Author: The Tech Guy

Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Max and the iPhone 17e are on sale this week. Meanwhile, Nothing’s newly unveiled Phone (4b) is now up for pre-order. Rounding out this week’s deals are a couple of Google’s Pixel phones, Xiaomi’s 17 series, and the Samsung Galaxy A57. The Nothing Phone (4b) marks the UK brand’s first “b” series phone. While there are no launch discounts on offer, the handset is now available for pre-order, with deliveries scheduled to begin on July 16. Nothing’s Phone (4a) and last year’s flagship Phone (3) are both available at discounted prices. The Phone (4a)…

Joe Maring / Android AuthorityTL;DR T-Mobile’s free Wi-Fi benefit on United Airlines flights will end on July 13, 2026. This will be the last day to take advantage of the carrier’s perk. One of the benefits of being a T-Mobile customer was its free Wi-Fi perk on certain flights. T-Mobile has offered free in-flight Wi-Fi on select airlines for eligible members for over a decade. While the perk is still alive and well for some airlines, United Airlines and American Airlines recently bowed out of the partnership. If you’re about to fly on United Airlines, know that this is your…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech As government agencies go, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has left a lot to be desired, often operating less like a government watchdog and more as an industry partner. There’s fee recovery, for example, which effectively mandates the industry pay its own regulators’ salary, as well as the NRC’s habit of trusting voluntary leak reports from reactor operators, not to mention its history of hiding internal safety data to protect its reputation. As if those deficiencies weren’t bad enough, president Donald Trump is…

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. 8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller: Two-minute reviewThe 8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller was primarily created for the Analogue 3D—a third-party console that emulates N64 hardware and requires real cartridges. However, it’s also compatible with Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC (as well as Android devices).Now, I don’t own an Analogue 3D personally (limited stock and an even more limited wallet have seen to that), but I do have a Switch…

I didn’t use to think much about how browsers handled tabs. I’d have maybe five, six tabs open at the same time, and Google Chrome would happily cruise along. Then I grew up, and my tab count grew with me. Before I knew it, I had dozens of tabs crammed into a horizontal strip at the top of the screen, each one shrunk to a favicon, and all of them a disaster to manage. But in my quest to find the perfect web browser, I stumbled upon Zen. Not only did it make the internet a much calmer place for…

You wouldn’t know it from browsing shelves, but Hisense is a relative newcomer to selling TVs in North America. It didn’t come to the US until 2013, and for a while, it still felt like a budget brand. Today, Hisense is ubiquitous in the country, and you can buy some genuinely high-end products, such as laser projectors and RGB mini-LED TVs. I own a Hisense TV myself, a U68KM mini-LED. I’m pretty familiar with the company’s take on Google TV, which represents most of its lineup. It does support other platforms, namely Roku, Fire TV, and Vidaa — but there…

Shor’s algorithm for factoring RSA-2048 (and related problems like elliptic-curve discrete logs) has seen dramatic reductions in estimated resources over the past 18 months. Theoretically breaking RSA-2048 would still require multi-day runtimes and billions of non-Clifford logical operations (primarily Toffoli gates) under realistic error rates (~0.1%) and cycle times. This remains far beyond near-term machines. Eventual runs will likely take days or many trillions of operations when full physical overhead is counted. Key Recent Theoretical Papers (2025–2026) Here are the most important open-access results: Craig Gidney (Google Quantum AI), May 2025 [How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less…

If you’re a foldable fan, this summer’s set to be a memorable one. Not only is Samsung said to be releasing an entirely new foldable form factor, but Google’s Pixel foldable is rumoured to slim down and get serious about camera hardware – and we’ll even see Apple’s long-awaited foldable if the stars align.  Could this be the summer that foldables finally jump from niche prospect to mainstream option? It’s quite possible – as long as we ignore the insane price tags that are likely to come alongside them, anyway.  A very exciting Samsung foldable release Things are set to…

Driving the length of Britain is an expensive endurance test that isn’t overly kind to the environment, but this week I helped do it for free, minus the emissions.A standard Renault 4, the kind of car parked on any suburban street, has covered the circa 870 miles from Land’s End to John o’Groats without taking a single unit from the grid or burning a drop of petrol. Every electron came from the sun. The same journey in a petrol car works out at £120.48 in fuel (around $160 / AU$230), or £240 there and back (about $320 / AU$460), while…

A threat actor has built a network of over 200 GitHub repositories that have been delivering Windows malware, supply chain protection provider Socket reports. Dubbed Operation Muck and Load, the campaign involves 222 lure repositories across 190 accounts that contain a Go module designed to trigger the infection chain. The module, Socket explains, loads PowerShell code that fetches a resolver from public dead drops to execute Windows malware such as spyware, trojan downloaders, infostealers, and cryptominers. To deceive users, the Go module poses as a DNS/subdomain scanning tool built around the legitimate dnsub open source project. Since January 24, 2026,…