What started as a normal working day for most in the Asia Pacific soon turned into a huge workplace communication breakdown. Microsoft Teams, the proprietary business communication platform, which is part of the Microsoft 365 family of products, ran into problems. To be exact, Microsoft Teams were not able to communicate with anyone using the... Read more » Read more ›
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Baidu’s Apollo RT6 is purposefully designed for fully autonomous driving, with a detachable steering wheel unlocking space for a more versatile in-car experience. The model, with L4 autonomous driving capability, features 1200 TOPS of computing power and robust sensor architecture for complex urban environments. GM and Ford seeking regulator approval to test similar models in... Read more » Read more ›
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The world has been struggling with the lack of semiconductors and supply chip mayhem over the last two years. When things started looking promising once again earlier this year, more snags came along the way — the lack of chips to make chips. The fresh hurdles were detrimental to the wide scale of expansion by... Read more » Read more ›
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As always, cybercriminals continue to find new ways and methods to prey on victims. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, online scams and phishing methods targeted victims looking for vaccines and such. Many victims ended up losing their funds to cybercriminals over these scams. Apart from the pandemic, cybercriminals next targeted victims through phishing... Read more » Read more ›
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As the most used professional networking social media platform in the world, it is not surprising that LinkedIn has once again emerged as the most imitated brand in the second quarter of 2022. LinkedIn, which is mostly used by professionals to communicate with each other, develop leads and such, has about 66.8 million users in... Read more » Read more ›
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Article by Dr Fraser Thompson, Principal at Access Partnership and co-founder of AlphaBeta (part of Access Partnership) and Abhineet Kaul, Director at AlphaBeta. By some estimates, data centers around the world today use approximately 200-terawatt hours (TWh) of energy each year. In the most extreme scenario, if left to grow unchecked, by 2040, data storage... Read more » Read more ›
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We’ve all heard of burnout by now, and if you’re working in tech, chances are you’ve already experienced it. Best represented by a four dimensional model (Marisa Salanova and Wilmar Schaufeli, 2005) burnout includes emotional or energetic exhaustion, professional self-inefficacy, cynicism and depersonalisation. These are the four “ghosts of burnout” that haunt workers on a... Read more » Read more ›
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Although building a chip design team remains in a preliminary stage, TikTok’s parent company is exploring application-specific chips to support its services as China pushes to fast-track local semiconductor industry development. ByteDance will reportedly not sell its chips to others in China or abroad. China has been the world’s largest importer of foreign chips, which... Read more » Read more ›
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After Russia and India, China ranks third in the world for cyber breaches. Globally, 459 accounts are compromised every second. Malaysia witnesses a 733% spike in breaches as well. Following major cyber breaches in recent months, China displays a dramatic 1092% quarter-over-quarter increase in users who have had their data compromised. Just recently, a Shanghai... Read more » Read more ›
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Article by Vijay Vaidyanathan, Regional Vice-President, Solutions Engineering for Asia Pacific & Japan at Claroty. Around the world, organizations large and small are facing a growing deluge of cybercrimes, buoyed by a combination of seamless global connectivity and pervasive digitalization. But far from the glare of publicity, hackers are quietly pressing their attacks on... Read more » Read more ›
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Unauthorized access continue a big problem for organizations around the world. As data breaches continue to be a problem in almost every country today, understanding data breaches and how to mitigate them becomes ever so more important. In fact, for most businesses, the fear of being breached is one of the main reasons why some... Read more » Read more ›
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Keppel Data Center Fund II in strategic partnership with Heying to develop a new greenfield data center in Greater Beijing. Huailai Data Center development is being done in stages and is anticipated to be finished by the end of Q1 2023. As China’s digital businesses continue to grow and as traditional sectors continue to digitize,... Read more » Read more ›
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Indonesia is home to numerous tech companies and about 191 million social media users. The country continues to enjoy growth in e-commerce, with internet penetration increasing significantly in recent times. In fact, only China and India have more social media users in the Asia Pacific region. Social media in Indonesia has been experiencing some interesting... Read more » Read more ›
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Chinese TikTok, Douyin, is onto its second foray into the food delivery business, a market almost entirely controlled by Meituan and Alibaba’s Ele.me The project, still under exploration, is basically for restaurants that are willing to deliver their own food to users of the short video platform. It could be an uphill battle for Douyin... Read more » Read more ›
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Smartphone, a smart mobile device that is widely used by many is dominating our lives. We constantly see this gadget around us, permanently attached to our hands and ears. In fact, during the pandemic, smartphone usage increased, and it has since become a universal habit. In Southeast Asia alone, there will be 326.3 million smartphone... Read more » Read more ›
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Buy now pay later (BNPL) schemes of spreading payments across short-term installments has revolutionized the financial industry in recent times, especially when it comes to consumer buying power. What initially started as a payment option to enable customers to be able to make the most of their spending power soon became a go-to model for... Read more » Read more ›
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By November, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines are set to sign a deal to integrate their QR Code payment systems. It will then allow people to buy goods and services throughout the region by just scanning QR codes, bypassing the need for US dollars as intermediary. If you are planning to travel in... Read more » Read more ›
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The Asia Pacific region continues to see more unicorns as technology enables businesses to expand and achieve more possibilities than before. In fact, statistics show that Asia alone accounts for about 40% of unicorns worldwide with about 301 in China as of 2021. Tech unicorns are developing the fastest, especially with most of these businesses... Read more » Read more ›
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Article by Justin Chiah, Senior Director, South East Asia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong (SEATH) at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company The global pandemic did more than add 70 million users to the Internet in Southeast Asia, it put a spotlight on digital connectivity, and how strained global networks have become. It is not just... Read more » Read more ›
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After reporting a record 76.4% YoY increase in second-quarter profit, TSMC foresees the semiconductor industry to heal from excessive chip inventory for the rest of the year. The “excessive inventory” in the semiconductor supply chain will take a few quarters to rebalance to a healthier level, TSMC reckon. The chip shortage is starting to ease... Read more » Read more ›
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