Author: The Tech Guy

I like to think that I have pretty good taste in music. I’d go so far as to say I’m good at getting my friends to listen to new music, whether it’s through a playlist at a party or by attaching a new song to an Instagram post. However, with such a well-trained Spotify algorithm, even I find myself in a music rut on occasion. I’ll bounce from my pop mix to my Jason Isbell mix to my upbeat mix and somehow find quite a few of the same songs on each one. So, when Spotify introduced Prompted Playlists, I…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEA Yann LeCun–Linked Startup Charts a New Path to AGIJoel Khalili | Wired ($)”As the world’s largest companies pour hundreds of billions of dollars into large language models, San Francisco-based Logical Intelligence is trying something different in pursuit of AI that can mimic the human brain. …The road to AGI, Bodnia contends, begins with the layering of these different types of AI: LLMs will interface with humans in natural language, EBMs will take up reasoning tasks, while world models will help robots take action in 3D space.”ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEGoogle Project Genie Lets You Create Interactive Worlds From a Photo or…

Affordable EVs are on a lot of people’s minds these days, but one name is missing from the conversation. Volkswagen launched its ID family of EVs seven years ago with the promise of electric mobility for “the millions, not millionaires,” but in the United States at least, the promise remains just that. The VW Group has lavished resources on its luxury brands Audi and Porsche, and even created the new Scout brand to challenge Rivian, but it’s let its namesake brand stagnate. VW only sells the aging ID.4 crossover in the U.S. It’s an unfortunate situation for what was one…

High-end home theaters are expensive to put together, but there are still some upgrades to make that don’t break the bank. Your speakers and receiver are the most expensive part of the setup, but once you buy those, the fun doesn’t stop. You still need to buy speaker wire, and if you want to live a hassle-free life, you should grab some banana plugs with the wire to plug into the back of your receiver — if you have one, of course. For a long time, I didn’t see the need for banana plugs, and it wasn’t until I had…

Last year, the Trump administration declared war on climate science. In the first two weeks of Trump’s second term, the administration started scrubbing critical environmental resources and datasets from federal agency websites and withdrew the United States from international organizations dedicated to combating climate change, dismissing them as a “waste of taxpayer dollars.” Trump himself has dismissed climate science as “woke,” while vowing to “drill, baby, drill” for fossil fuels as our planet stands at the edge of a climate disaster. Nowhere has that regressive agenda been felt more than at NASA. The agency announced in July that thousands of…

Ayaneo started teasing the Pocket Play, its first smartphone, back in November, and then in December it showed us what it would look like, Sony Ericsson Xperia Play vibes and all. Today, Ayaneo has finally revealed the chipset sitting at the helm of the Pocket Play. It’s MediaTek’s Dimensity 9300. That’s an odd choice, given that the SoC in question came out in 2023. Sure, it was MediaTek’s top dog of 2023, but it’s more than two years old. And if, we assume for pricing purposes, Ayaneo wanted to go with MediaTek instead of Qualcomm (since MediaTek’s top of the…

I had no idea that every time I took a photo, my phone was storing its precise GPS coordinates. Thanks to the photo’s EXIF data, someone could easily drop my pictures into an online tool to see precisely where I took them. This happens by default on most phones, which many people don’t even realize. It’s scary, especially for kids, but there’s a way to turn off this location storage on both Android and iPhone. Even if you want to keep it enabled, it’s good to know how to stop your phone from tracking your location every time you snap…

This week, Wizards of the Coast provided us with more info on its upcoming Marvel collaboration with its Magic: The Gathering TCG – and if I hadn’t already dropped Marvel Snap, I would now.We’d already been treated to a few spoilers such as a first look at how Bruce Banner and the Hulk will appear in the game, but now we’ve been treated to the heroes (and villains) that are getting special treatment in the form of fully constructed decks; and they represent the fan favorites you’d expect from the MCU and comic book source material.Avengers fans can assemble the…

Home » Artificial intelligence » SpaceX Applies to FCC for 1 Million AI Satellites in Space SpaceX has applied to build orbital data centers in space using up to 1 million AI inference satellites. The application references that this will be a first step to creating a Kardashev 2 civilization. A Kardashev civilization uses all of the energy of the sun. This is about 5 trillion times more than civilization is using now. 🚨🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨🚨 SpaceX just applied with the FCC for Orbital Data Centers in space to power advanced AI. pic.twitter.com/OuFevqpGgi — THE SP🅰️CTATOR (@The_SPACTATOR) January 31, 2026 pic.twitter.com/WIgsxgNXCf —…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. FiiO M27: Two-minute reviewIf there’s a stone FiiO has left unturned in the way it’s specified and built the M27 digital audio player, it’s invisible.This is a portable(ish) music player for which the word ‘uncompromised’ is almost an understatement. Specification is thorough to the point of exhaustion. Twin ESS Sabre DACS with 32bit/768kHz and DSD512 compatibility, aptX Lossless and LDAC for Bluetooth, balanced and unbalanced analogue outputs, a super-slick…