A team at the National University of Singapore, led by Assistant Professor Tural Khudiyev, has created a flexible display by weaving 54 electronic fibers—each embedding LEDs and touch sensors within a one-millimeter-thick structure—into a garment sleeve. The 168mm by 105mm prototype displays images and video at 30 frames per second, responds to touch, connects wirelessly to devices, and maintains performance after 50 machine-wash cycles.
designboom.com
· 2026-10-29
Code found in Google Wallet version 26.42.1003171897 points to a new 'Overseas QR payments' feature called Traveler QR. A linked Google support page describes automatic activation when a phone detects it's in a supported region, currently naming only Alipay Plus partner networks in Singapore.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-10-27
Engineers at the National University of Singapore, led by Fu Heng, created millimeter-thick fibers embedding thousands of LED chips and pressure sensors, woven into a sweater sleeve to act as an interactive display. The fibers survived 50 machine washes and 1,000 bending cycles, and can be produced up to 10 meters long with added components like microphones and temperature sensors, though the prototype still needs external batteries and controllers.
tech.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-23
Ubisoft has proposed closing its Finnish studio RedLynx, affecting up to 52 positions, while cutting 70 roles at Ubisoft Singapore out of roughly 350 staff. Both studios had been supporting other Ubisoft projects under the company's Creative Network division. Ubisoft says the Singapore cuts are meant to align the studio with upcoming production needs.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-14
Singapore's Formula 1 weekend coincided with more than 40 business conferences this year, up from over 30 in 2024 and over 25 in 2025, according to the Singapore Tourism Board. Events included the Milken Institute Asia Summit, TOKEN2049, the Forbes Global CEO Conference and the Solana Summit APAC, while race organizers reported 301,294 spectators, the second-highest attendance in the event's history.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-14
Xinyu Dong, a materials scientist at the National University of Singapore, is adapting freeze casting—a method traditionally used to build ceramic bone-repair scaffolds—to engineer hydrogels with improved structural properties. The technique involves freezing a water-based slurry in a controlled direction so ice crystals push material particles into an organized porous network, which is later preserved after the ice is removed. Dong began this work during her PhD in 2020 and has since extended the approach to aerogels and, in 2024, proposed a new variation of the freeze-casting process for hydrogels.
nature.com
· 2026-10-14
Max Verstappen won the Singapore Grand Prix sprint and then claimed pole position for Sunday's race, ahead of Ferraris driven by Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton. He led the race from start to finish despite radio communication issues, managing his tires well enough to retain the lead through his pit stop.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-12
Researchers in Singapore have created an atomic clock capable of measuring time with unprecedented accuracy, reaching the 19th decimal place. This new device surpasses all previous records for precision in timekeeping.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-08
Singapore's Government Technology Agency is piloting FirstDate, a dating service limited to public officers aged 21-35. Rather than offering a browsable feed of profiles, it gives each participant one suggested match per cycle, generated via the Gale-Shapley stable-matching algorithm, along with a compatibility score and brief notes; both parties have 72 hours to accept before contact details are shared.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-02
GovTech has started a pilot dating programme called FirstDate, beginning with government employees as its first users. Applicants must complete a 30-plus question survey covering hobbies, food preferences, travel habits and communication style, verify their identity via Singpass, and receive one match per cycle, with contact details shared only if both parties agree.
singapore-samizdat.com
· 2026-10-02
Bjorn R. Watne, Interpol's global chief information security officer, told CNBC that AI is mainly accelerating existing fraud and scam tactics rather than creating new ones. He said AI lets scammers target many victims at once and use better translation and fake digital identities, making fraudulent interactions harder to spot.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-02
Malaysian national Ye Lin, 30, sent a colleague a Google Gemini-generated photo of a saltwater crocodile purportedly in Singapore's Pandan Reservoir. The image spread until it reached national water agency officials, prompting a days-long search that shut down the 435-acre reservoir and halted canoe and rowing club activities before authorities determined the photo was fake.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-01
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