Ritik Pratap Singh Patel

After a decade of divisive decisions and leadership struggles, Star Wars is finally getting a major shakeup at Lucasfilm. With new creative leadership taking charge, the galaxy far, far away might finally be ready to rediscover what made it special in the first place. As a massive cinema enthusiast and someone who literally grew up watching the legends of the Jedi fight across the galaxy, the last few days have been nothing short of a total whirlwind for me. Between diving deep into a 10-year retrospective look back at The Force Awakens and the absolutely massive news regarding the leadership changes at Lucasfilm, it genuinely feels like the "Galaxy Far, Far Away" is finally finding its footing again after years of stumbling around in the dark. In my view, and this is something I truly believe in - "Spirit is more important than score." For way too long now, Star Wars has felt like it was chasing the score (those box office numbers, the merchandise sale...

Some shows you watch. Some shows you live through. I was just a kid when Stranger Things dropped in 2016. I remember the exact feeling of watching that first episode late at night (sadly after two years), lights off, completely unprepared for what was about to consume the next eight years of my life. Will Byers disappeared into the Upside Down, and somehow, I disappeared into Hawkins right along with him. Eight years. Think about that. I've grown up with these kids. I've watched Eleven learn what friendship means while I was learning the same thing. I've seen them face literal monsters while I faced my own version of high school, college applications, and now, the terrifying adult world of job hunting and existential dread. This wasn't just a show I binged. This was a show that aged with me, stumbled with me, and now, finally closes its chapter as I'm trying to open mine. So yeah, this one hits different. Let's talk about it honestly, the magic, the ...

Picture this: Your phone rings. No app needed, no guesswork, just the caller's real, government-verified name staring back at you. Sounds like science fiction? It's not. TRAI is about to make this the default reality for every Indian phone user, and the implications are wild. Whether you're dodging spam calls or worried about your privacy getting torched, this changes everything. What's up, tech fam! Ritik here, and today we're diving into something that could completely reshape how we handle phone calls in India. If you've been keeping up with telecom news or just saw my recent breakdown of Mini's updates, you already know something seismic is happening. I'm talking about CNAP: Caller Name Presentation, TRAI's game-changing feature that's set to revolutionize caller identification. As an engineering student juggling data structures assignments and dodging "Congratulations! You've won a lottery" spam calls during El Clás...

When your competitors are fighting for mindshare, you're already collecting rent checks. Welcome back to the AI chronicles. While everyone else spent November 2024 debating which AI model would win, Microsoft quietly sent invoices to 70% of the Fortune 500 companies. At Ignite 2024 in Chicago, they didn't just unveil products, they revealed a stranglehold on enterprise AI that's going to be nearly impossible to break. The headline? Nearly 70% of Fortune 500 companies now use Microsoft 365 Copilot, and that's just one product in an ecosystem designed to make migrating away from Azure as appealing as switching your email provider. Let's break down the three strategic masterstrokes that turned Microsoft from your dad's enterprise software company into the landlord of the AI revolution. 1. Azure AI Foundry: The Factory That Builds AI Factories Remember when deploying an AI model meant assembling a team of PhDs, burning through venture capital on GPUs, an...

A Universe Built on Questionable Decisions Picture this: You're Sony Pictures, sitting on the movie rights to one of the most beloved superheroes of all time, Spider-Man. You've seen Marvel Studios turn their comic book properties into a money-printing machine called the MCU. You've got dollar signs in your eyes. So naturally, you think, "Let's make a cinematic universe based on Spider-Man characters... but without Spider-Man!" Yes, you read that right. Sony's brilliant plan was to create the Sony Spider-Man Universe (SSU), a franchise that carries Spider-Man's name but features exactly zero appearances by the actual web-slinger. It's like opening a restaurant called "Best Pizza in Town" that exclusively serves salads. And somehow, they were shocked when people didn't show up. From 2018 to 2024, Sony blessed (or cursed?) us with six films in this universe: the Venom trilogy, Morbius, Madame Web, and Kraven the Hunter. With...