Why Media Companies Are Struggling in the Internet Age
There has never been a better time to be a person who wants information. Within seconds, you can learn what…
Author: Yabes Elia
An empath, a jolly writer, a patient reader & listener, a data observer, and a stoic mentor
Is the Desktop PC on the Brink of Extinction?
I recently talked to several friends who work for major desktop PC component companies. Different companies. Different jobs. Different parts of…
Lisuan Explained: Why Building a GPU Takes More Than Money
China has spent enormous amounts of money trying to build a more independent semiconductor industry. And, to be fair, money solves…
How to Automatically Attach Cheat Engine to a Game with Lua
Opening a Cheat Engine table usually goes something like this: Fortunately, they can. Cheat Engine supports automatic process attachment, and you…
Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto: The Decentralization of Superintelligence
For most of the AI era, the loudest questions have been about intelligence. How smart will AI become? Will it surpass…
Why Do We Age? Evolution Never Needed Us to Live Forever
Human beings are remarkably bad at accepting terms and conditions. We click “I agree” on software licenses without reading them,…
FPS vs. Frametime: Why Games Stutter at High FPS
The FPS counter says 120. Your graphics card is comfortably within its temperature limit. You have already lowered several settings,…
The Reputation Afterlife: Why Shameless Confidence Can Outlive Competence
Some people can spend an entire evening replaying a mildly awkward sentence they said seven years ago. They remember the…
What Is Private Equity? The Business of Buying Businesses
Private equity sounds like one of those financial terms deliberately invented to make ordinary people stop asking questions. Private means…
Why Cheat Engine Cannot Find the Value You Are Looking For
The number is right there. Your character has 247 health. You enter 247 into Cheat Engine, click First Scan, and find either nothing useful or…
Solid-State Batteries Explained: The Battery Revolution That Is Always “A Few Years Away”
For years, solid-state batteries have occupied a very comfortable position in the technology industry. They are close enough to appear…
Infinite vs. Finite Games: Are You Playing Life to Win or to Keep Playing?
It is a surprisingly common experience. We spend years believing that happiness waits behind the next achievement: a promotion, a…
The Most Horrifying Vault Experiments in Fallout
Vault-Tec marketed its underground shelters as humanity’s best chance to survive nuclear war. Technically, that was not always false. The Vaults…
The Seduction of Certainty: Cognitive Closure
Ask five people why a company is failing, and you may receive five different answers. The CEO is incompetent. The…
When Mobile Games Stopped Feeling Like Games: How Fun Became Retention
I used to think I had simply grown out of mobile games. Then I looked back and realized something strange.…
The Psychology of Doomscrolling: Why Your Brain Can’t Stop Scrolling
“I’ll just check my phone for a minute.” Thirty minutes later, you’ve somehow learned about a volcanic eruption, a celebrity…
Cheat Engine Value Types Explained: 4 Bytes, Float, Double, and More
You can see the number clearly. The game says you have 100 health. You enter 100 into Cheat Engine, click First Scan, and receive either…
The Psychology of Gacha: Why Humans Love Paying for Random Rewards
“It’s just one more pull.” Those five words have probably emptied more wallets than any luxury brand ever could. Of…
Tech Explained: Laptop vs Desktop on Power Consumption
“Your desktop has a 750W power supply? Wow, your electricity bill must be terrifying.” If you’ve ever owned a desktop…
CXMT Explained: Can China Break the Global Memory Monopoly?
When you buy a Corsair, Kingston, G.Skill, or TeamGroup memory kit, you probably assume the company printed on the heat…