Author: The Tech Guy

The moment we’ve all been waiting for has arrived – it’s time for TechRadar’s annual Santa Tracker!We’re going to be monitoring St. Nick’s whereabouts as he delivers all the best tech gifts this Christmas, following along using the two most popular trackers; NORAD and Google. Every year, millions tune in to watch Kris Kringle’s annual gift-giving globe-trot. It’s practically a sporting event, with both the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and Google running Santa Trackers to follow his every movement.Of course, there’s more to Christmastime than watching an animated sleigh jet across the skies, so we’re also sharing global…

BREAKING: SpaceX has announced that Starlink now has over 9 million customers, up from 8M in November and 7M in August 2025. I predicted that SpaceX would get to 9-10 million by the end of 2025. 9 days at 22-23K per day is another 220k-230k.  Starlink added a record 21,275 new customers on average per day since they hit 8M, smashing their previous record of 14,250. That growth rate is a whopping 49.3% higher than it was just last month! Do y’all understand how insane this growth rate is? Starlink hit 8 million just 47 days ago lol. The growth…

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. Oppo Find X9 Pro review: Two-minute review (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future)What makes a great sequel? Across film, gaming, and indeed smartphones, the best follow-ups carry forward and amplify the good things while dialing down any pretension. In the phone world, this means zeroing in on the features and functions that give a phone its purpose.That’s exactly what Oppo has done with the Find X9 Pro. It takes…

Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on most Android phones, and the upgraded voice assistant brings the power of AI into your conversations. However, the basic Gemini voice assistant is just one way to interact with Google’s best AI models. There’s also Gemini Live, which is more conversational, allowing users to go back-and-forth with Gemini as part of a continuous chat. Even beyond the standard Gemini Live experience, there’s a live-streaming mode that lets Gemini tap into your phone’s real-time camera feed. If you’re wondering why you’d ever want to share your live camera feed with Gemini Live, there’s one simple…

The oft-rumored ban of DJI drones in the US has now become reality, but the US government hasn’t just banned sales of DJI drones. Instead, all foreign-made drones and their components are now banned in the country. Obviously, DJI is the most impacted in the consumer market, though. The FCC says several security agencies have determined that drones and their critical components produced in foreign countries pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of the US. Today, based on an Executive Branch national security determination, the FCC has added foreign-produced UAS (drones) and foreign-produced UAS critical component parts to…

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young star. For the first time in visible light, Hubble has revealed the disk is unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent, with wisps of material stretching much farther above and below the disk than astronomers have seen in any similar system. Strangely, more extended filaments are only visible on one side of the disk. The findings, which published Tuesday in The Astrophysical Journal, mark a new milestone for Hubble and shed light on how planets may form in extreme environments, as NASA’s missions lead humanity’s exploration…

4K resolution comes to the Ring platform. The Ring Outdoor Cam Pro finally brings 4K footage to the best-known security company. Excellent, sharp footage makes a huge difference day and night. With excellent motion detection options, including radar-based detection, this camera only captures what’s important, while its integration with the Ring cloud and Ring Alarm makes it easy to control. Excellent video quality Brilliant motion detection options Integrates with the Ring Alarm Single-camera Ring subscriptions are expensive Key Features 4K video Shoots high-resolution video. Cloud storage Requires a Ring subscription for video storage. Mains powered USB-C and PoE options available.…

Rita El Khoury / Android AuthorityWith Android 15, Google introduced app pairs, or the ability to save two apps together as one icon, and launch them at the same time in split-screen mode. The feature was limited to tablets at first, but it soon expanded to the Pixel 9 Pro Fold and other phones.Initially, I thought I would use this all the time, but I soon realized that the issue was with the multi-window mode itself, and how it displayed a tiny part of both apps and made using either of them clunkier. So I forgot about app pairs for…

As generative AI models grow more powerful, their energy use is becoming a serious bottleneck. A new fully optical generative AI chip could help by running advanced image and video generation tasks at speeds and efficiencies orders of magnitude beyond today’s hardware.Training generative AI models requires an enormous amount of computing power and energy. But as demand explodes, the process of actually running the models to create images, text, or video—known as inference—is quickly becoming an even bigger drain on resources.Video and image generation models are particularly energy intensive. While the efficiency of these models is constantly improving, a 2023…

With the likes of SpaceX rattling off rocket launches seemingly every other day, you could be forgiven for thinking that sending massive vehicles to space had become as easy as baking a cake. But as two rocket failures on December 22 shows, the launch process remains as complex as ever. The first of this week’s two failures came when the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZS-5) aboard its H3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center about 620 miles south-west of Tokyo. The first part of the rocket’s flight looked good, but the second stage engine’s…