by Swifty | Mar 26, 2024 | Articles
Anyone who has ever taken an economics class has heard the phrase, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Everything has a cost, even if that cost is not always immediately apparent. To achieve anything, you must give up something else. In today’s happiness-obsessed...
by Swifty | Mar 26, 2024 | Articles
The gaming industry has been hit hard lately with mass layoffs shaking up some of the biggest studios. Starting in 2023 and continuing into 2024, over 18,000 jobs vanished, leaving many talented individuals without work. Among those affected were seemingly profitable...
by Swifty | Feb 21, 2024 | Articles
The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are the first living-room video game consoles to have all-digital versions at launch. That means no discs to fiddle with, and is a lower price tag—at first. At $400, the PS5 Digital Edition is $100 (R1,900) cheaper than the base...
by Swifty | Feb 21, 2024 | Articles
When Big Content makes the paid version *worse* than the free one. 20 years ago, I got in a (friendly) public spat with Chris Anderson, who was then the editor in chief of Wired. I’d publicly noted my disappointment with glowing Wired reviews of DRM-encumbered...
by Swifty | Jan 25, 2024 | Articles
In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, a new machine-learning model named Life2vec has emerged, sparking both fascination and concern. Life2vec, drew from extensive data over a four-year period, using information on millions of residents in...
by Swifty | Oct 12, 2023 | Articles
In cyber space, things change and develop faster than a quantum computer’s combinatorial analysis, making long term commitment even scarier than a bug-ridden codebase. Enter gig economy, the tech industry’s perfect rebound relationship, the adaptable solution...
