Author: The Tech Guy
Warning: Huge spoilers for The Witcher season 4 ahead.Over the course of eight episodes, The Witcher season 4 has changed the Netflix franchise for good.After Geralt (now played by Liam Hemsworth), Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) and Ciri (Freya Allen) were separated after the fallout of the Battle of Aretuza, the show’s storyline has been on a quest to bring them back together. You may like There’s a lot of obstacles standing between each of them and that end goal, though. Ciri, fed up of everyone after her for their own gain, has renounced her powers and assumed the pseudonym of Falka,…
The moment Mack McConnell knew everything about search had changed came last summer at the Paris Olympics. His parents, independently and without prompting, had both turned to ChatGPT to plan their day's activities in the French capital. The AI recommended specific tour companies, restaurants, and attractions — businesses that had won a new kind of visibility lottery."It was almost like this intuitive interface that older people were as comfortable with using as younger people," McConnell recalled in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat. "I could just see the businesses were now being recommended."That observation has now become the foundation of Geostar,…
Photo by Leonie Asendorpf / picture alliance via Getty Images Staff at Amazon are still reeling from a fresh round of layoffs that saw thousands of corporate workers lose their job as execs appeared to sacrifice employees for their topline. In a memo to all Amazon workers, Beth Galetti, the company’s senior vice president of HR, bragged that “some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well.” “This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before,” Galetti beamed. Mileage may…
Enlarge Image I had a blast tooling around in BMW’s new iX, but I’m not sure I’d want to settle down with it just yet. Antuan Goodwin/CNETThe 2023 iX xDrive50 is one of two new electric vehicles BMW launched this year, alongside the i4 sedan. Of the pair, the iX xDrive50 is the bolder play: a completely new vehicle from the ground up, rather than a battery-powered version of an existing model. It also takes much larger risks. Many of those risks pay off in the form of excellent driving dynamics, comfort and range, but some of them don’t. The electric…
Enterprise AI agents today face a fundamental timing problem: They can't easily act on critical business events because they aren't always aware of them in real-time.The challenge is infrastructure. Most enterprise data lives in databases fed by extract-transform-load (ETL) jobs that run hourly or daily — ultimately too slow for agents that must respond in real time.One potential way to tackle that challenge is to have agents directly interface with streaming data systems. Among the primary approaches in use today are the open source Apache Kafka and Apache Flink technologies. There are multiple commercial implementations based on those technologies, too,…
According to a new rumor, HMD is working on a smartphone with a very interesting codename – Lord Chaos. This will allegedly come with an OLED display with 144Hz refresh rate and HDR10+ support. It will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 SoC, paired with 12GB of RAM and an unknown amount of UFS 3.1 storage. On the rear is a 108MP main camera. The Lord Chaos will run Android 16 from day one. It has a 5,000 mAh battery with support for 65W wired charging and Qi2 wireless charging. These are all the details that have been…
The vibe coding tool Cursor, from startup Anysphere, has introduced Composer, its first in-house, proprietary coding large language model (LLM) as part of its Cursor 2.0 platform update. Composer is designed to execute coding tasks quickly and accurately in production-scale environments, representing a new step in AI-assisted programming. It's already being used by Cursor’s own engineering staff in day-to-day development — indicating maturity and stability.According to Cursor, Composer completes most interactions in less than 30 seconds while maintaining a high level of reasoning ability across large and complex codebases. The model is described as four times faster than similarly intelligent…
Kratos Defense will utilize the Hermeus high-speed Quarterhorse aircraft as part of its support work for the U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency’s Multi-Service Advanced Capabilities Hypersonic Testbed (MACH-TB) program. The rapid expansion of the Kratos Defense hypersonic test team follows the award of a $1.45 billion contract in January 2025 to support the MACH-TB program—a five-year initiative. The remotely piloted Quarterhorse Mk. 2 will be able to reach about mach 2.5 supersonic speeds. The demonstrator is currently undergoing integrated systems testing following installation of its Pratt & Whitney F100-229 engine. The MACH-TB team does include Stratolaunch’s air-launched, reusable Talon-A…
At the beginning of this month, Google unveiled Gemini for Home, alongside a bunch of devices for the home. Today, Gemini for Home has started rolling out in the US, but there’s a catch. Gemini for Home is currently in early access mode, and if you want to be among the first people in the US to be able to test it, you need to request access. To do this, go to Google Groups settings > Global Settings, and make sure “Add me to their groups” is checked. Then go to the Google Home app, tap your profile picture or…
Configuring an SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server on Windows Server is a common task for system administrators who need to enable applications or websites to send email messages. Unlike a full-featured mail server such as Microsoft Exchange, the built-in SMTP Server is a lightweight component designed solely for message relaying. In this step-by-step guide, […] This article How to configure SMTP server in Windows Server Step by Step first appeared on TheWindowsClub.com.