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France’s Atos opens debt restructuring talks after posting record losses

ATOS, the crisis-hit French IT consulting firm whose shares plummeted over the last two years, said it was aiming to restructure its heavy pile of debt by July, paving the way for a potential capital increase to shore up its balance sheet.

Mar 29, 2024

Apple set to unveil AI strategy at Jun 10 developers conference

APPLE plans to kick off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Jun 10, when the company is expected to unveil its long-anticipated artificial intelligence (AI) strategy. The iPhone maker announced the timing on Tuesday (Mar 26), saying the event will run till Jun 14.

Mar 29, 2024

50 years ago, superconductors were warming up

Superconductivity, the property by which certain metals lose all their electrical resistance, would be a grand thing to use technologically were it not for the extreme refrigeration necessary. Every superconductor has a transition temperature above which it becomes an ordinary conductor. Most transition temperatures are near absolute zero.

Mar 19, 2024

Beijing places sanctions on US arms companies Lockheed and Raytheon

The sanctions are counter-measures against the two companies over a US$100 million Feb 7 arms sale that "undermined China's security interests, seriously undermined China-US relations and peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait", foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular news briefing.

Mar 19, 2024

This AI architect will design your climate-friendly dream home

GIANT robots made by Austin startup Icon began 3D-printing an entire neighbourhood of suburban homes in late 2022; on Tuesday (Mar 12), the company introduced an AI architect to design them. It’s a technological leap that Icon says could one day spell the demise of cookie-cutter suburbia, ushering in an era of lower cost, lower carbon and climate-resilient homes in wildly novel forms.

Mar 19, 2024

Political Methodology Lab to dig deep into new kinds of data

Political scientists with a quantitative bent have long relied on time-tested tools such as in-person and telephone surveys and official government statistics. But the rapid ascendance of digital technology and the emergence of new channels for communication and information pose a challenge for data-based social science.

Mar 19, 2024

Singapore paves way for local space tech start-ups to take flight on global stage

Feb 26, 2024

SIA to offer free unlimited wi-fi in all cabin classes — yes, even in economy — from July 1, as long as passengers do this pre-flight

Feb 26, 2024

New software could make lithium-ion batteries safer, longer-lasting

https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/tech-news/new-software-could-make-lithium-ion-batteries-safer-longer-lasting

Feb 23, 2024

S’pore to invest up to $100m to upgrade Nationwide Broadband Network to deliver 10Gbps speed

https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/s-pore-to-invest-up-to-100m-to-upgrade-national-broadband-network-to-10gbps

Feb 23, 2024