Author: The Tech Guy

As TV manufacturers continue to innovate, seeking to create a more detailed, immersive home entertainment experience, there are some hits and misses when it comes to smart TVs. A pursuit that falls into the latter category, at least for the time being, involves 8K resolution. It makes sense that companies would strive for this highly detailed resolution: there was 720p, then 1080, and then 4K resolution. It follows that 8K would be the next mountain to scale. However, even though there are 8K TVs available, there are large barriers to these products that have made them mostly an afterthought. They…

Password, secret, and access management solutions provider 1Password announced this week that it has acquired Apono, an Israel-based company that specializes in just-in-time access governance for humans, machines, and AI agents. Financial details have not been officially disclosed, but Calcalist reported that the deal has been valued at between $250 million and $300 million. Apono provides just-in-time privileged access management that evaluates each request against policy before dynamically granting temporary, narrowly scoped permissions. These permissions are automatically removed once the task is complete, eliminating the need for standing accounts or persistent privileges. The platform integrates with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud,…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The SpaceX IPO has been a windfall for investors — or most of them, at any rate. But there’s a fear at the back of their minds that they just can’t shake off. What if a significant number of buyers turn tail and become sellers, dumping their SpaceX stock and leaving the most loyal Elon Musk fans holding the bag? It hasn’t happened yet, since the vast majority of investors for the time being are locked into their shares. Nonetheless, top venture capitalists…

Kodak’s quirky Charmera camera is getting a nostalgic refresh with the new Charmera Millennium Edition. It swaps the original’s retro disposable-camera styling for a collection of shiny Y2K-inspired designs. These designs look like they came straight from the early 2000s. The update introduces seven new finishes, all inspired by the technology and aesthetics of the millennium era. At $34.99/£35, the new models retain the same affordable price point. This helped make the original Charmera a hit among collectors and fans of lo-fi photography. The Millennium Edition isn’t just a cosmetic update, though. Kodak has expanded the camera’s creative toolkit with a total of seven…

Human traffic is up, but AI traffic is up 6.5x more, Fastly report claimsUncacheable AI requests are straining hosting infrastructureBusinesses must rethink website management and content discoverabilityNew Fastly analysis of its own global edge network has revealed that AI requests increased around 30% in the first five months of 2026 – while human traffic also rose, AI traffic grew at around 6.5x the pace of human traffic.But the company is arguing that this is much more than just an increase in bot traffic – it signals ,]the emergence of an entirely new layer of the Internet where AI systems increasingly…

Live Webinar: June 17, 2026 at 1PM ET – Register to Attend Today’s attackers are no longer breaking in — they’re logging in. Threat actors are increasingly using sophisticated social engineering, MFA fatigue attacks, session hijacking, credential theft, and help desk impersonation to bypass traditional security controls and move undetected across enterprise environments. In this webinar, we’ll break down the modern identity attack chain and examine how recent breaches exploited weaknesses in authentication, identity verification, and access management processes. Join the live webinar to explore: The evolving tactics behind today’s identity-driven attacks  How threat actors bypass MFA and exploit trusted…

Micron (MU) delivered one of the most dramatic AI-driven turnarounds in recent memory. In calendar 2024 / early fiscal 2025, quarterly revenue sat in the $5–8B range while the stock traded mostly between $80–$150. By mid-2026, quarterly revenue had exploded past $15B (hitting $23.86B in one quarter) and the stock surged above $1,000 and the company went to $1.15 trillion up fro November 2024 $110 billion. SpaceX (SPCX) is in a remarkably similar inflection point right now. Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Revenue per GW Multipliers — The Real Upside Story This is where SpaceX has more leverage than Micron ever did.…

After six years of waiting, Google has finally released a new smart speaker. The $99 Google Home Speaker is available for pre-order starting today and hits shelves on June 25, 2026. At the core of the speaker is Google’s conversational AI assistant: Gemini. With Gemini, you can now hold natural, multi-step conversations with the speaker rather than issuing individual commands. It understands natural phrasing and logic, so you can speak more naturally without phrasing everything like a voice command. Google What does the Google Home Speaker actually sound like? Beyond the Gemini AI layer, the smart speaker produces 360-degree output…

I still remember the first time I used Pocket, and it felt like magic. In addition to keeping a good-enough read-later list, Pocket also offered a reader-friendly version of everything I saved. However, as fate would have it, Pocket no longer exists. Finding a viable alternative to Pocket is not a difficult task per se, but we must not forget the larger lesson Mozilla’s decision to shut down Pocket taught us. That a company gets to decide what happens to the years of links you had kept is truly frustrating. Sure, Mozilla gave us an option to export the data,…

A factory supplying iPhone parts in India won’t be shut down after all. The plant in Hosur, Tamil Nadu was under investigation by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) since December 2025, after farmers near the facility complained about factory wastewater contaminating their land and wells. The TNPCB warned of a possible forced shutdown of the facility. The factory is owned by Indian conglomerate Tata and manufactures iPhone backplates. Given Apple’s recent drive to reduce its reliance on Chinese manufacturing, a quarter of iPhones sold worldwide are now made in India, with a burgeoning parts supply ecosystem also in…