Author: The Tech Guy
Not every show is going to be hard-hitting or action-packed from the start. They can’t all be massive, non-stop thrillers that stay in your head for weeks, and that’s okay. Personally, I like a deliberately paced show, which I know isn’t exactly the popular thing in this modern era where everything has to move at a break-neck pace or risk being left behind by the viewing masses. After all, there’s always another show to watch. When it comes to slow-burn preferences, however, I find that it works best with science fiction, especially on a grand scale. Give me various characters…
The Realme 16 series is rumored to become official on January 6, and today in China the box for the upcoming Realme 16 Pro+ has been leaked. The Pro+ will of course be the highest-end member of the family. According to the source of the leaked image showing the box, the Realme 16 Pro+ will have a periscope telephoto camera on its rear. That is of course very good news. This is a feature that the Realme 14 Pro+ had, but the Realme 15 Pro didn’t (there was no Realme 15 Pro+). Now it’s back, and we wouldn’t be surprised…
Presented by SAPWhen SAP ran a quiet internal experiment to gauge consultant attitudes toward AI, the results were striking. Five teams were asked to validate answers to more than 1,000 business requirements completed by SAP’s AI co-pilot, Joule for Consultants — a workload that would normally take several weeks.Four teams were told the analysis had been completed by junior interns fresh out of school. They reviewed the material, found it impressive, and rated the work about 95% accurate.The fifth team was told the very same answers had come from AI.They rejected almost everything.Only when asked to validate each answer one…
Quantware has solved the fanout problem for superconducting quantum computers. They are making breakthroughs that can scale quantum computers to millons of qubits by 2029. They are at the Q2B silicon valley conference today at the Santa Clara convention center. QuantWare announces VIO-40K, a new scaling architecture for quantum chips which solves the bottlenecks of scaling quantum computing, enabling 10,000 qubit quantum chips, 100x more qubits than current industry state-of-the-art from Google and IBM. It will be available in 2028. * VIO-40K architecture supports 40,000 input–output lines and consists entirely of chiplet modules connected to each other via ultra-high-fidelity chip-to-chip…
Verdict The Bowfell Plus is another example of how Majority continues to step up with impressive sounding and frankly dirt-cheap audio devices. This compact and well-designed package is a no-brainer if you’re seeking a bump-up for voices and some mildly hefty movie watching on a budget. Great TV audio lift Lends movies scale Balanced music playback Solid, ergonomic build Boomy bass under stress No HDMI ARC Key Features Introduction Has anyone else noticed how Majority is quietly planting its audio devices on several newly acquired retail shelves? Although widely available still on Amazon, you will also see the range crop…
There is no shortage of AI benchmarks in the market today, with popular options like Humanity's Last Exam (HLE), ARC-AGI-2 and GDPval, among numerous others.AI agents excel at solving abstract math problems and passing PhD-level exams that most benchmarks are based on, but Databricks has a question for the enterprise: Can they actually handle the document-heavy work most enterprises need them to do?The answer, according to new research from the data and AI platform company, is sobering. Even the best-performing AI agents achieve less than 45% accuracy on tasks that mirror real enterprise workloads, exposing a critical gap between academic…
TL;DR Some of IKEA’s recently announced smart home products are now available for purchase in the US. The online listings reveal the prices for the new smart sensors and the dual-button remote. The new smart lights, smart plug, and other controllers are still unavailable. Last month, IKEA revealed it was revamping its smart home offerings by launching 21 new products. We were expecting these devices to hit the US sometime in 2026. In a bit of a surprise, some of these products have recently started popping up on the Swedish retailer’s website for the US and in physical stores across…
French AI startup Mistral has weathered a rocky period of public questioning over the last year to emerge, now here in December 2025, with new, crowd-pleasing models for enterprise and indie developers.Just days after releasing its powerful open source, general purpose Mistral 3 LLM family for edge devices and local hardware, the company returned today to debut Devstral 2.The release includes a new pair of models optimized for software engineering tasks — again, with one small enough to run on a single laptop, offline and privately — alongside Mistral Vibe, a command-line interface (CLI) agent designed to allow developers to…
A flash of lightning, and then—something else. High above a storm, a crimson figure blinks in and out of existence. If you see it, you are a lucky witness of a sprite, one of the least-understood electrical phenomena in Earth’s upper atmosphere. Sprites occur at some 50 miles (80 kilometers) altitude, high above thunderstorms. They appear moments after a lightning strike – a sudden reddish flash that can take a range of shapes, often combining diffuse plumes and bright, spiny tendrils. Some sprites tend to dance over the storms, turning on and off one after another. Many questions about how…
On December 8, 2025, Google quietly rolled out an “Extended Repair Program” covering the Pixel 9 Pro and the Pixel 9 Pro XL. A limited number of devices in the series suffer from display issues. Additionally, the company has also launched an “Extended Warranty Program” for the Pixel 9 Pro Fold. The eligibility criteria for the repair program are a bit odd, though, as it requires a “vertical line on the display” that “runs from bottom to top.” Furthermore, “display flicker on the Pixel 9 Pro devices also qualifies.” Google also clarifies that cracked displays or cover glasses, along with…