Friday, April 26, 2019

Dear students: Our Semester is finished. So you don't have to post in this blog anymore. But those who have posted here thanks to them. Last word of mine: "TEACHERS OPEN THE DOOR BUTSTUDENTS MUST ENTER THE DOOR BY YOURSELF" Sharmina Zama...

Amazon Posts Record Profit of $3.6 Billion in 1Q 2019.

Amazon posted a record profit of $3.6 billion for the first quarter of 2019, amid revenue slowdown but booming cloud services growth. Amazon posted a record profit of $3.6 billion for the first quarter of 2019, powered by the rapid growth of its cloud services unit even as overall...

Thursday, April 25, 2019

How Do Investors Lose Money When the Stock Market Crashes?

Over the last 100 years, there have been several large stock market crashes that have plagued the American financial system. For example, during the great depression, stock prices dropped to 10% of their previous highs and during the crash of 1987, the market fell more than 20% in one day. Due to the way stocks are traded, investors can lose quite a bit of money if they don't understand...

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Why Hong Kongers, Malaysians are Confident Technology will Generate New Jobs

When asked how modern technology will impact the labour market, many say computers and robots will take over their jobs. Not Hong Kongers. They believe the technology will result in new vacancies. The Hong Kong chapter of the multinational human resource company Randstad’s latest report shows...

What Business Owners Need to Know About Protecting Their Data

With the recent rush toward enhancing consumer data protection due to GDPR and other privacy regulations that have taken effect, businesses have strengthened their platforms toward better protecting and securing user data. But is this enough? What do you need to know as a business owner, entrepreneur...

4 things we’ll learn from the first closeup image of a black hole.

What does a black hole really look like? Black holes live up to their names: The great gravitational beasts emit no light in any part of the electromagnetic spectrum, so they themselves don’t look like much. But astronomers know the objects are there because of a black hole’s...

UBTECH Robotics Gets US$820 Million Funding; Becomes the World’s Most Valuable AI Startup

Chinese AI and humanoid robotic company UBTECH Robotics today announced a staggering US$820 million in Series C funding. With its new estimated value of US$5 billion, Shenzhen City based UBTECH becomes the world’s most valuable AI startup. Internet giant Tencent led the funding with a US$120 million...

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Meet Katie Bouman, woman behind first black hole photo

“3 years ago Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) grad student Katie Bouman led the creation of a new algorithm to produce the first-ever image of a black hole,” MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab tweeted. Now, that image has been released. (New York Post) #WomenInSTEM This...

Monday, April 22, 2019

The Old Farmers Almanac

The Old Farmer’s Almanac is North America's #1 Almanac—the biggest, best-selling periodical, as well as the oldest almanac—published since George Washington's time as president. As other almanacs come and go, The Old Farmer's Almanac remains as the esteemed tome valued by generations. "A calendar...

Sunday, April 21, 2019

Startup in the Age of Robots and AI

There's been a lot of buzz lately about the threat to our way of economic life from robots and artificial intelligence. Many see major problems, and the fears they express tend to draw attention. Tesla founder Elon Musk, for instance, made headlines predicting the end of the world in what resembled...

Saturday, April 20, 2019

ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN SOFTWARE INDUSTRY

What is enterpreneurship? Entrepreneurship is the act of creating a business or businesses while building and scaling it to generate a profit. However, a bas asic entrepreneurship definition, it’s a bit limiting. The more modern entrepreneurship definition is also about transforming the world...