Author: The Tech Guy

If you want to bring a bit of holiday cheer to the screen you use the most, you’ll get a kick out of the newly updated Festivitas app for Apple devices. Originally designed to add holiday lights to your Mac’s desktop, this popular indie app has been updated this year with several new features, most notably a version of the app that brings its sparkling, colorful lights to iOS devices for the first time. With the new Festivitas app for iPhone and iPad, you can add and customize a string of holiday lights on your device’s Home Screen using iOS…

Cyber Monday is coming to a close but there are still some top-class deals to take advantage of, on everything from wired earbuds through to blenders. But I’ve found a very special deal indeed on the most comfortable pair of headphones I’ve ever tested, and it’s truly unmissable. That’s right, you can score the Soundcore Space One Pro for $113.99 at Amazon (was $199.99), meaning you’ll save a massive $86 – that’s 43% off!• Shop Amazon’s full Cyber Monday saleThe Soundcore Space One Pro headphones were already pretty cheap given the sound quality, comfort, and ANC on offer. But at…

When Liquid AI, a startup founded by MIT computer scientists back in 2023, introduced its Liquid Foundation Models series 2 (LFM2) in July 2025, the pitch was straightforward: deliver the fastest on-device foundation models on the market using the new "liquid" architecture, with training and inference efficiency that made small models a serious alternative to cloud-only large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's GPT series and Google's Gemini. The initial release shipped dense checkpoints at 350M, 700M, and 1.2B parameters, a hybrid architecture heavily weighted toward gated short convolutions, and benchmark numbers that placed LFM2 ahead of similarly sized competitors…

Space is getting busier as national space agencies and private companies increase the tempo of launches. But today’s approach to space exploration is unsustainable, say researchers, and we need to do more to make sure the orbital economy is a circular one.While companies like SpaceX have made progress with reusable rockets, most launch vehicles are used only once, and their remains are left to either burn up in the atmosphere or clutter low-Earth orbit. They also dump huge quantities of greenhouse gases and ozone-depleting chemicals into the upper atmosphere.Satellites are similarly unsustainable. After completing missions, they’re often either moved to…

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. Let’s not beat around the bush with what director Noah Baumbach is trying to achieve with Jay Kelly, it’s a blatant love letter to George Clooney. The new Netflix movie is self-indulgent to the point of rubbing in it in our faces, and I’m as surprised as anyone else that I have no problem with that.In fact, I think it’s this indulgence that means the film can exist and…

If you are experiencing Error 0xC1900101-0x40021, The installation failed in the SECOND_BOOT phase due to SYSPREP_RESPECIALIZE operation when upgrading Windows 11, you are not alone. This error indicates that the installation has got stuck right before the final setup stage. The good news is that this is almost always fixable. In this article, we will […] This article Fix 0xC1900101 – 0x40021 Windows 11 Upgrade error first appeared on TheWindowsClub.com.

In a weird anti-customer move, Netflix has quietly disabled the ability to cast its content from mobile devices to “most TVs and TV streaming devices” like the Google TV Streamer and the older Chromecast models with remotes. You can, however, still cast to even older Chromecasts, the ones that don’t come with a remote. And that’s the key here – basically, if it has a remote, casting is disabled. If it doesn’t have a remote, casting to it still works. Don’t get us wrong, navigating Netflix with a remote might be preferable for some people versus using casting, which is…

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released two powerful new AI models on Sunday that the company claims match or exceed the capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-5 and Google's Gemini-3.0-Pro — a development that could reshape the competitive landscape between American tech giants and their Chinese challengers.The Hangzhou-based company launched DeepSeek-V3.2, designed as an everyday reasoning assistant, alongside DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, a high-powered variant that achieved gold-medal performance in four elite international competitions: the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad, the International Olympiad in Informatics, the ICPC World Finals, and the China Mathematical Olympiad.The release carries profound implications for American technology leadership. DeepSeek has once again…

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Brace yourselves, for your cozy little conversations with OpenAI’s ChatGPT are about to be stuffed with ads. At least, that’s the findings of a software engineer who dug through the code of an experimental build of the chatbot’s app. The engineer, Tibor Blaho, flagged roughly a dozen lines of code in the latest beta release of the ChatGPT app for Android, 1.2025.329, labelled “feature ads,” with strings referencing commercial-sounding stuff like “search ad,” “search ads carousel,” and “bazaar content.” It’s yet another sign that OpenAI is preparing to…

Fitbit’s most approachable and comfortable activity tracker has just become even more appealing thanks to a sizeable discount. The Fitbit Inspire 3 is now £52, down from £84.99, giving you a generous 38% saving on one of the easiest wearables to add to your day-to-day routine. Designed to be lightweight, simple and genuinely helpful, it’s a great pick for anyone who wants meaningful health insights without the bulk or complexity of a full smartwatch. Despite its compact size, the Inspire 3 covers an impressive range of health and fitness essentials. You get 24/7 heart-rate monitoring, Active Zone Minutes, daily activity…