Singapore on Friday announced new rules for mobile taxi booking apps, including US-based Uber, in the latest move by governments around the world to regulate the increasingly popular services.
Software
Nov 21, 2014
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The introduction of smartcard ticketing for Singapore's public transport system has enabled A*STAR researchers to provide valuable predictive data on potential train overloading. This will enable system planners to address ...
Engineering
Nov 19, 2014
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Singaporeans outraged by an electronics shop that left a Vietnamese tourist in tears after a phone-sale scam have raised thousands of dollars to compensate him, a crowdfunding site showed Thursday.
Other
Nov 6, 2014
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An international study has devised a new measure for the "livability" of major cities across the world. The Global Liveable Cities Index (GLCI) takes into account the sensibilities of ordinary working people from 64 cities, ...
Social Sciences
Nov 5, 2014
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A multidisciplinary team at the Centre d'Elaboration de Matériaux et d'Etudes Structurales (CEMES, CNRS), working in collaboration with physicists in Singapore and chemists in Bristol (UK), have shown that crystalline gold ...
Nanophysics
Oct 29, 2014
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Singapore will deploy a huge tethered surveillance balloon to boost its maritime and air security, the defence ministry has announced.
Other
Oct 29, 2014
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A new Interpol centre to be opened in Singapore next year will strengthen global efforts to fight increasingly tech-savvy international criminals, officials said on Tuesday.
Security
Sep 30, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Faster, smaller, greener computers, capable of processing information up to 1,000 times faster than currently available models, could be made possible by replacing silicon with materials that can switch back ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Sep 19, 2014
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At the Intelligent Transportation Systems World Congress last week, MIT researchers received one of the best-paper awards for a new system, dubbed RoadRunner, that uses GPS-style turn-by-turn directions to route drivers around ...
Engineering
Sep 16, 2014
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Indonesia's parliament on Tuesday voted to ratify a regional agreement on cross-border haze as fires ripped through forests in the west of the country, choking neighbouring Singapore with hazardous smog.
Environment
Sep 16, 2014
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