Hello everyone and welcome to the Tuesday edition of Take 5. First up in tech news, Google is killing something yet again – this time, the Tenor API. Tenor hosts GIFs, and the API allowed it to interface with many third-party websites, including the social network X. Per 9to5Google: “Twitter/X Head of Product Nikita Bier…
Hello and welcome back to the Friday edition of Take Five, where we analyze and dissect the top tech headlines and share my opinions. Be sure to tune into Pulse: The Heartbeat of America on YouTube, where I cover my favorite tech headlines, teen culture, exclusive interviews, and react to trending content. Let’s jump in….
Hello everyone and welcome to our first episode of TheTechBoy Take Five, where we break down the top five tech headlines of the day with commentary and analysis. On Saturdays we’ll go live on Pulse: The Heartbeat of America. 1. Steam Machine + RAM Prices The Steam Machine is finally here, Valve’s new gaming console…
Google has officially launched its first new standalone smart speaker in six years: the Google Home Speaker. Priced at just under 100 dollars, this compact fabric wrapped device marks a significant shift in the company’s smart home lineup. It drops the Nest branding for the speaker itself while keeping it for cameras and doorbells. The…
Microsoft is exploring a lower-cost AI model strategy for its Copilot Cowork product as rising usage costs push enterprise customers to their limits. According to a recent report, the company is testing a fine-tuned version of DeepSeek V4 as a potential budget-friendly alternative to the more expensive models currently powering Cowork. This move comes as…
I’ll be honest: I had hopes for One UI 8.5. The S24 Ultra’s battery life has always been a weak spot, and I figured Samsung might finally address it with a software update. They didn’t fix it. But what they did do is somehow make it dramatically worse, and I’m not alone. I rely on…
I have been looking for a full enterprise backup software for YouTube channels that are not yt-dlp and its command line software and its many offshoots on GitHub that are not the best. One of the problems with GitHub software is that it requires Python and for the love of all that is good they…
For some stupid reason OneUI 8.5 removed dual recording and Single Take in the camera application. This is how you get it back. Dual Recording (also called Dual View) is a Samsung camera feature that lets you record video simultaneously with both the front and rear cameras, capturing the subject and your reaction in one…
Samsung has released One UI 8.5, and I’ve spent some time with it on my Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra. Despite being a .5 update, this feels like the most consequential software release I’ve experienced on a Samsung device. We’re getting new AI-enhanced image editing features, a revamped Bixby powered by Perplexity, and improved screenshot tools.While…
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, “data” (your cellphone’s network), radio, and over-the-air TV—these are signals we deal with on a day-to-day basis. However, the world and vast as the spectrum is, every day radio signals pass through the atmosphere and we don’t even know what they are. So what exactly is LoRa? LoRa is a wireless communication technology…
