Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) and Materialise are teaming up to drive 3D printing adoption in Singapore. Also known as additive manufacturing (AM), 3D printing improves performance and saves weight, and time and cost when compared to […]
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LG to take 64% stake in Cybellum
LG Electronics has agreed to acquire Israeli vehicle cybersecurity risk assessment solution provider. The deal will initially involve the South Korean tech giant taking a 64 percent stake valued at U$140 million with plans to […]
Arm-based servers ace AI benchmark on debut
Arm-based server has received a massive endorsement from industry benchmarking group MLCommons. The new server aced the group’s MLPerf benchmarks on inference tests in the data centre category. The latest benchmarks show that NVIDIA GPU-powered […]
Global semiconductor market to grow 17.3% in 2021
The global semiconductor shortage is real. IDC is predicting that the market will grow 17.3 percent this year, compared to 10.8 percent in 2020. However, the research firm expects the industry to normalise by the […]
Fivetran raises US$565m in funding, to acquire HVR
Fivetran has raised has raised US$565 million in Series D funding, bringing total raised to US$730 million for a valuation of US$5.6 billion. The new round of funding was led by Andreessen Horowitz and comprised […]
DeepWay reveals Xingtu heavy-duty truck
DeepWay has unveiled the Xingtu smart new energy heavy-duty truck with a computing power of more than 500 TOPS and ultra-long-distance sensing capabilities of more than one kilometre. The Baidu-backed company’s new vehicle is powered […]
NVIDIA CEO makes Time most influential list
Jensen Huang has been recognised as one of Time Magazine’s top 100 most influential people. The NVIDIA CEO was described as among the world’s most technically savvy CEOs. “He’s also a compassionate steward of his […]
Satellite link? Not for the iPhone 13
Rumours of Apple’s newest iPhone having a satellite connectivity got the Internet all abuzz. After the smartphone maker unveiled its latest line-up, it remains just a rumour. If it does come true some day, it […]
Baidu trials robotaxis in Shanghai
Shanghai has become the fifth city in China to have Baidu’s robotaxis. The search giant is road testing the Apollo Go fleet from 9.30am to 11.00pm daily. About 150 stations will be opened in phases […]
Asus unwraps 3 bags
Asus Republic of Gamers (ROG) has unveiled the new ROG SLASH fashion line with the first three products being a messenger bag, draw string bag and sling bag. Modelled after the cyberpunk culture, the new […]
Wilstech partners Selangor government to digitalise 200 SMEs
Wilstech is collaborating with Selangor Information Technology & Digital Economy Corporation (Sidec) to help 200 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia kickstart their digitalisation efforts. The partnership will cover digitalisation of areas such as […]
BT rolls out cloud solutions for financial services sector
BT has announced the BT Cloud Control for Financial Services portfolio of solutions to help those in the sector address the challenges of balancing risks and rewards of moving their applications and secure data to […]
Declutter the desktop with Logitech all-in-one dock
Gadgets and associated cables can create quite a mess on the desktop. Logitech aims to declutter personal workpace and improve video call experience with the Logi Dock all-in-one docking station. Designed with the aim of […]
Toku raises US$5m to enhance digital transformation offerings
Singapore-based Toku has completed a US$5 million Series A funding round backed by DX Ventures and existing investors such as Tembusu Partners and Neptune Invest Asia. The cloud communications provider will use the funding to […]
ASUS expands creator range
ASUS has expanded its creator range with new laptops, displays, peripherals, a desktop, among others. Powering the devices for creators are NVIDIA RTX GPUs with NVIDIA Studio — including app accelerations, dedicated Studio drivers, and […]
Apple loosens App Store rules
Apple has finally relented and is cutting loose its payment fees for selected types of apps, thanks to the Japan Trade Commission (JTC). The concession covers reader or content subscription apps such as Kindle, Netflix […]
Ericsson and Qualcomm complete first 5G call on CBRS
Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologie have successfully completed the first over-the-air 5G New Radio (NR) call on CBRS (Citizen Broadband Radio Service). The trial took place at Ericsson’s North America headquarters in Plano, Texas, utilising the […]
Xiaomi enters EV market
Xiaomi has moved into the electric vehicle (EV) market with the establishment of Xiaomi EV Backed by a registered capital of RMB10 billion, the new company marks a major milestone in Xiaomi’s smart EV initiative […]
Towards expressive speech in conversational AI
Synthesised speech is nothing new — think virtual assistants for smartphones and smart speakers, and GPS assistance. They may sound robotic and monotonous, even when there are choices of voice or accent. All these is […]
Doctor Anywhere raises US$65.7m to drive SEA expansion
Singapore-headquartered Doctor Anywhere (DA) raised US$65.7 million in Series C funding, bringing total investment to more than US$104 million. Led by Asia Partners, this round of funding includes investors such as Novo Holdings, Philips and […]
Razer cans e-wallet service
Razer is shutting down the Razer Pay eco-system, which covers the e-wallet and credit card, in Singapore and Malaysia on September 30. Beta launched to much excitement in mid-2019, the service was targeted at the […]
IBM reveals Telum processor
IBM has unveiled its new IBM Telum processor that brings deep learning inference to enterprise workloads to help address fraud in real-time. The first Telum-based system is expected to be out by the first half […]
NVIDIA announces global availability of NVIDIA AI Enterprise software
NVIDIA has announced that it now has the NVIDIA AI Enterprise, a full software package that includes AI tools and structures that can virtualise AI workloads on NVIDIA-Certified Systems for hundreds of thousands of organisations […]
Sinet picks Juniper for network upgrade
Cambodian telco Sinet has picked Juniper Networks to upgrade its network infrastructure. With the upgraded network infrastructure, enterprise users in Cambodia can use a common framework to manage the exponential increase of endpoints accessing campus […]
CyberLink teams up with QNAP on smart facial recognition solution
CyberLink is partnering with QNAP Systems to integrate CyberLink’s FaceMe facial recognition engine into QNAP’s QVR Face and QVR Face Link smart facial recognition solutions. The integration will enable QVR Face Link to recognise people’s […]
Xiaomi launches Redmi 10 in Singapore
Xiaomi has introduced the latest generation of its entry level Redmi 10 smartphone in Singapore. Under the hood are a 50MP hi-res camera, 90Hz 6.5-inch FHD+ AdaptiveSync display and a 2.0GHz octa-core MediaTek Helio G88 […]
hoolah partners Jumper.ai on BNPL solution
hoolah is partnering Jumper.ai to offer buy now pay later (BNPL) to merchants in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. This new payment option will let customers pay later in a convenient, flexible and transparent way […]
Baidu upgrades AI platform, starts mass producing AI chip
Baidu has launched the Baidu Brain 7.0 open AI platform and started mass producing the Kunlun II AI chip. The newly upgraded Baidu Brain 7.0 offers greater integration of a wide array of knowledge sources […]
Norton adds Game Optimizer to maximise PC performance for gamers
NortonLifeLock has released the Game Optimizer feature that frees PCs from power-hungry programs running in the background to maximise gaming performance. By freeing power-hungry programs to a single CPU core, Game Optimizer reduces performance interruptions […]
ForgeRock appoints Smith as CPO
ForgeRock has named Tschudy Smith as Chief People Officer to lead talent strategy, including employee experience, rewards, attraction, retention, development, diversity, and inclusion for ForgeRock’s global workforce of more than 760 employees. Smith was formerly […]
