Author: The Tech Guy

NASA named a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the first prize winner for Phase 2 of the agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge, which focused on developing solutions for reducing waste during missions to the Moon or deep space by recycling common materials, like fabrics, plastics, foam, and metals.  The Composites for Extraterrestrial Recycling By Engineering the Reuse and Upcycling of Zotek (CERBERUZ) team, comprised of undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students at MIT, received a total of $775,000 in awards.   The technology grinds mixed trash into a fine powder, repurposing materials such as Zotek foam as reinforcement rather than treating it as contamination that needs to be sorted out. The powder becomes feed for use as injection-mold finished parts or 3D-printing filament. The MIT team won in both the competition’s prototype development track and in the track focused on developing virtual models, known…

Last week’s poll shows that people are interested in the Honor Robot Phone for its camera and AI capabilities – but mostly the camera. For the purposes of the poll, we put aside issues of availability (for now the phone is only available in China), but the issue of price is harder to ignore. Indeed, if Honor chooses to pursue this form factor for future development, a hypothetical future model might win over new fans. As for the current model, it did its main job – draw attention – but many of the onlookers aren’t willing to spend that much…

If you’ve somehow made it this far without seeing a single Marvel movie, the good news is that you don’t need to wade through over 30 films to understand what everyone’s been talking about. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is enormous, but a handful of movies do most of the heavy lifting when it comes to introducing its biggest heroes. You could obviously watch all the movies in release order, but that’s a pretty big commitment if you’re only curious about what all the fuss is about. Instead, these are the movies I’d recommend starting with since they introduce the characters…

Back in June, we learned that WhatsApp was developing a Scam Alert feature, which Meta officially detailed over two weeks ago. While WhatsApp hasn’t yet revealed exactly when the Scam Alert feature will roll out to everyone, the public release shouldn’t be far off, as it’s now available to some Android users enrolled in WhatsApp’s beta program. This revelation comes from the folks at WABetaInfo, who discovered this development on beta version 2.26.34.1 of WhatsApp for Android. As the name suggests, Scam Alert will warn users if an incoming message from an unknown sender appears to be a scam, without…

PaperCut Software is warning users of its NG and MF print management solutions that a zero-day vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. The flaw has yet to be assigned a CVE identifier and no technical details have been shared. The vendor released emergency patches on Friday and urged customers to install them. PaperCut also recommends disconnecting the application server from the internet and restricting access to trusted IPs. “We are aware of confirmed customer incidents and are treating this matter with the highest priority. Our investigation is ongoing,” the company said in its advisory.  It’s unclear who is behind…

Artificial IntelligenceOpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI AgentMaxwell Zeff | Wired ($)”In recently aired podcasts, interviews, and private investor meetings, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has described his desire to turn ChatGPT into a proactive, always-on AI agent. …’There’s like a single product which is: I need to ask the AI something,’ Altman said on a recent episode of David Senra’s podcast. ‘Eventually, maybe the AI should proactively offer me things.'”RoboticsI Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the SpotWill Knight | Wired ($)”I visited the Cambridge, Massachusetts, offices of a startup called Generalist AI, where…

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. Noble Audio Vanguard reviewRight out of the box, the Noble Audio Vanguard look and feel unlike any other in-ear monitors (IEMs) that I’ve tried before. Their medieval-like outer casework, their shield-shaped ear tip case, and their ink-black cable all caught my eye in a way that few rivals have in my years testing audio gear.The striking visuals are undeniable. But what of their sound? Well, Noble Audio says that…

OpenClaw is an open-source, self-hosted agent runtime that turns an AI model into a persistent assistant. You can connect OpenClaw to apps and external platforms and let the agent take actions on your behalf. It can potentially browse websites, work with files, run scripts, and communicate with other services through APIs. OpenClaw’s capabilities largely depend […] This article How to secure OpenClaw desktop AI automation on Windows systems first appeared on TheWindowsClub.com.

Karandeep Singh / Android AuthorityI seriously thought this day would be far out in the future, but here we are. We already have AI assistants that can take instructions and execute a series of tasks (not just one at a time) without your supervision — it’s almost like having a human assistant.Google’s Gemini Spark is one such product. In fact, it’s one of the first of its kind to be so easily and widely accessible to end users rather than enterprises. It’s so intuitive that I instinctively gravitate towards Spark whenever I need something done within the Google ecosystem. It’s…

If you think you’ve excluded all Chinese AI from your tech stack, you may need to think again. The US government’s attitude toward Chinese AI is that it is a national security threat. This alone could persuade patriotic Americans to eschew any AI labelled ‘Chinese’ in favor of an AI without that label. Cisco has published details on new research from itself and VAIL demonstrating that national labels do not give an accurate picture of model lineage and characteristics. In a blog post titled “The ‘U.S. vs. China’ AI Trap: An Incomplete Proxy for AI Security,” Cisco argues that country…