Some Memories

BREAKING: Former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad is the opposition's choice for interim Prime Minister until @ anwaribrahim can get a royal pardon and take over. PKR President @ drwanazizah is the deputy PM pick. # GE14 http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/mahathir-named-malaysian-opposition-s-prime-minister-pick-9840014

His bet paid off: his popular English teaching app Liulishuo or LingoChampraised US$100 million in July, putting him in the growing ranks of successful Silicon Valley alumni lured back to China by the promise of a brighter future. His decision is emblematic of an unprecedented trend with disquieting implications for Valley stalwarts from Facebook Inc to Alphabet Inc's Google.

Gruss  said Meltdown was the more serious problem in the short term but could be decisively stopped with software patches. Spectre, the broader bug that applies to nearly all computing devices, is harder for hackers to take advantage of but less easily patched and will be a bigger problem in the long term, he said. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/security-flaws-put-virtually-all-phones--computers-at-risk-9830532

So cool eh!  Furthermore it's Barcelona 3-0 win over Real Madrid. Kudos to Messi and team! Messi created Barcelona's third goal in a 3-0 win vs. Real Madrid with only one shoe. https://sports.yahoo.com/lionel-messi-lost-shoe-danced-past-real-madrid-assist-anyway-164008639.html

Kaka is one of my favourites. I am going to miss him. Kaka, the Brazilian playmaker who starred for AC Milan and Real Madrid, has called it a career. "I'm now ready for the next journey," he wrote. https://sports.yahoo.com/kaka-one-great-playmakers-generation-announces-retirement-164824184.html

True! But I shall also bear in mind that it is one thing to record, and another to remember - to remember, putting scattered parts back together to see the direction in which we are going. Technology can only record. To rediscover, reconnect, reminisce - that is on us. http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/let-the-memory-live-again-minus-technology

This is one of the challenges within the world of technology that we are living now. REUTERS: A consortium of tech companies including Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google and Twitter Inc said on Monday a database it created to identify extremist content now contains more than 40,000 videos or images. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/technology/tech-consortium-flags-40-000-videos--images-as-extremist-content-9468544