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Sri Lanka’s First BESS Projects to Join Grid in September
Sri Lanka’s first commercial-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are scheduled to be connected to the national electricity grid in early September. The projects, planned to operate near 16 ele…
Battery Storage Systems Near Completion at 16 Substations
Construction of commercial-scale battery energy storage systems planned at 16 electricity transmission substations across the country has reached its final stage. The battery systems were brought into…
Weak AI vs. Strong AI: Distinguishing Reality from Fiction
To understand today’s discussions about artificial intelligence (AI), it is important to distinguish between two broad concepts: Narrow AI and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) . Narrow AI: The AI…
SLCERT warns of extortion scam targeting Meta users
The Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (SLCERT) has uncovered information about a large-scale organised online extortion scam being carried out through Meta platforms, including Facebook, Mes…
MNP will not launch in September, Ministry clarifies
The Ministry of Digital Economy has clarified that media reports claiming that Mobile Number Portability (MNP), which allows customers to switch to another mobile network while keeping the same phone…
Metro Bus Service Planned for Kandy
The Sri Lankan government is preparing to introduce a Metro Bus service in Kandy as part of a major transport development programme, Transport Minister Bimal Rathnayake announced in Parliament. The Mi…
