Author: The Tech Guy

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech As government agencies go, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has left a lot to be desired, often operating less like a government watchdog and more as an industry partner. There’s fee recovery, for example, which effectively mandates the industry pay its own regulators’ salary, as well as the NRC’s habit of trusting voluntary leak reports from reactor operators, not to mention its history of hiding internal safety data to protect its reputation. As if those deficiencies weren’t bad enough, president Donald Trump is…

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. 8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller: Two-minute reviewThe 8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller was primarily created for the Analogue 3D—a third-party console that emulates N64 hardware and requires real cartridges. However, it’s also compatible with Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC (as well as Android devices).Now, I don’t own an Analogue 3D personally (limited stock and an even more limited wallet have seen to that), but I do have a Switch…

I didn’t use to think much about how browsers handled tabs. I’d have maybe five, six tabs open at the same time, and Google Chrome would happily cruise along. Then I grew up, and my tab count grew with me. Before I knew it, I had dozens of tabs crammed into a horizontal strip at the top of the screen, each one shrunk to a favicon, and all of them a disaster to manage. But in my quest to find the perfect web browser, I stumbled upon Zen. Not only did it make the internet a much calmer place for…

You wouldn’t know it from browsing shelves, but Hisense is a relative newcomer to selling TVs in North America. It didn’t come to the US until 2013, and for a while, it still felt like a budget brand. Today, Hisense is ubiquitous in the country, and you can buy some genuinely high-end products, such as laser projectors and RGB mini-LED TVs. I own a Hisense TV myself, a U68KM mini-LED. I’m pretty familiar with the company’s take on Google TV, which represents most of its lineup. It does support other platforms, namely Roku, Fire TV, and Vidaa — but there…

Shor’s algorithm for factoring RSA-2048 (and related problems like elliptic-curve discrete logs) has seen dramatic reductions in estimated resources over the past 18 months. Theoretically breaking RSA-2048 would still require multi-day runtimes and billions of non-Clifford logical operations (primarily Toffoli gates) under realistic error rates (~0.1%) and cycle times. This remains far beyond near-term machines. Eventual runs will likely take days or many trillions of operations when full physical overhead is counted. Key Recent Theoretical Papers (2025–2026) Here are the most important open-access results: Craig Gidney (Google Quantum AI), May 2025 [How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less…

If you’re a foldable fan, this summer’s set to be a memorable one. Not only is Samsung said to be releasing an entirely new foldable form factor, but Google’s Pixel foldable is rumoured to slim down and get serious about camera hardware – and we’ll even see Apple’s long-awaited foldable if the stars align.  Could this be the summer that foldables finally jump from niche prospect to mainstream option? It’s quite possible – as long as we ignore the insane price tags that are likely to come alongside them, anyway.  A very exciting Samsung foldable release Things are set to…

Driving the length of Britain is an expensive endurance test that isn’t overly kind to the environment, but this week I helped do it for free, minus the emissions.A standard Renault 4, the kind of car parked on any suburban street, has covered the circa 870 miles from Land’s End to John o’Groats without taking a single unit from the grid or burning a drop of petrol. Every electron came from the sun. The same journey in a petrol car works out at £120.48 in fuel (around $160 / AU$230), or £240 there and back (about $320 / AU$460), while…

A threat actor has built a network of over 200 GitHub repositories that have been delivering Windows malware, supply chain protection provider Socket reports. Dubbed Operation Muck and Load, the campaign involves 222 lure repositories across 190 accounts that contain a Go module designed to trigger the infection chain. The module, Socket explains, loads PowerShell code that fetches a resolver from public dead drops to execute Windows malware such as spyware, trojan downloaders, infostealers, and cryptominers. To deceive users, the Go module poses as a DNS/subdomain scanning tool built around the legitimate dnsub open source project. Since January 24, 2026,…

The Zooniverse, a NASA grantee that runs the world’s largest platform for online people-powered research, has reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 billion classifications contributed by volunteers around the world. This milestone is a celebration of everyone who has marked a dip in a light curve, confirmed the presence of a moving object in a short video, or identified species in a camera trap image. Each of these small contributions collectively advances our understanding of the universe. A total of 31 NASA-sponsored citizen science projects have been hosted on Zooniverse, accounting for 120 million classifications by 324 thousand volunteers since 2020.…

Artificial intelligence has become remarkably good at creating fake human faces. So good, in fact, that the old tricks people relied on – counting fingers, spotting warped earrings, or looking for distorted backgrounds – are quickly becoming obsolete. According to a new study highlighted by the BBC, the next line of defence may not be a better AI detector at all. It might simply be a better-trained human. Researchers from the University of Aberdeen, working alongside Australia’s National University, found that people can dramatically improve their ability to distinguish AI-generated faces from real ones after a relatively short period of…