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Why the New LUMIX L10 may be the Everyday Carry We Actually Needed
We live in a strange era for photography. Look around, and the industry seems neatly segmented into three very distinct,…
The Next Leap Forward may be Open Source
The digital landscape has seen a tectonic shift recently, especially because of the illogical global and regional economic or aggression…
The Pragmatist’s Pulse: Check in APAC’s AI, Robotics, and Cyber Defenses
With a daily avalanche of press releases, product launches, and technological hyperbole, we need to sift through the noise to…
DeepSeek V4 and the AI Battlefront
I still vividly remember the glowing green phosphor of my first TRS-80 PC. Back then, the bleeding edge of “artificial…
From AI Scaling Pains to Robot Assembly Lines: APAC Tech’s Next Chapter
The past week showed us, from the boardrooms in Jakarta to assembly lines in Shenzhen, that AI has definitively moved…
Vietnam’s Đổi Mới 2.0 and What to Expect
Vietnam is one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia. It is aggressive and ambitious and looks set to outpace some…
Cobots, Ping-pong Aces and AI Neckbands
This past week has felt like a pivot point for the Asia-Pacific. We are moving past the “chat” phase of…
Agentic Leap and the Power of Simplicity
I have always been a geek. My journey with technology began in the 1970s, wrestling with BASIC on a Sinclair…