Michelle Ng

5 days ago | thechasernews.co.uk | Michelle Ng

當 Vivien Leigh 憑《亂世佳人》贏得奧斯卡最佳女主角，而她的演員丈夫 Laurence Olivier 雖然也通過另一部片子獲提名但沒贏，他們倆在頒獎典禮結束後回家途中，在車裏經歷了小插曲。被嫉妒沖昏了頭腦的 Olivier ，伸手去搶奪 Leigh 的奧斯卡雕像，多年後他跟兒子這樣解釋他當時的行為：“It was all I could do to restrain myself from hitting her with it. I was insane with jealousy.”我很理解 Olivier 的心情，因我每次讀到好的作品，我的嫉妒心就會燃起來， 然後我會問自己， why haven’t you thought of writing this way?

1 week ago | thechasernews.co.uk | Michelle Ng

上個月，The Atlantic 記者 Derek Thomspon 研究美國政府公布的勞動數據後，發覺一個驚人現象：過去40年，大學畢業生的就業情況從沒像2025年那麼糟糕。 Thomspon的結論是，這跟 AI 有關。 “As law firms leaned on AI for more paralegal work, and consulting firms realized that five 22-year-olds with ChatGPT could do the work of 20 recent grads, and tech firms turned over their software programming to a handful of superstars working with AI co-pilots, the entry level of America’s white-collar economy would contract.” 創業家 Daniel Priestley 有兩個孩子。作為家長的他，認為在 AI...

1 week ago | straitstimes.com | Michelle Ng

BEIJING – Visitors to China might soon find it easier to claim tax rebates at the store’s checkout – and that could mean a little extra cash to spend during the trip and fewer queues at the airport. Experts say this might boost the economy, but the key is getting more retailers on board the programme.

2 weeks ago | thechasernews.co.uk | Michelle Ng

“我覺得 GCSE 英文比較難考，對於我們這些國際生，因沒從小在英國這邊” – 前幾天鬆仔在他的YouTube 談到英國可能提升對BN(O)港人的英語要求時，回憶他當年來英國讀書要過英文這一關的情況。其實 GCSE English 之所以難，是因它不單考驗考生對英語的理解力和表達力，還考驗他們觀察力。以下面這條來自 past paper 的考題和我的解答為例，題目雖然簡單，要閱讀的 passage 也不深，但沒有細緻的觀察力，還是不容易拿到最高分的。閱讀文章：This extract is from the beginning of a short story by H E Bates, set in the 1930s. Hartop and his wife own a van from which they sell produce to people in their local area, and their daughter, Alice, works with them.

3 weeks ago | thechasernews.co.uk | Michelle Ng

“AI is coming for your jobs. Heck it’s coming for my job too,” Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman warned on X earlier this week. He then went on to map out the way he thinks AI has changed the rules of the workplace: “what was once considered ‘easy tasks’ will no longer exist; what was considered ‘hard tasks’ will be the new easy, and what was considered ‘impossible tasks’ will be the new hard.”Kaufman’s view echoes my thoughts on AI.