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Southeast Asia’s biggest ride-hailing and food delivery firm, Grab, is selectively hiring to conserve capital, and to avoid walking down the layoff path. Grab is expected to provide details of its progress towards profitability and other metrics at its first investor day later this week. Interest rates are rising, economic uncertainty is still looming and... Read more »
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Sunday Ars Technica apologized for making Scott Shambaugh's week a little weirder. Last week Shambaugh learned an AI agent published a "hit piece" about him after he'd rejected the AI agent's pull request. (And that incident was covered by Ars Technica.) But then Shambaugh realized their article attributed quotes to him he hadn't said — that were presumably AI-generated. Sunday Ars Technica's founder/editor-in-chief admitted their article had indeed contained "fabricated... Read more ›
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Browsing jobs in Phuket became Cheska Hull's guilty pleasure. When she called off her wedding, she decided it was time to move to Thailand. Read more ›
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman claims that AI models will become powerful enough in the next 12 to 18 months that they would start replacing humans in white-collar jobs like lawyers, accountants, project managers, and marketers. Read more ›
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Get AcePDF Converter & Editor lifetime access for $24.97 and convert, edit, and manage PDFs across Mac and Windows with one all-in-one tool. Read more ›
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Sam Altman announced on X that Peter Steinberger, the man behind the trendy AI agent OpenClaw, was joining OpenAI. He said that Steinberger has "a lot of amazing ideas" about getting AI agents to interact with each other, saying "the future is going to be extremely multi-agent." He also said that this ability for agents […] Read more ›
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Elisa Orsi and David Sleight moved to China with their kids and were surprised to see how clean, modern, and convenient everything was. Read more ›
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Hideki Sato, who led the design of Sega's beloved consoles from the '80s and '90s, died on Friday, according to the Japanese gaming site Beep21. He was 77. Sato worked with Sega from 1971 until the early 2000s, but he's best known for his involvement in the development of the Sega arcade games and home consoles that defined many late Gen X and early millennial childhoods, starting with the SG-1000... Read more ›
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The Asus Vivobook is one of the most affordable laptops with Qualcomm's Snapdragon silicon and a Copilot+ badge for AI chops. It's a utilitarian workhorse that occasionally stumbles, but gets the job done. Read more ›
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The asset manager overseeing more than $900 billion assets may buy up to 90 million MORPHO tokens as part of a partnership to support DeFi credit market, it said. Read more ›
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Western Digital says its all sold out of hard drives for 2026, less than two months into the year. Read more ›
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If you're currently shopping for a used car on a budget, these Consumer Reports-approved vehicles are an excellent place to start your search. Read more ›
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While most people worry about what to add to their lives for healthy aging, the sharpest 80-somethings reveal they actually preserved their mental edge by strategically eliminating specific habits during their 60s—and these aren't the typical health tips you'd expect. Read more ›
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Another old franchise means another reboot, and the latest to get pulled off the shelf is 'Charlie's Angels' (again). Read more ›
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The hardest choice to make for building your next MacBook might be selecting a color. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple has tested colors including light yellow, light green, blue and pink for its next entry-level MacBook that's aimed at students and enterprise users. Beyond the more vibrant colors, Gurman said that Apple has also trialed its classic silver and dark gray colorways for its cheaper laptop. Gurman added that... Read more ›
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Cord Cutters News reports: In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just as it departs from the ad-supported streaming platform Tubi... Viewers noticed notifications on Tubi indicating that all five seasons would no longer be available after February 10, 2026, effectively removing one of... Read more ›
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Hideki Sato, the designer of most Sega home consoles, has allegedly died. Read more Read more ›
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Jeff Mason, a former construction manager, and his wife faced financial ruin due to medical bills in the 1990s. Now, he drives for Uber at 76. Read more ›
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Maxis becomes the first Malaysian telco to migrate 100% of its digital workloads to AWS Malaysia Region, moving mission-critical systems from Singapore Migration eliminates cross-region data traffic costs while supporting Malaysia’s data sovereignty ambitions When Maxis Berhad moved its mission-critical workloads from Amazon Web Services’ Singapore Region to the AWS Malaysia Region in early February, ... Read more ›
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AutoFlight tested an aircraft billed as the world’s largest flying car. It marks China’s shift toward larger eVTOL aircraft and commercial rules. China’s push into low-altitude aviation is starting to move from concept to hardware, with larger electric aircraft aimed at cargo and passenger use. A recent flight test by Shanghai-based AutoFlight shows how quickly ... Read more ›
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Blockchain has made tremendous progress. The technology has moved from a niche concept tied mostly to cryptocurrencies into a powerful, real-world tool that is steadily finding its footing in industries. It’s a big part of why Grand View Research recently valued the global blockchain market at $31.28 billion, expecting it to jump to $1.4 trillion ... Read more ›
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Nxera’s 58MW DC Tuas achieves 1.25 PUE using Singapore’s largest liquid cooling data centre deployment, proving tropical climates can support AI workloads efficiently Over 90% pre-committed capacity signals desperate demand in a market where vacancy rates sit below 2% and new approvals require 50% green energy sourcing When Singapore imposed its data centre moratorium in ... Read more ›
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India’s US$100bn investment in AI data centres raises environmental concerns A report from commercial real estate services and investment firm, CBRE Group, indicates India’s data centre investments will surpass $100 billion in value by 2027, despite reduced expansion in other regions due to environmental and power concerns. According to Channel News Asia‘s (CNA) series, ‘India’s ... Read more ›
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The UK’s Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) regulation from July 2026 forces fintech providers to rebuild core infrastructure for real-time affordability checks, potentially triggering market consolidation Regulatory wave mirrors Australia’s 2025 move and could ripple across Asia-Pacific markets where BNPL is booming, including Malaysia’s 215% projected growth by 2027 When Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ... Read more ›
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OpenAI, Samsung and SK begin Korea AI data centre construction in March. The build highlights rising demand for local AI infrastructure. Work to construct new data centres in South Korea by OpenAI, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix is set to begin in March, government officials said this week, marking a major step in the expansion ... Read more ›
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Memory chip shortage driving smartphone prices up 7% in 2026, hitting Asia’s budget device markets hardest Chinese brands like Honor, Vivo, and Oppo are facing the biggest shipment declines as the memory chip shortage squeezes margins The memory chip shortage is poised to significantly increase the cost of Asia’s smartphone market. Manufacturers can’t get enough ... Read more ›
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Some Chinese women are choosing virtual boyfriends in romance games. Digital companionship helps meet emotional needs alongside real relationships. For some young professionals in China, romance is no longer limited to real-world relationships. Mobile games built around fictional partners are becoming part of daily emotional life, blending entertainment, storytelling, and digital intimacy into something that ... Read more ›
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A Schneider Electric Wuhan factory has been recognised as a Global Lighthouse for Talent by the World Economic Forum (WEF), becoming just the third facility to achieve this distinction globally. The energy management, automation and digitisation specialists have nine Lighthouse factories and distribution centres worldwide, as well as five Sustainability Lighthouses, but the Wuhan site ... Read more ›
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