Author: The Tech Guy
NASA will observe its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday, Jan. 22, which includes commemorating the crews of Apollo 1 and the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia. The event is traditionally held every year on the fourth Thursday of January, as all three astronaut accidents happened around the end of the month. “On NASA’s Day of Remembrance, we pause to honor the members of the NASA family who lost their lives while pushing the boundaries of exploration and discovery,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. “We remember them not to retreat from risk, but to respect it — to learn, to…
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. What would you do if you worked a mundane finance job with middling pay in the city’s banking district, only to find that when you arrived at the office, you were taken hostage by a terrifying team of armed strangers? Unluckily for Zara (Sophie Turner), that’s exactly her Monday morning in the new Prime Video drama, Steal.With the stakes immediately sky high, the six-part series is a far cry…
You probably don’t realize it yet, but the sleek smart TV sitting in your living room has become a surveillance device masquerading as entertainment. And the worst part? Most of us unknowingly enabled it during setup. However, just like there are default settings you can turn off to improve your TV, there are settings you can disable to stop your TV from spying on you. Disable Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) This setting tracks what you watch, not what you search Credit: Shimul Sood / MakeUseOf The biggest privacy invasion on your TV isn’t some mysterious backdoor; it’s a technology called Automatic…
Spotify is in the news today and not because of yet another price hike, believe it or not. Instead, a new report has uncovered a feature that’s coming soon to Spotify’s audiobooks. It’s called Page Match and it’s pretty clever – it lets you take a photo of a page in a physical book, and once you do that Spotify will take you to the exact same spot in the audiobook. This lets you easily jump from the audio version to a physical text, if you’re so inclined. What’s more, it’s bidirectional – so it also lets you know what…
As data-center energy bills grow exponentially, technology companies are looking to nuclear for reliable, carbon-free power. Meta has now made an unusually direct bet on a startup developing small modular reactor technology by agreeing to finance the fuel for its first reactors.The nuclear industry’s flagging fortunes have rebounded in recent years as companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have signed long-term deals with providers and invested in startups developing next-generation reactors. US nuclear capacity is forecast to rise 63 percent in the coming decades thanks largely to data-center demand.But Meta has gone a step further by prepaying for power from…
If you’re on the hunt for a new 65-inch TV to really elevate your home entertainment, this Roku Smart TV deal is an easy recommendation. The Roku Smart TV 2025, which is Mini-LED equipped, has seen its price shrink from $649.99 to only $449.99, saving you a massive $200. While there are cheaper TVs out there, this deal is by far the best for the level of quality you’re getting for your money. Pick up a Roku Mini‑LED TV for under $450 There’s something satisfying about finding a TV that delivers a genuinely cinematic picture without the premium‑tier price. View…
ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has now become the No. 3 most-blocked account on Bluesky, after receiving its official verification on Friday, according to third-party trackers. Bluesky users, unsurprisingly, are angry about the government account being hosted on the platform. Many are recommending that others block the account directly or subscribe to a block list that includes all of the U.S. government’s official accounts. The blocklist was introduced after the White House and other government agencies under the Trump administration signed up for Bluesky last October to post messages blaming Democrats for the government shutdown. The accounts that joined…
Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DR The Helium Zero Plan is no longer completely free as of January 27, though it’s not actually being discontinued either. Helium will now require Zero Plan users to add a card and pay taxes and fees, likely totaling around $5–$8 per month. The plan is still one of the cheapest ways to get a low-cost backup plan, but there are certainly other options if you’re willing to pay just a bit more. I’ve been a huge fan of Helium’s free plan since its introduction early last year. While the plan is understandably limited, it makes…
The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive.Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of software developers worldwide. But its pricing — ranging from $20 to $200 per month depending on usage — has sparked a growing rebellion among the very programmers it aims to serve.Now, a free alternative is gaining traction. Goose, an open-source AI agent developed by Block (the financial technology company formerly known as Square), offers nearly identical functionality to Claude Code but runs entirely on a user's local machine. No subscription fees.…
In 2021, a crew of self-described free speech martyrs announced they were founding a university to save American higher education from the scourge of cancel culture. They called it the University of Austin, or UATX — and though it lacks accreditation, they boasted that it would be a place where controversial ideas could breathe free, and students wouldn’t live in fear of the woke mob. Pretty much from the jump, critics of UATX suspected the project was less about “freedom of speech” and more about building a right-wing echo chamber for aggrieved libertarians. It operated out of a former retail…