Technology
ASEAN Youth: Technology, Skills And The Future Of Work
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has launched their 2019 edition of the survey on the Association Of The Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) youths. The survey aims to examine and understand the views, concerns, attitudes on jobs, skills, and future of work among the young population of ASEAN. Titled “ASEAN Youth: Technology, Skills and the Future …
GeoWorks Presents Asia’s First Geospatial-Focused Week In Singapore
Asian geospatial professionals and enthusiasts will gather in Singapore for a week of exciting geospatial-related events and activities, when Singapore Geospatial Week launches from 2 – 6 September 2019. Presented by GeoWorks, Singapore’s only geospatial-focused industry centre, managed and operated by the Singapore Land Authority (SLA), Singapore Geospatial Week will feature five intense days of events that celebrate and …
Don’t Ban New Technologies – Experiment With Them Carefully
For many years, Facebook’s internal slogan was “move fast and break things.” And that’s what the company did – along with most other Silicon Valley startups and the venture capitalists who fund them. Their general attitude is one of asking for forgiveness after the fact, rather than for permission in advance. Though this can allow …
NTU Singapore Leverages AI And Machine Learning To Fight Money Laundering
A multi-disciplinary team from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is embarking on a research project to develop new capabilities so the wealth management industry can better combat money laundering practices through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Supported by the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics Grant …
Is The Cold Fusion Egg About To Hatch?
Low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) is a controversial field that traces its origins to the claims of ‘cold fusion’ by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons in 1989. Cold fusion itself is widely regarded as discredited, yet there are several recent reports of LENR devices producing commercially useful amounts of heat. As David Bailey and Jonathan Borwein …
First On-Demand Autonomous Shuttle Trial Opens To Public
Singapore’s first on-demand autonomous shuttle public trial was officially launched at Sentosa today, marking a major milestone since on-road testing of the autonomous shuttles began in June 2018. The public trial will run from 26 August to 15 November 2019. Members of public visiting Sentosa will be able to hail an autonomous shuttle via the …
How Cold War Rivalry Helped Launch The Chinese Computer
It was the summer of 1959, and the United States needed a Cold War win. In 1957, the Soviet bloc scored a major technological victory with Sputnik 1. The next year, China’s Communist leadership launched the sweeping, and ultimately devastating, Great Leap Forward. In the spring of 1959 in Cuba, Fidel Castro’s guerrillas forced president Fulgencio …
Singapore Makes Coding Classes Mandatory For Primary School Students, Starting 2020
All upper primary school students in Singapore will soon have to undergo a mandatory 10-hour coding program, said the country’s minister for communications and information, S Iswaran. The pilot program will begin this year at selected schools targeting students who have finished their Primary School Leaving Examination. It will be rolled out to all Primary 4 …
Total, ETH Zurich Join Forces To Convert CO2 And Hydrogen Into Methanol
ETH Zurich once more introduces another sustainable solution for the fuel industry. In cooperation with oil and gas company Total, they developed a method to efficiently convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into methanol. Previously, ETH Zurich researchers developed a carbon-neutral fuel made exclusively from sunlight and air. How does it work? To make an upscaling …
Singapore To Build First Large-Scale Floating Solar Plant By 2021
50 MWp floating solar plant will generate green energy for water treatment. National water agency PUB intends to deploy a 50 megawatt-peak (MWp) floating solar photovoltaic (PV) system on Tengeh Reservoir by 2021. When installed, it will beSingapore’s first single large-scale floating solar PV system. PUB is also in the process of implementing two other …