Author: The Tech Guy

In celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States, NASA has unveiled four cosmic images from its Chandra X-ray Observatory rendered in red, white, and blue that represent the wonders of the universe the agency explores. The images are accompanied by a trio of new sonifications – a technique that translates astronomical data into sounds. The image set begins with Cassiopeia A in the top panel, where X-rays from Chandra (represented in blue and purple) have been combined with an infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (red and white). Chandra’s X-ray vision reveals the blast wave that…

Verdict Perfectly balanced, powerful, and incredibly quiet, the Stihl FSA 50 Cordless Grass Trimmer is a must for any serious home gardener. It’s an expensive piece of kit, but it’s worth the money for its performance and handling. Converts to an edging tool in seconds Excellent balance and minimal vibrations Quiet operation Some might struggle with the safety trigger Key Features Review Price: £159 28cm cutting width Ideal for clearing growth quickly. Adjustable length Change the shaft length to suit your height. Battery powered Runs on Stihl’s AK battery system. Introduction If you’re in the habit of gardening early in…

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is coming to HBO Ma on July 3The horror movie is a reimagining of the iconic Mummy franchiseIt follows a mummified young girl who is returned to her family eight years after she disappearedLee Cronin’s The Mummy is heading to HBO Max on July 3, making it one of the huge new movies heading to the streaming service that month.The horror movie is a reimagining of The Mummy franchise and features Nasmaranian, an ancient Egyptian demon that possesses victims. The chilling story follows a family who are reunited with their long-missing, mummified daughter, only to learn…

Aflac Life Insurance Japan, a subsidiary of insurance giant Aflac, on Tuesday announced that hackers stole the personal information of 4.38 million customers. The company’s systems were hacked on June 15, and the attackers accessed them several times until June 25, when the data breach was discovered, Aflac said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. “Upon identifying the unlawful access, Aflac Japan promptly took steps designed to contain the incident and prevent further intrusion, including suspending certain systems,” Aflac said. The incident is limited to certain Aflac Japan systems and does not affect Aflac’s systems related…

Scientists have long dreamed of developing nanoscale machines, but building reliable mechanical components at the molecular scale has proved challenging. Researchers have now developed a DNA-based switch that can rapidly and repeatedly snap between two stable states, much like the components that underpin everyday electronics.Ever since Richard Feynman’s visionary lecture “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” researchers have been enamored with the idea of engineering at the scale of atoms and molecules. But manipulating matter at the nanoscale is easier said than done.Individual molecules are in constant motion and continuously jostled about by the thermal energy of their surroundings.…

Huawei has officially started selling the MatePad Pro Max in Germany, marking the European retail debut of its flagship tablet nearly two months after its global unveiling. Positioned as a premium productivity device, the MatePad Pro Max combines an ultra-thin design, a high-end OLED display, desktop-style software features, and bundled accessories aimed at professionals and creators. The tablet starts at €1,099 for the Space Gray model, while the PaperMatte Edition with the Glide Keyboard costs €1,299. Huawei is also sweetening the deal with free accessories and an extended warranty for early buyers. Huawei scores high on thinness and lightness Huawei…

Streaming music puts millions of songs in our hands at a low monthly cost, but it encourages the use of wireless protocols with serious bottlenecks. When streaming high-resolution lossless music through a Wi-Fi network or cellular connection, speed and bitrate become concerns. Using a Bluetooth connection to connect your streaming device to earbuds, headphones, or speakers means you’ll be further limited to the bitrate of the Bluetooth audio codec used. Streaming sounds “bad” when your gear and wireless communication protocols aren’t good enough to support the quality of files you want to play. I use Ethernet throughout my home, but…

Samsung’s first pair of smart glasses running Android XR with One UI XR on top will be called the Samsung Galaxy Glasses, the company has already confirmed. They will apparently be managed on your smartphone via the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Glasses Manager app. Today the folks at SammyGuru have somehow managed to get their hands on this app, and inside it they found an image showing the glasses by themselves, as well as one showing them inside their case. Screenshots from the Samsung Galaxy Glasses Manager app The glasses shown here are the Warby Parker model. The…

Bash (Bourne Again SHell), the 1989 GNU rewrite of the original Linux Bourne Shell, can still cause problems more than three decades later through its Bash Tricks. Adversa AI has discovered a structural security flaw in multiple open source AI agents. It’s not a specific bug but a process that can get malicious Bash instructions ingested into the agent, and from there into whatever the agent does – typically with the operator’s approval. Adversa calls this structural issue GuardFall. “We tested eleven popular open source agents, including Hermes, OpenCode, Roo-code, and others,” explains Omer Ben Simon, lead researcher at Adversa…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech US and Chinese AI researchers are calling for global cooperation on the tech, fearing that its unchecked development could lead to an unimaginable catastrophe.  “AI is a global technology with global benefits, global harms, and a consistent tendency for new capabilities to eventually proliferate,” Stephen Casper, a computer scientist at MIT who spoke at a major AI conference in Beijing this month, told Wired. “One thing that almost everyone in AI can agree on right now is that AI doesn’t need a Chernobyl…