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The world’s biggest annual tech event, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, featured an exhibition of failed tech products through the years known as the “Gallery of Flops”. With items like Twitter’s device for tweeting to Nike’s smart wristband, gallery founder Narek Vardanyan said they wanted to show …
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Alibaba sees growth in cloud as China doubles down on digitalisationChina will be spending more on cloud computing, as the nation accelerates its digitisation process, pushing the revenue in the public cloud computing market to grow at over 20 per cent per annum from 2019 to 2024, according to Bernstein.
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In early February 2016, the security gate at a U.S. military base near Washington, D.C., swung open to admit a Navy doctor accompanying a pair of surprising visitors: two artificial intelligence scientists from Google.
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A Japanese robotics start-up has developed spider-like robots to inspect and maintain the country’s sewer pipes as the country grapples with a labour shortage in the industry. Tmsuk created the SPD1 with eight legs resembling a spider, enabling it to crawl across sediments commonly found in sewer pipes. Tmsuk plans …
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Foxconn has offered to pay newly hired workers to leave its factory in a bid to end protests that broke out on November 22, 2022, in its Zhengzhou campus. The unrest at the world’s largest iPhone factory is now expected to lead to further delays in the delivery of Apple’s flagship product, the iPhone 14, through the…
Six former senior executives of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper have admitted conspiring with their ex-boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying in seeking international sanctions on Beijing and Hong Kong officials in breach of the city’s national security law. The High Court on November 22, 2022, recorded the first conviction…
A tech start-up has developed a system that it says can help save energy by using human heat collected at entertainment venues. BodyHeat, which has been installed in a Glasgow nightclub in Scotland, harvests heat generated by partygoers and stores it in rocks underground for later use, reducing carbon emissions and …
A Chinese-made four-legged warrior described as a “robot dog” recently made its debut at an air show in the southern Guangdong province. The bionic beast dazzled visitors at the event in Zhuhai on November 8, 2022, as its developers showed off the robot’s features including advanced intelligent devices and ability t…
Japan’s second-hand market for iPhones has reportedly grown because of a sharp decline in the value of the yen. The depreciation of the Japanese currency has made Apple’s flagship gadget costlier, particularly since the company raised the prices of iPhone models in some of its biggest global markets, including Japan.
These African giant pouched rats are trained for search and rescue at Apopo, a Belgian non-profit centre, in Morogoro, Tanzania. The rats wear hi-tech backpacks equipped with a location device, video camera and two-way radio for communicating with potential disaster victims. The rodents can also use a switch to let …
Chinese authorities locked down areas around the world’s largest iPhone factory in the central province of Henan on November 2, 2022. The order was issued after an exodus of workers who fled the campus, many on foot, over concerns about a Covid-19 outbreak at the facility. Apple has been trying to diversify producti…
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying was convicted of fraud on October 25, 2022, in connection with an office lease case. Lai was found guilty of concealing a private consultancy firm that was operating from the Apple Daily headquarters without the proper licences from April 1988 to May 2020. Next Digital’s fo…
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A robot artist Ai-da spoke and answered questions in Britain’s House of Lords on October 11, 2022, to address the effects of technology on creative industries. Developed by scientists at the University of Oxford in 2019, Ai-da is the world’s first ultra-realistic AI humanoid robot artist. She can create drawings, pa…
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A new sensor-packed firefighting helmet uses artificial intelligence to allow firefighters to “see” through smoke and rescue victims faster. Thermal cameras, radar and inertial sensors are mounted on a standard firefighter helmet to collect data. AI then interprets the data to provide wearers with real-time informat…
The US Department of Defence added China-based DJI Technology, the world’s largest maker of consumer drones, and a dozen other hi-tech firms to its blacklist under the National Defence Authorisation Act on October 5, 2022. The initial list, which included Huawei and Hikvision, was released in 2021. The Pentagon cons…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk teased his company's latest humanoid robot in its annual event in Palo Alto, California on September 30, 2022. The world’s richest man, who once warned of artificial intelligence being a threat to humanity, said that Tesla wants to ensure robots safely enter society to avoid ‘Terminator’-style vi…
The Israeli military has installed an artificial intelligence-powered weapon at a busy checkpoint in the West Bank, over a gate Palestinians use to cross to the Old City of Hebron. Israel’s military said the weapon system is designed to fire non-lethal projectiles to “disperse riots”.
