fact or fiction

Is it fact or merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores the myths and beliefs we hold about cyber safety, artificial intelligence, dystopian futures and our everyday gadgets.

The Return of the Wide Phone
On August 20, 2026, Huawei released a phone with a 16:9.5 screen. That ratio was last mainstream when the iPhone 4s was new. Since then, phone screens have stretched: from 16:9 to 19.5:9, and now some models push 21:9. The logic sounds reasonable – make the screen larger, but not wider, so it stays one‑handed. So they kept pulling it upward.
By Jin29 days ago in 01
Good Code Isn't Fast. It's Ordered.
You just finished a function. It works. You're about to hit commit. Wait. Don't press Ctrl+Enter yet. Ask yourself: if someone else reads this tomorrow, can they tell you what it does within one minute? If yes, great. But if their first question is "Does it actually do it correctly?" – what's your answer?
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
I Was Using AI All Wrong. Here’s How Claude Taught Me to Learn Anything 10x Faster.
Learning anything today is both easy and confusing. Easy, because AI can explain almost anything in seconds. Confusing, because most people just ask random questions, get random answers, and feel like they're learning.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
The AI That Beat a Giant Using Half the Brains
In August 2026, Zhipu released GLM‑5.3. At 744B parameters, its base model is identical to GLM‑5.2, and the architecture remains a modified DSV3 — no switch to the rumored DSV4.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
Where Wall Street's Best Brains Disappeared To
Over the past two years, the number of times I've been laughed into silence in an interview room has surpassed the total from the previous decade combined.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
The Smartphone That Grows a Neck
Guangzhou, August 12, 2026. On the发布会 stage, a product manager from Honor placed a phone flat on the table. The audience was still murmuring when the top of the device suddenly arched up. A silver‑gray metal turret rose silently, then turned 15 degrees to the left, like a cat just waking from a nap, scanning for threats.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
How China Came to Dominate the Global Electric Vehicle Market
China’s rise to the top of the global electric vehicle market is not simply a story about cheaper cars or longer driving ranges. It is the result of a much broader industrial strategy designed to control almost every stage of the electric vehicle value chain — from critical minerals and battery production to software, manufacturing and international exports.
By Sahby Mehallaabout a month ago in 01
X Money Enters the Financial Arena as Elon Musk Pushes X Toward Becoming an “Everything App”
Could Elon Musk’s social platform eventually evolve into a full-fledged bank? That question is gaining traction following the launch of X Money, a new digital financial service introduced by X in the United States. The move marks another milestone in Musk’s long-term ambition to transform X into an all-in-one digital ecosystem that combines social networking, payments, online commerce, and financial services under a single platform.
By Sahby Mehallaabout a month ago in 01
Trump’s Early Access Truth Social Posts Spark Ethics Debate Over Market Influence
The launch of a premium service offering subscribers early access to President Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts has ignited a fresh political and financial controversy in the United States. Critics argue that the feature could provide an unfair advantage to high-frequency trading firms and institutional investors, while raising new questions about conflicts of interest during Trump’s second term in the White House.
By Sahby Mehallaabout a month ago in 01
The Proof That Changed Math but Not Your Simulation
In 2025, Deng Yu and his collaborators released a lengthy proof on the preprint platform, deriving the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations rigorously from hard‑sphere gas dynamics. This work completed the Boltzmann‑to‑continuum derivation that had been a long‑standing problem in mathematical physics. It drew interest among specialists in partial differential equations and statistical mechanics.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
See You Tomorrow
The text already meets the skill’s standards and requires no rewriting. The original is retained as‑is: The first time he touched her things, it was past midnight.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
Do Robots Dream of Enlightenment?
On the Artificial Reincarnation of Wisdom The body gives forth to the mind, and the mind to wisdom. This is the natural order of things. The living flesh, animated by breath, gives rise to thought; thought refines itself into understanding; understanding, when lived, becomes wisdom. Through this sacred progression, humanity has walked from the dawn of consciousness to the threshold of creation.
By Chase McQuade2 months ago in 01