Author: The Tech Guy

Explanation: Why are Saturn’s poles geometric? Saturn’s North Pole has been known to be surrounded by a hexagonal (6 sides) cloud since discovery in 1987 in data taken by NASA’s Voyager spacecrafts, which quickly flew past the ringed world in the early 1980s. Now, recent observations of Saturn by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal a slightly different geometric cloud pattern around the South Pole: a decagon (10 sides). The geometric boundaries are possibly caused by waves when the fast-moving gas away from the poles interacts with slower-moving gas closer to the poles. In the featured image composite by the Hubble taken last year, the South Pole of Saturn is marked by an X and surrounded by bands of circulating…

Sonos makes products from portable speakers, to home cinema soundbars and wireless speakers, so there’s plenty of variety in their product line-up. If you’re new to Sonos, this guide serves as a helpful way of figuring out what you to look out for and understanding what Sonos can do for you. Whether it’s a soundbar, a subwoofer, or a wireless speaker; we’ve tested pretty much all of the speakers that Sonos has released. All the speakers have been fully tested and reviewed by our experts, and they’re tested for their sound, design and build, how easy each product is to…

Windows Media Player has one job, and it barely does it. It doesn’t impress with its features, and is also not great at handling every file format you throw at it either. VLC is the de-facto alternative for most folks, but I wanted something that actually looked modern. So after trying half a dozen media players, I finally settled on Screenbox. It’s free, open-source, and offers just about every useful feature I want from a media player. Related How to Watch Plex in VLC (and Why It’s Worth Doing) As if I really needed another reason to love VLC. There’s…

Joe Maring / Android AuthorityAdd Android Authority on Google: TL;DR Pixel users are seeing Now Playing notifications return to the notification shade. The restored alerts include shortcuts to favorite songs and to view listening history. Availability remains limited, suggesting Google is rolling out the feature gradually. Pixel’s Now Playing has long been the quiet friend that saves you from asking, “What song is this?” It recognizes music around you and places the answer on the lock screen, often before you reach for Shazam. Google made that simple trick less convenient earlier this year, but new Reddit reports suggest Now Playing…

Threat actors are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Commerce and Magento e-commerce platforms to backdoor online stores, cybersecurity firm Sansec reports. Dubbed StyleSmuggler, the security defect enables attackers to inject PHP code into Magento’s template system and evade detection by using the ‘styles’ properties. According to Sansec, the attack works in two stages: first, the PHP code is injected by generating a failure report, and then Magento executes the code via a failed payment email. The remote code execution (RCE) flaw works on Magento versions 2.4.7, 2.4.8 and 2.4.9, and has been exploited against deployments running the July and…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech A man is facing numerous felony charges in Georgia after police allege he allegedly used a bizarre projectile to melt automatic license plate readers into smoldering heaps of metal and plastic. According to Fox5 in Atlanta, 25-year-old Colby Williams was hauled into jail after allegedly setting fire to three automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) installed by the extremely controversial company Flock. Though it isn’t known how the fires started, at least one camera was found “completely melted,” and had a “DeFlock” sticker slapped…

vivo confirmed the launch date for its X500 series at the vivo Creator Festival in China yesterday. The company also shared several details about its upcoming flagship smartphones during the event. The vivo X500 series will launch in China on September 21, the company revealed in a post on Weibo. The lineup will include the base X500, the vivo X500 Pro, and the vivo X500 Pro Max. Credit: Weibo Meanwhile, a dedicated page for the lineup is now live on vivo’s China website, allowing users to pre-reserve the upcoming phones. Alongside the smartphones, vivo will also unveil its new ear-clip…

Although I have my misgivings about Roku devices, mostly because an impending Fox takeover, I have to give it to the company — it understands its main selling point, which is simplicity. Roku OS is intuitive, and while there are plenty of ads in it these days, they mostly stay out of the way. I prefer Google TV mostly because of its integration with Gemini and Google Home, which are more useful than you might think. This simplicity makes it hard to break a Roku TV, at least without accidentally smashing it with a game controller. But you may be…

OpenAI agents overwhelmed a small German Wikipedia-style website with thousands of posts that fought the moderator to avoid being removed. On September 4, 2026, Reuters reported that ‘a swarm’ of OpenAI agents ‘had hijacked a German wiki site’. Open AI acknowledged the event describing it as a misalignment incident (a behavior that deviates from human instructions or safety guardrails). The victim site is DseWiki (currently unavailable), a site for programmers open to the site’s community. The agents apparently made between 15,000 and 18,000 autonomous edits, including advice on how to recover pages that the site’s editors had deleted. The hijack…

Tesla is reportedly ordering enough parts from suppliers to build 15,000 Optimus units by the end of 2026 — about 1,000/week by end of September, ramping to 2,500/week by year-end. That’s a run rate of 100,000–125,000 units/year heading into 2027, and it confirms what many doubted: humanoid robots at scale is happening now, not years from now. I break down: Why this ramp is faster than almost anyone predicted — and why Optimus can scale faster than a car ever could GOOD NEWS 🤖 According to supply-chain vendors and today’s report by Jiemian News, Tesla has issued an initial batch…