Author: The Tech Guy
The board is set. TV brands are moving their pawns into position. 2026 is going to be a mighty dust-up with RGB Mini LED in one corner and OLED in the other. How confident am I of this? Very. And it’s not a pugilistic bout that’s been magicked up in a relatively short time a la Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua. This has been in the making for some time – an unavoidable impact that could shake up the TV industry. Could being the operative word, as while there’s bound to be disruption, at the end of the day; it’s…
If you’re looking for a fantasy show to watch on Netflix, you have a lot of options. But if you’re looking for a good fantasy show, you’ll have a harder time. The Witcher started out with a lot of promise, but has since been savaged by fans. Shadow and Bone was looking pretty good for a while, but Netflix canceled it after the second season, long before the story had wrapped up. Heard of Netflix’s Arthurian TV show Cursed? Neither has anyone else. So Netflix has had some trouble landing this plane, but they did come close once: The Sandman…
With the release of Android 12 back in 2021, Google made a somewhat controversial change to the Quick Settings panel. Gone were the individual toggles for Wi-Fi and mobile data. In their place was a new, expandable Internet tile that housed the old mobile data and Wi-Fi toggles. The change aimed to simplify things for users, but it had the side effect of making it more tedious to toggle Wi-Fi and mobile data. Years after rolling out this change, though, Google may be on the verge of reversing it in a future update to Android 16. You’re reading the Authority…
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Paul Harris / Getty Images Multibillionaire Elon Musk has never exactly been humble about his corporate empire, but his latest comments are genuinely over the top. Speaking to influencer Katie Miller — wife of Donald Trump’s controversial deputy chief of staff — on a painfully awkward podcast appearance, Musk waxed poetic about SpaceX’s latest rocket developments. “There’s a lot coming down the pipe,” he declares at one point. “Like what?” Miller asks. “Starship,” Musk replies. “The, the degree to which Starshipis a revolutionary technology is not well understood in the world.” “It’s the…
James Cameron’s latest sci-fi blockbuster, Avatar: Fire and Ash, has finally been released in theaters, setting a new standard for the iconic Avatar franchise. This new film continues the Na’vi’s war against the RDA on Pandora as Jake (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) struggle to protect their children from Col. Quaritch (Stephen Lang) and a vicious new Na’vi tribe. Avatar: Fire and Ash certainly has its flaws, as it repeats many plot points from previous films. However, if you can get through the whopping three-plus-hour runtime, you can see that Avatar: Fire and Ash is the franchise’s best film…
Count me in the camp of AI doubters. I’ve seen some impressive things from generative AI, including things that might one day help humanity as a whole, but too often it’s used as a crutch — especially by people who think it’s a shortcut to getting rich. Startups and billion-dollar corporations alike are promising the moon at a time when ChatGPT and Google Gemini still have trouble getting basic facts straight. When I’m researching an article, I can only ever rely on it for the simplest of questions. Everything else needs to be double-checked. Two of the groups most bent…
Tony Stoyanov is CTO and co-founder of EliseAIIn the 2010s, tech companies chased staff-level specialists: Backend engineers, data scientists, system architects. That model worked when technology evolved slowly. Specialists knew their craft, could deliver quickly and built careers on predictable foundations like cloud infrastructure or the latest JS frameworkThen AI went mainstream.The pace of change has exploded. New technologies appear and mature in less than a year. You can’t hire someone who has been building AI agents for five years, as the technology hasn’t existed for that long. The people thriving today aren’t those with the longest résumés; they’re the…
Shane Legg talks about the 1997 and later creation and popular definition of general intelligence. Shane Legg, co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist at Google DeepMind, defines levels of artificial general intelligence (AGI) as a spectrum rather than a single binary threshold. NOTE: He mentions a 1997 paper on nanotechnology security that defined AGI. I, Brian Wang, was at the Foresight Institute conferences in 1996 and 1997 where super artificial intelligence was debated. Foresight constantly had mind expanding debates about the limits of technology and going beyond limits. This debate in 2011, had earlier versions in 1996 and 1997. The AI…
Oppo’s Reno15 series currently includes three smartphones – Reno15, Reno15 Pro, and Reno15c. There have been rumors about the Reno15 Pro Max, and now we are hearing about the Reno15 Pro Mini, which is tipped to launch in India this month or in January. The source also claims that the Reno15 Pro Mini will be powered by the Dimensity 8450 SoC and pack a 6.32″ 120Hz flat OLED display with 1.5K resolution. Oppo Reno15 Pro The Reno15 Pro Mini will be IP69-rated and support 80W wired charging. It will also support wireless charging, but we don’t know how…
Every morning before doomscrolling, I’ve developed the habit of checking the weather. Nearly every time I head out, a vast blue sky greets me, only for rain to arrive halfway to my destination. But before I see the weather report, I have to work through a full-screen ad, tap a mute button on a video ad, and close a pop-up warning me that my Android phone is infected with a virus. These ads are irritating and consume my time, resources, and data while loading. Lately, this has gotten worse. Every time I tap to view detailed weather information, I’m redirected…