Posts tagged with Technology
Cloud Gaming as a Feature
So last week, pretty much to no one's surprise, Google announced that they'll be shutting down their gaming streaming service Stadia by January next year. Even at launch, aside from the rocky launch of the service…
Myth-making in Video Games
I've been putting in a good chunk of hours into my PS5 recently making my way through one of the best games of the year, Horizon: Forbidden West. It's a worthy successor to 2017's…
The Tech Down Turn
Layoffs.fyi is the new FuckedCompany.com. It's a crowdsourced tracker of all the layoffs happening in tech. I remember the site first started with the initial COVID lock down: when seemingly overnight, a number of industries—travel,…
Five Years of VR Progress
A couple weeks ago, I received an OculusMeta Quest 2 VR headset, courtesy of the team at Plato with their first metaverse, virtual conference. The last time I messed around with VR was borrowing a friend's original, first-…
Bypassing Car Dealerships
Despite being overvalued as a meme stock, Tesla rightfully gets a lot of credit for jostling the car industry from its decades of gradual, incremental improvements and forcing more drastic step function changes. The most obvious is popularizing EVs and…
Car Software as a Service
Tesla made a name for itself, not only by pushing for electric vehicles much harder than other manufacturers at the time, but upending the traditional processes around car ownership: bypassing the dealership model to sell directly to customers; no price…
