Author: The Tech Guy

I found Munchkin, one of my favorite all-time card games, on Google Play Games for $5.99. On Steam, it’s $14.99. That’s $9 I could spend on some avocado toast, so I went to download the title from Google. It was unavailable, despite being advertised on Google Play Games’ storefront. That one moment is indicative of my general experience with Google Play Games: what they advertise isn’t really what you’ll get. Google promises 20,000 plus games in its catalog (compared to Steam’s 120,000 – 146,000 claims) and pushes the whole “bu7y once, play anywhere” promise as a way to compete with…

Andy Walker / Android AuthorityKeeping up with the latest and greatest apps and games is a difficult task, but I’m here to help. Each month, I list the best new Android apps and games I’ve discovered in recent weeks, and this month’s edition includes some useful tools for travelers and for handling PDFs.Let’s jump right in. Here are the best new Android apps and games you should try in April 2026. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? Adaptive Theme Dark mode or light mode? Let your phone decide! Price: Free Developer: xLexip Andy Walker / Android AuthorityAdaptive…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Since the mid-1990s, scientists have been obsessed with cloning animals. Dolly the sheep famously became the first mammal to be cloned from a cell taken from an adult mammary gland almost 30 years ago, in 1996. Transitioning from cloning animal embryos to human ones has proven far more controversial, and not only because of the litany of risks involved. So far, scientists have only gone as far as to generate human embryo models grown stem cells and clone primates from fetal cells —…

NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, together with the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, are less than 24 hours away from flying to the moon. The Artemis II mission is on target to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, April 1. Once NASA’s powerful SLS rocket has lifted the crew to space, they’ll spend about a day in Earth orbit checking the Orion spacecraft’s systems before changing trajectory and heading for the moon. The mission doesn’t involve a lunar touchdown. Instead, the astronauts will fly around the moon before heading back home in a voyage…

USB-C has finally become the standard, and it means I can ditch my old cables that don’t have any use anymore. Unfortunately, that means I have been buying a lot of USB-C cables of varying quality, and it hasn’t always been a smooth ride. USB-C cables are used to charge my game controllers, my phone, my laptop, and several other things. I have a lot of these cables now, and I’ve already had a few of them fray and break down on me. Perhaps foolishly, I let my bedroom phone charger have exposed wiring for far too long. I eventually…

NASA’s Lead Electrostatics Scientist, Dr Charles Buhler, claims he’s discovered a “new force” that counteracts gravity with no fuel necessary. Dr. Charles Buhler has run 2,000 vacuum chamber experiments showing a propellantless thrust force that persists after the power is switched off, and cannot be explained by ion wind, magnetic effects, or classical energy conservation. The input is pure electricity and the output is millinewtons of thrust counteracting gravity. Youtube Our American Alchemist had a long interview this week with Dr. Charles Buhler. This work if it is true is better than cancelling gravity. This is using no propellant to…

Yesterday, CAD-based renders showing the upcoming Google Pixel 11 leaked, and today the Pixel 11 Pro has received the exact same treatment. The Pixel 11 Pro Fold was first, though, earlier this month. So we’re now only missing the Pixel 11 Pro XL to have the full family portrait. Like the Pixel 11, the Pixel 11 Pro has a redesigned camera island that, while keeping the oval shape of its predecessor, is now covered with dark glass all the way – the colored part is gone. On the other side, the Pixel 11 Pro’s screen bezels are okay, but will…

I’ve seen more friends than I can think of using programs like Wallpaper Engine to give their PC a bit of extra flair. But back in 2001, and subsequently since then, a little application called Rainmeter has been the customization king. If you’re hoping to make your PC look unlike anything else, this is the app that can make it happen. Wallpaper Engine and other similar programs can absolutely make your PC look pretty, but if you’re hoping to have a constant stream of information about your computer available every time you go back to the desktop? It may be…

Automated systems now generate more internet traffic than humansAI crawlers dominate data collection across most major online platformsMost automated traffic concentrates in retail, media, and travel sectorsBots have officially surpassed human users as the dominant source of traffic on the internet, new research has claimed.The State of AI Traffic report by Human Sec found automated traffic grew nearly eight times faster than human activity in 2025.”The internet as a whole was created with this very basic notion that there’s a human being on the other side of the computer screen, and that notion is very rapidly being replaced,” said Stu…

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir took this photo of an Artemis program patch floating in the International Space Station’s cupola. She posted it on X on March 30, 2026, with the following caption: “Our work on the @Space_Station has provided the foundation to explore further, preparing us to return humans to the Moon this week. Stay tuned as we enter the @NASAArtemis era! Expedition 74 will certainly be keeping a close watch. Godspeed, Artemis II!” Image credit: NASA/Jessica Meir