Author: The Tech Guy

Last week, Omdia reported that India’s smartphone shipments dropped 26% in Q3 to their lowest level since 2016. Now Counterpoint Research has published its own numbers, and while they’re a bit less dire, they paint the same picture. Shipments apparently fell 20% year-on-year in July-September, to their lowest level in a decade. Unsurprisingly, record-high memory prices are to blame, since they drove up device costs. With demand staying soft, brands also kept less stock in stores, even ahead of the festive season. The cheaper end of the market took the hardest hit. Shipments of phones under INR 20,000 ($210) declined…

Last night, I spent the whole evening setting up my new Android phone. This was a fresh start, and it felt like the perfect chance to leave some Google baggage behind. Before setting up my new Motorola, I wanted to find out how many Google services I could uninstall on my old Samsung Galaxy before ruining it. I started by replacing Google Maps and Photos with Organic Maps and uninstalling Google Photos, then checked what the Samsung was connecting to. It didn’t come as much of a surprise to find Google was still there. That left me wondering how much…

Apple is seeding the iOS 27.2 update for supported iPhone models with several new features and fixes for over 160 security vulnerabilities. The iOS update brings new languages to Siri AI, Apple Pencil (USB-C) support on the iPhone Duo, and a lot more. Siri AI is now available in French, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese on the iPhone 15 Pro series and iPhone 16 models. The iOS 27.2 update also introduces Suggestions in Messages, Shared Albums in Photos, and support for SynthID watermarks in Photos and Image Playground. In the Apple TV app, users get a new Simple Profiles feature,…

Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic filed papers Monday for what could be the biggest initial public offering of stock ever even as its top executive warns that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. The filing sets up the San Francisco company for a Wall Street debut next month, potentially eclipsing the SpaceX initial public offering in June that raised a record $86 billion. An Anthropic IPO would also put the company ahead of OpenAI in going public in what is expected to be a pair of blockbuster stock debuts for the rival AI labs. An IPO could provide…

Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov) died on Sunday, October 25, 2026, at age 90 of natural causes/old age at his home in North Hollywood, surrounded by his daughter and niece. He was Chekov on Star Trek Original Series and Bester on Babylon 5. With Koenig’s death, only William Shatner (Captain Kirk) and George Takei (Hikaru Sulu) remain from the main original Star Trek cast. Other principal members were Leonard Nimoy (Spock), DeForest Kelley (McCoy), James Doohan (Scotty), and Nichelle Nichols (Uhura). Screenshot Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His…

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. You’d be surprised how much of your data is publicly available online. Remember those platforms where you entered your email address, phone number, or house address? Some of that information may have been curated by data broker sites and made accessible to the public, for a fee.These sites have built a business model of letting users discover people’s personal data, and because this data is mostly collected from public…

Knowing what antivirus you have on your Windows 11 PC helps you identify additional security programs, check which antivirus is actively protecting your device, and whether any traces of a previously uninstalled antivirus remain on your PC. Microsoft Defender is Windows’ built-in antivirus that provides decent protection for most home users. However, some users install […] This article How to check what antivirus I have on Windows 11 first appeared on TheWindowsClub.com.

Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityAdd Android Authority on Google: TL;DR OpenAI introduces its latest model, GPT-6.1 Terra, with excellent cost/performance balance. While Astra is still OpenAI’s performance king, Terra can offer output quality that’s not much lower, for a mere fraction of the cost. Despite similar performance to GPT-6.1 Sol, Terra operates at roughly half the price. Progress moves so fast when it comes to all things AI, that “bigger and better” hardly even feels like the target. Instead, we find ourselves tracking developments across multiple fronts, where sometimes it’s just as impressive to find your gains in terms of…

Industrial giants such as Siemens, Schneider Electric, ABB, Rockwell Automation and Johnson Controls have published advisories to inform customers about the impact of the recently disclosed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities on their products. Several of these companies have confirmed that some of their industrial and operational technology (OT) products are affected. Others are still assessing exposure or have determined that their products are not impacted. PHP2Shell is the name given to CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, two critical flaws in the PHP engine that can be exploited for unauthenticated remote code execution. PHP patched them on October 21 with versions 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and…

Members of the media are invited to tour a new lunar landing simulation at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley on Thursday, Oct. 29, and Friday, Oct. 30. Using a combination of in-house and partner motion-based simulators, NASA is giving astronauts and engineering support teams simulated experiences before crew members pilot commercial human landing systems to the surface of the Moon. Through the Artemis program, NASA is targeting the next lunar landing in 2028. During the tour, media will have an opportunity to participate in a Vertical Motion Simulator ride-along and interview subject matter experts. Media interested in…