Stepping into Frankie Yeo’s workspace is almost like entering a whole different world. Located in a nondescript industrial area in MacPherson, the Mascots and Puppets Specialists office is jam-packed floor to ceiling with mascots and puppets. They consist of all sorts of shapes and sizes, and are born from years …
Read More »Want A Job At Google? Here’s How You Can Get Hired And What Is It Really Like To Work There
The COVID-19 pandemic has badly impacted Singapore’s labour market, causing pay cuts, hiring freezes and retrenchments. While some industries are badly affected, tech giants like Google, TikTok and Tesla are actively hiring in Singapore. Beyond full-time positions, Google is also offering internship positions. Its next internship application round for its May …
Read More »Here’s What a Realistic Budget Looks Like for Someone in Their 20s
CNBC’s Emma Martin recently shared an article detailing the ins and outs of a very affluent 25-year-old’s budget. The 25-year-old profiled in the article was extremely lucky, earning a six-figure income, excellent credit and little debt. The article did a great job of breaking down his financial situation. However, it …
Read More »8 Ways to Deal with a Difficult Partner (Who Doesn’t Eat Like You Do)
One of the biggest challenges of going Primal (or Keto or anything that goes against the norm of the Standard American Diet) is dealing with people who have no clue why you’d ever do such a thing. Even though there have been tons of studies on the risks of eating …
Read More »From AI Résumé Screening To Speed Hiring: What Applying For A Job Will Look Like In 2020
While the recession and pandemic have wrecked havoc on many industries, forcing them to cut back on hiring, others have seen reverse effects and are expanding robustly. For years, companies have been attempting to digitalise the hiring process. However, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdowns and social distancing rules …
Read More »Researchers’ AI system strips identifiable attributes like gender from speech recordings
VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now In a study accepted to the 2020 International Conference on Machine Learning last week, researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology and the RISE Research Institutes of Sweden propose a privacy-preserving technique that learns to …
Read More »We’d Like To See This M’sian Startup Survive In The Food Delivery Biz, But Boy, It’ll Be Tough
Author’s Blurb: It’s safe to say Malaysians are quite spoilt for choice when it comes to food deliveries. We have so many apps to choose from that we probably have several of them downloaded to cross-check prices for the best deal in terms of overall meal cost. Packed, a food …
Read More »3 Ways to Keep Going When You Feel Like Giving Up
There are times — and for many of us, 2020 has been filled with them — where we feel like giving up on our dreams. There are a lot of reasons for that feeling. It might be simple frustration or dissatisfaction with the world at large, causing us to feel …
Read More »COVID-19: Cinemas Like Cathay, GV Can Reopen In S’pore On July 13
The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) announced today (July 3) that cinemas can soon reopen in Singapore from July 13. Cinema operators like Cathay and Golden Village (GV) will be reopening on July 13, while indie cinema operator The Projector will reopen on July 15. As part of the COVID-19 …
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