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Singapores A*Star Awards S$27.5M In Research Grants for Technologies for Sustainable Development

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In particular, one of the projects will explore the idea of using cheap and widely available magnesium oxide-based mineral silicates to trap carbon dioxide from industry flue gases via a process known as dry mineral carbonation. The by-products of this can be used as construction or landfill materials.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Today it is familiar worldwide.

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The Rise of Groupware

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These days, computer users take collaboration software for granted. We take that for granted now, but back then it was considered magical: Like Lotus 1-2-3, Notes is easy to customize. The electronic bulletin board you consult in Singapore is identical to the one your counterparts see in Sioux City, Iowa. A 1996 Inc.

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VinFast secures a $1.4 billion loan from parent Vingroup, plus another $2.1B from its chairman

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Scaling is not easy (or cheap), and at the rate VinFast has been moving, it’s even more expensive to do it so hastily. However, by April of that same year, VinFast received $500 million in nonrefundable grants from Vingroup. According to a December 2022 filing with the SEC , VinFast reported whopping net losses of $1.3

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