Baidu announced on Thursday that its smart voice business has reached a partnership deal with Nio. The Chinese tech giant will enable the electric vehicle maker to improve the in-car voice assistant experience based on its DuerOS voice-enabled technology. ...
The phrase “black hole” was coined because black holes suck all light in, leaving nothing optical to observe. Yet humans have managed to take photos of these mystic supermassive space objects lightyears away. As we appreciate the first photo of ...
On Wednesday, China’s ride-hailing giant Didi urged US investors to vote yes on delisting its shares from New York. Didi said it can’t pursue a new listing as it faces a cybersecurity review launched last July by Chinese regulators, ...
Over the past few years, Shein has taken over online fast fashion by exporting affordable wear from China to customers around the globe. Its success has attracted a wave of imitators, but a startup called Body404 believes China isn’t ...
AliExpress Russia, the main plank in Alibaba’s strategy for expanding its e-commerce reach into the Russian market, has laid off 40% of its employees as the Russia-Ukraine war and accompanying sanctions continue to weigh on their operations, Russian media ...
Chinese scientists have found new evidence that there was water on Mars in the past and there are hydrated minerals on the Red Planet, which can be potentially exploited during future crewed Mars missions. The study published on Thursday ...
Astronomers presented an image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way for the first time on Thursday.
Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, stated on Wednesday that the company’s second smart factory will begin production in late 2023. A Xiaomi representative told TechNode that the firm began building the new automated factory in Beijing’s suburban Changping district ...
Chinese video platform Bilibili announced on Wednesday that it is implementing new rules (in Chinese) to combat the rise of hateful speech and inappropriate content on the platform. Why it matters: This is another self-cleaning act from China’s video ...
Didi has let go of half of its 40 employees in the UK and shelved its expansion plans for overseas markets until at least 2025, The Guardian reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The news marks the ...
China unveils the country’s first five year plan on bioeconomy, May 10, 2022. /CFP China unveiled the country’s first five-year bioeconomy plan on Tuesday, aiming to create a 22-trillion-yuan ($3.28-trillion) economy by the end of 2025, with focuses on ...
On Monday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission added a further 11 Chinese companies to its provisional list of delisting, including ride-hailing giant Didi and online grocery delivery platform Dingdong Maicai. Other Chinese tech firms added to the list ...
There’s no lack of startups around the world trying to make industrial activities more efficient with artificial intelligence. Some invent robots to assist or replace manual labor, while others use machine learning to help businesses discover insights. Synergies Intelligent ...
A small Chinese telescope array mounted in Antarctica has started operation to observe exoplanets or Earth-like planets, according to a news release by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Wednesday. The facility, consisting of four optical telescopes and ...
Chinese EV maker Nio announced a partnership with Tencent News on May 7 to launch a news radio channel for Nio Radio, the exclusive in-car radio service for Nio users. The radio channel will run all day, the announcement ...
Li Auto forecasts second-quarter revenue of up to RMB 7.04 billion ($1.11 billion) on Tuesday, far below the average analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg of RMB 11 billion. China’s ongoing Covid outbreaks and related lockdown measures have weighed heavily ...
Despite being hit by China’s latest wave of Covid-19 cases and struggling to ramp up production amid the country’s related lockdowns, Bosch continues to view China as a hugely important market and remains committed to the country in the long ...
Aptiv, a US auto parts maker whose customers include Tesla and General Motors, has suspended shipments of some parts to clients after new Covid cases were confirmed among workers at its Shanghai plant, Reuters reported on Monday, citing people ...
Taiwan-based semiconductor foundry TSMC informed its clients on Tuesday that it will raise production prices by 6% from January 2023, Taiwan media UDN reports. TSMC refused to comment on the issue, but clients of TSMC confirmed to UDN that ...
Chinese gaming giant Lilith’s new title, Dislyte, quickly topped app store downloads in a few regions a day after its launch. Dislyte is a role-playing game with a mythological setting and eye-catching art design. The title topped the download ...
Chinese online housing firm Ke Holdings, also known as Beike, is starting a new round of layoffs, Chinese media outlet the Paper reported on Tuesday. The job cuts will affect the company’s research and development, operations, and mid- and ...
