Author: The Tech Guy

Even though Prime Day is over, the big summer sales aren’t going anywhere just yet. Currys is keeping its latest Epic Deals event going for just a little longer, giving you more time to save up to 40% on thousands of items. That’s a whole lot of tech, so I’ve searched through the sale and picked out the 18 best deals I’d buy that are actually good offers.• View the full Currys Summer Epic Deals saleOne of the biggest areas of the sale is TVs, with several displays on offer across a vast range of price points. It’s been a…

The Trump administration has lifted restrictions on artificial intelligence company Anthropic’s latest versions of its Claude chatbot, ending a weekslong ban tied to cybersecurity concerns. Anthropic said Tuesday night that its AI model called Claude Fable 5 is now widely available. It’s also restoring access to its most powerful model, Mythos 5, but only to a select group of U.S.-based organizations approved by the federal government. The Commerce Department blocked foreign nationals from using both AI models on June 12, a move that San Francisco-based Anthropic said forced the company to immediately take the products down for all users just…

Editor’s note: In honor of America’s 250th birthday, Earth Observatory is revisiting stories about the landscapes that helped shape U.S. history. The images and text on this page were originally published on July 4, 2017. Explore the full collection here. Situated between the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers, Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn as the seat of a Quaker colony. Later, its location just upstream of the Delaware Bay and Atlantic Ocean made it an industrial, commercial, and cultural hub of the American colonies. When the area’s original inhabitants, the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians, lived here, much of the land…

Amazon’s long-awaited answer to SpaceX’s Starlink is finally nearing liftoff. According to an exclusive report from Reuters, the company plans to begin offering its Leo satellite internet service later this year, after its latest rocket launch pushed the constellation to 394 satellites in orbit. The pieces are finally falling into place for Project Kuiper The milestone came after Amazon’s latest mission deployed 29 additional satellites aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. According to Chris Weber, vice president of Amazon Leo (formerly known as Project Kuiper), there’s still work to do before the satellites reach their final operating…

Google has lost its final appeal to the European Commission’s €4.1 billion fine from 2018. The appeal was Google’s last chance and was presented at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), Europe’s highest court. The record-breaking fine sat at €4.34 (later reduced to €4.1) was imposed on Google by the European Union’s executive arm, the European Commission, back in 2018. The EC found that Google was abusing Android’s mobile dominance and giving its own apps an unfair advantage by requiring phone makers to pre-install Google Search, Chrome, and the Play Store. The EU sees it as Google’s practices making it…

Traditionally, an audit independently examines records, processes and controls to verify compliance and assess financial and operational integrity. In the modern world, such an approach should extend to the software development lifecycle (SDLC) – especially in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) or large language model (LLM)-assisted code. Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and their teams need proof that developers are producing protected products, because one in five organizations has experienced a serious security incident directly tied to AI-generated code. Getting to the root of the problems requires visibility into who is leveraging AI, what tools they are using and…

For five years, Alzheimer’s slowly stripped away a Japanese-American woman’s ability to speak more than one syllable at a time. The woman, now in her 80s, was diagnosed roughly a decade ago, and her condition steadily worsened. She struggled to walk and recognize family members.Then, under medical supervision, she took a large dose of mushrooms containing the psychedelic psilocybin. Within three days, her symptoms had improved. She began spontaneously recounting memories and initiating conversations in full sentences. Her alertness returned, and she could move around independently.A week later, she was recognizing family members, asking where they were, and pointing out…

Back in May, AT&T launched Build-A-Plan, a new way to customize your wireless plan’s perks and pricing. It seems to have been a success, as the company is now expanding the program to include home internet as well. The expansion is taking place on July 7. Starting on that day, if you use Build-A-Plan you will be able to add home internet to your plan as well – either AT&T Fiber if it’s available in your area, or, if it’s not, AT&T Internet Air, which basically gives you fixed internet access by using AT&T’s mobile network. If you use Build-A-Plan…

I don’t know about you, but I get a ton of notifications on my Android phone, and they’re not always important. I’m constantly swiping them away, fast, to get to the ones that matter. Occasionally, I’ll swipe away something that I didn’t actually mean to. That’s when I wish I had turned on Android’s built-in Notification History. Why it’s off by default is a technical tradeoff, but luckily, you can enable the feature now and never have to regret dismissing an important notification again. Fix it now, and you never have to have that terrible feeling again. Related 8 Android…

Dhruv Bhutani / Android AuthorityPlex’s big Lifetime Pass price hike has now kicked in, meaning the one-time payment for premium Plex features has jumped from $249.99 to $749.99. Existing lifetime subscribers get to stay smugly grandfathered in at their old rate, while monthly and annual Plex Pass pricing remains unchanged. Given the eye-watering uplift in the price of the Lifetime Pass, we wanted to know whether readers saw it as a smart long-term buy or a shameless cash grab.That rise was always going to be a hard sell, although Plex hasn’t exactly been sitting still since announcing it. The service…