Author: The Tech Guy

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) recently released what it calls its most powerful family of models yet, Olmo 3. But the company kept iterating on the models, expanding its reinforcement learning (RL) runs, to create Olmo 3.1.The new Olmo 3.1 models focus on efficiency, transparency, and control for enterprises. Ai2 updated two of the three versions of Olmo 2: Olmo 3.1 Think 32B, the flagship model optimized for advanced research, and Olmo 3.1 Instruct 32B, designed for instruction-following, multi-turn dialogue, and tool use. Olmo 3 has a third version, Olmo 3-Base for programming, comprehension, and math. It also works well for…

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will recap his recent mission aboard the International Space Station during a news conference at 3:30 p.m. EST Friday, Dec. 19, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Watch the news conference live on NASA’s YouTube channel. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of online platforms, including social media. Media interested in participating in person must contact the NASA Johnson newsroom no later than 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov. Media wishing to participate by phone must contact the Johnson newsroom no later than two hours before the start…

Amazon has quietly removed its recently launched feature, AI-generated video recaps, after it bungled key story details of the Fallout series on Prime Video. The feature was supposed to make catching up on the next season easier by analyzing plot points and turning them into a short video narrated by an AI voice. Instead, it got basic facts wrong, confusing both longtime fans and people just discovering the show. Where the AI recaps went wrong Fallout’s season one recap was where viewers first noticed something was off. The AI confidently claimed that one of The Ghoul’s flashbacks took place in…

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…