AI is disrupting the 2024 US election, and worldwide. Regulation slow, leaving elections vulnerable to manipulation. For several years now, AI has disrupted the public’s ability to trust what it sees, hears, and reads. A noteworthy example is the Republican National Committee’s recent release of an AI-generated ad depicting an imagined nightmarish future in which... Read more » Read more ›
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Singapore’s tech trade association SGTech last week announced the formation of a Digital Trust Committee, witnessed by Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Kiat. According to the organization, this move aimed to rally the industry to come together to develop a framework for digital trust and enable companies to provide products and services using data, that... Read more » Read more ›
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Australian businesses have been getting increasingly comfy with technology over the last couple of years. Be it cloud adoption or machine learning, businesses in the land down under are fast realizing the potential of higher technological use. With IoT usage increasing, Australian businesses need to have the right infrastructures in place to ensure they get... Read more » Read more ›
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Prices of semiconductor chips have been climbing since the last quarter of 2020 amid a global supply crunch. Taiwan’s TSMC is the most recent to announce intentions to increase prices of most advanced chips by roughly 10%; less advanced chips will cost about 20% more. The industry-wide move likely will impact the sticker prices of... Read more » Read more ›
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We’ve heard about the potential horrors of automation, and when it comes to automated accounting, it might make some people, especially accountants, nervous. But should that be the case? Historically, many SMEs and startups still struggle to stay afloat, even before the pandemic turned our lives upside down. As it turns out, one of the... Read more » Read more ›
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Ladies first. Women’s health and wellness are the priority in female technology. From software and apps to devices and drugs, femtech is designed to improve women’s quality of life in mind. An industry report said the femtech market is valued at $18.7 billion in 2019 and will rise to $60 billion by 2027. It divided... Read more » Read more ›
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Experts reckon Indoensia’s grocery market could be worth US$169.4 billion by next year. The country is also projected to be the fourth-biggest grocery market in Asia in 2022 – after China, India, and Japan. For Indonesia, being the largest country in Southeast Asia with a population of over 273 million, the enforcement of Large-Scale Social... Read more » Read more ›
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While the public and private cloud models both have their strengths and weaknesses, the hybrid cloud model is now being the preferred choice for most organizations today, especially for those dealing with sensitive data. As adoption rapidly grows, Gartner predicts that global end-user spending on public cloud services alone is expected to exceed US$ 480... Read more » Read more ›
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Australia’s travel industry was impacted just as bad as the the rest of the world. With the world facing an unprecedented social and economic downturn due to the COVID-19 pandemic, travel and tourism continue to face a massive decline in international demand amid travel restrictions, including the closure of international borders. According to the UNWTO... Read more » Read more ›
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Sometimes compromises are made in a rush to meet deadlines. Launch the app first and get back to the technical polish later. But later never comes as work keeps piling up. Eventually, even minor cracks deepen into massive money pits. Technical debt costs businesses $6,000 per second and is estimated to cost $5 trillion over... Read more » Read more ›
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Corporate digital payments are on the rise in India, as more and more businesses hop on the corporate card wagon, with growing transaction volumes marking the growing dependability on corporate cards by companies. Though traditionally restricted to travel-related expenditures, businesses spending via corporate cards now presents a budding opportunity worth US$500 billion in India. This... Read more » Read more ›
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Automation solutions are becoming increasingly in demand for most organizations today. Industries are not only looking at automation solutions to improve their productivity and efficiency but also to help deal with the shortage of skilled employees. While most automated solutions are often used to automate mundane and repetitive tasks, these jobs are often not favorable... Read more » Read more ›
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Late to the electric vehicle race, Japanese carmakers accelerate plans as sales grow. Toyota Motors will invest 1.5 trillion yen (US$13.6 billion) in batteries used for electric and Toyota’s hybrid vehicles by 2030 In May this year, Toyota Motor Corp’s executive Jun Nagata told a media conference that by 2030, the price of batteries for... Read more » Read more ›
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Risk management sees a new chart-topper, climate change, in terms of long and short-term risks for Asia-Pacific (APAC) banks. A whopping 90% of APAC bank chief risk officers (CROs) are now seeing climate change as a top long-term emerging risk over the next five years that requires urgent attention in the next 12 months. This... Read more » Read more ›
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Note: The views represented here are of the author’s and do not represent Tech Wire Asia. In 2008, China officially, for the first time, surpassed the United States to become the world’s largest internet-using population, reaching 221 million users. By August 2021, more than one billion out of China’s 1.5 billion population were already on... Read more » Read more ›
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In the final part of this series on renewable energy in APAC, Tech Wire Asia speaks to Ken Haig, Head of Energy Policy for Asia Pacific & Japan at AWS on what regional players and the private sector at large can do to address challenges of the renewable energy landscape in the Asia Pacific Read... Read more » Read more ›
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Robots in agriculture are becoming increasingly used by the industry today. An example would be the multiple analytics and machine learning tools used in smart farming to help with predicting harvests. One of these tools, agriculture robots, are normally used collaboratively (known as cobots). These robots possess mechanical arms and make harvesting much easier for... Read more » Read more ›
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Data management is proving to become a challenge as its proliferation has become too overwhelming for many companies to handle. We are living in a time where saying there’s an abundance of data around us is an understatement. More than 59 zettabytes of data will be created, captured, copied, and consumed in 2020, according to... Read more » Read more ›
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Beijing is moving swiftly to cut dependence on the West for crucial components like chips. SMIC is the best hope for China for gaining clout in advanced chips used in devices from smartphones to base stations. SMIC’s 28nm colossus won’t get China closer to self-sufficiency in stuff it buys from Intel and AMD but will... Read more » Read more ›
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Everybody wants good internet. But to have good internet, the network connectivity and infrastructure have to be stable and reliable. Latency issues need to be solved and increased bandwidth speeds are key to achieving that. While the internet is available in most parts of Southeast Asia, there are still several areas with poor coverage. Some... Read more » Read more ›
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Barring dubious and possibly illegal online activities, which e-Commerce seller wouldn’t want to increase online sales? E-Commerce services, as you would know by now, continue to explode in popularity, especially in the Asia Pacific. As extended lockdowns force more people to stay home, more businesses are moving online, hence increasing the demand for e-Commerce. However,... Read more » Read more ›
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