Author: The Tech Guy
Samsung released the Android 16-based One UI 8.5 stable update for the Galaxy A24 4G a few days ago, and now we learn it has started testing the Android 17-based One UI 9 for this smartphone. The One UI 9 build for the Galaxy A24 4G spotted on Samsung’s server has firmware version A245FXXUCGZF4, but we don’t know when Samsung will release the One UI 9 beta or stable update for the smartphone. In fact, the only smartphones that have received the One UI 9 beta so far are the Galaxy S26 series smartphones, even though Samsung is working on…
Decentralized prediction market Polymarket has promised to fully refund users affected by a hacker attack that came to light this week. Polymarket is a cryptocurrency-based prediction market platform that enables users to trade on the likely outcomes of real-world events ranging from elections and economic indicators to sports and cultural happenings. The company has shared little information about the incident. “This morning we discovered a 3rd party vendor had been compromised, injecting a malicious script into our frontend for some users. We’ve contained it & removed the affected dependency,” Polymarket said in a Thursday post on X. It noted that…
All that matters today for SpaceX and Tesla is the life and death battle to win AI. Every strategic move is URGENT. There is no time to wait years for robotaxi. Tesla and SpaceX must merge ASAP. There is more money and more gains from AI than anything else. The prize is thousands of trillions of dollar. SpaceX will be able to ramp up APR Energy to 2 to 5 GW per year of energy. Commit to more production and supply from GE. About 3-4 GW per year seem very likely and able to grow based on the existing orders…
The four days of Amazon Prime Day shopping ended this Friday – so, let’s look at what the prices are like now. We’ve picked out the Samsung Galaxy S26 flagships plus a couple of Galaxy mid-rangers as well as the non-folding phones of the Google Pixel 10 lineup. The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra still starts at under $1,000. However, that buys you 256GB of storage. You can upgrade to 512GB, but this year this is a $200 upgrade. As usual, we’ll point you to our comparison articles against the Galaxy S25 Ultra and iPhone 17 Pro Max. The…
Andy Walker / Android AuthorityOne of the easiest ways to get the latest helping of news on Android is to boot up the Google News app. However, easy isn’t necessarily synonymous with best. Google News is plagued by several significant issues, including a tendency to promote inflammatory sources and inadequate tools for proper user content moderation. While I find it difficult to pull myself away due to its ease of use, these issues have slowly driven me to seek alternatives.In that search, I’ve stumbled upon some unconventional solutions, from transforming Perplexity’s Comet browser into a full-time news tool to reconsidering…
More than 200,000 websites are using investment scam templates built with the Chinese open source framework Uni-App, Infoblox reports. A cross-platform development toolkit, Uni-App allows developers to create Vue.js codebases that can be deployed as mobile and desktop applications, or as mobile-optimized websites simultaneously. Widely used in China and supported by a developer ecosystem, the framework powers thousands of legitimate products, and its maker DCloud does not appear to be involved in its fraudulent use. However, Infoblox discovered that threat actors are selling investment scam templates, and that numerous scam websites using such templates appear linked to the same cluster…
NASA has announced the top student-developed solutions for environmental control and life support systems in future crewed lunar landers from participants in the 2026 Human Lander Challenge. The announcement marks the culmination of months of research by university teams working to advance technologies supporting the agency’s Artemis program that will return American astronauts to the Moon in 2028. The challenge concluded June 25 following final technical presentations near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Since September 2025, student teams from across the nation have designed systems‑level approaches to enhance the performance and reliability of environmental control and life…
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. Cleer Arc 5: Two-minute reviewAlmost every one of the best open earbuds I’ve tested, has been designed for sports users. They let you hear your surroundings at the gym, remain aware when running in a busy area, and keep alert when cycling on a road. I don’t think Cleer missed this memo – the brand’s intentionally going for something completely different.The Cleer Arc 5 are open earbuds designed not…
I have reopened the same 60-page PDF multiple times this week, and I still can’t tell you what is in the middle of it. Linear reading has never really clicked for me. Somewhere around page twenty, a long report stops being information and starts being wallpaper. So I built a small Claude skill that takes any document and hands me back a navigable mind map. It’s the same instinct behind turning plain notes into visual maps. A branching picture sticks in my head when paragraphs just slide off it. Related I started using Claude instead of these 5 apps —…
Disclosure Day had a great debut this past weekend, notching $44 million through Sunday, making it the biggest opening weekend for a Steven Spielberg original movie ever. The movie follows several characters who are fighting to reveal the existence of aliens to the wider world, and stars Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo and Colin Firth. The film was a hit with critics as well as audiences, earning an 81% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Given its strong opening weekend performance, it may come as some surprise that Universal has already made this film available to pre-order, not…