"Katakanlah (wahai Muhammad): "Kalaulah semua jenis lautan menjadi tinta untuk menulis kalimah-kalimah Tuhanku, sudah tentu akan habis kering lautan itu sebelum habis kalimah-kalimah Tuhanku, walaupun Kami tambahi lagi dengan lautan yang sebanding dengannya, sebagai bantuan".
In response to GE15, Malaysia.
Image source: FMT
An excerpt from an article in the Washington Post:
"Never mind the invisible hand. Over the coming weeks the world will be united by the visible boot. Billions of people will watch the World Cup in Qatar (in 2018, some 3.5 billion people, more than half the world’s adults, watched a portion of the tournament, and more than a billion watched some part of the final). And rivers of money will be spent to persuade those fans to consume various brands of fizzy drinks and glutinous burgers in the name of athletic prowess."
A new AI city in Saudi Arabia in the short video below (2.08 min). Known as "THE LINE", it is Saudi Arabia’s flagship business and tourism development on the Red Sea. The vision is for THE LINE to be one of the 10 largest economic cities in the world.
p/s Read the comments as well for thought-provoking questions.
Source: YoutubeRice cooker is one of Japanese important invention, and the QR code.
"Back in 1994, inventor Masahiro Hara could never have guessed at the world-changing impact of his ‘eureka’ moment. Working at an automotive components firm, he’d been trying to work out a way to improve the tracking of component parts. Barcodes had limited storage capacity, meaning multiple barcodes often had to be scanned for each part. It was while playing the ancient board game Go that he had his breakthrough. Inspired by the black and white pattern of the Go board, he developed the Quick Response code, capable of containing much more information than a barcode. What was originally intended to be an industry-specific invention soon blossomed into a whole new way to process and track information in all walks of life.
Source: marketoonist.com | Tom Fishburne
This article is quite long, but has important modern implications. Source: Michael Ramirez, The Gazette.
