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Is S’pore built differently enough to avoid a crowd crush situation?
Assistant Professor Jeffrey Chan (Design and Artificial Intelligence / Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) said increased human density during the street party in South Korea was “far beyond what is considered safe” and the sloped, narrow street exacerbated the risk of the accident. To address this in Singapore, there are stipulated minimum widths for pedestrian pathways.
Digital for 100: Harnessing technology for longer lifespans
The Economist published a white paper on harnessing technology for longer lifespans, which includes expert inputs from Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Prof Lim Sun Sun.
Singapore’s politicians are strangely popular on TikTok
Welcome to the land where media laws and youthful optimism have made TikTok a bubble of positivity.
WhatsApp crash: Users advised to have alternative chat apps in case of future outages
Users of messaging apps should have an alternative chat service on standby because the global WhatsApp outage on Tuesday has shown that it will not be the last of such incidents as more services digitalise, said cybersecurity experts.
Defining A Better AI Future For All
Artificial intelligence is everywhere, but it also needs to be ethical. For some, the path towards ethical AI starts with how we talk about it.
TechTalks: Why we should introduce speed bumps in our use of technology
Having the discipline to manage one’s screen time is a boring, but important, endeavour. Prof Lim Sun Sun writes for the Straits Times in a monthly column on technology and society.
The Big Read: Is society becoming less informed as social media platforms shun hard news?
In what has been dubbed as the “TikTokification” of social media, platforms are for example deprioritising news and more serious content on users’ feeds, which observers say will have ramifications for the news media and the proper functioning of society.
I watched a metaverse concert and this is what it was like
There was a “DJ” on a large, illuminated stage playing a remix of Coldplay’s hit A Sky Full of Stars, and there were dozens of “people” dancing to the beat.
Digital tools may be the key to longer life
1 in 2 are confident they will be able to live to 100