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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Even in his home of Singapore, few people know of Tan or Trek. Today it is familiar worldwide. Why aren’t they more famous?

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Cellulosic biogasoline company Cool Planet completes second close of D Round, raises another $19.4M; $60M total

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The round added investors from Hong Kong, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Mexico to the existing investor base, including North Bridge Venture Partners, Shea Ventures, BP, Google Ventures, Energy Technology Ventures (GE, ConocoPhillips, NRG Energy), and the Constellation division of Exelon.

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An Undersea Cable Could Fill In the Gaps on Fiber-Optic Maps

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Even as Google and Meta set their sights on building entirely new lines that will drastically boost the continent’s capacity, those lines hug well-trodden, predictable routes. There is one effort that hopes to do what Google and Meta won’t—SAEx, or the Southern Oceans Network. But it’s been slow to come.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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Advanced technology, prototype vehicles, and business plans are being developed by Google, car sharing services like Car2Go (Daimler), Uber, automakers, network providers, software and technology suppliers. From Shanghai to Singapore to Silicon Valley, you will see these services sooner than most forecast. No one was hurt. Think of a.

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Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

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Meanwhile, Singapore is funding a US $52 million open-source development effort for Southeast Asia, and the UAE continues to bankroll some of the largest available open generative AI models. The White House declined to require premarket licenses for AI models in its executive order. agreed to partially exempt open models from its AI Act.

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EV gameplan: Strategic tie-ups, fund raising, the way forward | Autocar Professional

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A strong bounce back in the volume market share — led by the XUV 700, Scorpio N and Thar — and claiming the top spot in revenue share in the SUV segment earned M&M a second marque investor from Singapore, Temasek, in 2023.

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Alphabet’s Intrinsic Acquires Majority of Open Robotics

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Open Robotics is an “umbrella brand” that includes OSRF (the Open Source Robotics Foundation), OSRC (the Open Source Robotics Corporation), and OSRC-SG, OSRC’s Singapore office. An OSRC office in Singapore opened in 2019. If you combine these three entities together, you get Open Robotics.