Author: The Tech Guy

In the winter of 2022, as the tech world was becoming mesmerized by the sudden, explosive arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Benjamin Alarie faced a pivotal choice. His legal tech startup, Blue J, had a respectable business built on the AI of a bygone era, serving hundreds of accounting firms with predictive models. But it had hit a ceiling.Alarie, a tenured tax law professor at the University of Toronto, saw the nascent, error-prone, yet powerful capabilities of large language models not as a curiosity, but as the future. He made a high-stakes decision: to pivot his entire company, which had been…

Brian Alpert’s path was always destined for the aerospace industry, but his journey turned toward NASA’s Johnson Space Center during his sophomore year in college. That was when Tricia Mack, who works in NASA’s Transportation Integration Office within the International Space Station Program, spoke to his aerospace seminar about planning spacewalks, training crews, and supporting operations from the Mission Control Center in Houston. Alpert was inspired to join the agency and later earned a spot as an engineering co-op student at Johnson. “My first stop after new employee orientation was Tricia’s office,” he said. Eighteen years later, Alpert is the…

Verdict Packed with features, Samsung Bespoke AI 4-Door French Door RF90F29AECRAA is a very smarly designed fridge freezer that will add plenty of smarts to your kitchen. Fami;ly Hub can be great Interior is very well designed Expensive to run AI Vision remains mostly useless Key Features Capacity Large French Door fridge freezer Smart features Samsung’s Family Hub with a large touchscreen and AI Vision Inside to track when you put food in or out of the fridge Introduction The Samsung Bespoke AI 4-Door French Door RF90F29AECRAA shows that a fridge freezer can be more than just somewhere to keep…

The Oppo Find X9 and Find X9 Pro, which were unveiled in China and some European markets last month, made their debut today in India. The Oppo Find X9 Pro comes in a single 16GB/512GB configuration in India with two color options – Silk White and Titanium Charcoal. It’s priced at INR109,999 and will go on sale starting November 21 through Oppo’s Indian website, Amazon.in, Flipkart, and offline retail stores. The Oppo Find X9 will be sold through the same channels in India starting November 21, but its pricing, colors, and memory options are different. It comes in Titanium Grey…

As its whiskers flitter, the mouse’s brain sparks with activity. A tiny implant records the electrical chatter and beams it to a nearby computer.Smaller than a grain of salt, the implant is powered by and transmits data with light. Unlike most implants, it moves with the brain to reduce scarring. Dubbed MOTE, the device reliably captured electrical signals for a year in mice—about half their lifespan—without obvious damage.“The long-term recording of neural activity could be used to understand complex behaviors and disorders,” Sunwoo Lee at Nanyang Technological University, Alyosha Molnar at Cornell University, and team wrote in a recent paper…

Google’s very successful Nano Banana AI image creator and editor is now available in the Now Brief feature that’s part of Samsung’s Galaxy AI. Now Brief just received a Nano Banana image generation card, which pulls a random selfie or pet photo from your gallery and suggests a few editing prompts which you can use. Tap on any of them and Nano Banana will generate an AI-transformed version of that picture. To receive this new feature, you need the latest version of the Personal Data Intelligence app from the Galaxy Store. Once you have it, there will be a new…

The last Star Wars movie to play in theaters was The Rise of Skywalker, six years ago. That may not seem like a long time in the long arc of the series—well over a decade passed between Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace, after all—but ever since Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012, they’ve wanted to flood the zone. We got five Star Wars movies between 2015 and 2019, plus a lot of TV shows after that. So, the absence of another proper Star Wars movie has been notable. Now finally, Disney is readying a couple of new movies…

Ryan Haines / Android AuthorityTL;DR According to data collected by Ookla, Google’s Pixel 10 Pro recorded the fastest global median Wi-Fi download speeds, beating Apple’s new iPhone 17 family. Apple’s custom N1 chip still delivered significant gains over the previous generation and performed better than the Pixel 10 Pro in poor signal conditions. Xiaomi’s 15T Pro led peak performance tests. Google has just scored an important win for the Android camp in its competition with Apple. According to a study based on crowdsourced data collected by Ookla, the Pixel 10 Pro beat the iPhone 17 family by delivering the fastest…

Despite new methods emerging, enterprises continue to turn to autonomous coding agents and code generation platforms. The competition to keep developers working on their platforms, coming from tech companies, has also heated up.AWS thinks its offering, Kiro, and new capabilities to ensure behavioral adherence set up a large differentiator in the increasingly crowded coding agent space. Kiro, first launched in July on public preview, is now generally available with new features, including property-based testing for behavior and a command-line interface (CLI) capability to tailor custom agents. Kiro is an agentic coding tool with its own IDE to help create agents and…

The OG cryptocurrency Bitcoin is having a horrible month. The token has wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars in total market value, dropping below $92,000 for the first time since mid-April. That’s despite soaring to an all-time high of over $126,000 a mere six weeks ago. It’s been a bruising couple of weeks — and nobody is entirely clear on why. Even Bloomberg admitted that “Bitcoin has fallen fast, hard, and with no clear trigger.” One prevailing theory is economic uncertainty over dwindling hope that the US Federal Reserve will lower interest rates next month. A lower rate usually…