Author: The Tech Guy

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech While most of the vandals ripping down automatic license plate readers prefer to go incognito, an Albuquerque character named Jevon Martinez isn’t afraid to show his face. Weeks after Bernalillo county officials cancelled their contract with the controversial surveillance company Flock earlier this year, Martinez noticed the automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) were still up. In a series of videos posted on social media and flagged by KOB4, Martinez filmed himself tearing the camera towers down in order to return them to their…

Vodafone has announced Vodafone TV, a new entertainment hub that brings live television, streaming, gaming, music and apps together in one place. The service is designed to simplify the increasingly messy experience of juggling multiple streaming subscriptions and devices. Vodafone TV will bring services including Netflix and HBO Max alongside Freely, more than 150 live channels, 300-plus cloud games and thousands of apps through the Google Play Store. At the heart of the experience is a set-top box running Android TV. It supports 4K video, Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, while 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage should give…

2025 was a major year for new 360 cameras. Insta360 maintained its dominance with the X5 (since upgraded with the X6), DJI entered the picture with the Osmo 360, and GoPro finally upgraded its original Max after years of delays with the Max 2.In our in-depth review, we said GoPro’s 8K second-gen model was ‘worth the wait’, and it’s now available for a new low price that further sweetens the deal over Labor Day. You can grab the GoPro Max 2 at Amazon for $299 — that’s a full 40% off the original (already reasonable) $499.99 asking price.Compare that deal…

Data allegedly stolen from the Manchester Airports Group (MAG) and leaked online this week includes the email addresses and phone numbers of 8.8 million people. MAG disclosed the incident last week, warning that hackers had breached its systems, stealing car park, lounge, and Fast Track booking data, along with in-airport Wi-Fi sign-ups at the Manchester, London Stansted, and East Midlands airports. The airport operator disclosed that hackers had exfiltrated email addresses, phone numbers, vehicle registrations, and postcodes, noting that its operations were not affected by the incident. MAG confirmed that the stolen information was stored in a database hosted by…

GPT-6 Astra leads every comparable benchmark against Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Fable 5, and Claude Opus 5. Clear wins (large gaps) ARC-AGI-3: Astra 98.6% vs Opus 5 30.2% (high). No scores for the Fable models.FrontierMath Tier 4 (v2): Astra 97.6% vs Fable 5.1 / Fable 5 87.8% and Opus 5 73.2%.AutomationBench: Astra 41.4% vs Fable 5.1 31.4%, Opus 5 26.9%, Fable 5 17.4%.Terminal-Bench Science 0.1: Astra 64.6% vs Fable 5.1 52.6%, Opus 5 29.0%, Fable 5 24.7%.BenchCAD: Astra 95.9% vs Fable 5.1 84.3%, Opus 5 82.1%, Fable 5 67.5%.ExploitBench: Astra 100% vs Opus 5 70%. No Fable scores.Agents’ Last Exam:…

Lenovo is taking aim at Apple’s budget-friendly MacBook Neo with its new IdeaPad Vibe series. Announced at IFA 2026 in Berlin, the lineup takes a more playful approach to mainstream computing with bright color options, modular styling tweaks, and a broad range of silicon choices. Personality and practical design choices The IdeaPad Vibe lineup comes in two screen sizes, giving buyers a choice between 14-inch and 15-inch form factors. Base models feature a standard 120Hz IPS display, while higher-tier configurations upgrade to a 120Hz OLED panel. The 14-inch version offers up to WUXGA OLED resolution, while the 15-inch scales up…

I used to think getting better results from Claude meant writing better prompts. Give it more context, add more constraints, and explain exactly what I wanted, and I would get a better answer. That’s true. But a better answer isn’t always a more interesting one. I’ve found that Claude becomes much more interesting when it gives me questions to think about. Answering it, disagreeing with it, and even challenging it can open unexpected threads. Sometimes the best idea appears several turns after the prompt I started with. Related I added one line to my Claude prompts and stopped getting generic…

At its IFA 2026 keynote today, Motorola unveiled the new Edge 70 Plus smartphone, the Watch Ultra, adorned the Razr 70 (Razr 2026 in the States) with Swarovski Crystals for its Brilliant Collection, and showed off a 25W Qi 2.2-compatible magnetic wireless charger. Motorola Edge 70 Plus Let’s start with the Motorola Edge 70 Plus, the latest in a big family. The Edge 70 Plus comes in four Pantone-certified finishes – Gray Lilac, Milky Blue, Mountain View, and Sage. Every one of those has its own unique texture and physical inspirations, as you can imagine. The Mountain View is a…

AI security company HiddenLayer on Wednesday announced raising $100 million in a Series B funding round that brings the total raised by the company to over $155 million. Founded in 2022, Austin-based HiddenLayer secures the lifecycle of agentic, generative, and predictive AI applications, protecting agents from evolving threats. The company’s enterprise platform provides discovery, AI supply chain security, attack simulation, and runtime protection for AI agents, ensuring compliance, safe AI adoption, and intellectual property protection. HiddenLayer plans to invest the fresh funds in expanding the platform with agentic runtime security capabilities that cover AI coding agents. The company will focus…

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sprawling cosmic vista in the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, the largest of the small galaxies that orbit our Milky Way galaxy. At just 160,000 light-years away, the LMC offers a close look at highly active star birth sites like the one in this image. This photogenic nebula, named LHA 120-N44, or N44, is in the constellation Dorado. N44 is dominated by two features: a vast central void and a shell of dense, dusty gas. The central void is a ‘superbubble’ spanning roughly 210 by 140 light-years across. The glittering stars at…