Ashwani Singh

Dissenting against the government, in many ways, is the real test of a democracy. George Orwell’s 1984 demonstrates how parties in power disillusion their people, often by rejecting or ignoring the evidence of dissent, or performing accountability, selectively. Ideally, the government is expected to respond to the dissatisfactions of its people by initiating a dialogue with the stakeholders.

The original Steam Deck was a miracle of engineering that proved we actually want to play AAA games on our couches. But let’s be honest. The battery life is a joke, and the performance is starting to feel like last gen. Valve knows this. One of their lead programmers, Pierre-Loup Griffais, just confirmed that the company is actively pushing forward with the Steam Deck 2. No half-baked updates Valve isn’t interested in giving us a “Steam Deck S” or a minor spec bump.

The AI video wars just got a new set of contenders. While everyone was staring at Sora, Alibaba was quietly building a beast called HappyHorse. Now, the stable doors are open. Alibaba just launched gray testing for HappyHorse 1.0, and it is not just another “weird morphing shapes” generator. More than just a loop Most AI video tools give you a few seconds of a single, drifting shot. HappyHorse is trying something different: 15-second multi-shot narratives.