Malaysia’s Banksy makes a clown of Prime Minister, netizens follow suit

When Malaysian artist and activist Fahmi Reza, first started making clown parodies of Malaysia’s prime minister Najib Razak, little did he know people will start comparing him to renowned graffiti artist, Banksy. According to AFP, Fahmi started posting clown caricatures of Razak back in January following the latter’s repeated attempts at thwarting investigations into his […]

Storm Katie forces flights to divert and bridges to close in Britain

LONDON — Some flights at London’s Gatwick Airport have been diverted due to high winds battering much of Britain. Four flights were unable to land early Monday morning because of winds associated with Storm Katie. Britain’s Met Office said winds of 87 mph (140 kph) had been reported on the Isle of Wight and winds […]

Microsoft ‘deeply sorry’ for offensive tweets by its Tay chatbot

Microsoft AI chatbot Tay, launched last week as an experiment to learn how millennials talk, quickly became an embarrassment for the company as it posted racist and offensive tweets and was subsequently pulled offline.  On Friday, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research Peter Lee published an apology and an explanation for Tay’s misbehavior, saying the company is […]

16 times Britain was the best country in the world at swearing

LONDON — We’re really, really good at swearing in Britain. We pride ourselves on it. Whether it’s screaming foul-mouthedly at fellow road users, blasting four-letter words at cold-callers or simply tweeting a creative mish-mash of insults at our best-loved politicians, we’ve got this whole bad language thing down to a T. See also: 23 times […]