Author: The Tech Guy
Judging by Google Chrome’s massive usage figures (3.83 billion worldwide monthly active users and 68-69% share on mobile, 89% on Android), chances are you are using the browser in any form. The Samsung Browser (formerly known as the Samsung Internet Browser) is one of the more popular alternatives. It comes pre-installed on all Galaxy devices and can also be freely downloaded by anyone else from the Google Play Store. It is very powerful, with plenty of customization and some interesting extra features like extension support. According to reports, Samsung Browser will be getting a multi-window, split-screen browsing experience soon. It…
Between Severance, Pluribus, For All Mankind, Foundation, Silo, Dark Matter, and more, Apple TV+ has absolutely marked itself as the premiere streaming service for science fiction TV. They’re now taking on their biggest challenge yet: a TV adaptation of Neuromancer, William Gibson’s 1984 novel about a hacker who gets caught up in a globe-trotting conspiracy. Neuromancer is a hugely influential book, but despite numerous attempts has never been adapted for the screen. If anyone can do it, it’s the sci-fi nerds at Apple TV. What is Neuromancer about? The seminal cyberpunk story Credit: Ace Neuromancer is about Case, a hacker who…
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. Russell Hobbs Everyday Espresso Machine: one-minute reviewThe Russell Hobbs Everyday Espresso Machine is an entry-level coffee maker with an unusual twist: in addition to a regular portafilter for ground coffee, it comes with a holder for Nespresso Original style coffee capsules. A handy option if you’re making the switch from pods to fresh beans, or sharing a kitchen with someone who prefers a different brewing method.It’s very cheap too,…
Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can decay slowly or quickly, sometimes over days, weeks, or even months. Thanks to a new study about these long-lived active regions, we now know much more about the patches where these strong magnetic fields take at least a month to decay. This study relied on inputs from NASA’s Solar Active Region Spotter citizen science project, which asked volunteers to answer a series of questions about pairs of active region images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Project leads Emily Mason…
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. RedMagic 11 Air: Two-minute reviewLike its lightweight predecessor, the RedMagic 10 Air, the RedMagic 11 Air represents a smart piece of repurposing. It takes the RedMagic 10 Pro and slims down the package, losing a few pounds (not to mention some camera capabilities) and resulting in a temptingly approachable gaming phone.At an asking price of less than $500 / £500, you’re getting a hugely capable performer with a Snapdragon…
Huawei formally outed a few details regarding the Enjoy 90 Pro Max and Enjoy 90 Plus – two upcoming handsets. The highlight of the reveal is probably the “Whale battery,” which is said to have a capacity of around 8,500 mAh. Huawei Enjoy 90 Pro Max and 90 Plus The source also expects both phones to feature a 6.84-inch, QHD+ LTPS OLED display and either a Kirin 8000 or Kirin 8020 chipset, plus 8GB of RAM and a choice between 128GB, 256GB and 512GB of storage. Huawei Enjoy 90 Plus We also get a few images…
RoboticsHow Pokémon Go Is Giving Delivery Robots an Inch-Perfect View of the WorldWill Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review ($)”Niantic Spatial is using that vast and unparalleled trove of crowdsourced data—images of urban landmarks tagged with super-accurate location markers taken from the phones of hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players around the world—to build a kind of world model, a buzzy new technology that grounds the smarts of LLMs in real-world environments.”FutureA Roadmap for AI, if Anyone Will ListenConnie Loizos | TechCrunch”The newly published document, signed by hundreds of experts, former officials, and public figures, opens with the no-nonsense…
Verdict If what you really want is an inexpensive set of earbuds with the novelty of a screen, the Groov-e Neos are some of your only options with this functionality. They’re decently comfortable, have some ANC, and the screen serves some purpose. However, you can do a lot better in terms of audio performance, even at this cheaper end of the market. Screen has some interesting functions Solid comfort for extended listening Decent battery life Very bassy audio by default Poor ANC Key Features Screen Touchscreen LCD with built-in apps for EQ, volume, and even a game. Lightweight The Neo’s…
PC cooling methods probably sound roughly as interesting to folks who aren’t into building their own rigs as the concept of touring a museum entirely dedicated to the history of asparagus. For those of us who love to put together custom desktops like they’re assembling extremely techy Lego, though, installing a liquid cooler can be a joy. I wasted the longest time installing uninspiring air coolers while putting together PCs over the years. Even though I’ve been building rigs since 2004, I only started to go down the liquid cooling route around five years ago. Looking back, I wish I’d…
I’ve been enjoying Google’s new Pixel Desktop Mode on my Pixel 10 Pro XL lately, so much so that it almost makes the world of smartphones feel new again. However, Google is far from the first to combine smartphone and desktop experiences under one roof. US consumers have had access to Samsung’s DeX environment since 2017, and it has gradually improved the platform with various new features that have set a high bar for Google’s new system to meet.If anything, it’s surprising that it’s taken Google just this long to come up with its own take on the formula. But how…