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13 August 2025

Social media apps are built to keep you scrolling, and that’s not an easy habit to break. But what if there’s an app specially designed to help you spend your free time more intentionally and meaningfully? On Good Tech, Lynlee Foo speaks to Sindhu Mohan (NUS BBA alumna, 2025) and Vishnu Sundaresan (NUS Computer Science alumnus, 2024), Co-Founders of Snowball to learn more about a very different kind of social media that rewards you for living more offline.

Money FM 89.3, 13 Aug 2025

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30 July 2025

Can AI make high-quality academic support more accessible and empower students to learn better, not just faster? Two graduates from the National University of Singapore saw an opportunity to do that. On Good Tech, Lynlee Foo speaks to Andre Lim and Jed Ng, co-founders of Check, an AI-powered tool developed to offer hyper-personalised academic support for students from secondary school to junior college.

Money FM 89.3, 30 Jul 2025

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3 July 2025
Explore how scalable collaborative zk-SNARKs enable fast, secure zero-knowledge proofs across multiple servers. This breakthrough improves privacy and scalability for AI verification, blockchain, and data markets, making advanced cryptography more accessible.
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3 June 2025
A new study by NUS Computing’s Shaw Professor Bernard Tan and his former PhD students reveals how empathy and subtle social cues shape generosity on microlending platforms like Kiva.
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15 May 2025
A study led by Assistant Professor LEE Yi-Chieh and his team at the AI 4 Social Good Lab (AI4SG) at NUS Computing has uncovered a surprising finding that assisting even simple AI agents can boost human mental well-being by reducing loneliness and increasing happiness.
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28 April 2025
A new study by NUS Computing’s AI4SG Lab reveals that AI confidence levels can significantly influence human self-confidence, with lasting effects on our decision-making.
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