technology
Shanmugam, Balakrishnan clarify police use of COVID-19 contact tracing data across Singapore
Sparking concerns of violations of privacy, the Singapore government admitted that contact-tracing data gathered ostensibly for COVID-19...
Google Play's best list of apps in Singapore and Malaysia have some new names this year
Google Play announced the winners of their Best of 2020 awards, a celebration of apps, games, books, movies and other top content in...
India, US extend nuclear agreement for another decade
India and the United States have extended the Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation on nuclear energy for 10 more years.
IMDA partners IBM to create 300 tech jobs in Singapore
The initiative is part of IBM’s “Future-Ready Intelligent Digital Workforce Programme”, in support of the SGUnited Jobs and Skills...
Capitaland's new smart cities solutions lab is first in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia’s first industry-led lab for smart cities solutions development – known as the Smart Urban Co-Innovation Lab – was...
NTU scientists develop "mini brains" for robots to recognise pain and self-repair
NTU scientists have developed a system of "mini brains" that can be embedded in robots to help them recognise "pain" and self-repair.
Google announces "end of office" with Google Workspace
Google Cloud has announced Google Workspace, which brings together messaging, meetings, docs, and tasks in an integrated experience.
SIA launches digital version of the Star Alliance Connection Service
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has become the launch airline for the digital version of the Star Alliance Connection Service.
IoT firm SensorFlow partners with ST Hospitality on smart hotel rooms in Singapore
SensorFlow, a Singapore-based tech firm with the stated goal of transforming the hotel industry into being smart and energy-efficient via...
Google launches new digital payment experience in Singapore, after India
Customers of DBS, OCBC and Standard Chartered can now link their bank accounts to Google Pay to pay anyone in Singapore through PayNow.
Supreme Court ruling sets stage for adoption of Bitcoin economy in India
The idea of making transactions with various types of cryptocurrencies has taken the world by storm. However, it presents its own set of...
British-Indian minister Alok Sharma announces government investment to tackle space debris
United Kingdom's Indian-origin Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Alok Sharma confirmed a GBP 1-million...
Facebook to give SGD4.75 million in grants to small businesses in Singapore
Facebook Singapore will be providing SGD 4.75 million in grants to businesses in the country that have experienced challenges due to the...
Honouring Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla, US company names spacecraft after her
United States' aerospace, defence, and security company Northrop Grumman has named its NG-14 Cygnus spacecraft after NASA Indian-American...
India, US, Israel to cooperate in developing 5G technology: US official
India, Israel and the United States have begun collaboration in developmental area, and in next generation of emerging technologies,...
Biotech firm based in India, UK wins Roddenberry Prize, named after 'Star Trek' creator
An India and United Kingdom-based genomics biotech company is among four worldwide projects that won the first-ever USD 1-million 2020...
StarHub brings early trial access of 5G to customers free of charge
Telecommunications company StarHub is the first in Singapore to unleash 5G services for customers, starting Tuesday, August 18.
COVID-19 made Smart Nation initiative even more crucial: Balakrishnan
The COVID-19 pandemic has made Singapore's Smart Nation initiative even more crucial, said Minister-in-Charge of the Smart Nation Initiative...
Singapore announces transformation roadmap for training and adult education sector
Singapore has announced a slate of new initiatives to accelerate the transformation of the country's Training and Adult Education (TAE)...
Grab Financial Group is expanding its consumer ecosystem through a series of new financial services and products – including a...
This year, Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) x Singapore Week of Innovation & TeCHnology (SWITCH) will expand to become the world’s first...
DBS collaborates with CPF in industry first, to empower Singaporeans in retirement planning
In a first-of-its-kind collaboration between the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board and a bank, DBS is introducing a retirement planning...
DBS to pilot SingPass facial verification technology for signing up of banking services
DBS has partnered with the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech) to pilot the latter’s innovative SingPass Face Verification...
55 Mediacorp classics to stream on Netflix from August 1
From August 1, a multilingual medley of Mediacorp content in English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil will be displayed in a dedicated...
NTU and Google Cloud develop virtual assistant to help address freshmen queries
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has rolled out a new virtual assistant powered by Google Cloud to help some 6,000 incoming freshmen...