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Ethan Parker

Tech and Gadgets

Apple's Downfall in 2025: How the Tech Giant Lost Its Magic

Apple once defined the future. Now it’s selling thinner phones, overpriced headsets, and half-baked AI. Here's how the most iconic tech company on Earth lost its magic — and its grip on innovation.

Land a Remote AI Training Role with Mercor's Genius Matching Platform

Mercor connects skilled talent with elite, remote AI training jobs using its advanced AI matching system. Apply once and get discovered by top companies.
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Can Elon Musk Really Become the World's First Trillionaire?

Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire with a bold new Tesla deal. But is it really about the money, or is there something deeper driving him?
Geek Culture

From Bronze Age to Bot Age: Why 2025 Marks a Civilization-Scale Upgrade

We’re living through a rare convergence: generative AI, falling-cost clean energy, and programmable biology are tipping from clunky to inevitable. Here’s why 2025 echoes America’s previous 80-year reinventions—and what gets rebuilt next.
Geek Culture

Seven Shuffles to Random: The Wild Origin Story Behind Today's Smart Tech

A century-old math feud in Russia birthed Markov chains and Monte Carlo—ideas behind Google’s PageRank, nuclear simulations, language prediction, and why seven riffle shuffles “randomizes” a deck. Here’s the wild, human story behind the math that runs our world.
Tech and Gadgets

Tesla's Self-Driving Gamble: How Marketing Outran Reality

Tesla promised self-driving cars for nearly a decade. Instead, customers got unfinished tech, rising crash reports, and mounting lawsuits. Here’s how Tesla’s Autopilot hype unraveled—and why one lawsuit could change everything.
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AI Warnings: Ilya Sutskever and Eric Schmidt on the Future of Humanity

Ilya Sutskever and Eric Schmidt have issued stark warnings about AI’s future, predicting massive disruption, job losses, and even superintelligence within years. Here’s what you need to know.
Tech and Gadgets

The Collapse of Social Media: What Happened and What's Next

Social media promised connection but delivered chaos. Here's why platforms like Instagram and TikTok feel worse than ever, and how a growing movement of users is pushing back in 2025.
Tech and Gadgets

The AI Tsunami Is Drowning the Open Web – And Journalism May Not Survive It

AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews are transforming how we access information—but at what cost? Explore how AI is eroding journalism, killing search traffic, and threatening the open web.
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Lovable Promo Code – Does It Exist? What You Need to Know

Scouring the internet for Lovable promo codes? We break down what’s real, what’s rumor, and how to stay vibe‑coding without burning your wallet.
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Vibe Coding Is the Worst Idea of 2025 - Here's Why It Fails

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy coined “vibe coding” as a playful approach to AI-assisted programming. But beneath the hype, it’s one of the worst ideas in software engineering. Here’s why vibe coding is broken at its core.
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Why GPT-5 Fails: Science Shows AGI Might Be a Myth

GPT-5 is here, but it doesn’t feel all that smarter. Is artificial general intelligence just a tech delay—or a scientific impossibility? We break down why systems theory may prove AGI is more fantasy than future.