Tech Talk

What’s in a name? As governments and regulators seek to rein in Big Tech, Facebook looks set to rebrand itself. As something altogether bigger.

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We’ve heard by now that AI is going to have a major impact on our lives in the future, but how exactly? It’ll be impacting our industries, our societies, enabling technology adoption, digital transformations and new customer experiences. For Malaysia, AI presents both an opportunity and a challenge. And the race is on for AI leadership in Southeast Asia. To learn more, we talk with Nikolai Dobberstein, Managing Partner Malaysia, APAC Head, Communications, Media & Technology at Kearney.

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As William Shatner becomes the oldest person to float in space, new research is changing the way we think about ageing and our metabolisms. Plus that skateboarding robot.

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Think about all the times that you connect to your streaming service, or you upload a document somewhere, or even when you log into one of your bank accounts - How do you think that data is accessed?

Would you be surprised to find out that a lot of that data is stored in ‘The Cloud?’ But what exactly do you know about Cloud Computing? How long has it been around, and where did it start? And how much of the world in which we live in now, is dependent on it?

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The invasion of the Terminators may look more like Elsa than Arnie. We peer inside Disney’s Imagineers division, marvel at Singapore robot police force, and take a look at Facebook’s unprecedented outage.

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While passwords were once one of our most trusted security measures, 90% of data breaches today are the result of poor or reused passwords. Even one-time passwords (OTPs) have been vulnerable, with bad actors hijacking these codes to make millions in fake credit card payments. Is it time for the wider industry to follow Microsoft’s lead, and look towards a passwordless future?

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Should we translate science for machines? Could a universal, machine readable language be the future of scientific thought? And, more importantly, how can makeup trick AI?

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The pandemic highlighted the explosion of computing needs driving the world today. Entire industries needed to pivot on a dime to survive. Consumers on lockdown in their homes drove surges in PC purchases to enable an entirely digital world of work, school and entertainment globally, and in Malaysia. We speak with Robin Martin, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Assembly Test Manufacturing, Managing Director of Intel Malaysia about Intel’s new manufacturing vision, and how this will impact the company and its customers.

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Health, education, income. What does the future hold for Generation Covid, as generational divides solidify into geographical and technological segregation?

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Facebook and Bain & Company launched a report that provides more insights into Southeast Asia’s digital boom and the future of e-commerce in the region. We catch up with Nicole and Gwendolyn to analyse some of the key highlights, and see what the future might have for the digital consumer in SE Asia.

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