China launched its digital currency, the DCEP (Digital Currency Electonic Payment). In this video we explore why and how the country decided to go digital. What is the Digital Yuan? How does the Digital Currency work? Is DCEP a cryptocurrency? Is the digital Yuan blockchain based?
TSMC, Taiwan's semiconductor giant is on top of the world. They completely dominate the chip industry. Yet they may lose due to politics, technical issues, cost issue or all of the above.
Philips was once the largest tech company in Europe, the world leader in lighting, radio and physical media, the third largest electronics company in the world, etc. Today they are almost irrelevant. Here's why.
China's tech industry has been on an incredible rise for decades, but it has hit 4 major problems. Manufacturing is leaving the country, high-tech imports are limited, export markets are lost & there is incresingly chaos domestically. How will they cope with these?
While Huawei, Tiktok & other Chinese tech firms can't catch a break, Lenovo is thriving. Here is how they got into this amazing position.
I agree about Apple not mentioning Virtual Reality due to a wish to differentiate from the competiton and to control the narrative. But I think there's more!
Carl Pei & the Nothing team gave me an in-depth look at how phones are made, from design to prototyping, manufacturing, supply chain management, etc.
Elon Musk said he wants to turn X (formerly Twitter) into a WeChat clone - a super-app, or everything app for the West that he claims could revolutionize payments and could take over half the world's financial system. I think this will be super hard.
China has been cracking down on video games for decades. From console bans to video game addiction camps and limited gaming hours they have tried everything. Has any of it worked?
The Fairphone 5 is modular, made with recycled & fair materials and fair working conditions. I review the phone, the company behind it, the sustanibilty claims & explain their shortcoming.
A federated internet is forming. It's built on open protocols like ActivityPub & connects services like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, Tumblr, Wordpress and more into a connected network known as the fediverse. And everyone from tech enthusiasts to Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey seem to want in.
From the Apple Vision Pro to the Meta Quest 3 and the Meta Raybans, VR, AR and spatial computing is having a moment again. But how do smart see-through AR glasses actually work? And what will it take for them to become good?
From the Google Cardboard to the Apple Vision Pro & Meta Quest 3, VR displays, optics and headsets in general gone through a crazy evolution in 10 years. With fresnel lenses, pancake lenses, MicroOLED (a.k.a. OLEDoS, or OLED Microdisplays) and more, there is a lot of sci-fi tech to talk about.
I made my own quantum dots in a lab in Berlin to learn how they work, how they will revolutionize displays and why the scientists discovering them won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 2023.
Live tiles were the most iconic Microsoft design element, trying Windows Phone, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows 8, Windows 10, Surface and other brands together. I loved them. But they were flawed from the start and doomed to fail.
Microsoft with Copilot+ PCs, Google on the Pixel, Apple with iPhone and Macs, Qualcomm with Snapdragon X, Intel and AMD, all the tech companies want you to care about the NPU, Neural Processing unit or Neural engine in their new machines to run AI workloads, neural networks, etc. But are these chips any good?
Waterproof electronics don't exist, but water resistance is more common than ever. From IP ratings in phones to nanocoatings, dive watches with helium valves and oil fillings, the technology for wate resistance has improved a lot.
There is a huge increase in the sales of flagship phones, premium models and ultra premium smartphones. This trend is called premiumization and in many countries, ultra premium devices completely dominate the market. What's driving this trend?
Tech companies are often seen as either big and evil or nice, but small. Proton proves there is another way.
I've been using an M1 Macbook Air for 4 years and a 15" MBP for a few years before that. But now with Intel Lunar Lake, AMD Zen 5 Strix Point and Snapdragon X Elite chips, it's time for me to switch back to Windows.
Mozilla has been on a decline for over a decade. Firefox marketshare dropped from 32% to just 3% and antitrust regulations mean Google might stop paying them for search engine placement. So now they are turning to online advertising. What gives?
In recent years Intel went through hell, trying to reinvent itself with a heavy focus on foundries and manufacturing under Pat Gelsigner. They entered the valley of death and might never come out of it alive.
I recently visited Shenzhen, the Silicon Valley of China and saw everything from food delivery drones to robotaxies, police robots and more. It kinda blew my mind!
China is planning to have 3x as much battery production capacity in 2025 as global demand. Prices are crashing globally, driving EV prices down as well. What is China doing? How did they get here? What should the rest of the world do? The Story Behind
Tim Cook is a political mastermind and the smartest CEO, especially during a trade war. He expertly manages political tensions with Trump in the US while also keeping his relationship with China healthy.
Trump's America threatens European soveregnity to its core. France has long been strivingt for strategic autonomy and proves that this is possible in Europe in a military, energy and technological sense as well. Here's what we can learn from them.
Many are thinking abot switching from, or even boycotting Google, Microsoft, Apple & Co, so I tried using only European alternatives or open source software for a month. I tried a Linux laptop from Tuxedo, e/OS on a Fairphone 5, Nextcloud and more.
