Author: The Tech Guy
Kīlauea has entered its second year of episodic activity after reawakening in December 2024. Since then, the Hawaiian volcano has gone through dozens of bouts of lava fountaining, each lasting several hours to several days. Activity ramped up once again on March 10, 2026, for episode 43 of the eruption. From approximately 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. local time that day, lava spewed from two active vents on the southwest side of Halema‘uma‘u Crater, adding to the ever-thickening layer of fresh basaltic rock in the summit caldera. The flareup also featured the highest lava fountains of the current eruption, estimated…
Google has rolled out a fresh Android Canary build, and it looks more complete than you might expect from an experimental release. The catch is simple. This version exists to test ideas, not to promise them. Android Canary 2603 bundles practical additions like app lock, chat bubbles, and a redesigned screen recorder. It’s available across a wide range of Pixel devices, but this update is meant for developers rather than everyday use That context matters when reading into any of these changes. Features shown here can still be removed before a stable release, even if some eventually appear in beta…
Self-hosting has a reputation for being complicated. The kind of hobby that involves racks of hardware, endless configuration files, and a weekend disappearing into Docker logs. That can certainly happen if you want it to. But it doesn’t have to. Some of the most satisfying self-hosted projects are surprisingly small. A single container, a simple web interface, and suddenly you’ve built a service that normally lives somewhere in the cloud. If you have a spare computer, an old Raspberry Pi, or even a forgotten desktop sitting in a closet, you already have everything you need to get started. Here are…
I’ve enjoyed using the Xteink X4 since I wrote about it in January, but I’ll be the first to admit it has problems. You don’t have to hold the tiny magnetic e-reader for long to find them. It has a confusing number of buttons, and it’s hard to predict what they’ll do. It can’t actually stick to the back of most phones unless you’re willing to attach an additional magnetic ring or deal with it protruding out of the side of your phone. And it’s not always the best to use, or particularly good at displaying EPUBs. Despite those issues,…
In the past few months, a wave of tech corporations have announced significant staff cuts and attributed them to efficiency gains driven by artificial intelligence.Companies such as Atlassian, Block, and Amazon have announced they would lay off thousands of employees due to increased reliance on AI.The narrative these companies offer is consistent: AI is making human labor replaceable, and responsible management demands adjustment.The evidence, however, tells a more nuanced story.The Automation Story Is Partly TrueGenuine disruption is visible in specific corners of the labor market, though the scale of that disruption is commonly overstated. Research from Anthropic published earlier this…
Instagram has introduced a new feature aimed at making it easier to interact with Reels. The feature is available on the web and is also rolling out to both Android and iOS apps with the latest update. The Meta-owned platform announced the feature via a post on Threads. With the update, users can now pause Reels with a simple tap. Previously, tapping a Reel would mute the audio instead. Previously, pausing a Reel required a tap-and-hold gesture. With the update, a single tap now pauses playback, and the mute option appears once the Reel is paused. Back in December 2025,…
I’m sure I don’t need to say this, but where would we be without coffee? I’m well aware there are many people who don’t drink the good stuff, but for those of us who do, I reckon we can all agree it’s something we could never live without.And no matter if you have a couple of cups in the morning or spread a variety of coffee-based drinks over the course of your day, if you’re getting your caffeine hit from a cafe, then I can only imagine what your yearly expenditure would look like. Fortunately, that’s where a home coffee…
The tremendous hype surrounding AI coding shows no signs of dying down. Last month, Anthropic released a suite of industry-specific plug-ins for its Claude Cowork AI agent, panicking investors over fears that traditional enterprise software-as-a-service companies could soon be made obsolete. The announcement triggered a trillion-dollar sell-off, with many tech companies seeing sharp declines in their share prices. It even seemed to jolt Sam Altman’s OpenAI, which moved to drop many of its distracting “side quests” in a concerted effort to double down on coding and enterprise-specific AI tools. Yet plenty of glaring questions about the long-term viability of AI…
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. The Nothing Phone (4a) Pro is a budget phone with its sights firmly trained on flagships. It offers a huge 5000-nit AMOLED display, a seriously stylish 0.31-inch / 7.95mm thick aluminum unibody, and a sufficiently powerful mid-range chipset to play games without breaking much of a sweat. More importantly, it continues to champion Nothing’s disruptive attitude to design and brings back the Phone 3’s super-flexible Glyph Matrix.Let’s start with…
Generally speaking, if you don’t like a TV show from the first episode, watching further on faith that it might improve doesn’t make much sense. There are other shows to watch and other things to do. And yet, you’ll sometimes hear some TV snob insist that this or that show only gets good half a season in, or two seasons in, or whatever, and that it’s worth it to soldier on. This is one of those times. While I’m usually loathe to recommend someone sit through a few episodes of a show that isn’t entertaining them, there can be more…