Author: The Tech Guy

After YouTube discontinued its private messaging feature in 2019, the platform is now reintroducing this functionality for a select group of users.  Users with access to the test are able to share videos directly on the mobile app, including long-form videos, Shorts, and even livestreams.  They’ll be able to tap the Share button to open a full-screen chat within the app, allowing them to start a private one-on-one conversation or a group chat. Friends can reply with a video of their own, or simply type a response or use emojis. The test is now available to users who are 18…

Perhaps one of the most maddening things about troubleshooting modern tech — be it phones, computers, or sometimes even game consoles — is that there can be several culprits for the same problem. Recently, for example, I’ve been having trouble with one of my favorite games, PUBG. The issue initially seemed to be new graphic drivers. But I tried rolling them back, and then updating to the absolute latest ones, and nothing has worked so far. In fact the game outright refuses to load now, so I’m thinking this one is on the developers. How do you know if it’s…

Elon Musk's frontier generative AI startup xAI formally opened developer access to its Grok 4.1 Fast models last night and introduced a new Agent Tools API—but the technical milestones were immediately subverted by a wave of public ridicule about Grok's responses on the social network X over the last few days praising its creator Musk as more athletic than championship-winning American football players and legendary boxer Mike Tyson, despite having displayed no public prowess at either sport.They emerge as yet another black eye for xAI's Grok following the "MechaHitler" scandal in the summer of 2025, in which an earlier version…

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Yui Mok / Pool / AFP via Getty Images On Wednesday night, Nvidia released its highly anticipated-slashed-dreaded quarterly earnings report — and Wall Street let out a sigh of relief, at least initially. The multitrillion dollar chipmaker at the center of the AI boom reported a ludicrous $57 billion in quarterly revenue, netting it nearly $32 billion in profit. Compared to the same quarter from the year before, it amounted to a 62 percent surge in sales, and a further 65 percent increase in profit. Nvidia’s stock spiked by over four percent when…

Samsung makes some of the best foldables around – but considering it was one of the first companies to release foldables back in 2019, it shouldn’t be any surprise.  This year’s iterations, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7, represent some of the best foldable tech around – and there’s a very tempting offer on the latter that makes it a must-have.  Amazon has slashed the price of the Galaxy Z Flip 7 from £1049 to just £849, representing a huge £200 saving on a flip-style foldable that only made its debut in July. That’ll net you the…

Delayed Red Sea subsea cables are tightening global bandwidth in already strained regionsOperators face dangerous conditions that stop vital installation crews from working safelyHigh-risk waters are forcing telecoms to abandon long-planned deployment timelinesOngoing instability in the Red Sea has created severe obstacles for tech giants and subsea cable operators, who now face prolonged pauses in construction as security threats complicate every stage of deployment.Cable-laying vessels require predictable access, stable waters, and political clearance, yet these conditions are no longer present in a zone where conflicts have disrupted routine maritime activity.Companies involved in major systems expected to link Europe, Asia, and…

ScaleOps has expanded its cloud resource management platform with a new product aimed at enterprises operating self-hosted large language models (LLMs) and GPU-based AI applications. The AI Infra Product announced today, extends the company’s existing automation capabilities to address a growing need for efficient GPU utilization, predictable performance, and reduced operational burden in large-scale AI deployments. The company said the system is already running in enterprise production environments and delivering major efficiency gains for early adopters, reducing GPU costs by between 50% and 70%, according to the company. The company does not publicly list enterprise pricing for this solution and…

Multi-billionaire fund manager Gavin Baker gives the overview of the state of AI. Nextbigfuture identified the AI data center scaling of google and XAI over a year ago. AI Scaling Laws are Intact.Four leaders in AI – Google, xAI, OpenAI and Anthropic.BUT Google and XAI will pull away with faster and more compute scaling.Nvidia is still dominant.Best models are still coming mid-2026 using B300 chips. AI Scaling Laws are Intact Gemini 3 is the strongest evidence since o1 that pre-training scaling laws still hold. Expect large jumps from Blackwell-trained models in Q2 2026. GPT-5 was intentionally a smaller, cheaper-to-infer model…

Black Friday is upon us – a whole week of it, in fact. Here are the best smartphone deals that we found in the US. Note that we will cover tablets, smartwatches, laptops and other devices in a separate post. All Pixel phones are on sale, but not all offers make sense. So, let’s start with the base Google Pixel 10 – it’s the first generation where the vanilla model has a tele camera, though the 5x/112mm 10.8MP unit is pretty basic. For that and other reasons, you may want to consider the Pro. Here’s a detailed comparison between the…

Sometimes, you just want your mind to be taken to a place it has never been before. The most obvious genre to do this is science fiction. The premises are generally rooted in scientific fact, helping them seem more plausible. But the fiction side is where audiences and directors can have some fun. You can be whisked off to a different planet or plunged below the sea and all of it will fall under the sci-fi genre. Sci-fi movies and shows have a certain feel to them; like something is off, but you can’t quite put your finger on it.…