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Can AI gain sentience?
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/06/2022
» Media coverage of artificial intelligence tends to invoke tired references to The Terminator or 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000 killing a spaceship’s passengers. Hollywood loves a story about a sentient robot destroying humanity to survive.
EU aims to require halving pesticide use
Bloomberg News, Published on 22/06/2022
» The European Union is sticking with a plan to halve the use of the pesticides by 2030 even as agriculture comes under pressure from shortages sparked by Russia’s tactics in its war against Ukraine.
China opens ‘Pandora’s Box’ of human genetic engineering
Bloomberg News, Published on 27/11/2018
» SINGAPORE: A Chinese researcher’s claim that he successfully modified the genes of human embryos may force the country to make a stark choice about the future of its burgeoning biotechnology industry — one with significant implications for an emerging technology arms race with the West.
Asian patients (finally) have their medicines
Bloomberg News, Published on 03/10/2018
» For decades, much of the pipeline of medical innovation has flowed from West to East. Now a string of companies are attempting to upend that trend with new drugs and products tailored to Asian bodies and lifestyles.
China's world tech domination begins in SE Asia
Bloomberg News, Published on 01/06/2017
» SINGAPORE -- Isaac Ho and several investors were watching a pitch from a cancer-detection start-up in Singapore when one of the Chinese billionaires present got up and -- without a word -- scrawled “Speed x Market Share” in Chinese characters on a whiteboard. It was a simple formula that meant: be first and be largest, no matter the cost. But that’s when Mr Ho understood how the Southeast Asian tech scene was about to change.
Samsung looks beyond the smartphone
Business, Bloomberg News, Published on 22/05/2017
» The Samsung brand is best known for its smartphones and wide-screen TVs. Yet behind the scenes, the conglomerate is also making a name as a contract manufacturer of complex medicines to treat diseases like cancer.
Singapore PM on medical leave after halted speech
Bloomberg News, Published on 22/08/2016
» SINGAPORE - Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is taking a week-long medical leave after he took ill during a nationally televised speech on Sunday evening, which was halted for about an hour before he returned to address the importance of succession planning.
Obama calls for noble politics in final State of the Union
Bloomberg News, Published on 13/01/2016
» WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama implored Americans to turn away from cynicism and fear, in a final State of the Union address that at times represented a rebuke of the bitter campaign to succeed him.
Sex shops, street bars survive government's graft crackdown
Bloomberg News, Published on 01/07/2015
» Fern’s cocktail bar appears each night on a sidewalk between a group of scantily-clad women from the next-door go-go bar and a noodle stall near one of Bangkok’s infamous red-light districts. By morning it has vanished.
Shanghai smog disrupts flights
Bloomberg News, Published on 06/12/2013
» A heavy fog engulfing Shanghai has caused flight cancellations at the city's international airport as air pollution reached the worst levels since government monitoring began.