Author: The Tech Guy
For years, our social media experiences have been dominated by Big Tech players like Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), Google (YouTube), Snapchat, TikTok, and X. But a growing number of startups are taking aim at these giants by building new, often smaller and more personal social networking experiences to connect people with friends, interests, and tighter-knit communities. If you’re looking for a way to extricate yourself from the grip of traditional social media and Big Tech products in general, there are a number of interesting alternatives available. Many of them cater to Gen Z and younger, a group that’s often more…
Watch Bolivia vs Scotland live streams as Steve Clarke’s side look to build on their 4-1 friendly win over Curaçao by overcoming a Bolivian team that failed to qualify for the 2026 World Cup after losing 2-1 to Iraq in an intercontinental playoff.Scotland delivered the perfect send-off to their fans last week at Hampden as they hit minnows Curaçao for four. There were plenty of positives for Clarke and his coaching team, with Lawrence Shankland scoring twice, 19-year-old Findlay Curtis scoring his first international goal and Tyler Fletcher delivering an accomplished performance on his debut.However, there were also some negatives,…
Identity governance startup Opal Security has announced raising $23 million in a new funding round that brings the total investment in the company to $59 million. The fresh round of funding was led by Greylock and Battery Ventures, with additional support from Cambium Capital. Founded in 2020, San Francisco-based Opal has built an AI-native platform that provides organizations with real-time visibility, policy-as-code, and direct control over all identities, including employees, service accounts, and AI agents. According to Opal, the broad adoption of AI across enterprises has created the need for solutions that deliver access controls for agents at scale and…
Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended to govern those capabilities are struggling to keep pace.AI company OpenAI and biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks announced in February 2026 that OpenAI’s flagship model GPT-5 had autonomously designed and run 36,000 biological experiments. It did this through a robotic cloud laboratory, a facility where automated equipment controlled remotely by computers carries out experiments. The AI model proposed study designs, and robots carried them out and fed the data back to the model for the next round. Humans set the goal, and the machines did…
Google may have just accidentally shown everyone where Gemini is headed next. According to TestingCatalog, a new Troubleshooting mode has quietly appeared inside the Gemini model picker menu for some users. It sits alongside existing options like Gemini 3.5 Flash and 3.1 Pro, which are the standard AI models you already switch between in the app. GOOGLE 🔥: A new Troubleshooting mode has been spotted on Gemini. In this mode, Gemini will explain troubleshooting process via text responses and interactive widgets. Even though it is working and available, it still looks like an unintended release and might get reverted… https://t.co/FWQLelYXju…
This week Amazon Germany is offering additional discounts at checkout for several high-profile phones. But first, let’s have a quick look at the Xiaomi 17T series that launched last week. Not much has changed, but if you have a Prime Student subscription, you can get 5% off. It doesn’t sound like much, but it works out to €50 off the Xiaomi 17T Pro, which is barely a week old. By the way, the tablet bundle deals from last week are still active. In the meantime, we have published a Xiaomi 17T vs. 17T Pro article to help you compare the…
Google this week promoted Chrome 149 to the stable channel with patches for 429 vulnerabilities, a record for a single Chrome refresh. Already exceeding several times the total number of Chrome security fixes released in 2025, the surge in Chrome flaws is likely driven by AI use, which led Google to lower Chrome bug bounties in April. Over 100 of the newly resolved security defects are critical and high-severity issues, most of which are use-after-free and insufficient validation of untrusted input flaws. The most severe of the bugs is CVE-2026-10881 (CVSS score of 9.6), an out-of-bounds read and write weakness…
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The solar system as we know it today began to form roughly 4.6 billion years ago, with the Sun and its planets emerging from the collapse of a massive cloud of interstellar gas. Our star system’s early years remain shrouded in mystery. But by studying a huge cache of meteorites that have fallen to Earth over the years, scientists are finding intriguing clues about how the planets formed and evolved over the interceding billions of years. Now, as detailed in a paper published…
The long-awaited Tecno Pova 8 5G finally has a launch date. Today, the brand has announced that the device will be landing in India on June 11 at 12 PM local time. Tecno has also revealed the phone’s design through the short teaser video you can see below. This reveals the fact that the handset has a small dot matrix display on the back, that’s integrated into the camera island. The inspiration from Nothing is pretty clear here – dot matrix display aside, there’s also the faux transparent look. Say hello to peak design.POVA 8. Arriving 11 June, 12PM.#POVA |…
Netflix is lousy with great historical dramas, so many that some are bound to slip through the cracks. Such was the case with The Dig, a 2021 period piece with a timely message about the power of discovery in the face of immense hardship. Directed by Simon Stone and anchored by great performances from Carey Mulligan and Ralph “Voldemort” Fiennes, The Dig is a terrific, gentle watch that deserves more attention than it got. The story of The Dig Uncovering the secrets of the past in your own backyard The Dig tells the (mostly) true story of the 1939 excavation…