A “new generation” of guerrilla warfare has emerged for young Ukrainian geeks near the Donbas front line. In a dimly lit basement, men and women in their 20s assemble drones while artillery fire rings out in the background.
The southeastern Chinese city of Shenzhen has logged more than 80,000 food orders delivered by drone, according to a Chinese state media report on September 21, 2022. Industry experts predict the utilisation of drones to become even more ubiquitous after the city, in Guangdong province, received approval from the Ci…
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After struggling to hire enough staff, some restaurants in New York have started using robots to serve their customers. The feline-themed mechanical waiters are made in China and not exactly cheap, but the US$16,000 BellaBot can reliably deliver food orders from the kitchen to the table. WowRobee, the company that h…
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang paid a visit to the southeastern city of Shenzhen from August 16-17, 2022, ahead of a key Politburo meeting at the end of the month, vowing support for new-energy vehicles and technology industries. The soon-to-retire Chinese official delivered a speech at Lotus Hill Park in the southern C…
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The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, home to 18 million, has introduced China's clearest framework yet for autonomous vehicle (AV) regulations. From August 1, 2022, registered AVs will be allowed to operate without a driver in the driving seat across a broad swathe of the city, but a driver must still be present i…
Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said that the city’s property market will remain stable despite rising interest rates. In an exclusive interview with the Post, Chan revealed that the government will announce details of the Strategic Tech Fund in August 2022. The finance chief said the new investment fu…
A chess-playing robot broke a seven-year-old opponent’s finger during an international chess tournament in Russia. During the incident at the Moscow Open on July 19, 2022, the boy’s finger was snatched while the mechanical arm was clearing chess pieces from the board. The injured boy reportedly finished the tourname…
The future of fighter jet technology could be an AI-assisted, autonomous “wingman” drone that flies alongside next-generation aircraft, according to aerospace insiders said at the recent Farnborough International Airshow, in the United Kingdom. The second largest air show in the world, the event is a place for aeron…
Chinese search engine giant and AI leader Baidu has unveiled its sixth-generation fully autonomous vehicle. The Apollo RT6 is an all-electric vehicle that comes with a detachable steering wheel. The new interior design allows for the installation of extra seating, vending machines, desks or gaming consoles. Baidu sa…
A tech company in Hong Kong says it has developed the world’s first artificially intelligent laser skin treatment, which scans and detects the heat, sensitivity and shape of a customer’s face. Rods Technology spent over five years developing the technology to help reduce the number of injuries caused by manual treat…
Researchers led by Motoyasu Tanaka at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo have developed a snake-shaped robot that can climb up high steps, navigate through narrow spaces and even give a leg massage. The 1.7-metre (5.5-foot)-long “snake” has 17 joints equipped with distance sensors that “detect whether…
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China’s southern tech manufacturing powerhouse Shenzhen closed wholesale markets, cinemas and gyms for three days starting on June 25, 2022, after Covid-19 cases were found in the city. Nearly a dozen local cases were found on June 24 and 25 in a central district of the city near Hong Kong. The Shenzhen municipal he…
With the launch of the Fujian on June 17, 2022, China unveiled its first home-designed aircraft carrier – a hi-tech vessel meant to counter the new Gerald R Ford-class of American aircraft carriers currently in operations. Much of this new Chinese ship’s combat systems remain a state secret, but analysts have uncove…
The electric vehicle arm of Chinese tech company Baidu has introduced the first model of its first self-driving concept car, Robo-1. Jidu Automotive unveiled the vehicle on June 8, 2022, reflecting the search giant’s plan to join other tech companies around the world in a race to develop smart cars, building on the …
