Drone technology boosts rhino conservation
Drone technology could be extremely useful for conservation work, particularly if it could provide night vision to support security teams in patrolling reserves.
Singapore’s central bank to launch $55m grant for Equity Market Singapore
The scheme comprises of three components – the Listing Grant to help enterprises seeking a listing on Singapore Exchange, the Research Talent Development Grant to boost Singapore’s research coverage of enterprises, and the Research Initiatives Grant to support crowd-sourced initiatives to increase the country’s equity research ecosystem.
Malaysian SMEs gather to share experience on digital adoption
Lessons learned focus on leadership, culture, overcoming fear of change in order to better adopt technology and enable digital transformation.
2019: year of data-driven digital ecosystem in Malaysia
New start-ups will emerge to tackle the bigger challenges that make AI a reality and the country will see machine intelligence used to create immersive, everyday experiences.
IIT-Kharagpur launches six-month Artificial Intelligence course
The AI course modules have been designed to cover mathematical and algorithmic foundations, AI fundamentals, statistics, and machine learning methods. The classes will be a combination of essential theoretical principles, practical hands-on elements, and industry use cases.
Protecting employee health records from being hacked
Healthcare data is claimed to command a higher price than financial data in the black market. Different protections for these data should be in place.
Newly enacted Telecommuting Act requires reliable internet connection
Telecommuting is a work arrangement allowing employees to work from alternative workplaces with the use of ICT. The success of the work-from-home scheme will depend on the quality of internet connectivity.
Hong Kong self-driving start-up in talks to raise HK$784 million funding
Autonomous driving is an amalgamation of technology, combining advanced consumer and industrial technologies ranging from artificial intelligence and electrification to 5G mobile systems, tech which the start-up uses in its vehicles.
Utilising AI and data analytics for a safer airspace
Their algorithm can be applied to airspace, military bases, public transport or shopping centres. It can be applied anywhere movement needs to be analysed. The researchers trained the algorithm by using disparate big data sets in order to guarantee its robustness.
The EU’s GDPR – opportunities outweigh the challenges in ASEAN
The European Union’s GDPR compliance was initially thought a challenge for governments and businesses in ASEAN countries but over the last seven months, it has highlighted the opportunities that GDPR compliance can offer South-East Asia.
