Author: The Tech Guy

At IFA 2026, TCL announced a flagship soundbar for the UK in the Q85-UK, featuring tuning by Bang & Olufsen and at the head of a four-strong soundbar line-up built to give TVs sound that matches their picture. Slim television designs often struggle to match picture quality with equally scaled sound, a gap TCL’s new Q Series aims to close through support for immersive audio and automatic room calibration. The Q85K-UK pairs a soundbar with a wireless subwoofer in one package, featuring a 7.1.2-channel configuration with 16 drivers to place sound in front of, beside and above the viewer. That…

If you used a PC in the 1990s, there’s a decent chance green felt and pixelated card backs are burned into your muscle memory. Microsoft Solitaire became the default way to kill a few minutes at a computer, then a few more, until it was practically shorthand for office procrastination. What you may not know was that the game had another purpose. Microsoft didn’t bundle Solitaire with Windows just to give people something to play. The card table also gave newcomers a low-stakes way to get comfortable using a mouse. Related What 2+ Years of Daily Solitaire Challenges Taught Me…

Another sales event is here, and so there’s another chance for me to mull over the idea of buying a fancy coffee machine for my home. This time I’m considering the Breville Barista Express Impress on Amazon for $649.95 (was $799.95), as that’s the lowest price it’s been all year — outside of Prime Day.• Browse the full Labor Day sale at AmazonI’m just thinking about all the coffee I buy on the days I commute to the office or while I’m out of the house, and while the odd treat is nice, it does seem more sensible for me…

Chipmaker Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is buying artificial intelligence software platform Hugging Face for $13 billion. It’s the latest deal by the company, whose processors are integral to the AI boom, and highlights Nvidia’s push to champion increasingly popular open-source AI models. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote in a blog post Thursday that more than 18 million developers, researchers and creators use Hugging Face to share more than 3 million models, 500,000 data sets and 1 million applications. More than 200,000 companies also that use the platform, he said. In July, Hugging Face’s data processing systems were hacked, and ChatGPT maker…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech As Americans are being hailed as folk heroes for sawing down Flock surveillance cameras across the country, British home appliance company Dyson has come up with a form of video surveillance that we didn’t even know was possible. Yes: the company has launched a new AI-infused electric toothbrush that features a “100k pixel macro lens camera,” allowing users — brushers? — to “see what their dentist sees.” The appropriately named Dyson CameraJet claims to analyze 28 images per second and employ an “AI…

The fans have spoken – the Samsung Galaxy S26 FE isn’t it. It could be, but the results from last week’s poll make it very clear that the S26 FE train isn’t leaving the station without a tangible price drop. As things stand right now, people are gravitating towards other Galaxy models – the Galaxy S25 FE and S26+ in particular offer similar specs at better value-for-money – or they are exploring alternatives outside of Samsung. People in the comments remembered the Galaxy S20 FE with nostalgia – now that was a good FE model. So good, in fact, that…

It’s frustrating when the Codex desktop app crashes, doesn’t work, or freezes when we need to get work done. The issue can occur for different reasons, including app bugs, corrupted data, sign-in problems, or Windows-related conflicts. In this article, we will explore all those possible reasons and find ways to fix it. Codex Desktop App […] This article Codex desktop app not opening, not working or crashing on PC first appeared on TheWindowsClub.com.

This week brought the Poco F9 Pro and F9 Ultra – the two models are already available and early bird pricing is still in effect. Check the table below for the breakdown: Configuration Poco F9 Pro Poco F9 Ultra 12GB/256GB $699 (Early Bird: $649)€899.99 (Early Bird: €739.99) $799 (Early Bird: $729)€1,099.99 (Early Bird: €829.99) 12GB/512GB $769 (Early Bird: $699)€999.99 (Early Bird: €799.99) - 16GB/512GB - $949 (Early Bird: $799)€1,199.99 (Early Bird: €899.99) 16GB/1TB - $1,199 (Early Bird: $1,059)€1,399.99 (Early Bird: €1,199.99) The Poco F9 Ultra focuses on two key…

Google on Thursday rolled out fresh Chrome 152 security updates that resolve 12 vulnerabilities, including an exploited zero-day. Tracked as CVE-2026-85046, the high-severity bug is described as a type confusion issue in Chrome’s V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. It was reported by Salvatore Gulizia, who received a $1,000 bug bounty reward. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2026-85046 exists in the wild,” the internet giant’s advisory reads. While the company has not shared details on the security defect, type confusion flaws in the V8 engine may be exploited to perform remote read/write operations via crafted HTML pages. Type confusion…

Chris Camillo — the investor who’s turned a small stake into as much as $100M — says Tesla’s robotaxi and Cybercab story is already priced into the stock. We go through the actual numbers on a whiteboard and show why we think he’s missing several layers. FSD subscription revenue today, the Hardware 4 legacy fleet (6M+ vehicles), Cybercab unit economics, and where robotaxi money really comes from vs. where people assume it comes from. In this video:0:00 The Cybercab “non-event” and the Chris Camillo debate1:00 Is Waymo or Tesla actually ahead right now?2:20 FSD subscription revenue vs. Waymo’s robotaxi revenue3:40…