Singapore

ASEAN Tech 6 min GoTo Releases a 27-Billion-Parameter Indonesian Language Model, Built With AI Singapore The Gojek and Tokopedia owner calls it open-source. It ships under Google's Gemma licence, needs up to 60 GB o... DA Daniel Koh 20 Oct Home & Living 6 min How hard design rain falls on a roof gutter in Singapore and Malaysia The water a roof gutter must carry is the design rainfall intensity multiplied by the roof's catchment area, a... AM Amelia Wong 19 Oct Chinese Culture 6 min How Chinese almanacs decide which hours are yellow and which are black Chinese almanacs split the day into twelve two-hour blocks and label each one yellow path or black path by the... EV Eva Chin 18 Oct Science 6 min Horsepower, PS and kilowatts, and where the torque and power curves cross Car power is printed in mechanical horsepower, metric horsepower (PS) or kilowatts, three units that differ by... KE Kenji Tanaka 18 Oct Health & Wellness 6 min CURB-65 death rates checked against the paper that defined the score CURB-65 grades community-acquired pneumonia in adults with one point each for confusion, raised urea, fast bre... PR Priya Nair 18 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min Singapore Serves Haze Notices on Seven Indonesian Firms NEA's notices order the companies to fight fires and stop burning. Fines or charges are within consideration,... SA Sarah Chew 17 Oct Finance 6 min Doubling times from the rule of 72 fit interest compounded once a year The rule of 72 estimates the years money takes to double by dividing 72 by the yearly interest rate. It works... SA Sarah Chew 16 Oct Health & Wellness 6 min Field-test formulas for VO2 max put the same run at very different values Field tests estimate VO2 max, the most oxygen the body can use per minute for each kilogram of body weight, fr... AM Amelia Wong 16 Oct Science 6 min The clock rule taught for crosswind reads high, most of all at sixty degrees The crosswind on a runway is the wind speed times the sine of the angle between wind and runway, and flight tr... KE Kenji Tanaka 16 Oct ASEAN Tech 5 min Singapore Says It May Act Against the Firms Behind the Haze. Its 2015 Haze Cases Are Still Open PM Wong cited the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act as unhealthy air persisted. Four investigations from the 20... SA Sarah Chew 16 Oct ASEAN Tech 5 min Ubisoft Cuts 70 Jobs at Its Singapore Studio, Which Singapore Helped Fund About a fifth of the studio's staff go as Ubisoft cuts costs worldwide. How much public money it received, and... DA Daniel Koh 15 Oct Cybersecurity 4 min Nine in 10 Singapore Organisations Had a Cyber Incident Last Year. Almost Half of Businesses Think They Are Not a Target CSA's 2025 health survey of 2,005 organisations puts ransomware first. A new helpline promises a two-hour call... PR Priya Nair 15 Oct Science 6 min Jet lag by direction, worked through on routes out of Singapore and Hong Kong Flying east asks the body clock to run earlier and flying west asks it to run later, and early estimates from... KE Kenji Tanaka 15 Oct ASEAN Tech 5 min Anthropic Opens in Singapore and Signs an AI Safety Pact. What It Commits To Is Less Clear The MOU with the digital ministry covers model evaluation and incident response, a day after Singapore asked A... DA Daniel Koh 15 Oct Statistics 6 min Hundreds of subject combinations can add up to the same PSLE Score Singapore's PSLE Score adds four Achievement Levels into a total from 4 to 32, where lower is better, and MOE... NA Nadia Rahim 15 Oct Statistics 6 min Singapore's golf tees turn one handicap index into very different stroke counts A Course Handicap rescales a golfer's Handicap Index by the Slope Rating of the tee being played. Across the 8... NA Nadia Rahim 15 Oct Science 6 min Shortcut WBGT formulas land on both sides of Singapore's measured heat stress Singapore's official heat stress readings blend three thermometers, one of them in the sun. Checked against 30... KE Kenji Tanaka 15 Oct Health & Wellness 5 min Singapore's Haze Turns 'Very Unhealthy' as Free N95 Masks Go Out Western Singapore's air turned very unhealthy on Wednesday night. What NEA advises, and who qualifies for a fr... AM Amelia Wong 15 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min Singapore and Google DeepMind Build a Scam Detector That Reads Chats Only on Your Phone GovTech fine-tuned Gemma on local scam conversations to warn users in real time without sending messages to an... SA Sarah Chew 15 Oct Home & Living 6 min Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong codes set stair risers lower than a US layout assumes Singapore's Fire Code and Hong Kong's Fire Safety Code limit risers in their escape stairs to 175 mm, and Mala... AM Amelia Wong 14 Oct Science 6 min Humidity adds close to 400 feet to density altitude at Changi Water vapour is lighter than dry air, so humid air raises density altitude even at a sea-level airport. At Cha... KE Kenji Tanaka 14 Oct Health & Wellness 6 min Calculated LDL reads lower on Friedewald's formula than on Martin-Hopkins at high triglycerides A calculated LDL is total cholesterol minus HDL minus an estimate of the cholesterol in VLDL, and the Friedewa... PR Priya Nair 14 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min Singapore Wants Organisations to Finish Switching to Quantum-Safe Encryption by 2035 The Cyber Security Agency asks exposed organisations for a migration plan by the end of 2027, gives critical i... SA Sarah Chew 14 Oct Science 6 min The same wind speed can mean twice the pressure, depending on its averaging time Wind pressure follows the square of the speed, so whether a figure is a 3-second gust or a 10-minute mean can... KE Kenji Tanaka 12 Oct