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Razer to hire 150 people for new Singapore AI Center of Excellence
Gaming company Razer is seeking to fill 150 artificial intelligence (AI)-related roles to work at its new AI Center of Excellence, it announced on Monday (Aug 4). These employees – known…
Tesla approves 96 million share award to CEO Elon Musk
Tesla has granted CEO Elon Musk 96 million shares worth about US$29 billion, a move aimed at keeping the billionaire entrepreneur at the helm as he fights a court ruling that…
Tesla approves share award worth US$29 billion to CEO Elon Musk
Tesla has granted CEO Elon Musk shares worth about US$29 billion, in a new pay deal aimed at keeping the billionaire entrepreneur at the helm during a crucial pivot from its struggling…
What a concussion taught me about leading through a crisis
A serious concussion four years ago made me more susceptible to future head injuries. Sure enough, a simple bump this winter left me in a months-long funk. My neurologist explained that my…
LevelK Boards Oscar Winner Mike Van Diem’s ‘Our Girls’ (EXCLUSIVE)
LevelK has boarded international sales for Oscar-winning director Mike van Diem’s upcoming Dutch feature film “Our Girls,” currently in post-production. Van Diem’s debut feature film…
Singapore shares bounce back after 6-day losing streak; STI up 1%
Stocks on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) rebounded on Monday (Aug 4), snapping a six-day losing streak, even as Asian indices closed mixed. The local market had fallen for six straight…
CapitaLand Ascendas Reit posts 0.6% drop in H1 DPU to 7.477 Singapore cents
H1 revenue down 2% at S$754.8 million, mainly due to divestment of five properties INDUSTRIAL property player CapitaLand Ascendas Reit’s (Clar) distribution per unit (DPU) fell 0.6 per…
There Is More to French Opera Than “Carmen” and “Faust”
Virginia Woolf, in her essay “The Lives of the Obscure,” savors the potential fascination of reading authors whom posterity has cast aside: “One likes romantically to feel oneself a…
The Iranian Revolution Almost Didn’t Happen
Strange to think, but there was a time when the United States’ most steadfast ally in the Middle East was Iran. In 1953, the C.I.A. had backed a coup that ousted Mohammad Mossadegh, the…
The Media’s Urge to Be “Fair” to Trump Is Killing the Republic
Uh, no. Here are a few facts and figures, none of which appear in the article. Federal revenue from all sources in recent years has been around $4.7 trillion (it varies from year to year…
Amy Sherald’s “Trans Forming Liberty”
The cover of the August 11, 2025, issue, by the artist Amy Sherald, is a portrait of the trans model and performance artist Arewà Basit. The art work is featured in Sherald’s show…
How the Poet James Schuyler Wrung Sense from Sensibility
The American poet James Schuyler composed his first significant poem during a nine-week stay at the Payne Whitney Westchester psychiatric clinic, in White Plains, New York, in late 1951.…
Fighting Wildfires Is Hellish Work. It’s Even Worse Under Trump.
The administration’s claims about being well-equipped to fight fires are selective, at best. Of the estimated 4,000 U.S. Forest Service employees believed to have taken the so-called…
When Did Republican Women Get to Be So Vile as These Four?
On the main stage, Attorney General Pam Bondi has proven a singularly dutiful and hollow-eyed Trump soldier. (For Manson Family obsessives, she’s probably closest to Lynette “Squeaky”…
A History of Abortion Undergrounds—and a Guide to Starting One
Here’s what one interaction, quoted in Vessel, a documentary about Women on Waves and Women on Web, looks like: MAY 27, 7:20PM Dear Women on Web, I retrieved the pills from the post in…
Natasha Richardson’s Sister Has Acknowledged Liam Neeson And Pamela Anderson’s Romance
Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson Get Nod From Natasha Richardson’s Sister Then, at the New York premiere of the movie, the stars were joined by their respective sons and posed on the red…
A dazzling new film shows the devastating reality of building with concrete
Watching the side of a mountain get blown to bits in the new documentary Architecton, the shock is not just from the explosion but also from the quotidian end result of such brutal force.…
Naomie Harris to Narrate ‘Swim Sistas’ Doc Exploring Connection Between Black Women and Swimming (EXCLUSIVE)
Naomie Harris has been set as the narrator for a “Swim Sistas,” a new documentary celebrating Black women’s relationship with swimming. Directed by filmmaker, actor and author Catherine…
Song Young-kyu, Korean Star of ‘Extreme Job,’ Dies at 55
South Korean actor Song Young-kyu, known internationally for his memorable turn as Chief Choi in the 2019 box office hit “Extreme Job,” died on Aug. 4. He was 55. Song was found…
Korea Box Office: ‘My Daughter Is a Zombie’ Dominates, ‘F1’ Holds Second
South Korean fantasy comedy “My Daughter Is a Zombie” dominated the Korean box office over the Aug. 1–3 weekend, earning $8.3 million from 1.17 million admissions. According to KOBIS, the…
GIC takes 25% stake in Spain’s broadband venture
Sovereign wealth fund GIC will take a 25 per cent stake in a fibre optic broadband venture between MasOrange, partly owned by France’s Orange, and Vodafone Spain, which is owned by…
China Box Office: ‘Dead to Rights’ Holds at No. 1 as Animated ‘Nobody’ Debuts in Second
China’s box office remained dominated by local-language releases during the Aug. 1–3 weekend. All five of the top-charting titles were domestic productions. “Dead to Rights,” distributed…