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SINGAPORE: Police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of a 15-year-old girl who has been missing for 12 days. Siti Nadhirah Roshaizad was last seen in the vicinity of Block 649 Punggol Central on Jul 13, said the police on Sunday (Jul 24). Anyone with information can call the police hotline at 1800 255 0000 or submit the information online. All information will be kept confidential, said the police. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/police-appeal-information-15-year-old-girl-missing-12-days-2832431

Japanese idol creates kawaii Gunpla, the world’s cutest Gundam models Half-mecha, half-magical girl, and entirely awesome. Mizu Minamo (@32_Archangel) is an idol and actress, and you’d be correct in assuming that among her tweets you can find photos of her visiting picturesque places, enjoying sweets, and wearing cute accessories. For example, here she is talking about her love of flower-motif hairpins. However, Minamo shared some even eye-catching floral fashion a while back when she incorporated actual sakura cherry blossom petals into an outfit. She didn’t model the look herself, though, and instead entrusted that role to a very reliable friend: the ASW-G-08 Gundam Barbatos, from Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans. That’s because Minamo isn’t just an idol and actress, but a Gunpla (Gundam plastic model) enthusiast too! As dedicated Gunpla builders already know, the instructions that come included with the kits are fine for making a basic facsimilia of the anime franchise’s various giant robots, but the real fun comes from adding your own artistic flair and making your mobile suit truly one of a kind. In Minamo’s case, she does that by adding a whole bunch of cuteness to the mecha, creating what she calls, quite accurately, “kawaii Gunpla.” ▼ Minamo poses with one of her creations near the life-size Unicorn Gundam Statue in Tokyo. While cuteness and mechs might seem as compatible as oil and water, Minamo makes the combination work in a surprisingly harmonious way, with neither the cute nor cool factors feeling like afterthoughts. Many of her kawaii Gunpla draw from another branch of anime aesthetics with a rich history by incorporating magical girl costume elements. Her latest work, for example, the “Fantasy Strike,” gives Mobile Suit Gundam SEED’s Strike Gundam a frilly skirt and a large flowing ribbon bow on its back. ▼ “In the name of the Earth Alliance, I will punish you!” Minamo’s penchant for adding flowing cloth to her Gunpla also brings to mind fantasy-setting mecha series such as Vision of Escaflowne and Aura Battler Dunbine, by giving the robots’ appearance an atmosphere of opulent knightly plate armor. The Fantasy Strike is currently on display at the Gundam Base Tokyo showroom/specialty store at the Diver City shopping center in Tokyo’s Odaiba district, and with the brand-new Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury anime TV series set to debut in the fall, hopefully we’ll get to see Minamo’s take on the newest member of the Gundam family tree before long. https://soranews24.com/2022/07/22/japanese-idol-creates-kawaii-gunpla-the-worlds-cutest-gundam-models【photos】/

A man, who was travelling with a woman and child in a private hire vehicle, allegedly jumped out of the moving car when it was in the Tanglin area on Saturday morning, July 23. The man's abrupt actions shocked the car's driver, who then took to the Professional PHV Drivers Facebook group to share about what happened and post photos of the aftermath of the incident. The driver wrote: "Passenger jumped out of my moving car after fighting with his wife . What a spoiled day !!! Grrrrrr." Photos showed the couple with police officers at the scene, as well as an ambulance parked curbside. The post appears to have been taken down by July 25 though. What allegedly happened According to the driver, he had picked up the couple and a child from River Valley and was driving along Cluny Road when the man allegedly jumped out of the car, AsiaOne reported. The driver said the couple were conversing in Mandarin and the man, who he referred to as "the husband", apparently suddenly jumped out of the moving car. The driver was forced to stop driving to check if the passenger was alright. The driver then called the police, but not before witnessing the man allegedly trying to run away, while bleeding from his elbow and knees. The driver, in response to comments on his Facebook post, mentioned the injuries on the man. The woman then chased after the man, all the while both of them sounded like they were shouting at each other, the driver said. "It's really selfish of him to jump out of the moving car in that manner," the driver told AsiaOne. "With the shock, I could have lost control of the vehicle and a whole other accident could have happened." Reactions to the the driver's post commiserated with him for his loss of income and inconvenienced suffered. Man apprehended AsiaOne also reported that the Singapore Police Force confirmed that they received a call for assistance along Cluny Road at about 8.55am on Saturday. A 28-year-old man was conveyed conscious to the hospital, apprehended under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act, and referred to the Institute of Mental Health for psychiatric assessment, the police added. https://mothership.sg/2022/07/man-jump-out-of-car/

A robot broke a seven-year-old boy's finger during a chess match in Moscow last week, Russian news outlets report. "The robot broke the child's finger," Sergey Lazarev, Moscow Chess Federation President, told Tass news agency. "This is of course bad." A video shared on social media shows the robot taking one of the boy's pieces. The boy then makes his own move, and the robot grabs his finger. Four adults rush to help the boy, who is eventually freed and ushered away. Mr Lazarev said the machine had played many previous matches without incident. The boy was able to finish the final days of the tournament in a cast, Tass reports. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62286017

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Google is right to do so. IT personnel handle a lot of sensitive data, and it's a basic professional ethic to stick to your NDA. If he can't do that, he shouldn't work in the field.

Alphabet's Google said on Friday (Jul 22) it has dismissed a senior software engineer who claimed the company's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot LaMDA was a self-aware person. Google, which placed software engineer Blake Lemoine on leave last month, said he had violated company policies and that it found his claims on LaMDA to be "wholly unfounded". "It's regrettable that despite lengthy engagement on this topic, Blake still chose to persistently violate clear employment and data security policies that include the need to safeguard product information," a Google spokesperson said in an email to Reuters. Last year, Google said that LaMDA - Language Model for Dialogue Applications - was built on the company's research showing Transformer-based language models trained on dialogue could learn to talk about essentially anything. Google and many leading scientists were quick to dismiss Lemoine's views as misguided, saying LaMDA is simply a complex algorithm designed to generate convincing human language. Lemoine's dismissal was first reported by Big Technology, a tech and society newsletter. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/google-fires-software-engineer-who-claimed-its-ai-chatbot-sentient-2830586

PSA: 29 Jul 2022 (coming Friday) is the start of Hungry Ghost Festive

local tech giants: Sure *shifts head office out of sg*

Haven't hurt bottomline, people on top no fucks give

But those are literally big ass fans wor https://bigassfans.com/

You're doing "fish tank" wrong.

My take on things is that if the environment is trying to kill you, you probably shouldn't be there.

That's a lot of content for 2 movies, hope they don't skip over too much.