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Smart speakers, other AI-enabled devices poised to become the Next Big Thing in China
China, already the world’s biggest smartphone and internet market, appears set to become a major consumer of a range of gadgets enabled with artificial intelligence (AI), including voice-activated smart speakers and robots for the home, according to a new study....
Balancing act: Chip giant Qualcomm caught between Washington and Beijing
Chip maker Qualcomm, blocked this week from a takeover bid amid national security fears, was already walking a Pacific tightrope: it has government and defence contracts in the United States, but two-thirds of its revenue come from China. US President Donald Tru...
Nike, McDonald’s jump on China mobile gaming craze to entice young consumers
Multinational companies are experimenting with new ways to grab the attention of China’s consumers and are willing to spend several million yuan to garner attention in the world’s largest market. The tool that companies such as McDonald’s and Nike have chosen ...
Baidu invests US$158m in Skyworth’s smart TV unit
Baidu, operator of China’s largest online search service, is investing more than 1 billion yuan (US$158 million) in the smart television unit of Chinese consumer electronic major Skyworth Digital Holdings, escalating competition in the growing market for smart h...
The Post launches Abacus, a news site that focuses on telling the story of China’s tech industry
Abacus, a news brand that covers the latest trends in China’s technology industry, launched today in New York City, where the occasion was marked by the ringing of Friday’s opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. “Gone are the days when every Chinese trend ...
How Chinese fashion designers built their labels on e-commerce website, despite sneering even from their friends
Like every other business selling to consumers in China, independent fashion designers are taking to e-commerce to reach an audience of fashion-hungry millennials – with impressive results. Taobao – the popular online shopping website operated by Alibaba – is kn...
Baidu’s iQiyi, Bilibili extend Chinese rush to go public in US
Two more large technology companies in China have launched initial public offerings (IPOs) to begin trading in New York. The filings on Friday in the United States by Baidu’s Netflix-style video streaming service iQiyi and video site Bilibili come on the heels o...
China to bar people with bad ‘social credit’ from trains, planes
China said it will begin applying its so-called social credit system to flights and trains and stop people who have committed misdeeds from taking such transport for up to a year. People who would be put on the restricted lists included those found to have commi...
Trump election consultants harvested data from 50 million Facebook users ‘to target people’s demons’
Data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users without permission to develop techniques to support President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, it has emerged. In a Saturday report, London’s Obs...
China trails US in every area of AI development except big data, Oxford University report finds
China may struggle to realise its ambitions of leading the world in artificial intelligence (AI), according to an Oxford University study that shows it is still a long way behind the United States. China is given a score of 17 for its overall capacity for develo...
User beware: why Facebook’s data problems go much deeper than Cambridge Analytica
Facebook last week suspended the Trump campaign’s data consultant, Cambridge Analytica, for scraping the data of potentially millions of users without their consent. But thousands of other developers, including the makers of games such as FarmVille and the datin...

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Tesla introduced its first electric Semi truck

Tesla Semi - this is the name of the prototype of the first Tesla electric traction truck. It was unveiled on Thursday at the airfield of the airfield at the KB office in Horton, California. According to its founder Ilona Mask, addressed to the audi...

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New Mission E photos prove that Porsche is dead serious about taking on Tesla – BGR

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Will Tesla will have 32 million cars on the road by 2040? – BGR – Technewtips

Tesla may have started out as a niche automaker, but Elon Musk over the last few years has masterfully transformed the company into a force to be reckoned with. Buoyed by the immense popularity of the Model S and later the Model X, not to mention unexpectedly...

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