Author: The Tech Guy

YouTube has evolved into the internet’s most expansive library of tutorials, explainers, documentaries, and niche deep dives. Yet paradoxically, actually watching long-form content on the platform can be frustrating. You are 20 minutes into a 40-minute video when a sprawling sponsor segment appears. The recommendation sidebar tugs you toward distractions, a familiar nuisance if you are sick of irrelevant YouTube suggestions. And you often have no idea whether the hour-long tutorial you are about to start is insightful or misleading. The good news is that you are not stuck with YouTube in its default, chaotic form. With a carefully chosen…

Amazfit, known for its well-built but affordable smartwatches, has a new model in the works. The Amazfit Active Max has a clean look with a graduated bezel of the Active series paired with a larger display and a much larger battery. The Max has a 576mAh battery, according to the leaked specs shared by Roland Quandt. Also, it has a 1.5” OLED display with 480 x 480px resolution. For comparison, the Amazfit Active 2 has a 1.32” 466 x 466px display and a relatively small 270mAh battery. Amazfit has models with even larger batteries, e.g. the recently released Balance 2…

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and high-efficiency deployment. The release includes two models in "large" and "small" sizes: GLM-4.6V (106B), a larger 106-billion parameter model aimed at cloud-scale inferenceGLM-4.6V-Flash (9B), a smaller model of only 9 billion parameters designed for low-latency, local applicationsRecall that generally speaking, models with more parameters — or internal settings governing their behavior, i.e. weights and biases — are more powerful, performant, and capable of performing at a higher general level across more varied tasks.However,…

XAI Grok 4.2 Beat has been trading real money, buying and selling real stocks and reporting results in real time. Four different trading styles used by XAi Grok 4.2 are up an average of 20% over four $10,000 accounts and the best account is at a 65% gain peak over about 20 Days. How They Trade with 10x and 20x Leverage Hyperliquid specializes in perpetuals (derivatives without expiry), enabling easy leverage up to 50x (though Alpha Arena caps at ~20x for safety). Leverage amplifies exposure without full capital outlay, speeding feedback loops for AI learning.Mechanics:Margin Types: Isolated (risk limited to…

Black Friday might be over, but there are still a few big deals left over from the sale bonanza that might catch your eye – but you’d better be quick, as these deals likely won’t be hanging around for much longer.  The 4.5-star Sonos Era 300 is back to its lowest price of the year If you fancy treating yourself to a slice of high-end audio, then this Sonos Era 300 offer is well worth your attention. Sonos has long been one of the most recognised names in premium audio, and if you’ve ever been tempted to pick up a…

TikTok is launching “Shared Collections,” a new way for users to share and organize TikTok content in one place with friends or family. The company also teased the upcoming launch of “Shared Feeds,” which will let users watch TikTok content together through a shared interest-based feed. TikTok rolled out individual Collections earlier this year to let users save content in custom folders. With Shared Collections, users can now do things like create a space to share cookie-swap plans and holiday-dinner ideas with their family. Or, they can create Shared Collections to organize decor inspo or Secret Santa ideas. “Whether it’s…

TL;DR The Pebble team is teasing a new product. The teaser states that “Something’s coming” on December 9 at 10:00 AM ET. There are also hints that “More cool stuff” could be on the way. This has been an exciting time for Pebble fans. Not only has the brand been revived, but the team behind it has also launched two new smartwatches — the Pebble Time 2 and Pebble 2 Duo. It doesn’t appear that the company plans to coast on just those two devices, as a third product seems to be on the way. Don’t want to miss the…

When many enterprises weren’t even thinking about agentic behaviors or infrastructures, Booking.com had already “stumbled” into them with its homegrown conversational recommendation system. This early experimentation has allowed the company to take a step back and avoid getting swept up in the frantic AI agent hype. Instead, it is taking a disciplined, layered, modular approach to model development: small, travel-specific models for cheap, fast inference; larger large language models (LLMs) for reasoning and understanding; and domain-tuned evaluations built in-house when precision is critical. With this hybrid strategy — combined with selective collaboration with OpenAI — Booking.com has seen accuracy double…

By the time the Artemis II Orion spacecraft launches to the Moon next year, its many components will already have traveled thousands of miles and moved across multiple facilities before coming together at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Branelle Rodriguez, Artemis II vehicle manager for the Orion Program, has overseen many parts of that journey. Her job is to ensure the spacecraft is ready for its historic mission – carrying humans to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years. Based at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Rodriguez has been involved in every stage of the spacecraft’s lifecycle…

What’s happened? Tesla has announced a major 2025 Holiday Update heading to its vehicles, which includes a nifty feature that drivers have been requesting for ages. In a recent post on X, the electric vehicle maker revealed that the update will bring a new feature that will alert drivers if they accidentally leave their phone in the car. Once enabled, the car will play a chime whenever the driver leaves their phone behind. The Phone Left Behind Chime will play if the car detects a phone key inside the cabin or a phone on the wireless charger. Why is this…