Author: Jayvee Fernandez

There’s a portion in Taylor Dane’s ‘Love Will Lead You Back’ pre-chorus where she pleads, I won’t try to stop you now from leaving Cause in my heart I know, And then she belts out this ballad’s thesis statement: Love will lead you back! Someday I just know that Love will lead you back to my arms In the same way that you can truly feel Taylor Dane’s melancholy as she ignites her power ballad with the chorus, the Tour One M3 will definitely lead you back to love with your most cherished playlists. I’ve been revisiting my playlists with…

What better way to explore the goalposts of art and AI than by combining both? AI isn’t self-aware, but many people seem to think so. This is an experiment of a reimagination of a photo by HONOR Philippines’ own Jet Ignacio, which I transformed into a Warhol-style “art piece.” I even made it more absurd by having an imaginary art critic (yes also generated by AI) critique this piece. So yeah, real photo turned into art by AI, and critiqued by AI. – Jayvee Critique generated by ChatGPT: Titled “Upload,” this contemporary piece transcends its digital aesthetic to explore the…

A few days ago I released an article detailing a list of official dealers of the Nintendo Switch 2. I’ve attached the article here for your perusal. Now the issue of warranty was brought up. Some customers left comments (and DM’s) saying that their retailer isn’t on the list but also offered an official warranty. I wanted clarity in this confusion so I decided to go to the VST-ECS compound in Pasig to get to the bottom of this fiasco. VST ECS was appointed as the official distributor of Nintendo in the Philippines last 2023. Not only are they the…

It’s light. It’s thin. It’s built for productivity and yes, even gaming. I am writing this piece using Lenovo’s latest unveil of 2025: the Aura Edition of productivity laptops that I was able to try in February of this year at Yokohama, Japan. Speaking to Kevin Beck who bears the title of ‘Chief Explainer’ of Lenovo, I got to learn more about this new line of devices, brought about by a collaboration between Intel and Lenovo. All that was in theory. I finally was able to spend weeks immersed with the Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition, and I am delightfully…

Once known as the BPO capital of the world, the Philippines is undergoing another shift—this time toward becoming a global hub for applied AI. And according to industry insiders, it’s not just about automation; it’s about reinvention. In a roundtable chat with David Foote, founder of Zennya Health, and Carlo Almendral of AI First, we dove deep into how artificial intelligence is already reshaping the way Filipinos work, learn, and build the future. I met David about two decades ago, during a time when tech was awakward. It was the era of Web 1.5 where the Internet was still attempting…

If you’re reading this, you’re one of two people: a current Xiaomi 14 owner thinking about upgrading to this newest model or someone who has heard “good things” about Xiaomi’s flagship ecosystem, especially the Leica-tuned camera. Heck, you might even be a POCO user (Xiaomi’s sister brand) looking to switch. As a user of both models let me give you some perspective. I remember seeing a contact post on the elusive Interwebs (it is elusive because the news feed just keeps updating whenever you load up your social apps) that we should normalize smaller phones. And after one year of…

I’m putting the spotlight on tech-savvy dads who want their homes to run smoother, smarter, and cooler.

My father passed away during the pandemic. He never got to see the rise of AI in the form of ChatGPT and Google Gemini but I’m sure he would have been floored.

Flashback: it is March of 2023. The world is slowly awakening from a three year pandemic. As life begins to re-emerge on the city streets and people restart their routines, a new normal has emerged. With the lockdown, a headfake experiment has just been conducted, and for almost three years the question to “can people truly be productive at home?” has been answered. It’s a resounding yes. The workplace has never been the same. With hybrid work becoming the new normal for a vast majority of the population – well, at least for PhilSTAR Tech readers it’s roughly 70% –…

In an age where AI has voice actors on edge, the Philippines’ “VoiceMaster” is already training the bots himself. I met Pocholo Gonzales about twenty years ago. It was the dawn of Web 1.5, considered the precursor years to social media, a time when the Internet was slowly entering its wireless phase in coffee shops, and of course the invention of the word “podcasting” thanks to the iPod. He was an industry pioneer, bringing voices online into the digital space. Into iTunes. Into YouTube. It was more than just the dubbing and recording for commercials. I think he, like many…