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The Examiner •

Sri Lankan techies are cheap, AI is cheaper

Four months ago, Sayuri got an email from her employer, IFS, a Swedish software company, telling her she was laid off.  “An organisation-wide restructuring” arising from “AI implementations across products” was cited as the cause.  Her first reaction was “utter disbelief”. Sayuri, not her real name, never imagined being laid off in the “blink of an eye”.  She wasn’t the only one. A senior IFS software engineer said the layoffs affected 400 to 450 people in Sri Lanka, including whole departments....
Liberty Publishers •

Shedding light on the ‘hills of neglect’

Nestled within the central hills of Sri Lanka shrouded in fog are the plantations and the communities that surround them. It is among those plantations that documentary photographer Kisho Kumar has spent the last 15 years of his life observing and researching the many issues that plague this community hidden away from the rest of us. The year 2023 marks exactly 200 years since the British brought down South Indian Tamil people to work on our plantations.
IVolunteer International •

Memes: A faster way of news than news itself?

Unless you’ve been living under a very large rock somewhere, you’re likely to be exposed to dozens of memes every week. Some are common, others niche, many overused, and a good few need explicit context to be understandable. Regardless of your level of meme knowledge, there’s memes out there for everyone to enjoy. However, the meme has now evolved from simple inside jokes to become a cultural form of communication in the digital era – so much so that internet communities sometimes come by obscu

Excluding more than it prohibits: The Single-Use Plastic Ban of 2021

Sri Lanka is far behind the bandwagon when it comes to protecting the environment, with our earliest attempts to regulate the use of polythene and single-use plastic only dating back to 2007, five years after the first ban was put into effect by our fellow South Asian country Bangladesh. Since then, plastic regulation has been so successful in our country that Sri Lanka is now the 5th largest plastic polluter in the world, alongside giant nations like China. Pearl of the Indian Ocean? Perhaps it is time to rename our moniker to Plastic Bead of the Indian Ocean.
README •

Sri Lanka's failing romance with e-governance

Last Monday (Jan 29th), The Information & Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) launched an e-governance initiative called the electronic local government. This was in collaboration with the Ministries of Provincial Councils, Local Government and Telecommunication & Digital Infrastructure. The aim of this system is to connect 30 local authorities in Sri Lanka. Or, so they said. e-LG is the primary step of a plan to connect 341 local government bodies in Sri Lanka, which would allow the general
README •

Bitcoin: The past, present & future of cryptocurrency

The term cryptocurrency still remains somewhat of an obscure term, with many being confused over its meaning. However, bitcoin, the cryptocurrency market giant, is a widely heard and popular term. Essentially cryptocurrency can be referred to as virtual money, a digital cash system that uses cryptography to protect the anonymity of transactions. While the basics of cryptocurrencies have already been covered by one of our previous articles, we can now take a more in-depth look at the world of dig

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Henry David Thoreau