Author: The Tech Guy

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. Two-minute reviewThe Lomography Lomourette is a compact half-frame camera built for the fun of film photography. Lightweight, inexpensive and simple, it strips the analog shooting experience down to its creative essentials. With a fixed f/8 plastic lens, manual focus dial and two-position shutter speed lever, it’s all about finding the joy and beauty in imperfection.In the hand, it feels every bit a toy camera. The build borders on cheap…

I’ve made no secret of my love for Google Maps over the years, as it has been a regular source of inspiration and provided reliable support on my many adventures. Whether it’s finding a decent restaurant or rerouting me through traffic hotspots, it’s been a constant companion that simply could not be beat—or so I thought. Having recently tried and been impressed by the privacy-focused Magic Earth, another platform called Sygic came on my radar, and it’s unlike any other digital mapping service. After using the app for a couple of long road trips and in city traffic, I am…

TL;DR Multiple users report receiving frequent, seemingly false high-stress warnings on their Galaxy Watch since installing the new One UI 8 Watch update. The cause could be an alteration in the algorithm or thresholds used to detect stress via heart rate monitoring. Samsung has released a stable version of One UI 8 Watch, based on Wear OS 6, for the Galaxy Watch 7 and Galaxy Watch Ultra (2024). This platform update is significant, as it introduces new features, including the Now Bar and revamped watch tiles, to existing smartwatch users. However, the update might have also caused some extra stress…

OpenAI is entering the browser world with the launch of ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-enabled browser. Atlas, now available globally, can be accessed through Apple’s macOS, with support for Windows, iOS and Android coming soon. The announcement comes several months after rumors in July that OpenAI would release a web browser that would challenge the dominance of Google’s Chrome. In a livestream, CEO Sam Altman said he hopes Atlas will help bring about a new way of interacting with and using the web, one where people chat with the browser rather than typing a URL. “We think AI represents a rare once-in-a-decade opportunity to…

SpaceX officially detailed progress on the Starship HLS for NASA’s Artemis 3 mission and had a new faster, safer and simpler plan for returning astronauts to the Moon. This responds to the push from NASA and the President for faster lunar landings. SpaceX has completed 49 milestones under the fixed-price Human Landing System (HLS) contract. They have 2026 tests for long-duration flights and in-space propellant transfer. Since the contract was awarded, SpaceX has consistently been responsive to NASA as requirements for Artemis III have changed and have shared ideas on how to simplify the mission to align with national priorities.…

We live in age when scientists are often scrutinised on social media, their advice ignored and events that happened ‘debunked’ (see Kim Kardashian’s latest thoughts about the ‘supposed’ moon landing). We seem to live in a world where nothing happened the way it was, if you believe the conspiracy theorists. And sure, from the perspective I write about, which is TV and audio, there’s a similar stance that’s taken. Can you really believe that ANC headphones cancel noise two million times per second? Is that TV really that bright, etc, etc? Some of it is all marketing hype, and in…

When OpenAI launched GPT-5 about two weeks ago, CEO Sam Altman promised it would be the company's "smartest, fastest, most useful model yet." Instead, the launch triggered one of the most contentious user revolts in the brief history of consumer AI.Now, a simple blind testing tool created by an anonymous developer is revealing the complex reality behind the backlash—and challenging assumptions about how people actually experience artificial intelligence improvements.The web application, hosted at gptblindvoting.vercel.app, presents users with pairs of responses to identical prompts without revealing which came from GPT-5 (non-thinking) or its predecessor, GPT-4o. Users simply vote for their preferred…

My colleagues swear by productivity mice, like Logitech’s MX Master 4, while Mac users tend to go for Apple’s baffling Magic Mouse. However, I usually prefer gaming models because of their high performance and in-depth customization options. Until now, I’d never considered ergonomic vertical mice because I didn’t feel wrist pain or fatigue after hours of play — I just didn’t see the point. That’s probably why I thought they were a bit gimmicky and trying to create a problem to solve. I still love testing new electronics and decided to try a vertical mouse to see if it could…

For more than three decades, modern CPUs have relied on speculative execution to keep pipelines full. When it emerged in the 1990s, speculation was hailed as a breakthrough — just as pipelining and superscalar execution had been in earlier decades. Each marked a generational leap in microarchitecture. By predicting the outcomes of branches and memory loads, processors could avoid stalls and keep execution units busy. But this architectural shift came at a cost: Wasted energy when predictions failed, increased complexity and vulnerabilities such as Spectre and Meltdown. These challenges set the stage for an alternative: A deterministic, time-based execution model.…

Real estate sites are filling up with glaringly AI-altered images that dress up run-down properties as being in much better shape than they actually are. Landlords are using AI to populate rooms with nonexistent furniture, move walls around, dream up imaginary facades, rooflines, and landscaping, and brighten up rooms that are in reality devoid of sunlight. Case in point, a Zillow listing recently identified by children’s book illustrator DeAnn Wiley, recently interviewed by Slate, shows an AI-yassified facade of a rental property in Detroit, Michigan that’s smoothed over to a comical degree. It was an astonishing makeover: rooms didn’t show…