Does Digital Content Have to Be Made Scarce?

NFTs The ever-unpopular NFT is a fantastic example of artificial scarcity, and how creating it [...]

“NPC Interactions” and the Death Of Social Cues

What is An NPC? NPCs, or non-playable characters, are side characters in video games. When [...]

Digital Influencers are like Vocaloids but Worse

Polar, the New “Digital Influencer” What is a digital influencer? Essentially, a digital influencer is [...]

Metadata: What is it?

The BTK killer was caught with metadata. Geotagging can unintentionally help poachers find endangered animals, [...]

What is Redaction?

Once upon a time, I stumbled into a forum thread about image censorship. The forum [...]

The Kinect’s Path To Market

The Xbox Kinect was famous for a couple of things: it could see you without [...]

FlexPlay: The Worst of All Worlds

Once upon a time, there was a growing trend towards making media easy to access. [...]

Folding Smartphones – from Samsung Bricks

Brick Phones (and Mobile Phones) The first portable phones were barely. A suitcase with a [...]

Click Options And Why

The Double Click Double clicking used to be the default for interacting with items on [...]

More Antivirus is Not Always Better!

Built-In Antivirus Microsoft Windows has come with it’s own antivirus for quite some time. Windows [...]