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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates held the title of the world’s richest person for the longest combined duration in modern history. He topped the Forbes annual billionaire rankings for 16 out of 21 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007. He was so rich that people in the 1990s could […]
... written on Jun 03 2026For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have studied a deceptively simple question: if you place n points in the plane, how many pairs of points can be exactly distance 1 apart? This is the planar unit distance problem, first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. It is one of the best-known questions in combinatorial geometry, easy […]
... written on May 30 2026Ramanan Ramakrishnan was like a cat on hot bricks after businessman-turned-fugitive Victor Chin Boon Long publicly declared a war on Mr “R”, a so-called Member of Parliament from Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) – return the RM9.5 million pocketed as a middleman after failed to resolve his “corporate mafia” woes, or else the identity of Mr […]
... written on Mar 27 2026China’s attempt to show humanoid robots during last year’s Chinese New Year Spring Festival Gala was laughed at by the West. Around that time, public demonstrations of the humanoids often drew scepticism, such as a robot marathon in April that made headlines for stumbles, crashes and breakdowns. It was the same scenario when Elon Musk laughed at China […]
... written on Feb 24 2026He came, he saw, he mocked the European Union’s flagship Green New Deal climate policies as the “Green New Scam”. He then ridiculed Britain for failing to tap more North Sea oil, before laughing at the “catastrophic energy collapse which befell every European nation” in recent years. It was a wild day, with Trump berating […]
... written on Jan 25 2026Jennifer Bergman sat up in bed one morning in June 2025 and opened her laptop to the month’s bills. It was five months into America’s latest tariff war, and the numbers no longer added up. Rent was due in two weeks, and her suppliers wanted payment now. She called her landlord, saying – “I can’t […]
... written on Dec 15 2025Ken Ono’s career as one of the world’s most prominent mathematicians has taken him to places that he never could have fathomed. Born on March 20, 1968, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the 57-year-old American mathematician with fields of study in number theory is the son of mathematician Takashi Ono, who emigrated from Japan to the United […]
... written on Dec 05 2025Billionaire Elon Musk, who became the first person on the planet to achieve a net worth of more than US$500 billion last month (October 2025), has continued to hold the top position since May 2024, and chances are he could become the world’s first trillionaire soon. According to Forbes’ billionaires index, Oracle founder Larry Ellison […]
... written on Nov 07 2025On Wednesday (September 17), Beijing officially banned domestic tech companies from buying NVIDIA AI chips. Tech giants including ByteDance and Alibaba were ordered to immediately stop testing and ordering NVIDIA’s RTX Pro 6000D server, a product designed specifically for the Chinese market. Essentially, Nvidia has been shut down in China. The next day – […]
... written on Sep 19 2025Jensen Huang, CEO of chip designer Nvidia, has been working tirelessly for months behind the scenes in both Washington and Beijing for the sake of billions of dollars in future revenue from the ongoing U.S.-China trade war. After all, China is a huge market. Nvidia generated US$17 billion in revenue from China in the fiscal year ending January […]
... written on Aug 13 2025
