Author’s Blurb: I haven’t been to a mall since March 18, and I do miss it a little. I used to go to the mall at least once a month with friends, whether it was for hotpot or a movie. With the pandemic, mall culture has changed, though I’ve yet …
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Today we welcome guest author Dr. Ronesh Sinha, internal medicine physician and expert on insulin resistance and corporate wellness, author of The South Asian Health Solution. He is a top rated speaker for companies like Google, Oracle, Cisco and more. Check out his media page for lectures, interviews and articles from …
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In the history of medicine, rarely has a vaccine been developed in less than five years. Among the fastest to be developed was the current mumps vaccine, which was isolated from the throat washings of a child named Jeryl Lynn in 1963. Over the next months, the virus was systematically …
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Alongside the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), IBM announced in March that it would help coordinate an effort to provide hundreds of petaflops of compute to scientists researching the coronavirus. As part of the newly launched COVID-19 High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium, IBM pledged to assist in …
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Singapore’s ‘circuit breaker’ measures officially ended on June 2 and we are slowly gearing up for Phase 2, which is expected to start before the end of this month. In Phase 2, retail shops and consumer services will be allowed to operate — which also means malls will finally reopen …
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The Smart Nation and Digital Government Group (SNDGG) is exploring a wearable device that may become Singapore’s new method for contact tracing. Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, the Minister-in-charge of the SNDGG and Minister for Foreign Affairs, announced this in Parliament on 5 June. While no other information has been revealed about …
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The Care and Support Package was first announced in February to help Singaporeans with household expenses. The Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced today (June 4) that eligible Singaporeans will receive cash payouts of S$ 300 or S$ 600 via PayNow on June 18 as part of the Package. Those who …
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With the circuit breaker officially over, Singapore is gradually reopening and Grab is anticipating that more commuters will be booking rides again. The ride-hailing company announced its new suite of safety measures called GrabProtect on 2 June, to lower the risk of infection between passengers and drivers. The new features …
Read More »Blue Planet Studio / Shutterstock.com The coronavirus pandemic has upended lives and livelihoods and will leave long-lasting damage to the U.S. economy, analysts warn. The Brookings Institution think tank predicts that people will travel less, businesses will space workers and customers apart, restaurants will serve fewer customers at once and …
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