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Feature: Why Singapore Car Washing Services Are Becoming Cheaper

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Feature: Why Singapore Car Washing Services Are Becoming Cheaper Look for These Issues To Drop Prices in Your Home Town Car Wash Next This article may contain affiliate links. Advancements in Technology Advancements in technology have also contributed to the decrease in car washing service prices in Singapore.

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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. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Today it is familiar worldwide.

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New algorithm to allow Wi-Fi connected cars to share Internet connections

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At the ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing this month in Portugal, researchers from MIT, Georgetown University and the National University of Singapore (NUS) will present a new algorithm that would allow Wi-Fi-connected cars to share their Internet connections. Unfortunately, what’s not cheap is communications.”

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Singapores A*Star Awards S$27.5M In Research Grants for Technologies for Sustainable Development

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In particular, one of the projects will explore the idea of using cheap and widely available magnesium oxide-based mineral silicates to trap carbon dioxide from industry flue gases via a process known as dry mineral carbonation. The by-products of this can be used as construction or landfill materials.

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V2O5/SnO2 nanowire electrodes for Li-ion batteries show high power density

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Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have coated SnO 2 nanowires with vanadium pentoxide (V 2 O 5 ) using a simple gas-phase-based method. An electrode made from the SnO 2 /V 2 O 5 core/shell-nanowires delivers a high power density of about 60 kW kg -1 while the energy density remains 282 Wh kg -1.

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A*STAR team combines fungal culture and acid hydrolyses for cost-effective production of fermentable sugars from palm oil waste

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Researchers from A*STAR in Singapore have developed a fungal culture for use in a cheap and efficient method to transform waste oil palm material into biofuels and environmentally friendly plastics. After the harvest of the fruit from oil palm trees, large amounts of leftover biomass known as empty fruit bunch remain.

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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

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It’s about one-twentieth the size of the minibus-scale geostationary satellites already in orbit, allowing for cheap and quick deployment. Prize Fight for Rain-Forest Tech In the Spring of 2023, Singapore will welcome 15 teams to the jungle for the semifinals of the XPrize Rainforest competition.

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