patches themselves. On the same day, cybersecurity firm Searchlight Cyber disclosed technical details and showed how the…

The Wabanaki people have a deep well of creation myths explaining the rocky coastlines of the Bay of Fundy, Downeast Maine, and Acadia National Park. Many involve Glooscap—a magical figure said to have floated down the Bay of Fundy in a stone canoe, sculpting coastal features by scraping the vessel across the landscape and scattering enormous boulders during battles with primordial beavers, frogs, moose, whales, and other gigantic animals. Fewer Indigenous creation myths survive to explain the origins of the sandy and marshy shorelines of southern Maine and the rocky, indented coasts of the state’s Midcoast region. But the sharp contrast…

Google Photos is giving users an easier way to leave its Gemini-powered search when a simple keyword would do. A new toggle now sits at the top of the results page, letting users switch between Ask Photos and classic search without digging through settings. The change appears to address feedback from people who opted into Ask Photos but wanted a quicker way to return to classic search when Gemini was slower or less useful for a straightforward query. Why did Google add the toggle? Ask Photos is built for complicated requests. It can understand natural-language questions and search for details…