Category: TechCrunch

  • The Unseen Watchers

    Every word I type, every message I send, they’re watching. The unseen eyes of the European Commission, lurking behind my screen, scanning my words for signs of danger. I didn’t ask for this, none of us did. But in a world where privacy is a luxury, you learn to live with the fear. The fear…

  • The Twitching Reality

    I opened the Twitch app, the familiar purple icon a comforting sight in the sea of chaos that was my life. The new discovery feed tab beckoned, promising an escape from my desolate reality. I began scrolling, my fingers moving mechanically over the screen. I had no idea that each swipe was leading me further…

  • Subscribed to Survival

    The day the world got sold to RevenueCat, I was at home, trying to fix a glitch in my own web app. The news came on the radio – $12 million Series C. A number so big, it felt abstract, unreal. But it was real, and it changed everything. The world was no longer ours,…

  • The Game of Survival

    I blinked my eyes open, my vision blurred by the harsh glare of artificial light. My fingers were numb, resting on the keys of my keyboard. I was home, safe in my room, but the screen in front of me told a different story. A world of chaos and destruction, a game that was no…

  • The TikTok Tyranny

    I remember the day TikTok pulled the plug on the gamification feature in the EU. It was a Wednesday, late in the day, when the announcement was made. But it didn’t matter, not to me, not to anyone in our world. We were too engrossed in our own digital lives, too tethered to the pulsating…

  • The Smiling Shadows

    I stared at my reflection in the mirror, my eyes welling up with tears. The face staring back at me was mine, but it wasn’t. The smile plastered on my face was too wide, too perfect. It didn’t reach my eyes. It was as if an AI had taken control of my body, making me…

  • The Wrong Hands

    I stared at the screen, my heart pounding in my chest. The credit card details, names, addresses – all of them flashing before my eyes. They didn’t belong to me, but here they were, on my device, a secret I was never meant to know. I was a simple man, a customer of ICICI Bank,…

  • DoubleYou

    I’ve always been good with computers. Not just good, but exceptional. The kind of exceptional that got me a job at the NSA straight out of college. The kind of exceptional that led me to leave the NSA and join Apple. And the kind of exceptional that made me start DoubleYou. But I never thought…

  • Game of Codes

    My fingers danced across the keyboard in the dimly lit room, the only sound the rhythmic tapping of keys. The neon glow from the screen reflected in my eyes as I logged into Carv, the mega platform that had taken the world by storm. It was a world where data was the new gold, and…

  • Frisky Feline Fiasco

    I remember the day when my human brought home the Polar Wet Food Feeder. I was curious, as any cat would be. But little did I know, that machine was about to turn my world upside down. My name is Whiskers, and I am a sleek and agile feline with a penchant for adventure. My…