The End of Startup Fantasy: Unicorns, Unit Economics, and Other Imaginary Creatures
There was a time, not very long ago, when working at a startup sounded like joining the future before everyone…
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Steam Hardware Survey: June 2026 — Windows 11 Surges, AMD Gains on Steam
For years, PC gaming had a kind of comforting inertia to it. Windows 10 was the default, Intel kept a…
Esports Has 400 Million Gen Z Fans and a Business Model That Still Barely Works
A new esports study has arrived with a wonderfully large number attached to it. According to The Esports Generation: Who They…
PC Gaming’s Quiet Rebellion: Direct-to-Consumer Sales Just Crushed the $1 Billion Mark
For years, the standard PC publishing playbook looked almost suspiciously settled. Put your game on a major storefront, accept the…
PC Gaming Spending 2026: Middle Class Is Getting Richer
The games business loves a blockbuster narrative. Every quarter, the spotlight swings back to the same giants: the forever games,…
State of the Global Workplace 2026: The AI Paradox
Here’s the thing about the future of work: we were promised robots would take over the boring stuff so we…
80,000 Tech Layoffs, One Question: Is AI the Cause or the Excuse?
The tech industry’s favorite two-word explanation in 2026 might be “because AI.” Convenient, neat, investor-friendly — and maybe a little…
Steam’s March 2026 Hardware Survey Gets Weird
Steam’s latest Hardware Survey is out, and as usual, it is part useful market snapshot, part statistical fever dream. March…
Remote Work Isn’t the Problem—Your Company Might Be
In March 2026, researchers from the London School of Economics dropped a report with a title that sounds like it…
The World Happiness Report 2026: Turns Out, We’re Complicated
Let’s start with a comforting thought: humanity, as a whole, is actually doing… okay. Not “everything is perfect” okay. More…
The Reality of Modern Youth, According to Scientific Data
If you only read headlines, you’d think modern kids are one TikTok away from societal collapse. Low attention spans. No…
The 2026 Gaming App Insights Report Shows Mobile Growth Is Getting Smarter and Harder
For years, mobile gaming had a pretty forgiving growth formula: buy a lot of installs, celebrate the charts, and deal…
PC Shipments Are Headed for a 2026 Faceplant as Memory and Storage Prices Go Wild
The PC market was supposed to be settling into something resembling normal. Not exciting, not disastrous, just the usual cycle…
What Truly Shapes National Pride
Ask people what makes them proud of their country and you might expect grand answers: economic power, political influence, technological…
Mobile Market in 2026: The End of Easy Growth
There was a time when launching a mobile app felt like tossing a message in a bottle into a wide,…
Research: OLED Monitors Are Growing Fast
A few years ago, OLED monitors were that mythical creature everyone talked about but rarely owned. Gorgeous, yes. Practical? Debatable.…
Attendance vs Productivity: Why Presence Does Not Equal Performance
For many companies, productivity has a remarkably simple definition: Are you sitting at your desk? Did you arrive on time?…
The Science of a Fulfilling Work: What Makes People Truly Happy at Work
Around the world, studies repeatedly show that work — the place where we spend more than one-third of our lives…
From Underdog to Value Champion: How AMD Redefined PC Gaming in 2025
A decade ago, AMD was the scrappy underdog—relevant, but often overlooked in serious gaming circles. Fast forward to 2025, and…
World Happiness Report 2025: An Overview
The World Happiness Report 2025 offers a sweeping look at the latest global trends in wellbeing, anchored around one central…