For much of the past decade, autonomous driving has been a story of bold promises followed by hard resets. Robotaxis were meant to flood cities by now. Instead, the industry has learned that driving without a human behind the wheel is not one problem, but thousands of edge cases stitched together: pedestrians who cross unpredictably, […] The post Autonomous A2Z bets on driverless shuttles as self-driving technology gets practical appeared first on e27.

This week at Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg held up something that looked like a toy. The Muse Charm is a keychain-sized gadget with a little animated avatar on its screen. You press it, talk to it, and your Muse agent gets to work. Meta says it will ship by December. The Muse agent behind it […] The post Zuckerberg’s Muse Charm doesn’t care about your ad budget appeared first on e27.

Bitcoin is down 1.05 per cent to US$83,491.07 in 24 hours. The total crypto market has fallen 1.49 per cent to US$2.86 trillion. My view is that this decline is not one single story. It is a two-part selloff in which a major security breach and a broader macroeconomic risk-off shift have collided. The Bitget […] The post Can Bitcoin hold US$82,000? Inside the security fear and macro storm appeared first on e27.

When foreign technology companies first speak to me about Singapore, the conversation usually starts with one of three things: customers, talent or tax. Government funding often comes much later. That surprises me because Singapore has a sizeable ecosystem of grants, tax incentives and investment support available to companies building substantive operations here. But there is […] The post What I have learned watching foreign tech companies build in Singapore appeared first on e27.

The planet has already passed 1.5°C of warming against pre-industrial levels, or it’s very near. This isn’t fiction or a scam; it’s science and it’s existential. The 1.5°C target was set at the 2015 Paris Agreement after intense pressure from vulnerable island nations. It was meant to head off irreversible tipping points like catastrophic sea-level […] The post Passing 1.5°C global warming: Performative ESG is no longer acceptable appeared first on e27.

For much of the past three years, the politics of artificial intelligence (AI) has revolved around relatively familiar questions. Will AI take jobs? Who owns the copyright to the material on which models are trained? Can companies protect personal data? And who should be responsible when an algorithm causes harm? Britain’s latest AI debate suggests […] The post AI governance is moving from promises to proof appeared first on e27.

A Thai man who zipped a jet ski across flooded Bangkok streets received a suspended jail sentence on Monday for causing a public nuisance after he used the capital – where tens of thousands of households remain submerged – as a backdrop for social media content. The stunt, widely shared on social media on Sunday evening, became a conduit for public anger over both the handling of the flood response and how climate calamities are experienced unevenly in the capital of one of Asia’s least equal...

Migrant rights advocates have hailed the release of Filipino trafficking victim Mary Jane Veloso after 16 years in detention as a victorious milestone, but warn that her case exposes the dangers that still confront many vulnerable workers overseas. After coming harrowingly close to being executed years ago in Indonesia, Veloso walked free on Friday night from the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong City, grateful for the absolute pardon granted by Philippine President Ferdinand...

Boost has secured a US$20 million equity investment from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), bringing the World Bank Group’s private-sector investment arm onto its cap table as the Malaysian fintech looks to deepen its digital lending and financial services business. The deal gives Boost a development finance institution as a strategic shareholder at a time […] The post IFC joins Boost’s cap table with US$20M bet on digital lending appeared first on e27.

Nine months ago, Thailand unveiled its first national semiconductor roadmap, a 25-year plan to graduate from backend electronics work to high-value chipmaking. This month, Bangkok approved its first national semiconductor and advanced electronics strategy, again. The headline number has grown, though: roughly US$80 billion in cumulative investment and more than 230,000 new jobs by 2050. […] The post Thailand targets US$80B semiconductor push as it moves beyond assembly appeared first on e27.