Author: The Tech Guy

EE is raising the bar for home broadband once again, becoming the first major UK provider to roll out Wi-Fi 7 hardware across every full fibre plan.  The move marks a shift in how the company is positioning its service: not just around faster speeds, but around whole-home reliability, something research suggests matters more to UK households than headline numbers. Starting today, anyone signing up for an EE Full Fibre plan will get the new Smart Hub 7 Plus as standard, with support for Wi-Fi 7 and up to 30% faster wireless throughput compared to the previous Smart Hub 6…

Most GPUs lose around half their value within two or three years, especially when newer generations arrive offering better performance or lower power consumption. It’s a difficult cycle to beat, especially given the enormous focus on GPU performance these days; everyone wants the latest and greatest, and modern games, AI, and other applications demand it, too. But one card has defied that decline. At least, mostly. Five years after launch, it still sells for a decent price, remains popular on the second-hand market, and regularly appears in budget-build discussions. But as you’ll see, value retention doesn’t automatically make them a…

Today, Opera has announced that it’s opening up public access to Opera Neon, which is its experimental browser for AI power users, “who wish to get access and make the most of the newest AI technologies as they emerge”. Neon has been available in a closed “Founders” phase since October 2 – think of it like a closed beta. Now we’re in the open beta phase, and anyone can join – on Windows and Mac. Neon is described by its maker as “an agentic browser”. It uses AI agents to perform tasks and even code web apps rather than just…

The rumors were true: OpenAI on Thursday announced the release of its new frontier large language model (LLM) family, GPT-5.2.It comes at a pivotal moment for the AI pioneer, which has faced intensifying pressure since rival Google’s Gemini 3 LLM seized the top spot on major third-party performance leaderboards and many key benchmarks last month, though OpenAI leaders stressed in a press briefing that the timing of this release had been discussed and worked on well in advance of the release of Gemini 3.OpenAI describes GPT-5.2 as its "most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work," aiming to reclaim…

NASA has selected one small explorer mission concept to advance toward flight design and another for an extended period of concept development. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate Science Management Council selected CINEMA (Cross-scale Investigation of Earth’s Magnetotail and Aurora) to enter Phase B of development, which includes planning and design for flight and mission operations. The principal investigator for the CINEMA mission concept is Robyn Millan from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The proposed CINEMA mission aims to advance our understanding of how plasma energy flows into the Earth’s magnetosphere. This highly dynamic convective flow is unpredictable — sometimes steady…

If you’ve been eyeing Samsung’s top-end smartwatch but choking at the price, this is a much easier way in. This renewed Galaxy Watch Ultra gives you the 47mm titanium design, LTE connectivity, AI-powered insights, and all the fitness and health tracking you’d expect, for $249.99 instead of roughly $500. The catch is simple: it’s renewed, not brand new, which is exactly why the price looks so good. What you’re getting This is Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Ultra 47mm LTE model, so you’re getting the big, premium version, not a stripped-down variant. The titanium gray case, rugged design, and onboard GPS make…

Ever since I added a receiver and Apple TV 4K to my living room, I’ve been cursed with having too many remotes. I have my receiver’s remote, my TV’s remote, and my Apple TV’s remote. It was a jumbled mess of things, and I often had to use a combination of all three to get to where I wanted to go. For a long time, I just put up with it, but that’s all changed with the SofaBaton X2. Universal remotes have been around for many years, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one quite like this. For starters,…

Marble, a startup building artificial intelligence agents for tax professionals, has raised $9 million in seed funding as the accounting industry grapples with a deepening labor shortage and mounting regulatory complexity.The round, led by Susa Ventures with participation from MXV Capital and Konrad Capital, positions Marble to compete in a market where AI adoption has lagged significantly behind other knowledge industries like law and software development."When we looked at the economy and asked ourselves where AI is going to transform the way businesses operate, we focused on knowledge industries — specifically businesses with hourly fee-based service models," said Bhavin Shah,…

As prominent artificial intelligence researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational hardware.These “biocomputers” are still in their early days. They can play simple games such as Pong, and perform basic speech recognition.But the excitement is fueled by three converging trends.First, venture capital is flowing into anything adjacent to AI, making speculative ideas suddenly fundable. Second, techniques for growing brain tissue outside the body have matured with the pharmaceutical industry jumping on board. Third, rapid advances in brain–computer interfaces have seen growing acceptance of technologies…

ZTE is reportedly closing in on a deal to resolve its foreign bribery allegations by way of a $1 billion payment to the U.S. government. According to a new Reuters News report, the U.S. Department of Justice has an ongoing investigation into ZTE’s violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) across several regions, with U.S. officials now working on a resolution that would involve a $1 billion payment. ZTE faces multiple bribery allegations under the FCPA for allegedly bribing officials across several regions to secure telecom contracts. According to people familiar with the ongoing DOJ investigation into ZTE, the…