Author: Mark Ko
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GoRental founder and CEO Colin Peh started the company in 2017, when battery-powered alternatives to diesel generators were still a fringe idea. Eight years on, GoRental has deployed clean energy systems at Singapore’s National Day Parade, Formula 1, healthcare sites and flood-hit communities in Thailand. In this feature, Colin reflects on the tensions of building…
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vivo Singapore launches the V70 FE with a 200 MP camera, 7000 mAh battery, and IP68/IP69 water resistance at S$599, targeting travel and content creation users.
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Kaspersky’s 2025 global report finds government and industrial sectors top the list of most-targeted industries, as APT attacks and social engineering drive high-severity incidents worldwide.
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Kyndryl has launched its Agentic Service Management offering, a structured framework designed to help enterprises govern and scale autonomous AI systems as they move from pilots into production environments. The offering combines a maturity model, structured assessments, and implementation blueprints to help organisations transition from traditional IT service operations to intelligent, autonomous workflows. It is…
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Alibaba has released Qwen3.6-Plus, the latest iteration of its flagship large language model series, designed to advance agentic coding and multimodal reasoning for enterprise deployment. The model is built around what Alibaba calls a “capability loop” — the ability to perceive, reason, and act within a single workflow. Unlike earlier models focused on passive assistance,…
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Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has uncovered an active malicious campaign distributing a previously undocumented remote access trojan (RAT) that combines extensive data theft capabilities with an unusual “prankware” feature designed to psychologically taunt its victims. Dubbed CrystalX RAT, the malware is being sold as malware-as-a-service (MaaS) and actively promoted on YouTube and Telegram, raising the likelihood…
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Lazada has reported strong results from its 14th anniversary Birthday Sale, with platform-wide gross merchandise value (GMV) growing more than 3.5 times compared to non-campaign periods — and its artificial intelligence shopping assistant emerging as a meaningful contributor to sales across Southeast Asia. The campaign, the eCommerce platform’s first major sale of 2026, showed a…
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Tencent Cloud has partnered with ComfyUI, the open-source generative AI workflow platform, to integrate its Tencent HY 3D Global technology as native Partner Nodes within ComfyUI’s interface. The collaboration gives millions of creators direct access to advanced 3D generation capabilities without leaving their existing pipelines. What the integration enables Through the partnership, ComfyUI now supports…
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Sumsub, the global full-cycle verification platform, and ComplyAdvantage, a provider of AI-driven financial crime compliance solutions, have announced a strategic partnership to enhance anti-money laundering (AML) screening for compliance teams worldwide. How the integration works ComplyAdvantage’s AI-native Mesh platform will serve as the foundational intelligence layer powering Sumsub’s AML screening across its Know-Your-Customer (KYC), Know-Your-Business…
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![[Commentary] The End of LumiHealth May Quietly Mark the Return of Watch Freedom](https://techcoffeehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-Apple_keynote-event_guests-apple-watch-series-5_091019.jpg)
For the past few years, my wrist wasn’t just tracking my runs. It was tracking my incentives. Like many runners in Singapore, I participated in LumiHealth — Apple’s programme in partnership with the Health Promotion Board that rewarded users with vouchers for staying active. It was simple behavioural economics. Close your rings, hit your activity…
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