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The startup that wants to fix everything you hate about video calls
In summer 2020, former Evernote CEO Phil Libin launched Mmhmm, a software tool designed to make video presentations look polished, even if the presenter was calling in from a COVID-era…
Google Cloud and Digital Industry Singapore launch programme to spearhead AI development among companies
Digitally-mature companies keen on doing more in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) will now have the opportunity to tap a new programme. The AI Cloud Take-Off Programme launched on…
The House Drew the Line on Green Cronyism — the Senate Better Not Cross It
The Senate must treat the House-passed repeal of green energy subsidies as the new floor for tax negotiations, not a ceiling. Source link
The Oprah-Approved Mama Rose Is an Angry Narcissist
Gypsy’s famous stage mother, played by shrieking Audra McDonald, is racialized in Broadway’s latest instance of gaslighting. Source link
The New Massive Resistance
Violent mobs have no legitimate part to play in our democratic republic, not in Oxford, Miss., in 1962, not in Los Angeles, Calif., in 2025. Source link
Congress Should Update Trump’s International Tax Relief
As the Senate considers the House’s tax bill, it should remember that international changes to the tax code in 2017 were also helpful for economic growth. Source link
Law firms have a new way to attract clients and talent: Stand up to Trump
Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. Elite law firms like Paul Weiss and Jenner & Block may not advertise in traditional…
Maybank downgrades Thai retail sector on weak sales, consumption
Maybank Investment Bank has downgraded Thailand’s retail sector to “neutral” amid weak consumption and falling same store sales growth (SSSG). The bank’s analyst, Suttatip Peerasub, added…
Emirates to hire 5,000 cabin crew amid expansion drive
Dubai’s Emirates airline is looking to hire 5,000 new cabin crew globally this year, with a recruitment roadshow set in Singapore next week, as the group embarks on fleet expansion plans.…
How Trump’s Obsession With Weight Explains His Misrule
When President Donald Trump addressed Army troops June 10 at Fort Bragg, his audience was screened for political leanings and physical appearance. “No fat soldiers,” read one unit-level…
“Materialists” Is a Feast of Talking Pictures
Words are actions, as anyone who’s ever been told “I do” or “You’re fired” knows. Yet, after nearly a century of talking pictures, most directors fail to depict talk as vigorously or…
Diane Arbus and the Too-Revealing Detail
A photographer’s legacy, though, is not like a painter’s: Arbus didn’t leave signed prints hanging around, like canvases drying in a storeroom. Instead, faced with more than seven thousand…
Do Androids Dream of Anything at All?
Although the literature of automatism has existed in one mold or another since the late Middle Ages—with sixteenth-century folktales about a golem made of clay and summoned to life,…
The Lost Dances of Paul Taylor
If a dance isn’t performed for a long time, it starts to disappear. People’s memories of it fade, and videos can be confusing—choreographers’ notes, even more so. In short, reconstructing…
Ranked-Choice Voting in NYC Faces Its Make-or-Break Moment
“We are seeing more mayoral candidates talk about ranked-choice voting earlier,” she said. “It’s more of a dialog with the voters. It also means the candidates themselves reach out and…
Jean Smart and John Krasinski Go It Alone, on Broadway and Off
This has been the season of the star. For months now, possibly because the film and television industries spent 2024 in disarray, New York theatre has been a kind of buffet of mostly male…
David Plunkert’s “On Parade”
Nearly five months into Donald Trump’s second term, he is not only increasingly turning America into an autocracy with his endless stream of abuses of executive power but also squandering…
What Trump Missed at the Kennedy Center Production of “Les Mis”
On Wednesday evening, when the new Czar of All the Arts, Donald Trump, went to see “Les Misérables”—which is, we are told, along with “Cats,” and “Evita,” a favored musical of his—at the…
Celine Song’s “Materialists” Tries to Subvert the Rom-Com
In Lucy’s line of work, everything begins with the quantitative. Client lists of nonnegotiables read like a barrage of demographic data, familiar to anyone who has ever used a dating app:…
Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity’s future
While there’s a sprawling patchwork of ideas and philosophies powering these visions, three features play a central role, says Adam Becker, a science writer and astrophysicist: an…
Singapore shares fall on Friday amid Middle East tensions; STI down 0.3%
Dip mirrors loss in global equity markets on fears Israel’s strikes on Iran could stoke wider regional conflict Local stocks ended lower on Friday (Jun 13), in line with losses in global…
Novo Nordisk overtakes SAP as Europe’s most valuable company
Novo Nordisk reclaimed its position as Europe’s most valuable public company, overtaking software developer SAP. Shares in the Danish drugmaker climbed as much as 2.3 per cent on…
Can You Guess The Shah Rukh Khan Film From Just A Close-Up Of His Eyes?
Can You Guess The Shah Rukh Khan Film From Just A Close-Up Of His Eyes? Shah Rukh Khan's eyes are the only reason I believe in love. From sadness to passion, from anger to betrayal—there's…