Manpower Minister Josephine Teo visiting Parkroyal on Kitchener Road on Friday (March 12, 2021). - The Straits Times/ANN SINGAPORE, March 12 (The straits Times/ANN): In a hotel in the future, front office staff will be experts in tailoring personalised tour itineraries, while housekeepers will be able track room cleanliness using mobile applications and robots are used for cleaning.
In the kitchen, chefs will be proficient in food waste management and sensors will track stock levels.
This is the vision for the Covid-19 battered hotel industry in Singapore, thanks to a revamp of the Job Redesign Reskilling (JRR) Programme.
The revamp was announced by the Workforce Singapore (WSG) on Friday (March 12), along with the release of the 19th edition of the jobs situation report.
University of Bradford reader in computer science Savas Konur talks about the unique challenges of installing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Industry 4.0 technologies into a production line more than a century old.
Former Quibi unscripted exec Brian Tannenbaum heads to Roku Creative exec Brian Tannebaum has landed at The Roku Channel, ostensibly picking up the reins from his time at the shuttered short-form streamer Quibi.
As Realscreen reported in January, Roku acquired Quibi’s catalog . March 12, 2021
Creative exec Brian Tannebaum has landed at The Roku Channel, ostensibly picking up the reins from his time at the shuttered short-form streamer Quibi.
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Realscreen reported in January, Roku acquired Quibi’s catalog of some 75 shows and documentaries to stream on its Roku Channel. The manufacturer of the Roku digital media player has the exclusive global distribution rights to the shows, and will make the content available for free on an ad-supported basis.
Nairobi-based Kukua launched its first series,
Super Sema, on its dedicated YouTube channel this week. Backed by the platform’s US$100-million original kids content fund, eight eps of the 20 x five-minute first season are already up, and the rest will continue rolling out from now until April.
Super Sema is produced in 2D-animation and follows a super-powered African girl who boasts real-world abilities like creativity, determination and STEM skills.
A second season of 10-minute episodes is already in the works, and Kukua has uploaded 40 eps from its spinoff live-action series
Sema’s Lab on the channel as well. The prodco also has plans in the works for books, STEM kits and toys.