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”.…
