BURNING CHROME | Every ‘tech bro’ wants to rule the world
Silicon Valley in California was long romanticized as the crucible of innovation, a place where idealists and engineers imagined transforming...
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BURNING CHROME | From hype to reality: Where AI is taking us
Artificial intelligence is no longer science fiction. It has left the ivory towers of research labs and the glossy brochures...
SPECIAL FEATURE | 5G evolution and the road to 6G
The story of mobile communications has always been about crossing thresholds every decade. In 1979, NTT launched the world’s first...
BURNING CHROME | The eternal spin of sound — old formats, new obsessions
There was a time when listening to music wasn’t just something you did in the background. It was ritual. You’d...
SPECIAL FEATURE | Non-stop slop: The quiet flood of AI’s digital waste
In our electrified present, as generative artificial intelligence tools grow ever more accessible, a troubling phenomenon has crept into every...
BURNING CHROME | Resonances and revolutions — from noise to art (Part 2)
If the first generation of Philippine sound artists wrestled with obscurity and skepticism, the next wave embraced community-building. The mid-2000s...
SPECIAL FEATURE | Human trafficking in the digital age
Human trafficking remains a global crime, hidden yet expanding in new and troubling directions. The 2025 Trafficking in Persons (TIP)...
BURNING CHROME | Resonances and revolutions — from noise to art (Part 1)
The question of what makes music has always been fraught, but the 20th century shook it to its core. When...
SPECIAL FEATURE | Blockchain revisited: From origins to the Philippine connection
The modern blockchain story begins in October 2008, when the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper proposing a...
BURNING CHROME | 3G: The network that connected us before the stream
The slow death of 3G is not just a technical story about telecom networks being retired. It is also about...