A Twitter post claims that an app on Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus’s phones is identifying and uploading bank account numbers to a Chinese server, but the company has told TechNode that this is incorrect. The @OnePlus #clipboard app contains a strange file called badword.txt 🤔 In these words, we can find: Chairman, Vice President, Deputy […]
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AI startup YITU Technology goes global with first international office in Singapore
YITU Technology, one of China’s leaders in AI space launched their first international office in Singapore on Tuesday, 23rd January 2018. When asked why Singapore and not traditional research areas like the US or UK, Lin Chenxi, co-Founder of YITU responded: “We see immense potential in Singapore as a market for AI development and innovation, […]
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Alibaba Cloud launches Malaysia City Brain
The cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, Alibaba Cloud, today announced the launch of its Malaysia City Brain initiative, the first of its kind to be adopted overseas. This will be done in a joint effort with the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), the country’s digital economy development agency, and Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL), the […]
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EmTech China reveals what jobs will be left for humans after AI takes over
Artificial intelligence was the emerging technology that put China in the center of attention last year. It’s no wonder then that this year’s EmTech China conference in Beijing put a major focus on AI. The three-day event organized by MIT Technology Review that began on Sunday gathered some of the most interesting minds from science […]
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Node Worthy 16: Emerging trends in proptech and WeChat’s latest announcement
This week we talk about the emerging vertical of proptech (property tech) and the state of WeChat’s mini programs a year after their launch. Links Eva Yoo: WeChat mini programs 1 year on: Key figures and trends Emma Lee: How proptech is transforming traditional housing market: Q&A with JLL APAC COO Podcast information iTunes RSS feed […]
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Xiaomi and Huawei users are mostly men aged between 30-34: report
If Xiaomi users are from Mars, Huawei users are from… also Mars? Jiguang Data has published two research papers on the two biggest Chinese smartphone makers analyzing the brands’ users and showing what connects them and what separates them. Among the more interesting numbers of the report was the proportion of male users of Xiaomi. […]
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Didi is using its new AI Brain to crack the toughest puzzle—our cities
Didi is becoming big in big data and, according to latest announcements, their new project is set to change how cities look at mobility. The Chinese ride-hailing giant has just launched the “Didi Smart Transportation Brain,” a solution that brings data from government and other partners to develop a city traffic management powered by AI […]
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Sogou doubles down on AI with launch of real-time translation and transcription devices
At the start of the Sogou Partner Conference in Beijing, the audience heard a recording that sounded like American President Donald Trump congratulating Sogou on the recent IPO and how this was a step forward for American-Chinese relations. We were wondering if President Trump had started watching CCTV instead of Fox News until we realized that […]
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Latest update enables WeChat mini programs to support third-party apps and adds support for multiple accounts
WeChat has issued its newest update signaling that mini programs are about to grow even more important. The new 6.2.2 beta version allows user access to open source applications from the WeChat mini program page inside the mobile app. This means that mini programs are able to open third-party apps but only if they were shared […]
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Xloong is trying to make AR sexy… with enterprise applications
The global craze for the semi-immersive augmented reality (AR) experience is on the cusp of breaking out. Even though China has been left out in the whole Pokemon Go extravaganza, Chinese tech firms have managed to bring the AR experience to local users through other means: hongbao wars, Pokemon clones, or even in coffee roasteries. Now they […]