Tech Talk

The Data Science Association or Persatuan Sains Data is the initiative of a group of senior academics and professionals from Malaysia and overseas. They share a common belief that data skills - the ability to extract data, to understand it, to process it, to obtain value from it, to visualise it and to communicate it - are essential skills in decision making processes in every area of human endeavour. We speak to 3 members of this association about their challenges in this sector, Dr Halimah Awang, Unni Kumaran Menon & Jon Tay.

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The geeks this week talk about australia's new social media law and billboard charts.

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The idea of wooden cars, homes, planes and skyscrapers used to be a Fred Flinstone fantasy. Now,with huge leaps in material technology, could wood be the miracle material of our future?

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The equity crowdfunding space in Malaysia is stepping up momentum with 7 players operating actively, Fundnel being the latest granted a license by Securities Commission Malaysia. Fundnel is a Singapore-base private investment platform that allows investors to discover private market opportunities in unlisted companies and secondary unicorn shares, the likes to Elon Musk's SpaceX. We speak to Sng Khai Lin, the Chief Financial Officer at Fundnel about their operations and business model.

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There is no question that AI is a game changer. Microsoft recently embarked on a study with IDC that showed AI will accelerate the rate of innovation to almost double and increase employee productivity improvement by 60% by the year 2021. That’s not too far away when you think of it. So, despite clear benefits, we are still far behind when embarking on our AI journey. Why? Dr Dzahar Mansor, the National Technology Officer at Microsoft Malaysia talks to us about this study and shares some insights.

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Google recently announced its cloud gaming services called Google Stadia. Does this spell doom for Sony and Microsoft? And should Facebook and social media platforms be held accountable for the content that's posted on their channels?

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Are you selling the dream or running a long con? How to sort the Silicon Valley spin from the outright lies.

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Earlier in February, a woman was brutally assaulted and robbed in a lift in an MRT station. The incident was caught on the CCTV system and went viral. But with the advent on technology, is there a better way to utilise video surveillance systems to protect citizen and improve our well-beings?

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There's a new movement in the tech space, the right to repair. As devices get more expensive and have a shorter lifespan, should we be allowed to repair these devices ourselves? Why do most manufacturers voids the warranty when you do a self-repair on something minor? The Geeks also talks about how simulation games like Sim City are the basis of most township planners around the world.

Is your technology working for you, or are you working for it? Why machines want us to prove that we are human.

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