Author: The Tech Guy

4K resolution comes to the Ring platform. The Ring Outdoor Cam Pro finally brings 4K footage to the best-known security company. Excellent, sharp footage makes a huge difference day and night. With excellent motion detection options, including radar-based detection, this camera only captures what’s important, while its integration with the Ring cloud and Ring Alarm makes it easy to control. Excellent video quality Brilliant motion detection options Integrates with the Ring Alarm Single-camera Ring subscriptions are expensive Key Features 4K video Shoots high-resolution video. Cloud storage Requires a Ring subscription for video storage. Mains powered USB-C and PoE options available.…

Rita El Khoury / Android AuthorityWith Android 15, Google introduced app pairs, or the ability to save two apps together as one icon, and launch them at the same time in split-screen mode. The feature was limited to tablets at first, but it soon expanded to the Pixel 9 Pro Fold and other phones.Initially, I thought I would use this all the time, but I soon realized that the issue was with the multi-window mode itself, and how it displayed a tiny part of both apps and made using either of them clunkier. So I forgot about app pairs for…

As generative AI models grow more powerful, their energy use is becoming a serious bottleneck. A new fully optical generative AI chip could help by running advanced image and video generation tasks at speeds and efficiencies orders of magnitude beyond today’s hardware.Training generative AI models requires an enormous amount of computing power and energy. But as demand explodes, the process of actually running the models to create images, text, or video—known as inference—is quickly becoming an even bigger drain on resources.Video and image generation models are particularly energy intensive. While the efficiency of these models is constantly improving, a 2023…

With the likes of SpaceX rattling off rocket launches seemingly every other day, you could be forgiven for thinking that sending massive vehicles to space had become as easy as baking a cake. But as two rocket failures on December 22 shows, the launch process remains as complex as ever. The first of this week’s two failures came when the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZS-5) aboard its H3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center about 620 miles south-west of Tokyo. The first part of the rocket’s flight looked good, but the second stage engine’s…

Romance, sci-fi, and horror are not subgenres that go together very often, but when they do, we get memorable masterpieces like Ex Machina, which came out in 2014 and which seems more prescient than ever today. Why? Well, Ex Machina is about a computer programmer named Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) who is chosen to visit the luxurious home of his billionaire boss, Nathan (Oscar Isaac). His job is to speak to a humanoid android named Ava (Alicia Vikander) to determine if she has consciousness. In the process, he falls for her. In a world where people openly admit to being in…

If you’ve been keeping up with streaming sticks, you’ll know that Amazon is a major player in the industry. Fire TV Sticks are one of the most popular options available, largely thanks to the low price and easy availability, since you can get one almost immediately if you order from Amazon thanks to Prime. What you might not realize is that there are so many different Fire TV Sticks for sale. I didn’t realize how many existed until I had to review the Fire TV Stick 4K Select, and I was left wondering who was being targeted with this stick.…

If humans finally colonize the Moon, lunar caves formed from primeval volcanic activity could provide shelter from cosmic radiation and extreme temperatures. But how does one go about safely exploring these uncharted caves before they venture in? Enter a team of scientists from South Korea who have built a simple rover prototype that can traverse rough terrain. What’s truly special about this robot are its sturdy wheels, made of flexible metal strips woven together into a helix-like pattern that give it the ability to expand and contract like a piece of kinetic art. “Experimental results show successful traversal of 200-millimeter…

Apple’s 2025 iPhone lineup once again puts its users in a familiar position – choosing between two very similar yet distinctly positioned models. The gap between the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro is as small as ever, but as they say, the devil is in the details – and those details might justify the Pro’s higher asking price for some, while others may find the standard model more than enough. The iPhone 17 finally feels like a true flagship in its own right, matching the Pro’s 120 Hz refresh rate, OLED quality, and overall polish. This year, the basic…

The team at Retro, a photo-sharing app for close friends and family, is experimenting with how generative AI can be put to more creative uses. To try out the latest, cutting-edge AI technologies, the team built a new app called Splat, which lets you turn any photo into a coloring book page for kids. As any parent will tell you, kids love to color. And thanks to the web, there’s a seemingly infinite number of coloring book pages available for printing at home. However, many of the websites hosting these pages are filled with ads and other clutter, making them…

This Acer Nitro V deal is one of those rare moments where the price actually feels too good to be true.Now retailing for just $549 at Walmart (down from $929) this laptop undercuts most systems in its class by a wide margin, yet it still packs an RTX 5050 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and a fast Intel Core i5 CPU.The Intel Core i5-13420H is quick, responsive, and built to handle far more than casual use. It boosts up to 5.2GHz and has enough muscle for streaming, editing, schoolwork, and everyday multitasking without ever feeling sluggish.Often, lower priced laptops come with…