Singapore Tech News & Gadget Reviews

Google used its first Google for Health Summit to announce a research hub in Singapore, a clinical evaluation with a national health cluster and a population health programme built on predictive models. The company said the work expands the National AI Partnership it signed with the Singapore Government earlier this year, and frames the country as a regional launchpad for health AI that can be deployed at scale.

Garmin has put a microphone and a speaker into its newest premium cycling computer, letting riders ask for ride data, directions and messages without moving their hands off the bars. The Edge 1060, announced by Garmin Singapore, responds to the wake phrase Okay, Garmin, and answers out loud through the integrated speaker.

A banker in southern China's Guangdong province has been watching microdramas so compulsively that she once kept going while she showered. Shen Jiaoqi told the South China Morning Post that the appeal was as much the look of the shows as their plots, because AI had made the characters stunning. Her habit is one small tile in a very large picture, and that picture has become a battlefield for two of China's biggest technology companies.