A Transparency Tool Emerges From the Surveillance Backlash An independent editorial project called Have I Been Flocked? has launched a publicly accessible website that allows drivers to search whether their vehicle’s licence plate number appears in audit logs released from…
Every August, a familiar ritual plays out across Singapore’s middle-class households. The latest global university rankings drop, and with them comes the annual cascade of WhatsApp forwards, forum threads, and dinner-table negotiations between parents and their children about what a…
A Purchase Made in Good Faith Four years ago, a Google Play user paid a not-insignificant sum for the Lord of the Rings Extended Editions — three films, purchased outright, stored in a digital library they reasonably believed was theirs…
What is Orchid Sake Brewery, and why does it matter? Inside an industrial building in Jurong — one shared, without ceremony, with seafood suppliers — Singapore’s first and only sake brewery occupies a small, climate-controlled space that punches well above…
In 2020, Khatija Aslam walked out of a job interview convinced she had performed well. She had been headhunted, she had relevant experience, and she had been candid from the outset about returning from maternity leave with two children under…
A Director’s Brand as Commercial Infrastructure Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey grossed US$264.1 million (S$341.2 million) in worldwide ticket sales during its opening weekend, with US$124.5 million of that figure coming from North America alone, Universal Pictures confirmed on…
There is a number quietly buried in Netflix’s second-quarter shareholder letter that deserves more than a passing glance. Generative AI workflows, the company disclosed, have now been used in roughly 300 titles in 2026 alone — with the heaviest concentration…
Who decides what women ought to wear, whom they can love, or how many children they must have? Across political systems and historical periods, the answer has rarely been the women themselves. Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir Persepolis places that question…
The arrests of YouTuber Bachalakuri Joseph — known publicly as Prashna Ravan — and journalist K.V. Reddy in Andhra Pradesh represent more than isolated law enforcement actions; they illustrate a pattern in which the machinery of criminal procedure is deployed…
Publicis Strategy Chief Warns AI Boom Could Erase Women From Corporate Leadership As Publicis Groupe accelerates its artificial intelligence pivot — most recently through a $2.2 billion acquisition of LiveRamp — the group’s chief strategy officer, Carla Serrano, is sounding…
