COVID-19 technology: Technology Development Board approves new projects
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TDB is proactively supporting the efforts of scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs, and industrialists towards preventing and containing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Local tech in Thailand booms
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From COVID-19 trackers to masks to robots, Thailand’s local tech scene has sprung into action, releasing innovation after innovation as a response to coronavirus pandemic.
COVD-19 technology: India develops microcontroller-based ventilator
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The ventilator can be externally connected to an oxygen concentrator, for patients who do not require intubation and invasive ventilation.
European supercomputers hacked in series of cyberattacks
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After the attack became public on Monday 11 May, staff are working with the National Cyber Security Centre to restore the system, which had recently installed a pandemic modelling tool.