Singapore Tech News, Features & Reviews

Antigravity has moved the controls of its A1 drone onto a wrist. The company's new Follow Me Bundle swaps the goggles and the handheld grip controller for a Watch Remote and a Ring Remote, so a pilot can launch, follow and frame a shot without holding anything. Antigravity, the drone maker incubated by Insta360, is selling the bundle through its own store and at Best Buy.

Researchers have introduced PingpongDuo, a robotic framework enabling humanoid robots to play table tennis doubles through organised movements and alternating strikes. The system addresses challenges inherent in co-operative robotic play, including sharing limited space, swift repositioning, striking accuracy, and avoiding physical contact between partners.

Google has brought shopping tools into Gemini for users in Singapore, turning the assistant into a place to research a purchase rather than a place to be sent elsewhere. A shopping prompt now returns product listings, compiled reviews, comparison tables, cross platform pricing and stock checks inside the chat window itself. The company says the features are available to all users in the country, timed for the discount season.

China has established a new enterprise owned by the state, the National Data Group Co, tasked with managing vast national data resources. This development aims to accelerate the nation's artificial intelligence industry and its digital economy. Concurrently, Beijing is considering proposed export bans and controls on artificial intelligence technologies, actions that analysts suggest will tighten its grip on a strategically important sector.

Southeast Asia's digital economy is on course for USD 368 billion in gross merchandise value this year, up 17% on the year before and tracking past USD 1 trillion within a decade, according to the eleventh e-Conomy SEA report from Google, Temasek and Bain & Company. The headline the authors push is adoption rather than spend. Generative AI use has reached 243 million people, or 58% of the working population, in under three years, a pace four times faster than the mobile inter

Malaysia's National Cyber Security Committee has examined the security risks that come with Waze, the navigation app founded in Israel and owned by Google, and concluded that users should weigh an alternative. Malaysia's prime minister, who chaired the meeting, said the app falls under Israeli government laws, which places the location data it collects within another country's legal reach. According to Free Malaysia Today, he set out the position in a Facebook post after the

ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent have placed orders for over 3 million of Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards. Their collective value exceeds USD 35 billion amidst US trade restrictions with China, according to Reuters.

Qualcomm is to implement a programme of global job reductions, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters. These cuts, described as a "performance-focused reduction," follow the organisation's annual employee reviews. CEO Cristiano Amon informed staff that notifications for affected personnel are scheduled to commence in Nov.

Ant Group's BaiLing team has released its Ming-3.0 speech models as open source, five models that fall into speech synthesis, audio understanding and dialogue, and speech recognition. Developers can take one for a single job or chain several into a workflow. According to Ifeng Tech, the release notice carries no parameter counts, no benchmark scores and no licence terms.

vivo has confirmed Singapore pricing and availability for its X500 Series, two handsets built around long range photography. The Pro Max carries a 200 megapixel ZEISS APO telephoto camera with an 85mm equivalent lens, and the standard X500 steps down to a 72mm equivalent unit. Both ship with OriginOS 7, which now talks to Apple's ecosystem.