Author: The Tech Guy

Privacy-focused messaging app Signal announced on Monday that it’s introducing a feature that allows users to back up their text conversations for free, along with the last 45 days of media. It’s also debuting its first paid feature by offering full media backups with up to 100GB of storage. Historically, the messaging app didn’t let users store any kind of backup of your conversations on the platform. This could be especially troublesome if you lost or broke your phone. While you could transfer conversations from one phone to another, there was no cloud backup in place. The new feature finally…

If you’ve marked 2026 as the year Apple will finally release its highly anticipated foldable iPhone in your calendar, you may need to cross it out. A recent report suggests that the launch could be delayed. According to The Elec, citing a report from Japan’s Mizuho Securities, the release of Apple’s first foldable iPhone might be pushed back to 2027, due to Apple taking longer to finalize certain design elements of the phone, such as the hinge and other “key specifications.” Since Apple is still mulling over the final design choices for the phone, the report indicates that this could…

Hoping to attract more enterprise teams to its ecosystem, Adobe launched a new model customization service called Adobe AI Foundry, which would create bespoke versions of its flagship AI model, Firefly.Adobe AI Foundry will work with enterprise customers to rearchitect and retrain Firefly models specific to the client. AI Foundry version models are different from custom Firefly models in that Foundry models understand multiple concepts compared to custom models with only a single concept. These models will also be multimodal, offering a wider use case than custom Firefly models, which can only ingest and respond with images. Adobe AI Foundry models,…

Endless Summer (Screenshots) Are you one of the millions of workers who’ve recently been laid off, had their wages cut, or are locked in an endless struggle just to hang onto the job you have? Are you tired of dreaming of a vacation that never seems to come, amidst a stagnating economy where all the wealth seems to line the pockets of a few powerful billionaires? Not to worry — thanks to rapid advances in technology, you can travel from the skyscrapers of New York City to the canals of Amsterdam and be back home in time for instant ramen.…

Razer brings a new wave of nostalgia to its popular Phantom lineup with the debut of the Phantom White edition – a refined, translucent lineup that gives a modest nod to the retro accessories of yesteryear.   The new Phantom White series has a semi-transparent white finish that blends precision engineering, colour-coordinated internals, and Razer Chroma RGB integration. It honestly feels like its straight out of the 90s and I’m down for it. There are no new devices in this range, but if you’re a fan of the Razer Basilisk V3 Pro mouse, Firefly V2 Pro mouse mate, BlackWidow V4…

Data is the cornerstone of enterprise AI success, yet enterprise AI initiatives often hit an unexpected infrastructure wall: getting clean, reliable data from the web. For the last two decades, web scrapers have helped with the challenges of getting web data. Web scrapers, which extract content from websites automatically, worked fine in the pre-AI era when humans processed messy HTML output. However, gen AI systems demand data in specific formats with consistent reliability at enterprise scale. Traditional scrapers that output raw HTML, broken links and inconsistent formatting create cascading failures in AI pipelines. When an AI agent can't reliably access current…

Crescent Island 160GB LPDDR5X setup reflects a cost-aware engineering strategyAir-cooled deployment targets practical enterprise data center environments globallyXe3P architecture links Crescent Island’s design to Intel’s broader GPU ecosystemIntel has revealed its latest data center GPU, codenamed Crescent Island, designed primarily for AI inference workloads.This chip targets value-conscious enterprises that prioritize efficiency, cost, and compatibility with standard air-cooled data center environments.Crescent Island is part of Intel’s effort to strengthen its presence in AI acceleration for servers without competing directly with flagship solutions from Nvidia. You may like Focus on inference and efficiencyThe GPU, set to sample in the second half of…

Vibe coding is evolving and with it are the leading AI-powered coding services and tools, including Anthropic’s Claude Code. As of today, the service will be available via the web and, in preview, on the Claude iOS app, giving developers access to additional asynchronous capabilities. Previously, it was available through the terminal on developers' PCs with support for Git, Docker, Kubernetes, npm, pip, AWS CLI, etc., and as an extension for Microsoft's open source VS Code editor and other JetBrains-powered integrated development environments (IDEs) via Claude Agent. “Claude Code on the web lets you kick off coding sessions without opening…

Home » Artificial intelligence » Nvidia and TSMC Making Blackwell GPU Chips in the USA TSMC’s semiconductor manufacturing facility in Phoenix celebrates the first NVIDIA Blackwell wafer produced on U.S. soil. The US Nvidia Blackwell has reached volume production. The chip packaging is still done in Taiwan. TSMC Arizona will produce advanced technologies including two-, three- and four-nanometer chips, as well as A16 chips, all essential for applications like AI, telecommunications and high-performance computing. Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News…

Enlarge Image You don’t need the extra power, but it sure is nice. Antuan Goodwin/CNET CarsThe full-electric BMW i4 is essentially a 4 Series Gran Coupe four-door liftback sedan without a tailpipe. From the curbside, it is indistinguishable from its combustion-powered siblings. Unlike the iX, which screams “weird electric SUV!” with its avant garde design, the i4 flies under the radar. The 2023 BMW i4 M50 builds on this formula with a more powerful dual-motor electric powertrain and M Sport handling. The M50 may not quite be an electric M car, but with better whisper-silent performance, it’s possibly the best…