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18 free interactive tools to learn AI, cloud computing and technology strategy

18 Free Interactive Tools That Teach You AI, Cloud and Tech Strategy Better Than Any Textbook

Train a real neural network in 5 minutes with no code. 18 free, hand-verified interactive tools that teach AI, cloud, cybersecurity and digital strategy far faster than reading ever will.

Dr Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe

13 Sep 2026 · 10 min read

Ace A/L ICT — live, ranked, real. Enrollment open for the 2027 A/L cohort.

ICT Campus Launches Sri Lanka's Live, Island-Wide A/L ICT Class for the 2027 Cohort

A new A/L ICT class has opened enrollment for the 2027 cohort — all 14 NIE units, an AI-powered exam prediction tool, and island-wide leaderboards, for Rs 2,500/month with the first week free.

Dr Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe

8 Sep 2026 · 6 min read

164 countries voted to retire the Mercator map

The World Map You Grew Up With Was Wrong — The UN Just Voted to Fix It

The UN just voted 164-1 to retire the 456-year-old Mercator map. It's been quietly inflating Greenland to Africa's size for centuries — but Sri Lanka, sitting almost on the equator, was drawn close to honestly the whole time. Here's the math, the history, and what actually changes.

Dr Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe

5 Sep 2026 · 11 min read

Should You Choose ICT for Your A/Ls? An Honest Answer — Including Who Shouldn't

Every tuition advert says choose ICT. Almost none say who shouldn't. What the A/L ICT syllabus actually contains, what the 77% pass rate really means, an afternoon test to see if it fits you, and where the subject can take you.

Dr Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe

4 Sep 2026 · 9 min read

Why XR pilots fail — organisational barriers outrank technology

Why XR Pilots Fail: Your Problem Was Never the Technology

Seventeen industrial XR experts ranked what blocks immersive projects. Technology came last. A researcher's guide to why VR and AR pilots stall, the human factors nobody quotes you for, and eight questions to answer before you fund anything.

Dr Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe

28 Aug 2026 · 12 min read

The memory wall - compute versus memory bandwidth

The Memory Wall: Why the World's Fastest Chips Spend Most of Their Time Waiting

Compute is growing 3x every two years. Memory bandwidth is growing 1.6x. That gap is the memory wall - and every part of it is explained by a second-year computer organization and architecture syllabus: locality, cache mapping, AMAT, pipeline stalls and arithmetic intensity.

Dr Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe

27 Aug 2026 · 13 min read

Funnel chart: 2025 A/L වලට 281,810ක් පෙනී සිට, 2,797ක් විතරයි state Computer Science/IT උපාධියකට ඇතුළත් වුණේ

A/L ICT කරාට පස්සේ: ශ්‍රී ලංකා උපාධි සහ Career මාර්ගෝපදේශය

A/L ICT කරාට පස්සේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඇත්තටම වෙන්නේ මොකක්ද: real Z-score data, degree costs, career outcomes, සහ almost කිසිම සිසුවෙකුට කියලා නැති funded postgraduate routes.

Dr Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe

26 Aug 2026 · 8 min read

Funnel chart: 281,810 students sat A/L 2025, only 2,797 admitted to a state Computer Science or IT degree

After A/L ICT Results: The Sri Lanka Degree & Career Guide

What actually happens after A/L ICT in Sri Lanka: real Z-score data, degree costs, career outcomes, and the funded postgraduate routes almost no student is told about.

Dr Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe

26 Aug 2026 · 15 min read

AI Is Eating Entry-Level Jobs — Is a Postgrad Degree Still Worth It?

Nearly half of hiring managers would rather invest in AI than hire a new graduate. Here is what the actual 2026 data says about whether a postgraduate degree is still worth it -- and which fields are safest.

Dr Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe

24 Aug 2026 · 12 min read

Can You Hide a Toy in Your Best Friend's Bedroom From the Other Side of the World?

My PhD research lets two people share a real physical room from anywhere in the world. We tested it with a hide-and-seek game and 60 real players -- here is what happened.

Dr Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe

23 Aug 2026 · 7 min read

Don't trust your study agent blindly — an NZQA guide for Sri Lankan students

Don't Trust Your Study Agent Blindly: An NZQA-Based Guide for Sri Lankan Students Planning Postgraduate Study in New Zealand

Sri Lankan enrolment in New Zealand is growing four times faster than the market overall. Here's how to check a postgraduate provider's real academic quality yourself, using NZQA's own tools, before you trust an agent.

Dr Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe

23 Aug 2026 · 42 min read

US Student Visa Rules Just Got Stricter in 2026 — Is New Zealand the Smarter Move Now?

The US just tightened its student visa rules and New Zealand just loosened its post-study work visa — in the same year. Here's what that actually means if you're deciding where to study in 2026.

Dr Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe

23 Aug 2026 · 7 min read

A person playing an augmented reality mobile game on a smartphone

Why Most AR Games Fail (and How to Fix It)

Pokémon GO got millions walking, but most AR games that followed it flopped. A PhD researcher on AR game design explains why — and what actually works.

Dr Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe

23 Aug 2026 · 3 min read

I Built a Free Website to Help Sri Lankan Drivers Save Thousands on Fuel — Here's the Story Behind It

A few months ago, I was stuck in Colombo traffic, watching my fuel gauge drop, and I did some rough math in my head. The number I landed on genuinely

Dr Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe

24 Mar 2026 · 5 min read

New Zealand Campervan Roadie | Road 2 O-Week Convoy 24

Imagine a whole crew of friends hitting the open road, campervans convoy as we conquered those winding New Zealand roads. That's exactly what my mates and I did!

Dr Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe

20 Feb 2024 · 10 min read

A Visual Guide to Placing AR Objects in the Real World with Remote Content Authoring

Are you ready to bring your digital creations to life? Augmented Reality (AR) technology has seamlessly blended the virtual world with the real world. But how do you accurately place

Dr Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe

3 Feb 2023 · 1 min read

Building Augmented Reality Applications with Hand Tracking

Even though hand tracking gloves and hand tracking oculus quest 2 are available for VR and mixed reality applications hand tracking in AR is still very new. This step by step augmented reality tutorial guides you in building a hand tracking augmented reality application with Unity 3D and Lightship.

Dr Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe

24 Oct 2022 · 8 min read

A student working on laptop hardware in a computer lab classroom

GitHub Student Pack: Hidden Treasure that Most University Students Unaware

Create a professional website for you and host it, or even run a live webinar using this completely free access to various developer tools

Dr Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe

19 Oct 2022 · 5 min read