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All about the thought leading tech entrepreneurs who are paving the digital path of the future.

Why We Hate AI But Can't Stop Using It
Last autumn, I came across a video on a history blogger's page. An old photograph from 1937 had been animated by AI—figures twisted like rubber, mouths twitching, eyes pointing in opposite directions. The top comment: "Please make it stop."
By Jin2 months ago in 01
Apple's Chinese Chip Dilemma
Apple COO Jeff Williams told an audience in Houston that the company must consider "all viable options." That same week, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stood in the same city and said the administration has "told them directly."
By Jin2 months ago in 01
Stop Building "Agents"
Every AI product page shows the same diagram: circles, arrows, and the word “Agent” in a glossy gradient. The logic inside that diagram condenses to a loop:
By Jin2 months 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 Jin2 months ago in 01
Why Are Programmers Paying to Keep Their Jobs?
An AI subscription costs about as much as a phone bill. That comparison is the problem. Programmers buying AI tokens out of pocket looks less absurd through a certain lens: Tokens aren't expensive—maybe a hundred yuan at most. Companies buying them risk misuse and resale. Individuals buying their own is the sustainable approach.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
Without Vibe Coding, What Am I?
That afternoon, I had three windows open. One was running unit tests. The Agent said, “Estimated time: eight minutes.” One was refactoring the module I’d already changed three times. The Agent said, “I’m analyzing dependencies.” The third was reformatting logs. The Agent said, “Okay, I’ll unify the timestamp format.”
By Jin2 months ago in 01
Build Your Future With Videography
Video has become an important part of how businesses, organisations, creators and individuals communicate. From social media campaigns and weddings to corporate productions, documentaries, events and online education, quality video can capture attention and tell stories in ways that still images and text often cannot.
By Solution Boxes2 months ago in 01
Why Legacy Software Modernization Is Harder Than It Looks
When people talk about software modernization, it's easy to imagine replacing outdated applications with sleek cloud-based platforms built using the latest technologies. In reality, modernization projects are rarely that simple.
By Nikola Baldikov2 months ago in 01
Xiaomi vs. Huawei: Who Really Stole the OLED Crown?
In August 2026, Lei Jun stood on stage and made a claim that would have sounded like science fiction five years earlier. Xiaomi had successfully mass‑produced its own emissive display material – the actual molecules that light up your screen. The REDMI K100 Pro series will debut the M11 emissive material, built on fourth‑generation pTSF (Phosphor‑sensitized Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence) technology. The underlying science came from Professor Duan Lian’s team at Tsinghua University, but the engineering – the brutal, yield‑driven work of turning a lab thesis into millions of shipping units – that was Xiaomi’s bet.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
The Apple-CXMT Chip Deal That Washington Doesn't Want You to Know About
In mid‑2026, the semiconductor and consumer electronics industries were stirred by one news item. The Wall Street Journal , citing anonymous sources, reported that Apple was testing memory chips from Chinese DRAM maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) in its iPhone and MacBook lines, and planned to use those components in devices sold in China. Soon after, South Korean outlet Digital Daily published more so‑called negotiation details, even mentioning price haggling.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
Inside Tesla’s Insane $119 Billion Gamble to Build the World’s Largest Chip Factory
Opening: A Factory That Doesn't Look Like a Factory If you look out from the county road in Grimes County, Texas, the first thing you see won't strike you as a chip factory.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
The Most Dangerous AI Deepfake Is the One That Never Existed
Over my third bowl of cereal this morning, I was looking at the impossibly perfect fruit on the box—the kind nobody mistakes for documentary evidence—when I began scrolling past a political clip that people were treating as proof. That gap is the problem AI has opened: we know packaging is persuasion, but we still expect video to be evidence. AI does not need to hack a voting machine or produce a flawless fake candidate video to damage an election. It only needs to make authenticity negotiable. Once a real recording, official result, or verified report can be dismissed as “probably AI,” evidence becomes another tribal object to accept or reject. That is not a media-literacy problem. It is a provenance, verification, and legitimacy failure.
By Joshua Estrin, PhD3 months ago in 01