The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress On 11 April, the unmanned Israeli moon lander Beresheet (Hebrew for “in the Beginning”, as written in biblical texts) made an unsuccessful descent onto the lunar surface. This was attributed to a chain of technical issues, such as…
“Power, Unlimited Power”? On Wednesday, 27 March, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi announced that the country had successfully tested ASAT (Anti-Satellite) missiles. The missile was fired from a testing facility in Odisha, Eastern India, led by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO),…
Vandals Make Their Marx, Once Again On Saturday, 16th February 2019, Philosopher Karl Marx’s grave in London, Highgate Cemetery was found awash in red paint amidst colourful bouquets surrounding the grey marble plaque. From the pictures posted by Highgate Cemetery’s Twitter that day, one…
What Happened? Myanmar’s LGBTQIA+ community just had their maiden voyage on the first-ever Pride Boat Parade held in Asia last Saturday, 26th January. More than 600 participants set sail off a river in Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar, as part of the Yangon…
Andy Rubin, also known as the “Father” and creator of the mobile operating system “Android”, was asked to resign from Google by co-founder Larry Page in October 2014. The New York Times released a report on October 25, describing how Mr. Rubin was offered…
Veteran Singapore diplomat Tommy Koh went on Facebook on Friday, October 26, claiming that the Straits Times (ST) resorted to “biased reporting” of the 30th anniversary dinner and inequality conference of the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS). In his Facebook post, Prof. Koh inquired…
Software engineers at Amazon have been working on an AI to automate the painstaking process of job recruitment since 2014. The company used its own data to teach the AI what the company needed, using resumes that have been collected over a decade. The…
First Lady Melania Trump embarked on her first major solo trip to Africa this October as part of her ‘Be Best’ initiative. She visited Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt. However, her visits have drawn ire online, with comments targeting her attire. While in Kenya,…
On the 5th of September, the New York Times released a ground-breaking Op-Ed of an anonymous official in the White House working in a resistance against President Donald Trump’s administration. The unnamed official has described President Trump’s leadership style as “impetuous, adversarial, petty and…
In the wake of India’s historic Supreme Court ruling to decriminalise consensual gay sex, Singapore’s Ambassador-at-Large Professor Tommy Koh commented on Facebook on 6th September that he “…would encourage our gay community to bring a class action to challenge the constitutionality of Section 377A”.…
