Author: The Tech Guy

Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityAll of these offers come directly from Amazon. They are “limited time deals”. When available in multiple colors, all variants get the same discount. Ring Indoor Cam Plus This is among the cheapest Ring security cameras, and right now you can get it for even less. It’s just $34.99! Of course, such a nice price cut will come with some downsides. It’s by no means a bad camera, though! Just make sure to keep your expectations in check.As the name entails, this is an indoor camera. As such, it has no weather resistance, so you’d best…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech As AI companies warn of mass automation and the end of work as we know it, ChatGPT maker OpenAI has published a sweeping policy paper outlining its vision of who should call the shots once “superintelligent AI” goes online. Beneath the paper’s flowery rhetoric is something familiar: a powerful corporation arguing that the best way to provide for the poorest people in the world is to let the richest do whatever they want. The paper starts off by warning — ironically — that…

A phone that launched at £599 and is already available for £200 less than that, with a free SIM on top, is worth a second look regardless of where you stand on mid-range smartphones. GiffGaff has the Google Pixel 10a down from £599 to £399, saving you £200 and throwing in a £10 GiffGaff 40GB SIM, making this one of the more straightforward deals on a brand-new Android phone right now. The Google Pixel 10a has only been out a month, and you can already save £200 A phone that launched at £599 and is already available for £200 less…

Do you know how much I like the PlayStation Portal? Enough to keep it for a whole four days before returning Sony’s remote streaming device. Though its DualSense-aping ergonomics are excellent, its lousy LCD screen means I couldn’t justify keeping the expensive, first-party accessory. Sending back the PS Portal has proven to be an even better decision in hindsight, after I recently discovered I could transform my Steam Deck OLED into a portable PlayStation 5. Thanks to one free piece of software that can be installed on the Linux-based handheld in a relatively straightforward fashion, my beloved portable PC can…

Windows 11’s user interface is a marked improvement over its direct operating system predecessor in the looks department, with major shell components like the Start Menu, the taskbar, Quick Settings, and notifications having received various modernization treatments since the platform’s launch back in 2021. One area of Windows 11 that hasn’t gotten nearly as much love, proportionately speaking, is the lock screen. While it does feature an updated clock style and placement when compared to Windows 10, the rest of the interface is woefully outdated when compared to its Android, iPadOS, and macOS contemporaries. There are plenty of lock screen…

\Demis Hassabis (DeepMind CEO) and other AI leaders sees the next big AI gains—and the path to AGI—will come from targeted algorithmic breakthroughs in areas like continual learning, memory architectures, world models, reasoning/planning, and hybrid systems. Demis talked in a 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings. Here’s a structured summary drawn from that interview, his other 2025–2026 statements (podcasts, DeepMind announcements), and the frontier research landscape. 1. Hassabis’ core views from the video and recent talks– Biggest bottlenecks today Compute/energy is the obvious limiter for scaling, but the deeper issues are architectural and algorithmic. Models lack consistency, long-horizon reliability, and human-like…

Snap’s AR glasses ambitions might be starting to look a lot more real. In an official announcement, Snap has said it has expanded its partnership with Qualcomm through a multi-year strategic agreement that will bring Qualcomm’s Snapdragon silicon to future generations of Specs. The company describes this as the first flagship engagement for Specs Inc, which will be launching Specs wearable later this year. Chesnot / Getty Images What was revealed in the announcement According to Snap, future Specs devices will run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR platforms, while the company says it will provide the foundation for edge AI, on-device…

Posting Voice Notes publicly on X may no longer be possible, but you can now share audio messages within X’s direct messaging system, X Chat, once again. The social network announced late on Wednesday that support for Voice Notes is now available within its private messaging service. The feature, which works in both one-on-one messages and group chats, is activated with a push of the voice input icon to the right of the chat’s text box. At launch, you have to continue to press the button to record the voice message, but we found that a press-and-hold gesture followed by…

Cofense uncovers IRS‑themed crypto scam with Elon MuskFake IRS emails steal personal and banking dataVictims lured into bogus “Dogecoin Initiative” requiring Bitcoin paymentsSecurity researchers from Cofense have uncovered a new cryptocurrency scam that combines Elon Musk with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).The US is in peak tax season, which also means IRS-themed scams are reaching their zenith, and as with most fraud campaigns, this one also starts with an email.Designed to look as if it were from the IRS, the email tells the recipient they’ve been selected to receive a $5,000 financial injection, courtesy of none other than Elon Musk.Article…

NASA’s Artemis II mission will conclude its 10-day journey around the Moon on April 10, 2026, when the crew splashes down off the California coast. While additional imagery will continue to be processed after their return, the astronauts have already delivered a remarkable collection of photos. Among them is a shot of Earthset, echoing the iconic Earthrise photos taken by Apollo 8 astronauts in 1968. During an Earthset, the planet appears to sink below the lunar horizon. In this scene, a partially lit crescent Earth drops behind the Moon as seen by crew on the Orion spacecraft. The Earth’s sunlit…