Author: The Tech Guy
It’s amazing how our perception of quality changes as we enjoy higher-resolution formats. Back in the day, I thought movies on DVD played great on my old-school TV. That was until I saw what Blu-ray looked like on modern flatscreens, and I had a similar epiphany when trying 4K UHD Blu-ray discs for the first time. Quality is relative, and in the era of high-resolution physical media and 4K streaming, we’re spoiled. That doesn’t mean we have to let the availability of higher-quality formats ruin our enjoyment of lower-quality formats. I spent a small fortune building a home theater centered…
Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DR Google Meet will automatically organize notes, transcripts, and recordings in a new Google Meet folder in Drive. Each meeting gets its own subfolder, while recurring meetings will keep all instances together. Attendees with access will also see shortcuts, with the rollout starting today. Yesterday, we saw that Google Meet is making it easier to find the files associated with your calls on its redesigned web homepage. Google is now tackling the same problem on the Drive side, with meeting notes, transcripts, and recordings set to be organized automatically rather than left loose in the host’s…
Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) on Tuesday announced its intent to acquire Embrace, a provider of user-focused observability, in a move to add Real User Monitoring (RUM) capabilities to its Observability platform. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Alongside the acquisition, the company introduced Synthetics, a new capability developed in-house by its Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM) team for proactively validating application performance from locations around the globe. Together, the additions extend Palo Alto Networks’ Observability platform into Digital Experience Monitoring, giving customers a unified view spanning end-user interactions, application validation, and backend infrastructure. According to the company,…
Scientists just transformed a living mouse’s kidney into an incubator for developing human sperm made from blood cells.It sounds like sci-fi Mad Libs. But a team at the University of Pennsylvania, led by Kotaro Sasaki, pulled it off. For up to nine months, a tiny pouch of human cells nestled beneath a mouse’s kidney gradually developed into immature sperm. The study is the latest in a decade-long quest to grow sperm in the lab.If successful, lab-grown sperm could open a new window into the earliest stages of sperm development, a process that’s notoriously difficult to study because it begins before…
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. Long hours at a screen is the reality for many professionals and gamers, and the Swedish company Arozzi’s mission is to make items that enhance the experience, especially ergonomic chairs.I’ve already reviewed an electric standing desk by Arozzi — the minimal, reliable and outright impressive Arena Nordico. In this review I focus on one of the company’s best office chairs — the Vernazza Supersoft.If we’re going off price and…
As social media has evolved from a place to connect with friends into large-scale entertainment platforms, a startup called Yope is quietly building what it believes will be the future of online connection: social networking with no algorithms, no ads, and no public content. Yope’s app, now backed by a $12.3 million seed round led by Northzone, is taking on tech giants like Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram by building a social platform centered on what it refers to as “micro communities” — or small groups where friends and family interact in private, sharing photos, videos, messages, and soon, playing…
iPadOS has come a long way in recent years. Gone are the days in which the iPad was simply a blown-up version of the iPhone, with the tablet’s operating system now sporting Mac-like features including a mouse cursor, a Menu Bar, and cascading windows. One computing feature that’s yet to make the transition over to the iPad is native compatibility with optical disc formats like CDs and DVDs. Indeed, you cannot play back, rip, or burn optical media directly via an iPad, owing to the platform’s lack of ability to interface with an external disc drive. That being said, it’s…
Hackers have stolen tens of millions of records from AI music generator Suno and gig-work platform Paidwork, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). Suno was targeted in November 2025, and the intrusion came to light earlier this month, when 404 Media reported that hackers had obtained source code and user data. The stolen source code revealed that Suno had been scraping music and podcasts from major platforms such as Deezer, YouTube and Genius. [ Read: New Index Tracks Material Breaches — And Refuses to Add Up the Losses ] As for the compromised user data,…
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech A tech startup called Skyfall AI is set to do the most tech startup thing imaginable: toy with an unwitting group of employees’ careers by turning their company into a giant AI experiment. First, the plan is to buy a small tech business, like an e-commerce or B2B SaaS company, for as much as $1 million. Then the shotcallers at Skyfall will appoint an AI as the CEO, put it in charge of running the entire operation, and dust off their hands while…
The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5, a 16 inch laptop already built with students in mind, has just dropped in price by £200. That cut takes the IdeaPad Slim 5 from £699.99 down to £499.99, a straight £200 saving that works out at close to 30% off just as the back to school shopping season gets going. It’s never too early to think about back to school laptops, and Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 is now 30% cheaper £499.99 now buys you a 16 inch, terabyte, 13th generation Core i5 Lenovo laptop built for coursework, streaming and video calls. View Deal The…