A stock’s softness does not automatically indicate deterioration. It can occasionally be interpreted as maturity. Despite a 10% decline in quarterly profits, DBS Group Holdings is only a hair away from its 52-week high of S$60 as of February 2026, trading at S$58.30. This serves as a reminder that stance is just as important to markets as performance. Due in large part to worldwide tax reforms and interest rate recalibrations, the bank’s Q4 results surprised some with a decline in net interest income and a higher tax bill. If you dig a little deeper, though, you’ll discover that an organization…
Author: errica
At the age of twelve, he landed in Hong Kong with a blanket and the kind of hunger that only exiles can experience. Jimmy Lai would eventually become a billionaire. After folding clothes for a while, he decided to reveal the truth. He became wealthy from the manufacturing and dangerous from the press. Few newspapers dared to directly challenge Beijing’s authority in the mid-1990s. Every day, Apple Daily did it. It yelled, chastised, and revealed. Jimmy Lai managed it like a cause but designed it like a business. His remarkably thoughtful decision brought him not just notoriety but also unavoidable…
Some ideas start with a kitchen gadget and an obstinate engineer, while others are the result of inspiration or frustration. According to a new UN report, low-cost concepts are finally being scaled into global solutions in the quiet but resolute revolution in ocean plastic recycling. Adam Root disassembled a washing machine in a small UK garage to see if it could be altered to capture plastic fibers. He created a prototype with just £250 from the Prince’s Trust, which later evolved into Matter, a business that provides microplastic-catching filters to homes and businesses in Europe, the US, and Asia. He…
In Patagonia, the wind doesn’t just blow by; it sculpts. It changes decisions, molds the air, and, more recently, has begun to change the way tourism operates. Tucked away in this expanse of steppe and water, Patagonia Azul has become Latin America’s first officially recognized carbon-neutral tourism destination. The initiative may initially seem idealistic. However, the wide vistas conceal very effective systems that cooperate. Diesel is supplanted by renewable energy. Motorized fishing fleets used to dominate marine reserves, but now electric boats glide through them. Rewilded animals are now a part of the carbon accounting system and the natural balance.…
With the exception of the faint murmur of inquiry, the classroom was abnormally quiet. Sitting in front of a tablet that showed animated shapes were a group of nine-year-olds. “Can the robot sense my emotions?” one of them inquired, leaning in. It was a real question, not one that was pre-written. This is how AI education is now being taught in Chile. Launching its national artificial intelligence curriculum at the primary level is a bold move for Chile. In addition to their main topics, children as young as six will begin studying the ethics and workings of artificial intelligence in…
On a Tuesday afternoon at Shibuya Station, a woman with slate-colored earbuds used just smiles, nods, and quiet Japanese to guide a French couple to their hotel. Within two seconds of hearing what she was saying, the earbuds translated it and whispered it back in French. Gratitude made the travelers grin. Her pace scarcely slowed as she left. Previously uncomfortable and occasionally unachievable, this type of moment has remarkably resembled using a turn signal. Gentle, thoughtful, and intelligible to everybody. The earbuds were developed by a small business in Tokyo with the audacious yet subtly significant goal of facilitating language-neutral…
Recently, German researchers have made progress in tracing the real electrical, chemical, and physical processes that make up memory in the human brain, all under the direction of calm perseverance. Their research goes beyond simply explaining how we may recall a phone number or a face. It alludes to a bigger picture: how we write our own narrative. The entorhinal cortex, a region whose function has frequently been disregarded, and the hippocampus, long seen as the gatekeeper of memory, are at the heart of the study. Through the use of highly sensitive tracking techniques and sophisticated imaging instruments, the researchers…
When I first saw a teenager using a tablet to control a robot across a shiny classroom floor, I was struck by how drastically different education had changed since I was their age. Giving kids who are just starting to see their future access to actual automation technologies has a subtly revolutionary effect. Schools all throughout Australia are now getting funding to help them do that. High schools are implementing robotics apprenticeships aimed at igniting STEM curiosity and expanding long-term opportunities, thanks to more than 130 grants awarded countrywide, which range from modest injections of $1,500 to more substantial funding…
There’s a certain quietness about lunar news. Not intergalactic stillness, but something more subdued, more human. Instead of roaring cheers, the response to SpaceX’s announcement that its first civilian lunar orbital trip will aim for 2027 was more subdued: astonishment balanced with realism. The Moon, which is frequently viewed as a stepping stone, may finally be worthy of being a destination, according to Elon Musk’s business, after years of lofty goals ranging from spacewalk selfies to Mars colonization. The change in tone sounded remarkably like a seaward course correction. SpaceX, which was previously laser-focused on Mars, has changed course to…
“Trustworthy AI” was more of a marketing slogan than a legal need a few years ago. However, starting in 2025, it will take on a much more concrete form: a planned, financed, and progressively anticipated necessity throughout Europe’s technology industry. A deliberate attempt has been made by the European Commission’s Horizon and Digital Europe projects to incorporate ethics into AI, not just as a theoretical concept but also as a practical requirement. The CERTAIN project, a pan-European program that is subtly changing the standards for how AI is developed, tested, and trusted, is at the center of this change. CERTAIN,…