China’s first large emergency response and rescue vessel completed its maiden sea trial in waters off the coast of Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, east China, May 10, 2022. /China Media Group China’s first large emergency response and rescue vessel ...
This combination of images provided by NASA shows part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, seen by the retired Spitzer Space Telescope (L) and the new James Webb Space Telescope, May 9, ...
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. It is Tuesday the 10th of May, and the end of an era as Apple officially retires ...
Elon Musk weighed in on Tesla, SpaceX and his multitude of other companies — including that social media business he’s trying to purchase — during a wide-reaching 80-minute interview Tuesday that covered demand for EVs, the need for raw ...
This concept picture depicts NASA’s InSight lander after it has deployed its instruments on the Martian surface. /NASA NASA’s InSight Mars lander has detected the largest quake ever observed on another planet, NASA said on Monday. An estimated magnitude-5.0 ...
Chinese smartphone maker ZTE announced the launch of Axon 40 Ultra on Monday, the third generation of a smartphone that features an under-display camera. Why it matters: ZTE has adapted an under-display camera design, rather than traditional options like ...
Tesla sold just 1,512 cars via wholesale channels in China in April, decreasing by over 95% month-on-month, and representing a decline of 24,333 units from a year earlier, according to figures published by China Passenger Car Association on Tuesday. ...
Kuaishou’s e-commerce unit has set up two new business centers targeting the online sales of local services and properties, Chinese media outlet Jiemian reported on Monday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The report says that the heads ...
While China has banned cryptocurrency trading, its people remain interested in the ups and downs of the crypto market, not least because many of them have found workarounds and continue to buy and sell all sorts of tokens. Bitcoin’s ...
Rendering of the Mars rover Zhurong. /CMG China’s first Mars rover has been named “Zhurong.” The name “Zhurong,” which means the god of fire in Chinese mythology, was revealed on Saturday at the opening ceremony of the Space Day ...
China’s Tianzhou-4 cargo spacecraft successfully docked on Tuesday with the nation’s orbiting space station. Tianzhou-4 is the third cargo resupply mission to the space station’s Tianhe core module. It will prepare the space station for the arrival of its ...
China successfully launched Tianzhou-4 on Tuesday, a cargo spacecraft carrying supplies to its under-construction space station. The Long March-7 Y5 rocket topped with the cargo ship blasted off early Tuesday from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China’s ...
A Long March-7 Y5 rocket carrying China’s Tianzhou-4 cargo spacecraft has blasted off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China’s coastal Hainan Province. The launch mission will prepare China’s space station for the arrival of its next ...
China’s Tianzhou-4 cargo spacecraft will be launched at around 2 a.m. Beijing Time on Tuesday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). Propellant injection has been finished for the Long March-7 Y5 rocket carrying Tianzhou-4, CMSA said.
Chinese tech watchers and venture capitalists are growing increasingly concerned over the long-term market appeal of Chinese tech companies. Industry leaders are sharing and quoting a Chinese financial infographic comparing the changing market capitalization of Apple and top Chinese firms ...
Deep Blue Aerospace completes China’s first test of kilometer-level VTVL for reusable Nebula-M1 liquid rocket, May 6, 2022. /Deep Blue Aerospace China’s commercial aerospace company, Deep Blue Aerospace (DBA), completed the country’s first-ever test of kilometer-level vertical takeoff and ...
A view of Baihetan Hydropower Station on the Yangtze River which runs through southwest China’s Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. /CFP The cumulative power generation of six hydropower stations on the main stream of China’s Yangtze River has exceeded three ...
Tesla has resumed production at its Shanghai factory, reporting an output of over 10,000 vehicles over a 12-day period until April 30, Wu Qiang, a deputy district mayor of Shanghai’s Pudong New Area, said on Saturday at a news ...
TikTok owner ByteDance has released an all-in-one video and audio streaming device and corresponding app for professional livestreamers, priced at RMB 15,800 ($2,351), Chinese media outlet 36Kr reported on Monday. The device, named Lingjing and resembling a smartphone with ...