With new online safety laws in place, resources should be directed to elevate the baseline community consciousness about online safety so that no users are left to their own defences when they encounter online harms. Prof Lim Sun Sun writes for the Straits Times in a monthly column on technology and society.

Dr Andrew Yee to lead research team in a $244,000 NIE Office of Education Research Funding Programme Tier 2 Study

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tech companies might have to be responsible for their algorithmic design and commercial decisions after landmark ruling on British teen’s death.

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.