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China has seen a boom in transactions for used goods on online trading platforms, such as Idle Fish, as the coronavirus pandemic continued to hit the country’s retail sector. Also known as Xianyu, Taobao’s digital flea market said its user numbers have exceeded 200 million, with more than 20 million people using it …
Some “lonely” garden eels in Japan are being given a distraction from Covid-19 pandemic isolation. Keepers at Tokyo’s Sumida Aquarium, which has been closed since March, noticed that the creatures were becoming a bit too shy to monitor. The aquarium is appealing to the public to use video calling software to dial in…
A gigantic 46-metre (150ft) long organism called a siphonophore was discovered on March 16, 2020, during an expedition near the Ningaloo Reef off Western Australia. Scientists at the Schmidt Ocean Institute said they are still working to confirm the accuracy of their measurements, but they believe it is the longest …
In a recent interview with the South China Morning Post, the founder and CEO of Huawei, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment supplier and China’s biggest smartphone maker spoke about his relationship with his family. Ren Zhengfei also discussed how he is dealing emotionally with his daughter’s arrest in …
In a recent interview with the South China Morning Post, the founder of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei said he was inspired by the political system and business governance he saw in the United States when he started the company. Ren Zhengfei also spoke about how the world’s largest telecommunications equipment suppli…
In a recent interview with the South China Morning Post, the founder Chinese telecoms giant Huawei said he was inspired by the political system and business governance he saw in the United States when he started the company. Ren Zhengfei also spoke about how the world’s largest telecommunications equipment supplier,…
In the Russian capital Moscow, 100,000 surveillance cameras were equipped with facial-recognition technology just before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Since February 2020, thousands of Muscovites have been confined to their homes under 14-day compulsory quarantines for those with a history of travel to coronav…
A video showing a man licking his finger and then wiping it onto railings of an MTR train handrail has sparked outrage and after it was widely shared online on March 18, 2020. The video was shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook and WhatsApp messenger app. Joel Werner, a Hong Kong based hedge fund manager, ha…
Universities across the US are asking students to vacate their dorms to slow the spread of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. Some students were left stranded with nowhere to go after being asked to move out on short notice. Harvard University’s undergraduate students were given five days to pack and leaveMassach…
An app developer in Taiwan has created an online interactive map to track local mask supplies in real time.
Hundreds of Hongkongers gathered in Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong on March 8, 2020, to pay tribute to Chow Tsz-lok, a second-year computer science student at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, who died of a severe brain injury suffered in a one-storey fall in a car park in November last year.
The Spanish firm Novameat has developed technology to recreate the appearance and texture of real beef steak, by feeding plant-based ingredients into a 3D printer. The company hopes the convincing appearance will help the product become an accepted sustainable alternative to meat to feed the world’s population.
Engineers involved in China’s artificial intelligence industry who have been developing “smart” robots are trying to come up with ways to use the devices to help fight the Covid-19 epidemic. While some of the robots are blasting the deadly coronavirus that causes the disease, others are being deployed in hospitals, …
Beijing-based tech company Hanwang Technology Co Ltd said it has upgraded its facial recognition technology to allow devices to identify people even if they are masked to avoid spreading infection amid the Covid-19 epidemic.
China had built over 130,000 5G base stations across the country as of the end of 2019, according to Miao Wei, the nation’s Minister of Industry and Information Technology. In a press conference on January 20, 2020, he also said China officially started commercialising the fifth-generation mobile telecommunications …
Above the campus of Thailand’s prestigious Thammasat University sits a stunning rooftop farm that covers nearly 7,000 square metres (75,000 sq ft). The garden, on the university’s Rangsit campus just outside the capital Bangkok, was designed to evoke images of rice fields in the rural north of Thailand. The hidden u…
Ma Gongzuo, a beekeeper in Zhejiang, China, has garnered more than 700,000 followers on Douyin, the Chinese version of video app TikTok. From opening up a hive, swimming in a river, to chopping wood, the app allows him to share his day-to-day life in China’s rural areas with his followers. His videos have made him a…
Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who created the world’s first “gene-edited” babies, has been sentenced to three years in prison and fined 3 million yuan (US$430,000) on charges of illegally practicing medicine. State media said on December 30, 2019, that a court in Shenzhen convicted him and two others of carrying out…
Indonesia’s Baduy tribe is stubbornly refusing to adopt modern technology in a bid to protect their ancient traditions. The people who live in the country’s westernmost province on the island of Java proudly claim they still maintain a way of life that has been unchanged for centuries.
Companies developing artificial intelligence (AI) technology are racing to put autonomous taxis on the streets of China. One of the competitors in the potentially lucrative self-driving cab business is the WeRide RoboTaxi service based in the southern city of Guangzhou.
