Author: The Tech Guy

This week, Asus confirmed that it won’t be making any more smartphones. The company will instead focus its energy on R&D on commercial PCs and physical AI (i.e., robotics and smart glasses). The company will continue to support existing smartphones, however. Per Ice Universe, Samsung will unveil the S26 series on February 25. Pre-orders will begin on February 26 and end on March 4. Then a pre-sale period from March 5 to March 10, and then general sales from March 11. The Galaxy S26 Ultra was initially reported to ship in four colors, but Evleaks says we’re expecting more than…

In this post, we will show you how to use VibeVoice Text to Speech AI from Microsoft. VibeVoice is a next-generation text-to-speech (TTS) AI framework that converts written text into natural, human-like speech. Unlike traditional TTS systems, VibeVoice supports long-form narration and multi-speaker scenarios, making it useful for creating podcasts, audio shows, and conversational AI […] This article How to use VibeVoice Text to Speech AI from Microsoft? first appeared on TheWindowsClub.com.

OLED TVs are among the most popular on the market. Thanks to OLED’s self-emissive pixels, it can produce perfect blacks while also delivering crisp textures, bold colors and strong contrast. Traditional TV OLED tech, known as Tandem WOLED now, has always struggled with its brightness, measuring significantly dimmer than mini-LED TVs.Enter QD-OLED. Introduced by Samsung in 2022, QD-OLED adds quantum dots into the OLED equation, enabling very high brightness. While WOLED itself is getting brighter, QD-OLED continues to promise higher brightness increases than WOLED can generally manage each year – and we seem to know now the secret sauce that’s…

ROBOTICSYour First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be ChineseWill Knight | Wired ($)”[In addition to Unitree] a staggering 200-plus other Chinese companies are also developing humanoids, which recently prompted the Chinese government to warn of overcapacity and unnecessary replication. The US has about 16 prominent firms building humanoids. With stats like that, one can’t help but suspect that the first country to have a million humanoids will be China.”FUTURECEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story.Lindsay Ellis | The Wall Street Journal ($)”The gulf between senior executives’ and workers’ actual experience with generative AI is…

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. Wandrd PRVKE V4 bag: Two-minute reviewI’ve tested plenty of the best camera bags over the last 15 years (seriously, I’ve got quite the collection), but only recently got my hands on Wandrd gear for the first time. Of course, I had to start with the established American accessory maker’s best-selling PRVKE, which is now in its V4 version.It’s a stylish roll-top backpack, available in seven muted colors and three…

We aren’t very deep into 2026, but we’re already getting excited about all the new TV coming down the pike. Around here, our tastes usually run towards fantasy and sci-fi, but we can expand our horizons. There’s also a lot of great drama and comedy shows on the way. In particular, a new dark comedy coming to Netflix has caught my eye, and it should have yours too. Get ready to make some Big Mistakes The creator of Schitt’s Creek gets together another dysfunctional family As outlined by Netflix itself, Big Mistakes is about a pair of “deeply incapable siblings”…

Smart glasses are all the rage these days, and while Xiaomi’s latest offering is not the smartest option out there, it does offer a premium design and some generally useful features. The Mijia Smart Audio Glasses incorporate built-in speakers into the temples, which means you’re getting an open earbud experience built into the glasses. That’s paired with quad microphones for hands-free calls, and the ability to record calls and audio in your surroundings. We got hold of the Titanium version, which retails for €199, though Xiaomi is also offering browline and pilot styles, with the latter offering UV400 protection. The…

ChatGPT may be an excellent tool in case your strongly-worded email to your landlord about that ceiling leak needs a second pair of eyes. It also excels at coming up with a rough first draft for non-mission-critical writing, allowing you to carefully pick it apart and refine it. But like all of its competitors, ChatGPT is plagued by plenty of well-documented shortcomings as well, from rampant hallucinations to a sycophantic tone that can easily lull users into gravely mistaken beliefs. In other words, it’s not exactly a tool anybody should rely on to get important work done — and that’s…

Whether you hate vacuuming or find it a welcome distraction, we can all agree on one thing: it’s important to have a vacuum cleaner that can clean quickly and efficiently, providing all of the tools that we’ll need to get into every nook and cranny. Needs differ between people and households, but here we have a list of the best vacuum cleaners to suit everyone. This list focuses on the best plug-in vacuum cleaner. If you want a different type, check out our guides to the best cordless vacuums, best robot vacuums and best vacuums for pet hair. The main…

As your desk becomes more cluttered with your phone, laptop, tablet, and who knows what else, a multi-port wall charger can make life a lot easier. But it needs to tick the right boxes, and if it looks like a cute little robot, that’s just a bonus. This Amazon deal might be just the thing, as the UGREEN Uno 65W GaN charger is down to just $34.49 right now. UGREEN Uno 65W 3-Port GaN Fast Charger for $34.49 ($16 off)The compact 65W GaN charger offers two USB-C ports and one USB-A port, enough power to charge a laptop and a…