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Singapore Becomes Asia’s Crypto Financial Center

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 […]

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U.S. suppliers suspend business with Chinese memory makers

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

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Firefox OS resurrected

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.

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NASA announces DART successfully deflected asteroid orbit

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

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LHAASO observes highest-energy gamma-ray burst to date

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

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India faces outbreak of antibiotic-resistant superbug

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

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European Court of Human Rights finds Swiss pensions discriminate against men

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

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Blender adds support for Wayland

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

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VirtualBox 7.0.0 Released to Support Full Encryption

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

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