Felix Ward writes opinion on technology markets, incentives and corporate power. His columns ask who captures the upside and who bears the costs. A dry, irreverent voice accompanies a serious interest in the gap between industry rhetoric and commercial behavior.
Well, well, well. It seems the digital playground is finally getting a stern talking-to from the grown-ups. European Union regulators have thrown down the gauntlet, accusing TikTok of employing "addic...
Well, well, well, look who’s playing nice with our northern neighbors again. Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley incubator that’s less a startup accelerator and more a tech industry’s gilded gatekeeper, ...
The Senate has once again decided to convene, and naturally, the chosen sacrificial lamb for the political pyre is Netflix, specifically its alleged "woke" content for children. As The Verge reports, ...
Well, well, well, it seems the specter of "psychedelic terror" is now available for streaming, free of charge, to Amazon Prime members. Yes, the "fantastic" Alan Wake 2, a game so dripping with "twist...
Ah, the illustrious Steam Machine. A noble, if somewhat beleaguered, attempt by Valve to bring the PC gaming experience to your living room, free from the tyranny of keyboards and the existential drea...
Artificial intelligence, perpetually chasing the elusive ghost of human emotion, is now attempting to untangle the murky swamp of ambiguous feelings conveyed through speech. Forget the binary joy/sadn...
Leave it to the academics to find a new way to overcomplicate something that sounds suspiciously like a logistics problem.
Researchers have unveiled a novel approach to the "k-path partition" problem...
Hold onto your hats, folks, because the ivory towers of academia have just decided to throw a rather sophisticated cocktail party for artificial intelligence, and guess who’s the uninvited but surpris...
In a move that could reshape the very architecture of blockchain transactions, researchers have unveiled Boost+, a novel system designed to combat the growing centralization and economic distortions p...
This week, the digital ether crackled with not one, but two fascinating arXiv preprints that, in their own peculiar ways, suggest our beloved Artificial Intelligence is becoming less of a sterile calc...
Well, folks, it seems the whispers of component price inflation have finally coalesced into a rather loud, unignorable siren call, courtesy of PowerGPU.
**The Oracle of Overclocking Speaks**
Accordi...
The whispers in the hallowed halls of Burbank are growing louder, suggesting Bob Iger's reign at Disney might be nearing its twilight, with speculation already swirling about potential successors to s...
In a week where social media giants wrestled with everything from severe weather to regulatory overreach, a lesser-known platform, UpScrolled, has quietly reported a seismic surge in its user base. Wh...
In a move that has audiophiles weeping tears of joy (or perhaps just checking their bank accounts), Sony’s WH-1000XM5 noise-canceling headphones, while technically last year's model, have plummeted to...
It appears the ghost of data center construction debt is roaming the halls of finance, particularly those gilded with the Oracle name. Banks, those ever-optimistic architects of financial instruments,...
The metaverse may be taking a nap, but artificial intelligence is still very much awake, and apparently, it’s expensive. Match Group, the titan behind dating apps like Tinder and Hinge, announced its ...
Stop me if you've heard this one before, but Disney has once again announced a successor to its outgoing CEO, Bob Iger, with Josh D’Amaro set to take the helm in March. D'Amaro, currently the chairman...
The tech world, perpetually buzzing with the next big (and often absurd) thing, has a new, albeit rather shiny, contender for its attention: ‘Don Colossus,’ a colossal, golden statue of none other tha...