Author: The Tech Guy
Agents are the trendiest topic in AI today, and with good reason. AI agents act on their users’ behalf, autonomously handling tasks like making online purchases, building software, researching business trends or booking travel. By taking generative AI out of the sandbox of the chat interface and allowing it to act directly on the world, agentic AI represents a leap forward in the power and utility of AI.Taking gen AI out of the protected sandbox of the chat interface and allowing it to act directly on the world represents a leap forward in the power and utility of AI.Agentic AI…
Never content to pollute only the Earth’s surface, oceans, and atmosphere, billionaire tech moguls like Elon Musk are increasingly flooding our planet’s orbit with debris from their for-profit space ventures. SpaceX, for example, already has some 8,600 active Starlink satellites doing laps around the planet, a number that needs constant reinforcements as craft either tumble back down to Earth or join the 25,000 bits of identifiable junk already floating in orbit. Just this week, Musk’s SpaceX launched 21 relay satellites into low Earth orbit on behalf of the US Space Force, after sending another 28 Starlink craft to join his…
A bunch of hot new phones were announced this week, shaking up the order in our trending chart. However, the Xiaomi 17 Pro Max retained its crown for the fourth week in a row, shaping up to be one of the most exciting phones of this fall. A brand new trio sits behind it though, with the vivo X300 Pro snatching the silver medal and the RedMagic 11 Pro+ placing third. Honor’s Magic8 Pro placed fourth, pushing the iPhone 17 Pro Max all the way down to fifth position. Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max These are the…
AMC has hosted a lot of iconic TV shows over the years, from The Walking Dead to Breaking Bad to Mad Men. They’re in the middle of making another banger as we speak, although not nearly enough people are talking about it: Interview With The Vampire, an adaptation of Anne Rice’s classic 1976 horror novel, is coming back for a third season with a new name, a new lead character, and a new attitude. And whether you’ve already sucked the first two seasons dry or are just hearing about this show for the first time, you need to be psyched…
Andy Walker / Android AuthoritySaying that Nova Launcher had a profound impact on the Android we know and love today would be an understatement. The launcher endured over a dozen operating system versions and opened up a universe of customization to users. Not only that, it also made app search and discovery a huge part of its functionality, forcing competing launchers to up their game. These smarts are largely thanks to Sesame Shortcuts.Although Nova Launcher’s death knell has already sounded, my recent thoughts have turned to Sesame Shortcuts’ dim future. But, for now at least, you can still integrate the…
When Walmart and OpenAI announced that the retailer would integrate with ChatGPT, the question became how quickly OpenAI could deliver on the promise of agents buying things for people. In the battle of AI-enabled commerce, getting agents to securely complete transactions is one of the biggest hurdles. More and more, chat platforms like ChatGPT are replacing browsers and getting very good at surfacing information people search for. Users will ask ChatGPT for the best humidifiers on the market, and when the model returns results, people have no choice but to click the item link and complete the purchase online. AI agents, as…
Elena Vera, a growth leader at Lovable with 10+ years running growth teams, argues that distribution—not just product quality—determines company success. Great products fail without it, while mediocre ones thrive with strong distribution. She defines growth as answering four questions predictably: Acquire, Activate, Monetize, and Retain customers. Fast-growing companies succeed via growth loops (compounding flywheels, e.g., user action → output → new input) rather than linear funnels. Dropbox became viral storage for storage. Growth loop drove early growth and sharing content generates 60% of acquisitions via product alone. Lovable (10-month-old AI coding platform) grew word-of-mouth loop from magical first experiences…
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. Ninja Prestige DualBrew System: one-minute reviewThe Ninja Prestige DualBrew System (which is almost identical to the Ninja Espresso and Coffee Maker Barista System solid in the US) is a Swiss army knife of a coffee maker, with a drip brewer on one side, a single-serve pod machine for espresso on the other, a measuring scoop embedded in one side, and a milk whisk that flips out from the back.…
Social networking startup Bluesky is rolling out one of users’ most in-demand features — no, not an edit button! — bookmarks. The company on Monday announced the new addition, which it calls Saved Posts. The feature is accessible through a new bookmark icon underneath each post, next to the heart for favoriting. Your saved posts can then be viewed at any time from the new “Saved” section in the app’s main navigation. While it may seem redundant to have both likes and bookmarks on a social app since both offer a way to mark a post to be referenced later,…
My Windows 11 laptop is mostly stable, but it occasionally encounters problems when I install new hardware or apps with compatibility issues. It can also become slow when running too many apps simultaneously, and like all software, it sometimes experiences unexplained random glitches. None of these are significant issues, and I can usually fix them myself in just a few minutes using the troubleshooting tools built into Windows 11. Troubleshooting tools, like Device Manager and Event Viewer, are straightforward, and allow anyone to resolve common hardware and software issues without needing to take their laptop to a repair shop. Even…