Author: The Tech Guy

I’m at GITEX Global, Dubai, one of if not the biggest tech exhibition in the world. All the big names that you would expect are here, Microsoft, AWS, Google, and of course most are talking about AI. And, part of that conversation is energy. Is there enough, where do we get it from, and how do we get it to where it needs to go? Greg Jackson, Co-founder and CEO of Octopus Energy is here as a speaker to go over those things and just before he got on stage, we grabbed a coffee.I met Greg just outside the speakers…

Voice AI company ElevenLabs is now letting authors publish AI-generated audiobooks on its own Reader app, TechCrunch has learned and the company confirmed. The announcement comes days after the company partnered with Spotify for AI-narrated audiobooks. ElevenLabs, which raised a $180 million mega-round last month, started inviting authors to try out their publishing program through their app on a trial basis last year, TechCrunch previously spotted. That program is newly open to all authors as of today. Image Credits:ElevenLabs The company confirmed the development to TechCrunch, explaining the idea is to provide affordable and accessible tools for audiobook creation, which…

Home » Science » SpaceX Heat Shield and Starship Mass Production SpaceX removed about 72 tiles in 18 key locations for Starship Flight 11 and there was no catastrophic failure. This could allow SpaceX to optimize the heat shield and remove 10-20% of tiles over lower heating areas. SpaceX will choose to remain extra cautious but they can eventually reduce heat shield tiles. SpaceX is scaling up to making 1000 heat shield tiles per day which will be enough to reach a mass production target of 10 Starships per month. Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular…

If you’re shopping for a projector between $500 and $1,000, prepare to face a sea of clones. Sizes, designs and even button layouts are often nearly identical from one brand to the next. But there’s something different about the BenQ HT2050A. Although it has a similar price to the competition, it’s larger and there’s a more aesthetically pleasing, curvy design. It looks less like the repurposed business projector and more like something you’d want in your house. And the difference is more than skin deep: This projector’s performance is a step above as well.  Like Bright picture with great contrast …

When it comes to AI, many enterprises seem to be stuck in the prototype phase. Teams can be constrained by GPU capacity and complex and opaque model workflows; or, they don’t know when enough training and customization is enough, and whether they’ve reached the highest level of performance and accuracy (or not). This is because they’re doing fine-tuning wrong, according to RapidFire AI. The company says it can get enterprises over that hump with its “rapid experimentation” engine. Now in open-source release, the platform is designed to speed up and simplify large language models (LLMs) customization, fine‑tuning and post‑training. Hyper-parallel…

Apple increased the monthly price of its video streaming service three times in three years – even so, the subscriber count has been growing faster than we suspected. The rumor was for 45 million subscribers. However, Apple Services SVP Eddy Cue appeared on Hollywood-focused podcast The Town and stated that the actual subscriber count is “significantly more than that”. However, Cue refused to give a specific number. Based on numbers from FlixPatrol, the rumored 45 million count would have put the newly renamed Apple TV service just above Peacock’s 41 million. For what it’s worth, the estimated number on this…

2025 was supposed to be the year of "AI agents," according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and other AI industry personnel. And it has been, in many ways, with numerous leading AI model providers such as OpenAI, Google, and even Chinese competitors like Alibaba releasing fine-tuned AI models or applications designed to focus on a narrow set of tasks, such as web search and report writing. But one big hurdle to a future of highly performant, reliable, AI agents remains: getting them to stay on task when the task extends over a number of steps. Third-party benchmark tests show even…

WISPIT 2b  Researchers have discovered a young protoplanet called WISPIT 2b embedded in a ring-shaped gap in a disk encircling a young star. While theorists have thought that planets likely exist in these gaps (and possibly even create them), this is the first time that it has actually been observed. Researchers have directly detected – essentially photographed – a new planet called WISPIT 2b, labeled a protoplanet because it is an astronomical object that is accumulating material and growing into a fully-realized planet. However, even in its “proto” state, WISPIT 2b is a gas giant about 5 times as massive…

Vivo unveiled the X300 series yesterday, and we were there to cover the whole event. Apart from the quality hands-on time with the X300 Pro and X300, we were also able to capture plenty of photos with both phones. What we didn’t have time for, however, was to snap some long-range shots using the vivo X300 Photographer Kit and the 2.35x telephoto extender lens. Today, we finally have those, too, and you will find them further down, but first, here’s a closer look at the actual gear. Hands-on The vivo X300 Pro’s Photographer Kit looks similar to the one we…

There’s a fine line between convenience and privacy, and Microsoft’s new Windows Recall feature sits right on it. On one hand, it’s supposed to be a game-changing addition to Windows, designed to help you retrace your steps and find anything you’ve previously seen or worked on. It’s much like your browsing history, but for your entire PC. On the other hand, this same ability to “remember” everything you’ve done naturally raises privacy concerns. That’s because Windows Recall works by continuously capturing snapshots of your screen. If that doesn’t sound comfortable, useful, or entirely safe, though, it’s quite easy to check…