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Two major cryptocurrency market giants, Coinbase and Blockchain.com, have successively received approval from the Central Bank of Singapore to offer payment services in Singapore. This brings the number of cryptocurrency companies licensed to operate in Singapore to 18. As of January this year, about 180 companies had applied to Singapore for cryptocurrency payment licenses. In […]

U.S. chip tool suppliers KLA and Lam Research suspended operations in Yangtze Memory after the Commerce Department imposed new restrictions on chip exports. U.S. suppliers suspended support for installed equipment, suspended new equipment installations, and pulled staff out of YMTC. U.S. suppliers have dozens of employees stationed at YMTC’s factories and play an important role

A BBC investigation found that refugees in Syrian refugee camps begged for donations on TikTok, and TikTok took as much as 70% of the donations. TikTok said it would take appropriate action to combat “exploitation and begging,” saying its cut of digital gifts was well below 70 percent, but declined to give specific figures. Earlier

Mozilla abandoned its open-source mobile operating system, Firefox OS, in 2016, followed by the emergence of KaiOS, a commercial operating system primarily aimed at the feature phone market, based on Firefox OS. But it’s disappointing that KaiOS is both closed and tracked and has ads. Its fork, GerdaOS, promises to bring openness to KaiOS devices.

NASA’s spacecraft on the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission successfully slammed into an asteroid called Dimorphos on September 26. This is the world’s first demonstration of planetary defense technology, testing whether an impact could deflect an asteroid’s orbit. NASA announced on Tuesday that DART successfully deflected the orbit of an asteroid. Dimorphos is an

High Energy Physics writes : “The highest-energy gamma-ray burst so far was triggered by satellite observations of GRB 221009A, and was simultaneously detected by LHAASO-WCDA and LHAASO+KM2A. The detection energy of LHAASO-WCDA was higher than 500 GeV, and the center was located at the right ascension. 288.3 degrees, 19.7 degrees declination, more than 100-fold significance

India is one of the countries worst affected by antibiotic-resistant superbugs . Nearly 60,000 newborns die each year from infection with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. A new report from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in India says resistance to carbapenem antibiotics is increasing by 10% a year. Carbapenems are powerful antibiotics used to treat life-threatening

The European Court of Human Rights found Swiss pension rules discriminated against men . The existing pension rules stipulate that widows who have lost their husbands can receive pensions for the rest of their lives, while widowers who have lost their widows will not be able to continue to receive pensions after the children become

A paper signed by a Nobel Prize winner and a paper signed by an unknown author, which one would you prefer to publish as a reviewer? According to a paper preprint , author names have a huge impact on reviewers. For more objective results, the study supports double anonymity for peer review—reviewer identities are kept

Open source 3D graphic design software Blender is ready to add native support for Wayland to its Linux version. The daily builds of Blender have Wayland support enabled, and if all goes well Blender 3.4 will be released with Wayland support by default. Wayland, a display server replacement for X11, started in 2008, but only

The $10 billion JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) cloud computing contract awarded to Microsoft by the U.S. Department of Defense in 2019 sparked controversy and eventually led to the withdrawal of the contract. The Pentagon then pursued a strategy of diversifying cloud computing providers beyond a single cloud provider. The U.S. Army had previously purchased

The virtual machine software VirtualBox has released version 7.0.0. Key new features include: support for full encryption, including virtual machine configuration logs and save state (CLI only); cloud virtual machines can be added to Virtual Machine Manager and controlled like local virtual machines; DirectX 11 3D acceleration support; Secure Boot support; Configure cloud networks through

Billionaire Yuri Milner announced Monday that he has officially renounced his Russian citizenship, completing the process in August. He founded investment firm DST Global in 2009, which has invested in companies including Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Airbnb and Xiaomi. Milner said on his website that he has been an Israeli citizen since 1999 and that his