Author: The Tech Guy
This weekend, Andrej Karpathy, the former director of AI at Tesla and a founding member of OpenAI, decided he wanted to read a book. But he did not want to read it alone. He wanted to read it accompanied by a committee of artificial intelligences, each offering its own perspective, critiquing the others, and eventually synthesizing a final answer under the guidance of a "Chairman."To make this happen, Karpathy wrote what he called a "vibe code project" — a piece of software written quickly, largely by AI assistants, intended for fun rather than function. He posted the result, a repository…
The Lifetime Surveillance of Astronaut Health (LSAH) program collects, analyzes, and interprets medical, physiological, hazard exposure, and environmental data for the purpose of maintaining astronaut health and safety as well as preventing occupationally induced injuries or disease related to space flight or space flight training. It allows NASA to effectively understand and mitigate the long-term health risks of human spaceflight, as well as support the physical and mental well-being of astronauts during future exploration missions. The LSAH Newsletter serves to inform and update former astronauts on how their medical data is being utilized by the LSAH team. It is published…
If your favourite way of relaxing after work involves lying on your sofa and streaming the latest films and TV shows, then you’ll get on swimmingly with any one of the best Fire TV devices in tow. Even though there are quite a few options out there from competing brands, Amazon’s Fire TV devices have all but become synonymous with streaming sticks. These devices can be used to centralise all of your streaming activity, so you can access all of your favourite streaming services in one place. Amazon does tend to focus a bit more on shows and films that…
After using several security tools on Windows, I’m convinced the built-in firewall is solid. Despite this, it doesn’t feel like something made for me. Even though it runs quietly, is rarely in your way, and shields the computer from danger, I strive for a bit more visibility and control. So when I stumbled onto TinyWall, I instantly liked it. It brings the straightforward, no-nonsense feel I’ve always loved from Linux tools. The good part is that, rather than replacing the built-in Windows defenses, it attempts to make them more usable. And as the OS has been missing a tool like…
Today, USB accessories are more common than ever, thanks as much to the rise of USB-C as anything else. It’s really about the juice USB-C can deliver — whereas a lot of older accessories had to be low-energy or use a separate power supply, many products with USB-C can run entirely off one cable. Heck, there are portable USB-C monitors, which would’ve been impossible to fathom just 15 years ago. Over time, however, some accessory types have fallen out of favor. Mostly you can chalk this up to other products making them redundant, or at least less useful. I’m okay…
It's not just Google's Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 we have to be thankful for this year around the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S.No, today the German AI startup Black Forest Labs released FLUX.2, a new image generation and editing system complete with four different models designed to support production-grade creative workflows.FLUX.2 introduces multi-reference conditioning, higher-fidelity outputs, and improved text rendering, and it expands the company’s open-core ecosystem with both commercial endpoints and open-weight checkpoints. While Black Forest Labs previously launched with and made a name for itself on open source text-to-image models in…
From restoring movement and speech in people with paralysis to fighting depression, brain implants have fundamentally changed lives.But inserting implants, however small or nimble, requires risky open-brain surgery. Pain, healing time, and potential infections aside, the risk limits the technology to only a handful of people.Now, scientists at MIT Media Lab and collaborators hope to bring brain implants to the masses. They’ve created a tiny electronic chip powered by near-infrared light that can generate small electrical zaps. After linking with a type of immune cell to form bio-electronic hybrid chips, a single injection into the veins of mice shuttled the…
Huawei unveiled its Mate 80 series alongside the Mate X7 foldable today in China, but those weren’t the only new devices at the event. The brand introduced its MatePad Edge 2-in-1 tablet, which runs HarmonyOS 5 (aka HarmonyOS Next 5) with full desktop app support as well as an Extraordinary Master Edition of its MateBook Fold. MatePad Edge is Huawei’s take on the Microsoft Surface tablet – a tablet that aims to replace your laptop. The device is built around a 14.2-inch OLED screen and a sleek unibody aluminum chassis. It measures just 6.85 mm thick and weighs 789 grams.…
ChatGPT’s voice mode is getting more usable. OpenAI announced on Tuesday it is updating the user interface to its popular AI chatbot so users can access ChatGPT Voice right inside their chat, instead of having to switch to a separate mode. That means you’ll be able to converse with the chatbot and view its responses, including things like shared images, as you talk. Before, you’d be taken to a separate screen where you’d interact with an animated blue circle that represented the interface for ChatGPT’s voice. That screen also had a mute button and an option to record live video,…
If you’ve been waiting for Black Friday in the hopes of snagging the all-new iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro or iPhone Air at a discounted price, Vodafone’s Black Friday sale is answering your call.Vodafone’s SIM plans are receiving AU$14 p/m discounts for Cyber Weekend – knocking its small and medium plans to just to just AU$39 and AU$49 for the first 12 months. On top of that, they’ve also had their data doubled to 120GB and 400GB over your entire chosen contract.All that gets even better when you pair your chosen plan with one of the new phones. While there…