Author: The Tech Guy
The early deals of the Amazon Big Spring Sale aren’t all about headphones and smart home gear — there’s something here for bookworms too. Amazon has dropped the Kindle Colorsoft 16GB to just $169.99 ahead of the event, matching the lowest price we last saw during last year’s Black Friday frenzy. Kindle Colorsoft 16GB for $169.99 ($80 off)This is the more affordable version of Amazon’s color Kindle, which launched last year as a cheaper alternative to the Signature Edition. It drops a few extras like wireless charging and halves the storage, but otherwise you’re getting the same experience — including…
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on April 25, 2022 and has been updated to reflect changes including the completion of Hangar One’s restoration. Restoration has been completed on Hangar One, a historic landmark in the San Francisco Bay Area and a key part of the region’s early aviation history. In December 2025, Planetary Ventures completed restoration of the Hangar One landmark at Moffett Federal Airfield, located at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Work focused on modernizing the structure while maintaining its original visual characteristics as closely as possible. The restoration work included the remediation, clean-up, and recladding of the siding and roof, as well as a variety…
After weeks of leaks and teasers, Samsung has officially confirmed the launch date for its next generation of Galaxy A-series smartphones. The Galaxy A37 and Galaxy A57 will make their official debut on March 25th, 2026, in India at 5:30 PM IST. That’s roughly 8 AM ET / 5 AM PT for those watching globally. While Samsung hasn’t explicitly mentioned the devices in its teasers, every detail in the teaser points to the upcoming mid-range duo. What to expect Samsung While the full specs and features will be revealed at launch, earlier leaks have already revealed plenty of details of…
I find hard drives fascinating: the way they store data on a magnetic platter, how the voice coil actuator moves the read/write head across the platter while a spindle motor keeps the platter spinning. Oh, and the read/write head never actually touches the platter, but floats nanometers above it. They’re also a relatively cheap way to store large amounts of data compared to SSDs. The only thing is that there’s no telling how long a typical hard drive will last. Some drives can last 10 years, while others may not even cross the 2-year mark. Add to that, early signs…
There are plenty of smart TVs on the market available, and while that’s largely a good thing, it does mean you can’t just walk into the store and pick anything out. I mean, I suppose you could do that, but you’d be doing yourself a major disservice. TVs can do quite a bit today. They can play your favorite apps, they can have different versions of HDR, and, depending on the model, they can run your games better. I’m talking about the 120Hz TVs, and if I were buying a new TV today, I would pick one that has 120Hz…
Artificial IntelligenceOpenAI Is Throwing Everything Into Building a Fully Automated ResearcherWill Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review ($)”The San Francisco firm has set its sights on building what it calls an AI researcher, a fully automated agent-based system that will be able to go off and tackle large, complex problems by itself. OpenAI says that the new goal will be its ‘North Star’ for the next few years, pulling together multiple research strands, including work on reasoning models, agents, and interpretability.”RoboticsHumanoid Robot Gets Surprisingly Good at TennisLoz Blain | New Atlas”This ain’t teleoperation. Chinese researchers have tested a new, much…
Last year, the Nothing Phone (3a) was voted as having a better value than its (3a) Pro sibling, while people that might have bought the Pro were instead pulled towards the then-upcoming Nothing Phone (3) flagship. So, when we posted last week’s poll, we were sure that the (4a) would prevail over its Pro sibling. After all, the Nothing Phone (4a) closed the camera gap to the Pro. But look at its poll results – 25% of voters prefer the Pro, while some 40% of the vote is split between people who like it to various degrees with pricing emerging…
Refresh 2026-03-22T01:16:06.105Z Okay folks, all the outage graphs continue to fall. I suspect a few people will still have hiccups for a while, but it looks like the recovery is nearly complete. It’s late into the night where I am, so I’m going to log off, and I hope that you’re all back online and having all the fun in the world for the rest of your day, wherever you are. 2026-03-22T01:04:43.854Z Okay, I’m seeing a HUGE fall in reports on Downdetector in both the US and Japan. Our pal Idris in the comments here, who spoke to Sony support…
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Nicotine, the highly addictive chemical compound in cigarettes, is having a bit of a resurgence as of late — with patches of the stuff even appearing in vending machines at tech company offices, offering overworked staffers a way to get through the day. Even some species of birds are getting hooked on cigarettes — but not for the reason you might think. Instead of suffering from a debilitating nicotine addiction, blue tits across Europe are hoarding cigarette butts to ward off parasites using…
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. AndaSeat Xtreme Series Standing Desk: one-minute reviewAs a first attempt at a budget-oriented standing gaming desk, there are certainly positives for AndaSeat to draw on here. Still, it’s clear it could use some refinement moving forward, and in some areas, it does feel rather rushed. Before we get to the bad, let’s cover the feature set, shall we?As standard, you get solid height adjustment ranging from 28.7in to 46.1in…