Author: The Tech Guy

It is happening. Yesterday Tesla starting rolling out FSD V14.2.1.25 with XAI Grok Voice. You give verbal navigation directions. Today Tesla robotaxi are being spotted driving around in Austin without safety monitors. Even if you were a passenger who had trouble using a rideshare app to give your destination, you will be able to talk to the FSD robotaxi to give AND change your destinations. There will be no safety monitor and safety drivers in months and scaling will accelerate massively. All the people and analysts saying years away to scale or even bulls forecasting 10,000 or 40,000 or less…

The saying is ‘don’t look back, look forward’ but in this current day and age, there’s a lot of peering over the shoulder. With 2026 just days away, we’re in that end-of-the-year period where people are looking back on the year while also casting a glance at what’s coming up. It’s like some weird whiplash, though far less severe on the neck muscles. And in general, there is a large sense of nostalgia about modern culture at the moment. I think you could look at it from two perspectives. Either past trends have revved back into fashion somehow; or rather…

I think I’ve had one of the messiest backup strategies for years. I’m constantly testing out new tools, and it takes a toll. I’ve used backup tools like Restic and mainstream options like Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and Apple iCloud, to name a few. These options are robust but usually not totally under your control and often require paid plans for ample storage. I finally came across BorgBackup (Borg for short), and it’s one tool that can replace all the backup options I’ve tried. It’s open source, my data is practically under my control, and it’s free. But more importantly,…

For a long time, I avoided buying a laptop. That might sound strange for someone who writes for a living, but if your interests include PC gaming like mine do, a desktop tower is always going to be the most economical option. It costs more to get miniaturized specs with any performance, and you can upgrade many desktop parts at will, instead of just storage or RAM. Ultimately, the best performance is only possible with a desktop, since there’s far more room for memory, processor cores, and cooling. I’ve been a laptop convert since 2022, mostly because I needed the…

Picture this: You're sitting in a conference room, halfway through a vendor pitch. The demo looks solid, and pricing fits nicely under budget. The timeline seems reasonable too. Everyone’s nodding along.You’re literally minutes away from saying yes.Then someone from your finance team walks in. They see the deck and frown. A few minutes later, they shoot you a message on Slack: “Actually, I threw together a version of this last week. Took me 2 hours in Cursor. Wanna take a look?”Wait… what?This person doesn't code. You know for a fact they've never written a line of JavaScript in their entire…

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight – the death of a low-mass star – in this image of the Calabash Nebula released on Feb. 3, 2017. Here, we can see the star going through a rapid transformation from a red giant to a planetary nebula, during which it blows its outer layers of gas and dust out into the surrounding space. The recently ejected material is spat out in opposite directions with immense speed — the gas shown in yellow is moving close to a million kilometers an hour. Astronomers rarely capture a star in this phase of…

This week we’re following a bit of a theme and discussing some of the top recommended TVs available. These questions came from viewers of our previous best TVs video, so think of this as a continuation. That video covered our picks in three different price tiers. As many have pointed out, there might be some holes, so I recommend watching that one as well to get the whole picture. This probably won’t be the last time we revisit the topic. It’s shopping season, and once the 2026 TVs are announced and become available, the best 2024 and 2025 TVs could…

I’ve been lucky enough to interview Robin Hood star Connie Nielsen twice now – once during press for said MGM+ show and the other while at her Scandinavian cabin months before Gladiator II hit the big screen – and both times I’ve come away feeling profoundly moved.Nielsen is both a natural fit for playing sophisticated royalty and for stories with direct, important moral messaging. It’s easy to see why she was picked for Eleanor of Aquitaine in Robin Hood: each time she opens her mouth, sage wisdom appears.Now we’re at episode 8, and both Rob (Jack Patten) and Marian (Lauren…

Spiders from Mars? Try Europa. A team of planetary scientists from Ireland have examined and named an intriguing feature on the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon that resembles the shape of an arachnid — or perhaps an exploded asterisk. They’re calling it “Damhán Alla,” which is Gaelic for “spider,” or in a particularly evocative phrasing, “wall demon.” The team’s analysis, published as a study in The Planetary Science Journal, suggest that Damhán Alla, and other features like it, may be the festering wounds formed by torrents of water erupting through Europa’s icy shell. “The significance of our research is really…

Last week’s poll ends with interesting results – the Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold is surprisingly popular. Okay, the plurality of people is turned away by its price, but those people still find the form factor appealing. Add those who are willing to spend as much as necessary to get into the new form factor early plus those who are on the fence and are waiting and the Z TriFold crosses the 50% mark. It’s rare to see a fresh idea in the mobile space get so much support out of the gate – super-slim phones experienced the exact opposite situation.…