The world’s oldest cave paintings on the Indonesian island ⁠of Sulawesi are under threat ⁠as heat and smoke from the ⁠country’s worst wildfires in more than a decade risk accelerating the deterioration of the more than 67,000-year-old works of art, according to researchers. Indonesia is battling its most intense forest and land fires since 2015 as a severe El Nino drives up temperatures and reduces ‌rainfall, leaving its forest and peatland vulnerable to fire. While the islands of Sumatra and...

Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission has blocked Delivery Hero’s sale of foodpanda Taiwan to Grab, scuttling a US$600 million all-cash deal agreed in March. The regulator said the remedies on offer could not offset the harm to competition. The sticking point is Uber. The US company holds about 13.1% of Grab, a legacy of their 2018 regional deal, […] The post Ecosystem Roundup: Taiwan blocks Grab’s US$600M foodpanda deal over Uber’s stake appeared first on e27.

Southeast Asia does not have a shortage of AI pilots. It has a shortage of AI pilots that ever leave the lab. A recent regional survey found that 57 per cent of SEA firms can’t scale their AI pilots, a stretch of corporate limbo now known in industry jargon as the “frozen middle”. Red Hat, […] The post Red Hat opens Singapore AI centre to pull enterprises out of pilot purgatory appeared first on e27.

Embattled Negeri Sembilan chief minister Ismail Lasim has denied claims that he has resigned, as a constitutional crisis in the Malaysian state spiralled further following a move by his executive council to challenge their sacking by the state’s ruler in court. The state has been all but paralysed by a dispute that began in April over who has the right to sit on Negeri Sembilan’s throne, bringing down a state government aligned with Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s ruling Pakatan Harapan (PH)...

The digital asset sector faces heavy selling pressure this week as Bitcoin drops 3.20 per cent to US$81,385.04. This downward movement closely tracks a 3.15 per cent decline in the total cryptocurrency capitalisation, which now sits at US$2.72 trillion. I view this current price action as a complex interplay of internal mechanics and external macro […] The post Bitcoin rejected US$84,000 and forced US$79,060,000 in long positions out appeared first on e27.

I’ve been running The Wellness Insider since 2016, and over the years, there have been countless occasions when I’ve looked at my website and thought, “I wish I could change that easily.” Sometimes, it was something relatively minor, such as the spacing between menu items or the way an image appeared on a page. Other […] The post I used AI to rebuild my websites without knowing how to code appeared first on e27.