Author: The Tech Guy
The Poco F8 lineup, which is expected to include the F8, F8 Pro, and the F8 Ultra, now has an official launch date. Poco announced the news through a social media post, confirming that the F8 series will be unveiled on November 26 at a global launch event in Bali, Indonesia. The company hasn’t revealed any details about the upcoming phones, but it did confirm a partnership with Bose for ‘Mobile Acoustics’. This likely means that the Poco F8 series will feature a sound system similar to the Redmi K90 Pro Max. The Redmi K90 Pro Max comes with a…
Affinity, which offers great alternatives to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom, is popular for its one-time payment for a lifetime, as opposed to monthly recurring payments for Adobe programs. Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer are widely used by designers worldwide. Canva acquired Affinity in 2024. Recently, Canva bundled its Affinity programs and relaunched them as […] This article How to use Affinity Designer app for free on Windows PC first appeared on TheWindowsClub.com.
Huawei has officially confirmed the launch date for its upcoming Mate 80 series and unveiled the full design and color options for all models. The company will also unveil the Mate X7 foldable at the event. The Huawei Mate 80 series will debut in China on November 25 alongside the Mate X7. Notably, Huawei has already started accepting pre-orders for the Mate 80 lineup. The upcoming lineup will include the Mate 80, Mate 80 Pro, Mate 80 Pro Max, and the Mate 80 RS Ultimate Design. Huawei has also shared the design, color options, and RAM/storage variants of the phones.…
Parents are turning to OpenAI’s ChatGPT in increasing numbers for child rearing advice — and the results of that uncontrolled experiment are anyone’s guess. They’re asking ChatGPT how to handle behavioral problems or for medical advice when their kids are sick, USA Today reports, which dovetails with a 2024 study that found parents trust ChatGPT over real health professionals and also deem the information generated by the bot to be trustworthy. It all comes in addition to parents using ChatGPT to keep kids entertained by having the bot read their children bedtime stories or talk with them for hours. All…
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. Motorola Edge 70 two-minute reviewThe Edge series from Motorola has been one of the most consistently interesting lines of Android phones for cost-conscious buyers; they’re not always the best smartphones around, but they look classy and get you unrivaled value for money in the Android world. But I’m not so sure about the Motorola Edge 70, which has fallen in with the wrong crowd by trying to follow the…
I’ve hit my breaking point with Spotify. Between the relentless price hikes and its annoying AI-generated music, I couldn’t justify the monthly bill anymore. So I went hunting for alternatives. Not the usual suspects like Apple Music or YouTube Music, which would just swap one subscription for another, but free options that wouldn’t nickel-and-dime me into submission. In the process, I discovered an ecosystem of open-source music streaming apps, all of which are YouTube Music clients that deliver ad-free streaming without subscriptions, logins, or guilt trips about premium features. Each one has a distinct personality and a reason you might…
TL;DR YouTube Music appears to be testing a new feature that allows users to search within playlists. The feature was spotted on the iOS version of the YouTube Music app, and its rollout seems to be extremely limited as of now. Android users are not yet seeing the feature in their apps. YouTube Music appears to be quietly rolling out a long-requested feature — the ability to search within playlists. Users have been asking for this feature for years, and it now looks like Google is finally responding.A Reddit user reported seeing a new “Find in Playlist” option in the…
When I first wrote “Vector databases: Shiny object syndrome and the case of a missing unicorn” in March 2024, the industry was awash in hype. Vector databases were positioned as the next big thing — a must-have infrastructure layer for the gen AI era. Billions of venture dollars flowed, developers rushed to integrate embeddings into their pipelines and analysts breathlessly tracked funding rounds for Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, Milvus and a dozen others.The promise was intoxicating: Finally, a way to search by meaning rather than by brittle keywords. Just dump your enterprise knowledge into a vector store, connect an LLM and…
Microsoft EVP of Cloud + AI Scott Guthrie says the goal is to be able to 10X the AI training every 18-24 months. This likely includes maintaining the 2-4X pace of chip improvement. Satya Nadella gave Dylan Patel (founder of SemiAnalysis) and Dwarkesh an exclusive first-look at their brand-new Fairwater 2 datacenter. Microsoft is building multiple Fairwaters, each of which has hundreds of thousands of GB200s & GB300s. Between all these interconnected buildings, they’ll have over 2 GW of total capacity. Even a single one of these Fairwater buildings is more powerful than any other AI datacenter that currently exists.…
It’s often the way that in the search for modernity, older ways are dispensed with, but not always for the good. The truth is, a combination of the old and new is often better, and I’m a big proponent of the principle of heating the person, not the house. It’s a concept that Victorians would have been familiar with, albeit in a different way. Faced with cold, draughty houses, Victorians would have had thick rugs, deep curtains (around doors, windows, and even beds), and layered up to keep warm. Modern central heating and relatively low utility prices changed that, making it…