Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Australia receives A$70 million for infrastructure replacement
This investment together with last year’s A$70 million investment into the National Computational
Infrastructure located in Canberra aims to strengthen Australia’s position in
the global research environment.
NTU researchers develop technology to reduce noise pollution through open windows
The device detects incoming noise even before it reaches the
window, computes its attributes, and emits a countering sound or “anti-noise”. The
researchers are working with government agencies in Singapore to further
improve the technology to make it viable for commercial and residential
applications.
Smart cities, cybersecurity, e-commerce, trade facilitation in focus at 32nd ASEAN Summit
Recognising the importance of capitalising on the opportunities presented by the digital age, and the need to promote cross-border electronic commerce (eCommerce) in the region, the states are establishing an ASEAN Agreement on E-commerce.
Singapore’s Global Innovation Alliance network expands to Bangkok
GIA
Bangkok, led by Enterprise Singapore, will make it easier for Singapore
startups to access the market for business opportunities, drive partnerships
between Singapore and Thai startups to co-create innovative solutions and build
a pipeline of talent for entrepreneurship and innovation.
Chinese Government pushing for integration of Internet technologies with healthcare
The
top two levels of hospitals within the three-tier hospital system will be
encouraged to provide online services, including consultation, reservation and
test result inquiry. The
health authority intends to issue detailed online hospital regulations by May.
Precision-targeted marketing through big data enabled machine learning
Traditional systems could no longer be used with the increased volumes of data coming in. Novantas also needed to process and analyse a greater variety of data, such as audio from call center recordings and unstructured text in payments transactions data.
Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore proposes enhanced drone regulatory framework
A UA pilot licensing
framework will be introduced for certain UA operations to ensure
that UA pilots have a minimum competency level. CAAS will also introduce a UA training organisation
framework to
support the proposed UA pilot licensing.
Animated data visualisations on new website show human impact on the planet
It combines satellite imagery from NASA with over 300 free,
open-source geospatial datasets from the World Bank, the UNHCR, Berkeley
Earth, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Climate Central,
S&P Global, Kudelski, the International Renewable Energy Agency and WWF, and
others.
DEPA Thailand, UOB Thai and The Finlab join hands to help Thai SMEs with digital transformation
Selected SMEs will be guided by DEPA, UOB (Thai) and The
FinLab as they identify problem statements in their business and processes that
can be optimised with technology solutions. The FinLab will then curate and
shortlist suitable technology solutions and help the participating SMEs with
the pilot implementation of the solutions.
From genomic data to precision medicine via machine learning
Inova had generated petabytes of genomic and patient data, and needed to provide a way to process that data into a single data infrastructure. It could take weeks and months to pull data together for researchers with its previous data warehouse.