Juan Carlos Bagnell

Juan Carlos Bagnell

@somegadgetguy.com

Former commercial casting director, turned cranky tech pundit and consumer electronics geek.

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REPLAY CREW! somegadgetguy.com/2026/10/26/s... Last Monday of the month, and the chat chose the topics! We talked about the AI bubble imploding, and our fave spooky movies! #tech #technews #technology #ai #gaming #podcast #geek #gadgets #livestream #microsoft #nvidia #apple

somegadgetguy.com#SGGQA 464: We can talk about AI collapsing, or we can chat scary movies?It’s the last monday of the month! Time for our pajama podcast, where the live chat takes the wheel! I have a series of stories lined up about how the AI bubble continues to deflate around us…

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Sure sure. Apple is "cracking down" on AI nudification and abuse apps in the app store, but you know... Apple executives are all sharing cute little posts on Twitter again...

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New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

404media.coCharacter.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't WorkCharacter.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.

Been a nice run Microsoft. After fighting you (pretending to cancel my 365 account) to prevent an AI price hike, now you're watering down my favorite OneDrive perk. Instead of all my accounts having their own storage, we're supposed to pool our cloud needs now? Speeds up our move to network storage.

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And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

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All three Yandex AI supercomputers are reportedly offline: Galushkin in Vladimir, Chervonenkis and Lyapunov in Sasovo, whose data center shut down after the Oct 8 strike. Yandex Cloud outages also threaten thousands of Russian firms relying on it for websites, databases and payments 👏

Tiny little mantis sun bathing on a hot morning. Smaller than my pinkie. Patient little bug let me get UP close for a portrait. Telephoto sensor, Vivo X300 Pro. Standard auto, no edits. flic.kr/p/2sEHfeG #photo #photography #nature #insect #insects #bokeh #android #androidography #macro

flic.krLittle mantis on a hot morning (Vivo X300 Pro)Found this little guy sun bathing. Suspicious, but was patient enough to let me get a photo. Telephoto sensor on the X300 Pro, not portrait mode, no edits

REPLAY CREW! somegadgetguy.com/2026/10/05/s... Google facing MULTIPLE lawsuits, Apple fending off AI issues from Meta, iPhone modems are failing, and the Pixel 10A just got a price hike! #tech #technews #technology #apple #google #ai #meta #geek #gadgets #podcast #livestream

somegadgetguy.com#SGGQA 461: iPhone Modems Failing, Google Lawsuits, Pixel 10A Price HikeGoogle is a HOT topic for lawsuits this week, getting one case dismissed, and challenging an EU case on AI. Qualcomm and Huawei might be working together on patents. Toshiba might increase hard dri…

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Killing me Valve! Killing me! I'm trying to give you money, a lot of money, for a VR headset, and I'm still stuck in the reservation queue. Got my Arcturus Camera upgrade here already, waiting for the Frame. Just no Frame to plug it into. 😑

Killing me Valve! Killing me! I'm trying to give you money, a lot of money, for a VR headset, and I'm still stuck in the reservation queue. Got my Arcturus Camera upgrade here already, waiting for the Frame. Just no Frame to plug it into. 😑

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Sure Sydney Sweeney. But if we're worried about controversy surrounding a sports BETTING app, wherever betting is legalized, we see a correlating rise in intimate partner violence, assault, and fatalities. Especially after a home team loses. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

papers.ssrn.comSports Betting Legalization Amplifies Emotional Cues & Intimate Partner ViolenceThis study explores the relationship between legalized sports gambling, unexpected emotional cues, and reported intimate partner violence (IPV). Using crime dat

Sure Sydney Sweeney. But if we're worried about controversy surrounding a sports BETTING app, wherever betting is legalized, we see a correlating rise in intimate partner violence, assault, and fatalities. Especially after a home team loses. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

papers.ssrn.comSports Betting Legalization Amplifies Emotional Cues & Intimate Partner ViolenceThis study explores the relationship between legalized sports gambling, unexpected emotional cues, and reported intimate partner violence (IPV). Using crime dat

Is the Pixel 11 already cooked, or are we just getting started? (early access on Patreon) www.patreon.com/SomeGadgetGu... I wanna share some early testing and reviewing, but I feel I should handle this phone the same way I handle phones I like. Even if that's a TERRIBLE business decision for me...

patreon.comPixel 11 Pro XL: Is it cooked? | SomeGadgetGuyBelieve it or not, I'm only just now seriously getting started on this phone. In the same way that I might hold for an update on a phone br

With the Steam Frame price announced, I'm happy a handful of outlets are getting brave enough to criticize Meta/Facebook's HORRIBLE data/privacy policies. Six years ago, folks said I was overreacting when I said I'd never give FB a DIME of my own cash ever, even for a Quest VR headset.