Author: The Tech Guy

The bacteria grew, thrived, and divided for hundreds of generations. But they were unlike any other living creatures on Earth. These synthetic cells, called Ec19, were the first to have had one protein “letter”—or amino acid—partially removed.All life today relies on a set of 20 amino acids to make proteins. Some exotic microbes can use 22, but no one has yet found any that use less. Like letters in a book, amino acids string into coherent protein “sentences” that relay messages and do work within cells. Deleting an amino acid is like trying to type without the letter “e.” The…

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. Onyx Boox Palma 2 Pro: Two-minute reviewThe Onyx Boox Palma 2 Pro is the kind of interesting ereader innovation I want to see more of, even if the biggest appeal is still just how unusual it is. My ereader expert colleague reviewed the original Palma and the newer Palma 2, but I have been able to use both of these devices as my main ereader, to ensure a good…

Zac Kew-Denniss / Android AuthorityTL;DR Numerous Pixel owners are experiencing random eSIM connectivity issues. While some lose connection intermittently, others complain of not being able to switch eSIM carriers. Google has acknowledged the issue, but there’s no fix yet. We’ve come across numerous reports of difficulties using eSIM on Pixel devices over the past few weeks. The reports are scattered across multiple online channels, including X, Reddit, Pixel support forums, and Google’s Issue Tracker. The most commonly affected Pixel models include the Pixel 9 and the Pixel 10 series, and users across the board have confirmed that physical SIM cards…

Roughly 300,000 Ollama deployments are prone to sensitive information theft through a remotely exploitable, unauthenticated critical vulnerability, Cyera warns. Ollama is an open source solution for running LLMs on local machines and is highly popular among organizations as a self-hosted AI inference engine. A heap out-of-bounds read issue in Ollama could be exploited to access sensitive information stored on the heap, including prompts, messages, and environment variables, including API keys, tokens, and secrets, Cyera says. Tracked as CVE-2026-7482 (CVSS score of 9.3) and dubbed Bleeding Llama, the bug affects the GGUF model loader, which accepts an attacker-supplied GGUF file containing…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The Earth simply can’t catch a break. Those microplastics that have invaded every corner of the globe — and even the insides of our bodies — may also be heating the planet, research suggests. In a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the authors found that microplastics are absorbing more sunlight than they reflect in the atmosphere, resulting in net heating. Its effects aren’t as powerful as greenhouse gases, but they’re significant enough to take notice of. “We can say…

Samsung’s health ecosystem has always been built around the idea that your watch shouldn’t be the only device telling you how your body is performing, and this promotion puts that philosophy into practice. That’s the thinking behind a new partnership with Withings, where purchasing an eligible Galaxy Watch on Samsung.com or the Shop Samsung App between May 4 and July 19 gets you a Withings Body Smart scale worth $129.95 at no extra cost. Buy a new Galaxy Watch and Samsung will throw in a $129.95 Withings smartscale for free Treat yourself to one of the products in Samsung’s current…

Your Android TV probably felt lighting fast when you first got it. Apps opened instantly, navigation felt smooth, and switching menus barely took a second. But then, somewhere along the way, things changed. The home screen started lagging, apps started taking forever to launch, and even basic navigation became sluggish. It’s not that your Android TV has become old or less powerful over time. In most cases, it’s the old cache data on your TV that usually hinders performance. The good news is that clearing it and restoring your TV’s speed takes less than a minute. Related I found 5…

One of my all-time favorite rants is David Lynch’s 2008 complaint about people watching movies on smartphones. “Now if you’re playing the movie on a telephone, you will never in a trillion years experience the film,” he said in the DVD extras for Inland Empire. He later changed his mind, but a lot of people still sympathize with his original view, including me. Even if you’ve got a iPhone 17 Pro Max, that’s such a small screen that you’re losing out on a lot of immersion, no matter whether you own noise-canceling headphones. iPads do improve things, since there’s huge…

Joey Melo’s personal approach to hacking is less about deconstructing an original and then reconstructing it for a different purpose, and more about controlling the experience without changing the rules. He traces this to his childhood fascination with the Counter-Strike game.  “You could mess with the files, look for configurations of the game, change the name of the bots, or change the moving speed of your characters and change the colors of the uniforms the characters would wear – things like that. So, I always liked to play around with things, instead of just playing the game as it’s supposed…

There are three pipelines operating now to take oil around the Hormuz blockage. The East-West Crude Oil Pipeline (Petroline) in Saudi Arabia, and the UAE’s ADCOP pipeline and the Iraq Kirkuk–Ceyhan (Turkey) Pipeline. The Iraq Turkey pipelin is at an initial ~250k bpd but could ramp over the next month or two to 400k-650k bpd. Saudi Yanbu Terminal and Export Optimizations and Minor Petroline Tweaks. This could provide a +0.5–1 mb/d potential export uplift. Terminal and jetty constraints currently limit full pipeline use. This enhances Red Sea access without new builds. There could be continued Gulf field curtailments. There is…