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Healthcare is a long game For most Singaporeans, Raffles Medical is a familiar name. The healthcare group has built a reputation as one of Singapore’s most established private medical providers. But behind the scenes, the company has spent the last decade chasing a much bigger ambition. Rather than remaining a Singapore-focused healthcare operator, Raffles Medical wanted to become a regional healthcare brand—one with hospitals and clinics stretching across Asia. It was a bold strategy. And an expensive one. In 2016, the group announced plans to pour around S$600 million into expanding overseas, building hospitals and clinics overseas with China as…
Amazon Web Services Inc. is no longer accepting new customers for its decades-old Mechanical Turk service, in what is likely a death knell for the pioneering crowdsourcing marketplace. Launched in 2005, Mechanical Turk predates Amazon’s public cloud infrastructure business by a year. It serves as a crowdsourcing marketplace where users can post gigs that others can bid on to complete for them – tasks such as completing CAPTCHA challenges or identifying the sentiment in a sentence, which cannot easily be automated any other way. Mechanical Turk’s name references an 18th century chess machine which was claimed to be fully automated,…
Swati KhandelwalJul 06, 2026Cyber Espionage / Endpoint Security Researchers at Shandong University have shown a fast new way to pull data off computers that are cut off from every network. The technique, called TrojPix, tweaks on-screen pixels in ways the eye cannot see, so that the video cable carrying them radiates a faint radio signal a nearby receiver can decode. But TrojPix works only once malware is already on the target machine, so it is a way for stolen data to get out, not a way in. In the researchers’ tests, TrojPix hit a peak throughput of 8.1 Mbps and reached as far…
Google’s NotebookLM now generates cinematic explainer videos from your documents, turning dense research into short, fully animated documentaries in minutes. Google just fundamentally changed how we synthesize information. With the new “Cinematic Video Overviews” feature in NotebookLM, Google effectively kills the boring slide deck. The tool takes your uploaded PDFs, Google Docs, meeting notes, or research papers and transforms them into fully animated, narrated explainer videos. It doesn’t just slap a voiceover onto static bullet points; it uses a multi-model AI stack- Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Veo 3- to script, illustrate, and animate a short, documentary-style film based…
The UWORLD U1 humanoid robot at its launch event in Shenzhen, China, on June 30. (UBTech Photo) On Tuesday in Shenzhen, the Chinese company UBTech unveiled the U1, a full-sized humanoid robot with silicone skin, blinking lashes, manicured nails, and an AI tuned to read your mood. It comes in male and female versions, and racked up more than 13,000 orders by the end of launch day, with deliveries beginning in September. “It will never betray you, will always be loyal to you, and will love you unconditionally,” promised Michael Tam, the executive running UBTech’s consumer brand. The sci-fi TV series…
I’m an avid YouTube Shorts viewer. Don’t get me wrong — I’m not proud of it. But the doomscrolling habit has firmly taken hold, and at this point, I’m not sure there’s any way out. That said, spending this much time on Shorts has also made me notice the little things that get in the way. I’ve never liked the dislike button or the bottom bar constantly popping up while I’m trying to watch videos. It’s an annoyance that adds up when you’re endlessly scrolling. Thankfully, that’s changed — and for the better. YouTube has introduced a couple of new…
Hi readers! Shayla Love here, science journalist and longtime fan of Your Mileage May Vary. I’m honored to be subbing for Sigal while she’s out on parental leave. I’m diving into your questions as a way to help understand human nature and our choices through multiple lenses: philosophical, psychological, and beyond. Please send in any emotional, body/brain, sociological, perceptual, or other kind of life quandaries you might have.Being online is extremely stressful and unpleasant, and on days I don’t use Twitter, or Bluesky, or any other social media, I typically feel much better mentally — less stressed about the posts…
Compare 7 Top Wi-Fi RoutersOther Wi-Fi 7 Routers I Tested and LikedI have tested many other models and have several more in the queue. These aren’t as great as the picks above, but they are worth considering.Photograph: Simon HillTP-Link Archer BE6500 (GE400) for $200: This dual-band Wi-Fi 7 gaming router is a solid performer. At close range on the 5-GHz band, it can go toe-to-toe with most of the devices on this list. It also offers dedicated gaming features, though some of them require subscriptions. I was disappointed by the limited range, and the comparable TP-Link BE6500 (BE400) is currently…
Security firm runZero has disclosed seven vulnerabilities in FatFs, a small filesystem library that lets a device read and write the FAT and exFAT formats used on USB drives and SD cards. The flaws matter because FatFs is nearly everywhere. It ships inside the firmware that runs security cameras, drones, industrial controllers, hardware crypto wallets, and other devices built on real-time operating systems. On the worst-affected systems, an attacker who gets a booby-trapped USB drive, SD card, or update file onto a device can corrupt its memory and run their own code. Many embedded devices lack the memory protections found on phones and…
It’s good to know how long your phone will get updates before you purchase. dee karen/Shutterstock Picture this: it’s sale season and you’re browsing for a new phone. You spot one with decent specs that fits your budget, a win right now with prices on literally everything going up. You buy it feeling like you got a bargain, but months later you realize that you’ll actually have to get a replacement sooner rather than later because the manufacturer is pulling the plug on its software support. Unsurprisingly, older phone models are often the ones you’ll find…