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A company in Hangzhou, China named Hebo Technology has come under fire from its employees for using a sneaky method to check on their activities during office hours. Under the guise of helping them monitor their health and vital signs, the company distributed "smart" cushions equipped with sensors to its employees. Developed in-house, the cushions were purportedly developed as a prototype that would be brought to market in the future. […]

It's a brand new year, which also means it's time for predictions! Alibaba's DAMO Academy – the group's global research initiative – has compiled a list of the top 10 trends that they think will shape the landscape of the world's tech industry in 2021. Despite the world battling with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic throughout most of 2020, Alibaba says that it has much optimism for the advancement […]

In a bit of eyebrow-raising news, Former Malaysian prime minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad has been listed as one of the world's "top 20 most dangerous extremists" according to the U.S.-based Counter Extremism Project (CEP). The non-profit CEP was founded in 2014 by several senior U.S. government officials – including those representing the Ministry of Homeland Security and ambassadors to various other nations, and was created for the purpose of combating […]

Researchers from Peking University in Beijing, China have developed a device that they claim will be able to detect the COVID-19 virus within 10 minutes. The device contains a biological sensor the size of a laptop that fits in a sensing chip which the scientists say can detect the virus almost instantly with an accuracy rating similar to traditional polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests. IMAGE: South China Morning PostIn a […]

You can't make this up. Denmark now has a TV show for kids about a man with a giant, uncontrollable penis. Right around the start of 2021, Danish public-service radio and television broadcasting company DR premiered the first episodes of the animated series John Dillermand. Intended as a series for kids aged four to eight, John Dillermand (diller is the Danish word for penis) is about an ordinary man – […]

A short while since pissing of an entire community of Chinese people – not least of all mahjong lovers – U.S. company The Mahjong Line has issued an apology. After starting business in November 2020, the company from Dallas, Texas dived headfirst into the world of mahjong by introducing pricey playing sets that replaced traditional designs with with bright color schemes and elaborate patterns, calling it a "respectful refresh" for […]

There seems to be at least some interest in politics among Singporeans, as evidenced by the nation's first-ever livestream of a parliament sitting receiving over 82,000 total views. Aired on Singapore's Ministry of Communications and Information's (MCI) YouTube channel, the livestream of the session managed to accrue the numbers over two days, with COVID-19 and pandemic response being the main topics. Keeping up with the... Click here to read the […]

You can find some great deals on Carousell every now and then, but rarely do you get the chance to buy and own a national landmark or a famous politician. Over the past month, listings on Singaporean Carousell surfaced that appeared to sell iconic Singaporean landmarks and personalities for millions of dollars, including the Changi Airport for US$682 million (SGD900 million), the Singapore Flyer for US$37.9 million (SGD50 million), and […]

On January 4, 2021, China announced via its National Astronomical Observatories (NAO), that it would be opening up its Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) to scientists from abroad beginning April 1, 2021. Nicknamed "Sky Eye", FAST is the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world with a fixed 500m (640ft) diameter dish, and is now also the world's only giant telescope following the collapse of the Arecibo telescope in Puerto […]