oBike is Singapore’s first homegrown station-less smart bike-sharing company which uses technology to change how transportation is viewed locally. It allows commuters to travel during one-way first- and last- mile commuting – via bicycles located all over the island. This provides a convenient and environmentally-friendly commute option for all, especially given Singapore’s compact size and …
Ask most folks what they would need to find planets orbiting distant stars, and very few will list a bottle of iodine. Yet the element iodine plays a vital role in the search for extrasolar planets (exoplanets) in the form of devices called “iodine absorption cells”: sealed glass cylinders about the size of a soup …
Apologies to Patreon users. There was a manual process of creating user login accounts on the site. And there was a process gap in getting the email signups set up as user accounts. This has now been corrected. Any new patreons should have gotten a login setup this morning. The email would provide user name …
Nature – Discovery of a big void in Khufu’s Pyramid by observation of cosmic-ray muons The Great Pyramid or Khufu’s Pyramid was built on the Giza Plateau (Egypt) during the IVth dynasty by the pharaoh Khufu (Cheops), who reigned from 2509 to 2483 BC1. Despite being one of the oldest and largest monuments on Earth, …
Researchers found adding a solution of nanodiamonds to a lithium battery, would serve as a sort of ordered template for the lithium. If the particles could slot into place evenly, as guided by the nanodiamond solution, they wouldn’t stack up and form dendrites. It would cut off the possibility of a short-circuit right at the …
Potential modernization plans of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) were revealed in unprecedented detail by a former rear admiral in a university lecture, perhaps delivered within the last 2-3 years. The admiral, retired Rear Admiral Zhao Dengping, revealed key programs such as: a new medium-size nuclear attack submarine; a small nuclear auxiliary engine for …
A 72 page unclassified report has been issued by the US Navy on the collisions involving the destroyers USS Fitzgerald and the USS McCain. It was not hacking but incompetence and inability to perform basic navigation and this problem was not just those two ships and not just the seventh fleet but is an endemic …
Singapore wants to bolster its status as a wealth management and foreign-exchange center as part of plans to create more financial-sector jobs and mitigate the effect of rapid changes in technology. Singapore adding financial jobs when globally 30% of banking jobs are being automated by 2023 In a plan unveiled Monday, the Monetary Authority of …
Proof of gravitational waves came on Sept. 14, 2015, when two giant, L-shaped, 2-mile-long laser instruments, one set up in a swamp in Louisiana and the other in Hanford, Washington, detected a tiny ripple in space, a “chirp” that reached Earth from the gigantic collision of two black holes a billion years ago. The 2017 …
ZTE has launched a foldable smartphone with dual screen technology that enables the true power of multitasking. Two identical 5.1 inch displays combine to provide a 6.75 inch display. It also has a 20 megapixel camera. ZTE is ranked by independent industry analysts as the fourth-largest supplier of mobile devices in the U.S. overall, and …
In 2017, social/casual gaming global revenue will surpass traditional gaming according to PWc and continue to accelerate away at a much higher growth rate for the remainder of the forecast period. Social/casual gaming will surge at 11.9% CAGR and is expected to reach US$74.3bn by 2021. Total video games revenue in mainland China reached US$15.4 …