Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings announced on Friday a new strategic partnership with smartphone maker Honor for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI), giving a boost to a domestic rival to Apple, which has yet to settle on a partner to launch AI on iPhones in the country. Shenzhen-based Tencent said in a post on … Read more
Hangzhou-based Uniview on Tuesday was added to the so-called Entity List for enabling “human rights violations, including high-technology surveillance targeted at the general population, Uygurs, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups”, the US Department of Commerce, which oversees the country’s trade policy, said in a filing. In a statement on Wednesday, Uniview … Read more
On Hong Kong’s Kat O island, 79-year-old Fong Sam-kiu chops wood to feed the outside stove on which she cooks her meals. Nets and pots hang on the walls, reminders of the days when she fished the local waters for sea urchins. “I will never move to the city,” says Fong, whose husband has died … Read more
Huawei Technologies gained more ground in mainland China’s high-end smartphone segment in the third quarter, narrowing the gap with US rival Apple, which still leads that handset category, the latest data from research firm Canalys showed. Shenzhen-based Huawei’s domestic shipments of premium-priced smartphones – handsets that cost more than US$600 – surged 34 per cent … Read more
At NeurIPS to be held in Vancouver, Canada, from December 10 to 15, TikTok parent ByteDance, Alibaba advertising unit Alimama and video-gaming giant Tencent are set to host various events on the sidelines of the conference, according to company notices. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. By 2030, demand in China for professionals skilled … Read more
A catastrophic landslide at a construction site alongside a railway line in China’s southern tech hub of Shenzhen late on Wednesday night has left 13 people missing. The accident happened at around 11pm at the Shenzhen-Jiangmen railway’s fifth section in Baoan district’s Hangcheng Street area. Immediate emergency response measures were initiated, with provincial and city … Read more
Sales of Huawei Technologies’ latest flagship Mate 70-series smartphones are expected to fall short of the demand generated by the Mate 60, according to analysts, citing the new model’s weaker processor performance and heightened supply chain risks amid geopolitical tensions. The Mate 70 was launched last Tuesday at an event in Shenzhen, where Huawei consumer … Read more
Robots can cook dishes as delicious as human chefs, and a Shenzhen start-up is trying to convince the world of that. While the automation and artificial intelligence (AI) transformation has been making waves in factories and warehouses, it has yet to make a meaningful impact when it comes to cuisine, said Shirley Chen Rui, chief … Read more
NetEase, China’s second-largest video gaming company, has cut an undisclosed number of jobs involved in an “underperforming” project that will soon be shut down, according to a person with knowledge of the matter and Chinese media reports. The lay-offs at the company’s offices in southern tech hub Shenzhen affected employees involved in mobile game Hyper … Read more
Tencent Holdings will gradually cut off online sales and services for the Chinese version of the Nintendo Switch console from 2026, potentially affecting millions of users in the world’s second-largest video gaming market. The Tencent-operated eShop for the Chinese Nintendo Switch console will stop selling or offering paid and free video games and software on … Read more
