Designs
From Thursday, January 16, the highly anticipated addition to the Barbie Music Collector Series was released. Aaliyah joins the legendary Barbie doll collectors series in time for what could have been her 46th birthday. Such a remarkable way to pay tribute to “Princess of R&B” who sadly passed away on 2001 at the age of […]
Tamagotchi are officially back in fashion. What’s even better? They now come with brand new features including Wi-Fi and more functionality. My 9-year-old self is screaming. Tamagotchi sales have more than doubled between 2022 and 2023, thanks to Gen Z discovering them for the first time while us Millennials yearn to get in touch with […]
We spoke to Bernadette earlier in the year about her journey in the world of performing arts. Today, we catch up with her older brother, Paulo Suiqa. The 32-year-old is a self-employed artist who has such a beautiful artistic eye. “Growing up, I had a wild imagination shared. This often got him into trouble. Growing […]
Nzambi Matee is a Kenyan of the mountains of discarded oil drums, laundry buckets, yoghurt tubs and other trash being shredded into colourful flakes at her Nairobi factory. She is a 30-year-old engineer and inventor that has discovered a way to recycle tonnes of plastic destined for landfill into eco-friendly […]
A fourth-year computer science student specializing in data science at the Vellore Institute of Technology, went viral on LinkedIn after using AI to translate American sign language (ASL). Priyanjali Gupta got the idea from her mom, who pushed her to put her engineering degree to good use. She made the model using Tensorflow Object Detection to translate […]
With the Pacific Games beginning shortly, we felt it was fitting to cast our minds back to the first time the nations of the region came together in Suva for the first South Pacific Games (as it was called then) in 1963. Specifically we’d like to talk about one person who was too young […]
Would you bid on a piece of history? A red sweater that was worn by the iconic Princess Diana that featured a single black sheep among rows of woolly white sheep has sold at auction for more than $1.1m. The Sotheby’s auction house said that there […]
It’s the S we all most likely drew at some point growing up: But what is it called and where did it come from? Well, the first question is relatively simple to answer The official name for this S is “Cool S’ and as to where it comes from, that’s a bit more complicated […]
Suumit Shah, a 31-year-old CEO of an e-commerce platform called Dukaan based in India, is getting torn to shreds online for firing 90 percent of the company’s customer support staff after arguing that an AI chatbot had outperformed them. In a lengthy twitter thread laden with screenshots from action movies such as “iRobot” and “Limitless,” […]
An ambitious plan to fly travellers across the world via space would see the flight time between the UK and Australia drop to a mere two hours. The flights would enter space for a period of time before descending back into the Earth’s orbit – slashing a good 20 hours of flying time in the […]
