When Singapore’s offices emptied out in 2020, flexible work was sold as the cure for an overworked city. Employees would get their commutes back, set their own hours and finally see their families at dinner. Six years on, the cure appears to have come with side effects. According to the Jobstreet by SEEK Singapore Workplace […] The post Work from anywhere, work all the time: Inside Singapore’s flexibility paradox appeared first on e27.

The cost of sequencing a human genome fell from about US$95 million in 2001 to about US$500 by 2022, according to the US National Human Genome Research Institute. Biology became a data business almost overnight. The ability to make sense of that data did not keep pace. Most laboratories now generate more sequencing, imaging and […] The post Vietnamese-founded Drylab raises US$3M to put autonomous AI scientists inside pharma labs appeared first on e27.

The cryptocurrency market is going through a difficult stretch. In my view, this selloff is not a story about broken technology or failed projects. It is a story about how tightly digital assets now track the mood of traditional finance. Bitcoin has fallen 2.49 per cent to US$81,755.72 in 24 hours. That move underperforms a […] The post Could a hot inflation print send Bitcoin and Ethereum into freefall? appeared first on e27.

Your organisation buys human intelligence by the hour and machine intelligence by the million tokens. Only one of those prices is falling fast, and most management systems, from the timesheet to the pricing model, are still built around the other. I have spent my career applying technology to improve productivity and offset inflationary costs, and […] The post What is work worth when thought is metered? appeared first on e27.

Lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries have an awkward reputation among recyclers: they are everywhere, and they are worth very little once they die. Unlike the nickel- and cobalt-rich chemistries that recyclers have chased for a decade, a spent LFP cell offers no precious-metal jackpot. It holds lithium, iron and phosphate, and two of those are […] The post NEU Battery Materials bags US$7.6M to mine lithium from the world’s least-loved battery appeared first on e27.

“Social impact” is one of the most overused phrases in a Southeast Asian pitch deck. Founders apply the label to themselves, and in a funding winter it gets stretched to cover almost anything with a farmer, a recycling bin or an “underserved” customer in the slide. So we went looking for startups that do more […] The post Social impact is easy to pitch and hard to prove: 17 SEA startups taking the harder route appeared first on e27.

It was a detour that saved his life. Malaysian Low Hock Meng, a 71-year-old veteran trekker, had set off on his own in Nepal. He wanted to explore the Tamang trail, Langtang Valley and Gosaikunda. Along his journey, he made the decision to visit the Nagathali viewpoint for a glimpse of Tibet on August 25. Low then made his way down towards Thuman en route to Lingling in Nepal’s Bagmati province on August 26. That is when he realised that something was seriously wrong. When he looked at Syapru...

The most important change in US-China trade this year is not another tariff headline. It is the emergence of a more managed, transactional relationship between the world’s two largest economies. President Donald Trump’s May state visit to Beijing produced exactly that kind of arrangement. Washington and Beijing established new Boards of Trade and Investment, China […] The post US-China trade is entering an era of managed rivalry. Southeast Asian businesses should prepare for it appeared first on e27.

A company can have hundreds of employees using ChatGPT, Copilot, or other AI tools every day, and still not be an AI-ready organisation. This may sound contradictory, but it is becoming increasingly common. Employees are experimenting with AI. Teams are building copilots. Companies are running pilots. Some are even putting AI into production. Yet ask […] The post Everyone is talking about AI adoption. But are enterprises actually ready for it? appeared first on e27.