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What The Tech?! The Graphics Card

30 Jun 2025 5 minute read 2 comments Investigator515

We’ve come a long way since the inkpot. And while the typewriter would give us legitimate work processing capabilities, it would take personal computers to truly supercharge our productivity. When we had computers, though, we decided we needed more....

NordVPN man....

30 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

Oh man, NordVPN. NordVPN sponsors just about any and every YouTube video you're watching, but perhaps they should stop throwing some of that money at their actual tech. I've been using NordVPN for years, and aside from its absurd onboarding policy...

Remember IRL, the social media startup that faked everything?

29 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

I'm gonna unlock this memory for you. About two years ago, IRL went bust. It was a social media startup which, at some point, raised hundreds of millions of dollars. By 2021, it had reached a valuation of $1.17 billion, which means it was a unicor...

Tech issues. Tech issues everywhere PART II

29 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Among other things, I have a website that runs on WordPress. It's monetised, which means I make about 2 cents a month. (Kidding, maybe). But that's beside the point, because the point is that WordPress, for whatever reason, has stopped showing ads...

Tech issues. Tech issues everywhere PART I

29 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

My MacBook is getting on a bit. It's an Air M1 model that I bought about two and a half years ago and overused for two and a half years. Think 70+ tabs regularly kept open across two browsers (Safari and Brave) with media playing in the background,...

What GoPro's (imminent and likely) failure can teach us

28 Jun 2025 1 minute read 10 comments LeftFooted

I don't remember when I first used a camera phone, probably around the mid 2000s. I was still using digital cameras back then but I stopped shortly thereafter because I started to think they were just pointless. By 2010, I was only using digital ca...

GoodBye NOAA-18, You Will Be Missed

28 Jun 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

For weather hunters and amateur meteorologists, the American NOAA satellite fleets have been workhorses, providing imaging data to meteorology programs of all types the world over. However, over time, these imaging satellites have grown to become com...

What The Tech?! The Centrifuge

24 Jun 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Centrifuges would play a key role in developing the defence and medical sectors. When you’re writing about technology, you’ll often be looking at and talking about very obvious and visible pieces of technology. While many people often won’t fully und...

Can We Use AI Privately?

24 Jun 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Debesh Choudhury

AI has penetrated the computing world globally. AI is already deeply integrated into our daily digital activities, often without us even realizing it. For example, using an online platform to correct the grammar of text content. Most software a...

Science Has Made Life Easier, But Are We Losing Ourselves in It?

23 Jun 2025 4 minute read 1 comment Bhatt_G

Technology is changing very fast, and the things around us have changed a lot. Earlier, the work which used to take a long time to complete, now the same thing is done very quickly. Many AI tools have also come, making your work even easier. You just...