Category: Technology

Business

Keppel DC REIT Boosts Fundraising to S$625 Million After Strong Investor Demand

SINGAPORE — Keppel DC REIT has increased the size of its latest private placement to S$625 million, up from about S$600 million, after the fundraising drew strong demand from institutional and accredited investors globally. The placement was approximately 3.4 times covered, with the majority of the new units allocated to long-only investors and real-estate specialists, according to the REIT manager. The capital raising comes just days after Keppel DC REIT announced plans to expand its footprin

September 2, 2026

Business

PAYMONGO AND SKYRO MOVE TO CLOSE PH CREDIT GAP — BUT THE BIGGER SHIFT MAY ALREADY BE HAPPENING

MANILA, Philippines — Digital payments are surging across the Philippines, but access to formal credit remains a major hurdle for millions of Filipinos. Now, fintech companies PayMongo and Skyro are trying to close that gap by connecting Skyro-approved credit with PayMongo’s growing network of QR Ph merchants. The partnership allows eligible Skyro customers to use their approved credit at participating merchants on PayMongo’s network through QR Ph — without requiring businesses to install new

September 2, 2026

Singapore

Singapore’s Economy Gets a Major Upgrade — But a New Risk Is Emerging

Private-sector economists have dramatically upgraded their outlook for Singapore’s economy, raising the 2026 GDP growth forecast to 5% from 3.5% as artificial-intelligence demand, exports and manufacturing continue to outperform expectations. The latest forecast comes from the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Survey of Professional Forecasters, released on September 2, with 21 economists and analysts participating. AI boom pushes Singapore growth higher The upgrade follows surprisingl

September 2, 2026

Business

Converge Says Filipino MSMEs Don’t Need More Tech—They Need One Thing Before AI Can Take Off

MANILA, Philippines — Artificial intelligence, cloud computing, digital payments and e-commerce tools are becoming easier for Filipino entrepreneurs to access. But Converge ICT Solutions Inc. says getting the technology into the hands of small businesses may actually be the easy part. The bigger challenge is convincing entrepreneurs that these tools are simple enough, affordable enough—and useful enough—to trust with their businesses. That emerging “trust gap” is becoming a crucial issue as Ph

September 2, 2026

Politics

Germany Blames Russia for Explosive Drone Plot at Leipzig Airport — And Berlin Is Now Striking Back

BERLIN — Germany has formally accused Russia of orchestrating an attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month, escalating an already tense confrontation between Berlin and Moscow and raising fresh concerns about Russian hybrid operations across Europe. German authorities say an explosives-laden drone was discovered at the airport on Aug. 4, close to Ukrainian cargo aircraft. The device was safely defused, but investigators believe the incident was a deliberately planned attack rat

September 2, 2026

Business

OpenAI Says Its Next AI Model Is So Powerful It Needs New Guardrails — Here’s What Astra Can Do

SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI is preparing to release a new artificial intelligence model that the company says has become capable enough to require a higher level of security protection before wider deployment. The model, called Astra, has demonstrated cybersecurity capabilities that OpenAI classifies as “Critical” under its internal Preparedness Framework — a threshold that had previously remained theoretical. According to OpenAI and reporting by Reuters, internal testing found that Astra can ident

September 2, 2026

Business

Telstra’s July Outage Was Triggered by One Wrong Date — But the External Review Found a Much Bigger Failure

SYDNEY — A routine maintenance job, an incorrect date and a network system that Telstra admits was not treated as critical enough have emerged as the key ingredients behind one of Australia’s most disruptive telecommunications failures of the year. An external investigation into Telstra’s massive July 8 mobile outage has confirmed that the incident was triggered when incorrect date information spread through parts of the company’s mobile network following planned maintenance on its network timi

September 2, 2026

Business

Tesla Says FSD Is 4.1x Less Likely to Crash in Europe — But One EU Vote Could Decide Everything

Tesla has released one of its strongest arguments yet for bringing Full Self-Driving across the European Union: more than 100 million kilometres of real-world driving and a claimed collision rate dramatically below that of manually driven Teslas. But with a potentially decisive EU vote approaching, the biggest question is no longer whether Tesla has numbers. It is whether European regulators trust what those numbers actually prove. Tesla said on September 1 that its Full Self-Driving (Supervi

September 2, 2026

Business

Dyson’s New AI Toothbrush Can See Between Your Teeth — Then It Flosses the Spots You Missed

Dyson has entered the smart oral-care market with the CameraJet, a high-tech electric toothbrush that uses a tiny camera, machine learning and a precision mouth-rinse jet to identify gaps between teeth and clean them while you brush. The days of simply brushing and hoping you didn't miss a spot may be getting a futuristic upgrade. Dyson has launched the CameraJet, an electric toothbrush designed to combine brushing and precision flossing in a single routine. The device was unveiled in Paris on

September 1, 2026

Technology

Scientists May Have Just Caught a Fleeting Signal of Dark Matter—But There’s a Problem

Scientists searching for one of the universe’s biggest mysteries may have found their most intriguing clue yet—but they are warning the world not to call it a discovery just yet. Researchers working with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment, located nearly 1.6 kilometres underground in a former gold mine in South Dakota, have identified a single particle interaction that appears consistent with what scientists might expect from a hypothetical dark matter particle known as a WIMP, or weakl

September 1, 2026