Author: The Tech Guy
The rush to capitalize on the buzz around AI has led tech companies to dramatically expand their data center footprints. That’s been good news for companies like Nvidia, but it has also led to unprecedented growth in the power industry. New and expanded data centers are expected to double the sector’s power demand by 2029, according to JLL. As a result, developers and tech companies have been working overtime to lock in capacity. Nuclear and natural gas have gotten boosts from the forecasted demand, but few technologies have benefited in the near term like solar. Though solar power suffers from…
Kalshi, the federally regulated prediction market platform, announced a Series D funding round over $300 million. It was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, with investments from Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures, and others. It gave Kalshi a $5 billion valuation. The company, founded in 2020 by Yale graduates Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, has tripled its scale to $50 billion in annualized trading volume since the raise. Kalshi has expanded over 140 countries introduces a unified global liquidity pool for trading on events like elections, sports, and economic indicators, positioning it as the world’s largest prediction market by volume.…
Compact soundbars like the Vizio M-Series 2.1 and the Yamaha SR-C20A offer improved TV sound in a small package. 4K HDR streamers like the Chromecast with Google TV and Roku Streaming Stick Plus deliver better streaming to any TV. Until now, however, no product has combined the two into a single, do-it-all package under $150. That’s what the Roku Streambar does, and it does the job very well. Like Compact, easy to set up and affordable Excellent dialogue reproduction Tried and true Roku experience Don’t like Lacks bass in movies and music The Streambar follows the footsteps of last year’s Roku Smart…
The social network Bluesky will begin verifying users’ ages in the state of Ohio to comply with new regulations, starting on Monday, September 29. The company — which offers an open and decentralized competitor to X and Threads — says it will enable the Kids Web Services’ (KWS) age verification solution in the state. This is the same solution that Bluesky is already using in South Dakota and Wyoming to comply with similar laws. Bluesky announced the move in Ohio on Sunday via its Bluesky Safety account, and in an update to last month’s blog post about the matter. The…
For the third week in a row the Xiaomi 17 Pro Max was the most popular smartphone in our database. Even though it’s still only available in China, Xiaomi’s latest flagship still gets you excited and managed to keep its Apple namesake – the iPhone 17 Pro Max behind. Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max These are the best offers from our affiliate partners. We may get a commission from qualifying sales. 256GB 12GB RAM₹ 149,900512GB 12GB RAM₹ 169,900Show all prices There’s a brand other than Apple and Xiaomi on the podium for the first time…
Imagine you do two things on a Monday morning.First, you ask a chatbot to summarize your new emails. Next, you ask an AI tool to figure out why your top competitor grew so fast last quarter. The AI silently gets to work. It scours financial reports, news articles and social media sentiment. It cross-references that data with your internal sales numbers, drafts a strategy outlining three potential reasons for the competitor's success and schedules a 30-minute meeting with your team to present its findings.We're calling both of these "AI agents," but they represent worlds of difference in intelligence, capability and…
On a clear night, you might see thousands of stars in the sky. Most of these stars are dozens or hundreds of light years away from us. A light year is the distance a beam of light travels in a year: about 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers). This means that for those stars we see at night, it takes their light, which travels at about 186,000 miles per second (or about 300 thousand kilometers per second), dozens or hundreds of years to reach us. But in the daytime, we only see one star: the Sun. It dominates the daytime…
As the reigning leader in the global wearables market, Huawei has been refining its premium smartwatches with a focus on more accurate health and activity tracking. Watch GT 6 Pro arrives as the successor to last year’s GT 5 Pro with a familiar look and updates on several fronts. On the hardware side, there’s a slightly larger and much brighter OLED screen, improved positioning accuracy, and a larger battery. Huawei is also offering an updated TruSense system alongside improved algorithms for more accurate health readings. As for sports tracking, there’s an all-new virtual power meter for cyclists, and vector maps…
Perplexity AI launched a comprehensive search application programming interface on Thursday, giving developers direct access to the same massive web index that powers the startup's answer engine and potentially breaking the stranglehold that tech giants have maintained over global search data.The Search API poses the most significant challenge yet to Google's dominance in providing search infrastructure to developers, offering access to an index spanning hundreds of billions of web pages with real-time updates and AI-optimized results formatting. The move comes as Perplexity positions itself as a disruptive force in the search industry, following its audacious $34.5 billion bid for Google's…
Andy Walker / Android AuthorityMy Gmail email philosophy is simple: keep all emails in the All Mail folder for the rest of time. However, Gmail includes several organizational tools that allow you to fully control your mailbox, from custom rules to labels, filters, and its new AI smarts. One management action that has stood the test of time is Archive.This little tool is just a horizontal swipe on an email away, immediately removing it from the Inbox and stuffing it out of view. This, in a sense, is a helpful option. It pushes users towards that revered inbox zero, but…