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China cuts video game time for kids to 3 hours each week
Sorry, kids: China's government is cutting down on game time for kids to just three hours per week,…
Ben Gilbert
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The CEO of a Chinese tech giant has been unreachable after making his last public appearance in August: Chinese media reports
A company spokesperson told CNN that its "business operations remain normal."
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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More and more Chinese tech giants, including the search firm Baidu, are trademarking metaverse terms even as China continues to issue warnings about it
The Nasdaq-listed gaming giant NetEase and the e-commerce giant Alibaba have also jumped on the met…
Huileng Tan
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'Steve Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson says Apple will be the company 'most hurt' if economic tensions between US and China escalate
Tim Cook recently visited China for the second time this year amid reports of sluggish iPhone 15 sa…
Sarah Jackson
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TikTok owner ByteDance slashes thousands of jobs
TikTok's China-based owner ByteDance has laid off hundreds of workers across multiple departments, …
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Tim Cook's latest visit to China is a sign that the iPhone is at risk of becoming the 2nd-best option for many people
The Apple CEO has made his second trip to China this year as the iPhone maker faces growing challen…
Hasan Chowdhury
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Chinese tech giant Baidu says its latest update to ChatGPT rival Ernie is 'not inferior in any respect' to GPT-4
Chinese search giant Baidu unveiled the latest version of its generative AI model, Ernie 4.0, on Tu…
Tom Carter
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China's Tencent is buying the video game developer behind Hitman 2, Team Sonic Racing, and LittleBigPlanet 3 for $1.3 billion
Tencent's acquisition spree in the video games sector continues. It's struck a deal to buy Britain'…
Kate Duffy
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Tencent is using facial recognition tech on under-18s to stop them playing video games late into the night
The system, called "Midnight Patrol," aims to prevent under-18s from posing as adults to circumvent…
Anna Cooban
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WeChat owner bans spanking, lip-licking, and nose-picking on the messaging app's live-stream content
Tencent has published a list of "violations" on WeChat's live-streaming platform, including fortune…
Anna Cooban
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China's government-approved AI chatbots were released to the public this week. Baidu's chatbot Ernie reportedly says a Chinese military takeover of Taiwan is possible.
The Chinese government recently approved several generative AI chatbots. Bloomberg News tested them…
Aaron Mok,Alistair Barr
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Chinese Internet giant Tencent reports 28% revenue growth in 2020
Chinese Internet giant Tencent has reported a 28 per cent year-on-year growth in revenue for 2020, …
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China wants to limit teens to using their phones for just an hour a day to fight rising 'internet addiction'
The Cyberspace Administration of China announced proposed regulations for children's smartphone usa…
Pete Syme
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Death by LLM: Stack Overflow's decline, and its plan to survive, shows the future of free online data in an AI world
Stack Overflow, an online community for software coders, has seen traffic fall since OpenAI's GPT-4…
Alistair Barr,Adam Rogers
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PUBG's South Korean parent invests $22.4 million in Indian esports company Nodwin Gaming
PUBG Mobile developer Krafton has invested $22.4 million in the homegrown esports company Nodwin Ga…
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Tencent fires 5.5K workers as sales down for 1st time since going public
Chinese conglomerate Tencent has fired 5,500 employees, after posting a revenue of $19.8 billion in…
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If Elon Musk understood anything about China, he'd know his attempt to make X a super app like WeChat is doomed to fail
Musk could be missing the main point here: The US isn't China, and WeChat's success can't be easily…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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Elon Musk says he plans to boot the Twitter brand and 'bid adieu' to 'all the birds'
If he was offered a good replacement for Twitter's bird logo, Musk said he'd change it immediately …
Ryan Hogg
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The Department of the Treasury is reportedly looking into the American companies behind 'Fortnite' and 'League of Legends' over their ties to Chinese tech titan Tencent
After banning TikTok and WeChat for connections to China, the US government is setting its sights o…
Ben Gilbert
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Mobile app spending surpassed $100 billion worldwide in 2020, hitting an all-time record
Mobile app spending spiked in 2020, as stay-at-home orders forced people to change the way they sho…