Author: The Tech Guy

Excel has always been my go-to for charts and graphs. It gets the job done, and for quick internal reports, Excel templates make complex tasks dead simple. There’s nothing wrong with a basic bar chart. But when I need something that doesn’t say “made in five minutes before presentation,” Excel’s limitations become obvious. Static charts with default formatting don’t exactly hold attention in presentations, nor do they look professional on a website. I’m not suggesting you ditch Excel, as it’s still unmatched for data manipulation. But for visualizations that need to impress, there are tools purpose-built for the task. These…

ZTE has introduced a new tablet in Europe, specifically in the Polish market for now – but it might spread to other countries as well soon. Meet the ZTE Pad X1102N. It comes with an 11-inch 1920×1200 LCD touchscreen with a 90Hz refresh rate, a 13 MP rear camera, a 5 MP front camera, and a 7,670 mAh battery with support for 21W wired charging. That battery size is anything but impressive today when mainstream smartphones regularly push above that capacity. Anyway, the Pad X1102N is powered by the Unisoc T8100 SoC, paired with 6GB of RAM and 256GB of…

Presented by Oracle NetSuiteWhen any company tells you it is their biggest product release in almost three decades, it’s worth listening. When the person saying it founded the world’s first cloud computing company, it’s time to take note. At SuiteWorld 2025, Evan Goldberg, founder and EVP of Oracle NetSuite, did just that when he called NetSuite Next the company’s biggest product evolution in nearly three decades. But behind that sweeping vision lies a quieter shift — one centered on how AI behaves, not just what it can do. “Every company is experimenting with AI,” says Brian Chess, SVP of Technology…

HIV was once a death sentence. Thanks to antiretroviral therapy, it’s now a chronic disease. But the daily treatment is for life. Without the drug, the virus rapidly rebounds.Scientists have long hunted for a more permanent solution. One option they’ve explored is a stem cell transplant using donor cells from people who are naturally resistant to the virus. A handful of patients have been “cured” this way, in that they could go off antiretroviral therapy without a resurgence in the virus for years. But the therapy is difficult, costly, and hardly scalable.Other methods are in the works. These include using…

Honor was expected to launch its GT 2 series gaming phones soon, but there seems to be a slight change of plans. According to a well-known tipster Digital Chat Station, the Honor GT series will actually be called the Honor Win series. The change is already reflected in a JD.com listing, and we now have our first set of renders for the upcoming Honor Win. Honor Win listing on JD.com The device will be available in black, blue and cyan colors and features a large camera island housing three sensors and what appears to be an active cooling…

World, the biometric ID verification project co-founded by Sam Altman, released the newest version of its app today, debuting several new features, including an encrypted chat integration and an expanded, Venmo-like capability for sending and requesting crypto.  World was created by the startup Tools for Humanity in 2019, and originally launched its app in 2023. The company says that, in a world roiled by AI-generated digital fakery, it hopes to create digital “proof of human” tools that can help separate the humans from the bots. During a small gathering at World’s headquarters in San Francisco on Thursday, Altman and World’s…

Google doesn’t exactly have a reputation for secrecy anymore, at least on the level of companies like Apple. It’s revealing minor features and products constantly, and has all but given up on keeping new Pixel devices under wraps, to the point that it does teaser announcements ahead of its press events to keep the rumor mill under control. If you’re going to get excited about Google tech, it’s probably because you’re already onboard with what’s happening. There are exceptions to this, as you might imagine for a business with billions of dollars at stake. One of the biggest is its…

Nous Research, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, released on Tuesday an open-source mathematical reasoning system called Nomos 1 that achieved near-elite human performance on this year's William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, one of the most prestigious and notoriously difficult undergraduate math contests in the world.The Putnam is known for its difficulty: While a perfect score is 120, this year's top score was 90, and the median was just 2. Nomos 1, by contrast, scored 87 points — a result that would have ranked second out of 3,988 participants in the 2024 competition, according to the company.The release marks an…

Just as many had predicted, Time magazine once again took some liberties with its annual “Person of the Year” issue. Besides blocking users from reading its website with an AI chatbot, the magazine anointed the “architects of AI” as its most important visionaries of 2025, eschewing the definition of “person” yet again. The eyeroll-inducing announcement was met with plenty of incredulity, especially considering the astronomical amount of money being spent on building out data centers, their enormous carbon footprint, and a whole litany of other ethical conundrums that the embrace of generative AI has spawned. One online group was particularly…

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. LG StanByMe 2: Two-minute reviewLG’s StanByMe TV has admittedly been something I’ve glossed over ever since the first-generation model was launched way back in 2021. A 27-inch TV on a rollable stand? “What’s the point?” I always wondered. While a 27-inch TV would’ve been considered ‘big’ in the late ‘90s or early 2000s, we now live in a time where a 48-inch TV is realistically the smallest size we’d…