Author: The Tech Guy

There’s perhaps no better Black Friday sale for tech deals than Samsung’s today. The official retailer has just launched a huge seasonal event, and it’s already featuring some excellent deals on our favorite models here at TechRadar.I’ve been looking through today’s big Black Friday sale at Samsung and today’s highlights include record-low prices on the Samsung Galaxy S25 phones, stunning 2025 OLED TVs, and superb options for both tablets and laptops. Put simply, there’s plenty to check out today.You can check out today’s best Samsung deals just down below, starting with today’s massive $400 discount on the Galaxy S25 Ultra.…

Artificial IntelligenceFei-Fei LI’s World Labs Speeds Up the World Model Race With Marble, Its First Commercial ProductRebecca Bellan | TechCrunch”If large language models can teach machines to read and write, Li hopes systems like Marble can teach them to see and build. She says the ability to understand how things exist and interact in three-dimensional spaces can eventually help machines make breakthroughs beyond gaming and robotics, and even into science and medicine.”ComputingIBM Has Unveiled Two Unprecedentedly Complex Quantum ComputersKarmela Padavic-Callaghan | New Scientist ($)”If large language models can teach machines to read and write, Li hopes systems like Marble can…

There’s no debating that the OnePlus 15 and Oppo Find X9 Pro were cut from the same cloth. While previous Oppo and OnePlus phones have shared a few characteristics, this year’s flagships look nearly identical, despite being quite different phones under the hood – a decision that I’m really struggling to understand.  The familiar design of the Oppo Find X9 Pro and OnePlus 15 With OnePlus now a subsidiary of parent company Oppo, there were always going to be similarities in hardware. We’ve already seen it on the software front, with OnePlus’ OxygenOS looking more ColorOS-like every year, but the…

Meta is getting ready to launch third-party chat integration on WhatsApp in Europe, the company announced on Friday. The tech giant notes that the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) requires it to give users in Europe the option to chat with people using third-party messaging services that have chosen to make their apps interoperable. “Following successful small-scale tests over the past months, the option for WhatsApp users to chat with users of messaging apps BirdyChat and Haiket directly via third-party chats will soon be rolling out across Europe,” Meta wrote in a blog post. “This marks a significant milestone in…

The OnePlus 15 made its Chinese debut last month, and went global yesterday. Today, the first software update for the international model has started rolling out. Thus, this will be an out-of-the-box update for buyers of the device. OnePlus 15 5G It identifies as OxygenOS 16.0.1.303, and is of course based on Android 16. It’s going out over-the-air in both India, with firmware version CPH2745_16.0.1.303(EX01), and the EU, with firmware version CPH2747_16.0.1.303(EX01). The update includes the November 2025 security patch level. The changelog mentions faster app launches from the Home screen, customizable widget names, the ability to resize the clock…

OpenAI researchers are experimenting with a new approach to designing neural networks, with the aim of making AI models easier to understand, debug, and govern. Sparse models can provide enterprises with a better understanding of how these models make decisions. Understanding how models choose to respond, a big selling point of reasoning models for enterprises, can provide a level of trust for organizations when they turn to AI models for insights. The method called for OpenAI scientists and researchers to look at and evaluate models not by analyzing post-training performance, but by adding interpretability or understanding through sparse circuits.OpenAI notes that much…

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Roy Rochlin / Getty Images While you were busy wasting your time listening to podcasts and doomscrolling on your phone, one of America’s leading AI overlords was educating himself by talking to Nazis. This was the startling admission made by Alex Karp, cofounder and CEO of the software company Palantir, a company that’s come under increasingly heavy scrutiny for its growing role as a provider of AI-powered surveillance technology to the military and government. In an interview with podcaster Molly O’Shea published this week, Karp, who has Jewish heritage, was discussing German culture…

The upcoming Poco Pad M1 was certified in October and spotted in the Geekbench AI database earlier this month, and today purported renders showcasing it have been leaked alongside its specs. The tablet is said to have a 12.1-inch 120Hz IPS LCD screen with 1600×2560 resolution, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a 12,000 mAh battery with support for 33W wired charging. Poco Pad M1 in dark blue It’s powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 SoC, and boasts two 8MP cameras, one on the front, one on the…

There is a lot of enterprise data trapped in PDF documents. To be sure, gen AI tools have been able to ingest and analyze PDFs, but accuracy, time and cost have been less than ideal. New technology from Databricks could change that.The company this week detailed its "ai_parse_document" technology, now integrated with Databricks' Agent Bricks platform. The technology addresses a critical bottleneck in enterprise AI adoption: Approximately 80% of enterprise knowledge remains locked in PDFs, reports and diagrams that AI systems struggle to accurately process and understand."It's a common assumption that parsing PDFs is a solved problem, but in reality,…

C. Scott Brown / Android AuthorityTL;DR Google Play is introducing new “Where to watch” cards for media in its search results. You can quickly see which streaming apps offer a show, and install any you’re missing. Streaming media was supposed to be the next great evolution in home entertainment, and while in many ways it is, we’ve also seen it introduce nearly as many problems as it’s solved. One of the biggest has simply been keeping track of what’s available where — while some content is locked down tightly to one streaming platform, there’s also a ton of it that’s…