I still vividly remember the glowing green phosphor of my first TRS-80 PC. Back then, the bleeding edge of “artificial…
From AI Scaling Pains to Robot Assembly Lines: APAC Tech’s Next Chapter
The past week showed us, from the boardrooms in Jakarta to assembly lines in Shenzhen, that AI has definitively moved…
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Vietnam is one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia. It is aggressive and ambitious and looks set to outpace some…
Cobots, Ping-pong Aces and AI Neckbands
This past week has felt like a pivot point for the Asia-Pacific. We are moving past the “chat” phase of…
Agentic Leap and the Power of Simplicity
I have always been a geek. My journey with technology began in the 1970s, wrestling with BASIC on a Sinclair…
A Brief Review of “The Prince” from Machiavelli
For centuries, the name Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolò Machiavelli) has been synonymous with “evil” and “match-a-villain” schemes. It…
Silicon, Spirit, and the Agentic Shift in Asia
It seems that the recent news is all about the move from “tools” to “agents.” For years, we have treated…
More localization, more on-device, and more efficient technologies
From groundbreaking cybersecurity frameworks in ASEAN to the hardware powerhouses of Northeastern Asia, the developments over the last week are…
Getting Around Asia’s AI-Powered Infrastructure and the Foldable Frontier
The last seven days have been nothing short of life-changing, from the heart of ASEAN to the busy commercial aerospace…