Six months of social unrest in Hong Kong has been turned into a VR game by a team of pro-democracy developers. The game, ‘Liberate Hong Kong’, allows players to have an immersive experience as a frontline protester using virtual reality technology. By wearing a VR headset, players can experience the chaos during cla…
Nearly 40 years ago, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner hit the silver screen and changed cinema forever. The 1982 film imagined November 2019 as a dark, gritty, dystopian world dominated by inequality and technology, as it introduced a new generation of fans to cyberpunk culture. Bridging both science fiction and neo-noir…
E-commerce giant Alibaba started trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange on November 26, 2019, in the world’s largest stock debut so far in 2019. The company had also made a splash when it was listed on the New York Stock Exchange five years earlier.
South Korea has a new weapon in its fight against “spycam porn” videos that have been widely shared across the country. A 16-member digital sex crime monitoring unit was set up in autumn 2019 to crack down on the videos known as molka, which are often filmed with hidden cameras and posted online without consent. The…
China’s largest technology company Alibaba started trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange on Tuesday, November 26, 2019. The listing was world’s largest so far in 2019, and followed up the company record-breaking debut on the New York Stock Exchange five years earlier.
A new filter that turns a person’s face into a cat’s, launched recently on social media app TikTok, has garnered hilarious reactions from pets.
In China, the craze for buying sneakers is at fever pitch. With the growth of digital platforms, fuelled by China’s deep love for basketball, the resale sneaker business is growing and enthusiasts are driving soaring prices on online “sneaker exchange” platforms.
Thousands of people across Hong Kong held vigils on November 8 for Chow Tsz-lok. The 22-year-old computer science undergraduate studying at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology had died earlier that day. Chow had suffered a severe brain injury after he reportedly fell four metres (13 feet) at a car par…
Hundreds of people gathered on the campus of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on November 8, 2019, to pay tribute to Chow Tsz-lok.
Special camps have been set up in South Korea to help smartphone ‘addicts’ break free from their dependence on digital devices and the internet.
China’s president has called for blockchain to become a focus of national innovation efforts, with more research and investment directed toward developing the technology. President Xi Jinping made the remarks about blockchain at an October 24, 2019, Politburo meeting.
German company Volocopter has showcased its “flying taxi” during a test flight in Singapore on October 22, 2019.
A blind woman in China is determined not to let her disability affect her travels. She uses technology to help her explore the world, and has already been to South Korea.
Apple has removed from its App Store a Hong Kong location map app that tracks protests activities following a backlash from China.
The Trump administration blacklisted 28 Chinese organisations and companies over “the brutal suppression of ethnic minorities” in China’s autonomous region of Xinjiang. Two of the world’s biggest manufacturers of video surveillance producers, Hikvision and Dahua Technology, were among those effectively banned from b…
Huawei opened its first global flagship store in the southeastern Chinese city of Shenzhen on September 28, 2019.
Since it was released in early September 2019, a Cantonese song Glory to Hong Kong has been widely shared online, starting with the LIHKG forum – a digital platform which anti-government protesters primarily use to discuss tactics.
Over 200 airports across China started using face recognition technology to check passengers into flights from September 15, 2019.
Jack Ma, co-founder of Alibaba, stepped down from his role as company executive chairman on September 10, 2019, the day he turned 55.
Hong Kong startup Cathay Photonics has big plans for its sapphire coating technology, which can toughen phone screens.
Filipino boxing legend and politician Manny Pacquiao has revealed his own cryptocurrency. The PAC Token unveiled at Pacquiao’s first major music concert in Manila on September 1, 2019, is also described as the world’s first celebrity cryptocurrency.
Founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma, and CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, had an animated debate over the future of AI and Mars exploration at the Shanghai World Artificial Intelligence Conference on August 29, 2019.
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What's it like to ride in a flying taxi? The South China Morning Post's Celia Chen rode in EHang's passenger-carrying drone. It seats two, and can fly autonomously -- no pilot needed! How did Celia's test flight go? Find out in the video!
Researchers in Singapore have invented clothes that can boost connectivity and save battery life on wireless devices such as headphones and smart watches. The team from the National University of Singapore worked on the technology for over a year.
China's first commercial rocket Smart Dragon-1 made its maiden flight at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on August 17, 2019, according to reports in Chinese state media. The rocket, which sent three satellites into orbit, was developed by the China Rocket Co, a unit of China Aerospace Science …
Beijing has given Shenzhen special status to carry out wide-ranging reforms in a plan unveiled on August 18, 2019. It hopes the country’s high-tech capital just across the border from Hong Kong will become a model city for others to follow.
Facial recognition cameras have been installed on garbage bins in a complex of flats in the Chinese capital, Beijing. The lids of the bins automatically open when a device recognises the face of a person previously registered on the community’s system. The hi-tech trash cans are in place at one of about 100 apartmen…
Daniel Seah, chief executive of Digital Domain Holdings, said the Hong Kong-listed company spent two years designing the digital avatar for Marvel supervillain Thanos in two blockbuster films. The company created about 800 shots used in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.
Minneapolis police released files on their investigation into the alleged rape of a student by Chinese tech tycoon Richard Liu. Liu, the 46-year-old CEO of China’s e-commerce giant JD.com, was arrested in August last year. He was accused of raping Liu Jingyao, a 21-year-old Chinese undergraduate at the University of…
