Author: The Tech Guy

For most of us, OLED TVs are the crème de la crème. It’s not just about luxury. Because every pixel is self-illuminated rather than lit up by a backlight, OLED is capable of perfect contrast, including deep, inky blacks. By extension, this tends to produce better color accuracy. Technologies like MicroLED and RGB mini-LED may be better still — but because they’re so new, prices can be absurd, no matter if you drive a Porsche to work. OLED sets can also last longer than LCDs, but there’s a catch. If they’re not treated well, their practical lifespan may be much…

NASA will stream live coverage of the upcoming prelaunch, launch, and docking activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff is targeted for no earlier than 6:01 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Feb. 11, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The targeted docking time is approximately 10:30 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 12. Watch agency launch coverage on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel. Individual events on YouTube will have their own stream closer to their start time. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of online…

According to a Chinese tipster on Weibo, OpenAI is gearing up to launch its first hardware product – a pair of earbuds, of course, powered by the company’s own AI model. According to the report, the company decided to scale back on its hardware efforts for the time being, likely because of the rising hardware costs. At first, OpenAI was rumored to be working on a small pendant or a pen, which is in line with the CEO Sam Altman’s remarks about the device being more “peaceful and calm” than a smartphone. Especially after OpenAI hired Apple’s ex-chief designer Jony…

Afghanistan take on New Zealand in their opening clash of the T20 World Cup 2026 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.Confidence will be on Afghanistan’s side as they enter the tournament after a 2-1 victory over West Indies. Spinners Mujeeb Ur Rehman and captain Rashid Khan led with the ball with 6 and 5 wickets each – a huge positive on the spin-friendly Sri-Lanka wickets. If you’re away from home right now you can use a VPN to unblock your usual stream from anywhere. Full details on how to watch the Afghanistan vs New Zealand T20 Cricket World Cup…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEMoltbook Was Pure AI TheaterWill Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review ($)“As the hype dies down, Moltbook looks less like a window onto the future and more like a mirror held up to our own obsessions with AI today. It also shows us just how far we still are from anything that resembles general-purpose and fully autonomous AI.”COMPUTING’Quantum Twins’ Simulate What Supercomputers Can’tDina Genkina | IEEE Spectrum“What analog quantum simulation lacks in flexibility, it makes up for in feasibility: quantum simulators are ready now. ‘Instead of using qubits, as you would typically in a quantum computer, we just directly encode…

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. DXRacer Martian Pro: One-minute reviewI knew the DXRacer Martian Pro would be one of the best gaming chairs I’ve ever sat in, and three months with it have only confirmed my suspicions.Why did I know this?I tried a similar chair at CES 2025 – one that can heat you up and cool you down thanks to built-in tech, and I have genuinely thought about it every week since then…

Setting up or adding to your smart home is meant to make your life easier. The great thing about a smart home is that you don’t have to buy all new appliances, devices, and gadgets to build it. You can use smart devices to turn old “dumb” appliances into smart ones. Of course, you can buy all new appliances and upgrade your home to be more modern. But the point is that you don’t have to. Smart home devices can turn your favorite appliances into ones you can control more easily and can provide a better return for your home.…

Instagram introduced the Close Friends feature for Instagram Stories back in November 2018, and last September, we learned that WhatsApp was developing that same feature for its users. Now we’ve learnt that WhatsApp is also working on a Custom Lists feature for status updates, giving its users more privacy control. This revelation comes from the folks at WABetaInfo, who discovered this under-development Custom Lists feature in beta version 2.26.5.11 of WhatsApp for Android. As the name suggests, Custom Lists allows WhatsApp users to create lists for different audiences who can see their status updates. For instance, you can create a…

Following the federal government’s wide-armed embrace of the tech, professional gamblers are flooding into prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. It’s not hard to see why: in January alone, trading volume on Kalshi almost hit $10 billion, $8.5 billion of which was tied to sports, according to new reporting by Bloomberg. That same month, Kalshi saw three million new downloads. The waters, in other words, are teeming with prey — and the sharks are moving in. No longer content to ply their trade on the predatory betting apps of yore — the FanDuels, DraftKings and BetMGMs of the app world…

There used to be a very easy way to deal with smartphone bloatware: you’d set up the device, find the folder of pre-installed games or apps you never asked for, and spend about 10 minutes deleting them. It was a bit of a tax on your time, but it was achievable.  However, in the age of the AI-powered phone, bloatware now has a much smarter face. It’s being sold as the headline feature, and while a lot of it is technically impressive, we’re fast reaching a point where the sheer volume of ‘help’ is starting to feel like the very…