Author: The Tech Guy

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. PowerA Fusion Pro for Xbox: One-minute reviewIt brings me no pleasure to find that the PowerA Fusion Pro Wireless Controller for Xbox is the most disappointing product I’ve tested in the brand’s catalog to date. PowerA is admittedly a brand I’ve had mixed feelings about in the past. Sometimes it provides real winners, like the PowerA Enhanced Wireless Controller, which I consider a solid alternative to the official Nintendo…

At a time when startup hustle culture is back, when “locked in” tech founders have even embraced the “996” way of working — 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week — there is something dystopian about using an AI app to generate fake vacation photos of yourself. And yet, here we are. Product designer Laurent Del Rey, who recently joined Meta’s Superintelligence Lab, launched a side project called Endless Summer, a photobooth app for iPhone that creates AI-generated vacation photos starring you in locations around the world. Here you are exploring a beach town, or overlooking a European…

Taking notes is something many of us do throughout the day. I know I can’t get through mine without setting reminders or jotting down a few things to jog my memory. It’s like I’m still in school and note-taking is my saving grace before the next test — except instead of studying, I’m just trying not to forget something I need to do. Whether I’m in a meeting or researching a new topic for a story, I take notes as I go. I try to figure out what’s going on with a new program or make sense of a topic…

For many software developers using generative AI, vibe coding is a double-edged sword. The process delivers rapid prototypes but often leaves a trail of brittle, undocumented code that creates significant technical debt. A new open-source platform, Codev, addresses this by proposing a fundamental shift: treating the natural language conversation with an AI as part of the actual source code. Codev is based on SP(IDE)R, a framework designed to turn vibe-coding conversations into structured, versioned, and auditable assets that become part of the code repository.What is Codev?At its core, Codev is a methodology that treats natural language context as an integral…

Poland is getting serious about declining fertility rates which hit a record low of 1.16 births per woman in 2024. On October 16, 2025, Polish President Karol Nawrocki signed the PIT Zero for Large Families initiative into law. It exempts parents raising at least two children from personal income tax (PIT). This builds on earlier family support policies like the 500+ child benefit program and was first proposed by the president in August 2025 as part of a broader pro-natalist agenda. It applies to biological or adoptive parents (including single parents) with at least two dependent children under 18 years…

As the cold October weather starts to bite and energy prices rise, most of us are pretty nervous about turning the heating on, and are looking for ways to save cash. Turning the thermostat temperature down is one way of doing this, but even for ‘ideal’ temperatures, you’ll only get the maximum cash saving if you maximise your entire system. Best temperature for a thermostat It’s generally accepted that the ideal temperature for a thermostat is between 18°C and 21°C. According to the Energy Saving Trust, turning the thermostat down from 22°C to 21°C will save £90 a year on energy…

For those looking for proof that gen AI is actually having a significant impact on traditional software vendors, they need look no further than Oracle's explosive Q1 results.The database stalwart, founded in 1977, just reported financial metrics that reveal a fundamental transformation in enterprise AI adoption. Oracle's remaining performance obligations (RPO) skyrocketed to $455 billion, representing a 359% increase from last year and a $317 billion jump from Q4 alone. RPO measures contracted revenue that customers have committed to but Oracle hasn't yet recognized, making it a critical indicator of future revenue growth. This massive backlog means Oracle has already…

Samsung may now stick to its usual S series naming schemeWe’ve also heard the S26 Edge may not get a launchThe phones could appear later than normal, sometime in MarchIt would seem the Galaxy S26 development process isn’t going quite as smoothly as Samsung would hope: earlier this week we heard the Galaxy S26 Edge may have been cancelled, and now there are new rumors around launch delays and phone rebrandings.First up, the rebranding. Several previous leaks had suggested that the base model in this series would be called the Galaxy S26 Pro – perhaps to add to the appeal…

Tim Barat loved being a lineman at an electric company in Australia, where he grew up, even in the chaos of the Black Saturday brushfires in 2009 that torched over 1 million acres and left many without power or homes. But when he moved to the U.S. in 2013, his wife was less enthusiastic about him continuing down that path. “My wife didn’t want me working on high voltage anymore for safety reasons,” Barat told TechCrunch. So he went back to school, eventually getting his master’s degree in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley.  But he just couldn’t stop thinking about…

Over the past five years, private-sector funding for fusion energy has exploded. The total invested is approaching $10 billion, from a combination of venture capital, deep-tech investors, energy corporations, and sovereign governments.Most of the companies involved (and the cash) are in the United States, though activity is also increasing in China and Europe.Why has this happened? There are several drivers: increasing urgency for carbon-free power, advances in technology and understanding such as new materials and control methods using artificial intelligence (AI), a growing ecosystem of private-sector companies, and a wave of capital from tech billionaires. This comes on the back…