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  Manipulating populations is very easy

  Life, James Hein, Published on 25/10/2023

  » Have you ever heard of the term SEME, or Search Engine Manipulation Effect? The term was coined back in 2014 by the psychologist Robert Epstein, in his paper "The Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME) And Its Possible Impact On The Outcomes Of Elections".

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  Video the next AI frontier

  Published on 07/04/2023

  » Ian Sansavera, a software architect at a New York startup called Runway AI, typed a short description of what he wanted to see in a video. “A tranquil river in the forest,” he wrote.

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  The smart city

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 03/02/2016

  » Aside from being a tourist attraction, Phuket has also been recognised as a smart city, home to a digital industry and an international research and innovation centre.

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  Spanish woman fined 800 euros for photo of police car

  AFP, Published on 20/08/2015

  » MADRID - A Spanish woman has been fined 800 euros ($885) under a controversial new public security law for posting online a photo of a police car parked in a disabled parking space, police said Wednesday.

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  Sticking the world together

  Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 09/09/2014

  » Eighteen billion stickers are sent through Line every day. The emotions they carry with them however, are boundlessly immeasurable. This green-iconed chatting application has changed the way we communicate, merely through its infectious selection of cheeky rabbits and poker-faced bears. 

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  Phablet Face-Off

  Life, Sithikorn Wongwudthianun, Published on 06/11/2013

  » Phablets are all the rage. While Samsung is up to its third generation with the Galaxy Note 3, Sony takes on the idea with the Xperia Z Ultra. Which one will take the crown for the best?

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  Google opens first Asia data centres to cope with demand

  AFP, Published on 11/12/2013

  » US search engine giant Google Wednesday opened its first data centres in Asia to cater for soaring demand, and said it would double its planned investment in the Taiwan facility to $600 million.

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  Hi-Tech plans new industrial estate for B1bn

  Business, Pathom Sangwongwanich, Published on 07/06/2013

  » Hi-Tech Industrial Park plans a new industrial estate in the eastern province of Prachin Buri at a cost of nearly 1 billion baht to serve as a manufacturing hub for the integrated Southeast Asian market.

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  Dutch architect to build house with 3D printer

  AFP, Published on 23/01/2013

  » A Dutch architect has designed a house "with no beginning or end" to be built using the world's largest 3D printer, harnessing technology that may one day be used to print houses on the moon.

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  A flood of ideas

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 21/11/2012

  » Crisis can always be turned into opportunity. Saying this, Thailand has experienced no greater crisis in recent times than last year's flood. Grave as the damage was, it did inspire and motivate a group of second year students from King Mongkut University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) to develop Flood Finder, a mobile application that helps users report flood conditions and stay informed of water levels.

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