Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ethereum, and Ripple. These are just a few of the cryptocurrencies that make headlines in tech websites these days. What is a cryptocurrency? What is the value of bitcoin? Are they safe? How does it work? Who owns these...
Author - කළණ බණ්ඩාර
මව්බස වියැකී යාමට මත්තෙන්
“කොල්ලනේ, ඒ කියන්නේ මේ බල දෙක ස්වයං සීරුමාරු වෙනවා… තේරෙන සිංහලෙන් කිව්වොත් ඔටෝ අජස්ට් වෙනවා…” මේ තමයි අපේ පිසික්ස් සර් දවසක් පාඩම උගන්නගෙන ගිය හැටි. සර් මේක විහිලුවට වගේ කිව්වත් ඒ වෙලාවේ කාටවත් හිනා නොගියේ ළමයි එච්චර බොක්කෙන් පාඩම අහන්...
Scissors that won the Nobel prize.
“If you can’t tell the difference, does it matter if I’m real or not?” This is a quote from the famous TV show ‘Westworld’. This question was asked by a humanoid robot from a human. When I read about the 2020 Nobel prize-winning technology and its...
මේ කේතුමතී නුවරයි
රූපවාහිනිය ජීවිතයෙන් දුරස්ම වෙලා තියෙන මේ වගේ කාලෙක ළඟදී විකාශය උන එක්තරා ‘ළමා’ ගීත ගායනා වැඩසටහනක් මම වගේ ‘ටීවි නොබලන’ බොහෝ පිරිසක් රූපවාහිනිය බලන්න යොමු කෙරෙව්වේ බොහොම අපූරු විදිහට. කවුරු මොන කතා කිව්වත් අපි හැමෝම මේ තරගය නිසා ලංකාවේ සැඟවිලා තිබුන...
Bearers of the ‘One Ring’
You don’t need Dark Lord Sauron’s one ring to make you invisible. Those who get a hold of this mysterious object get invisible from the rest of the world. But they get blessed with the incredible ability to speak a universal language. These people...
Does God play dice with the Universe?
If you are looking for a short answer, yes it is, it seems to be a god is playing dice with the universe. But why can’t ‘God’ decide anything? That’s a complicated story. “God does not play dice with the universe.”This famous...
StyleGAN
What’s going to happen when computers start to imagine? Would you believe if I say that all these portraits are computer-generated? In other words, these people do not exist in real life! This is the ‘imagination’ of a computer. I know, it is...
Celebrate Biodiversity
Today, (June 5th) is known as the world environment day. United Nations use this as the main way to encourage awareness and action to protect our environment. This year’s theme for the day is ‘Celebrate Biodiversity’. This year Columbia will be...
FeLiNa – Our need for Closure
Blood, Meth, and Tears; Felina put an end to everyone’s favorite Breaking bad after 5 seasons of a thrilling journey. The final episode of breaking bad received 9.9/10 ratings by IMDB and widely regarded as one of the best endings for a TV show. Why...
The Wolf of the Wall Street
Cinema of Excess There has been a recent trend in Hollywood. It’s ‘the Cinema of Excess’. What it means is filmmakers are making more and more films about greed, about the lifestyle of rich people, about parties, about drugs, sex etc. It’s most...