A taste of speech recognition

Tired of hacking away on the keyboard? Or decided to give your mouse (and wrist) a break? Head over to Tazti (pronounced “tasty”) and download the free speech recognition application for your PC. This nifty program allows you to perform Web searches and browse the Internet using your voice. The software also allows you to… Read More »

Holy cow!

What if milk powder in China became laced with melamine not because some unscrupulous dairy farmers added the chemical compound to the collected milk, but because it was fed directly to the cow?

Democracy Day

It may have gone unnoticed by people, but today is Workers’ Party’s Democracy Day, in commemoration of the groundbreaking day on 31 October 1981 when Singaporeans voted in their first opposition member of parliament – the late J.B. Jeyaretnam – after 16 years. Incidentally, I was going through my collection of books and I realised… Read More »