The company acquires Roomba to hoover up more data — Not content with the information it already has on us — i.e. far more than it should — Amazon is stepping up its efforts to turn our homes into data farms. The plan to ‘smart-ify’ our homes has been nearly a decade in the making. It began in 2013 when…

The company reports drop in revenue for the first time ever — Since going public in May 2012, Facebook (now Meta) has reported its first-ever revenue decline. In its Q2 earnings, the company revealed it had missed virtually all its targets, bringing to close a decade of unprecedented growth and relentless revenue. Earnings per share fell short. Revenue fell short. Monthly active…

Step aside friends and family, short-form video is cool now — When Facebook introduced the News Feed in 2006, it was unlike anything the digitally connected world had seen. It was also hated by a huge percentage of users when it launched, bringing privacy concerns to the company’s doorstep for the first time. But, as Facebook’s internal metrics and data showed…

It’s hard to Netflix and chill when everything’s on fire — Netflix was the original streaming giant, disrupting a stale industry failing to keep up with technological advances. It proudly wore the crown, enjoying its first-mover advantage to eat up market share and acquire subscriber numbers at breakneck speed. The dawn of the binge had arrived, and for that first decade…

12 months on from record highs, even the Apes are going down with the ship — In July 2021, NFT mania exploded. At its peak between August and November last year, the number of NFT sale transactions frequently topped 200,000 per day, with sales reaching an insane high of $12.6 billion in January 2022 alone. …

What could possibly go wrong? — It’s a tale as old as Silicon Valley; tech designed with good intentions that, when integrated into society, reveals unintended — and often harmful — consequences. A few shining examples: Social media companies that allowed us to connect to friends and family across the world that soon became cesspits for…

Because, unfortunately, you’re part-time co-workers now — When the pandemic forced us indoors, my wife and I lived in a one-bedroom, open-plan apartment. While it was the perfect place to come home to after a long day at the office, it was never meant to also function as a shared office as we went into quarantine. For…

With its image tarnished by monkey jpegs and shitcoins, it seems we’re already moving on from Web3 — Web3 was heralded as “the future of the internet.” Well, less heralded and more shouted about really loudly by ‘crypto bros.’ But, as quickly as it arrived to champion itself as the next iteration of the internet, it looks like it’s dead in the water. It has been hit by…

Will the concept become (virtual) reality before we lose interest? — Since I wrote this “viral” piece about the Metaverse (and NFT) boom going bust on March 15, the traffic trends have continued to tumble down towards zero. The Metaverse exploded into public view on the back of Facebook’s rebrand to Meta in late October 2021. It quickly became the corporate…