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NIO partners with local ride-hailing firm to encourage owners share empty seats
Chinese EV maker NIO on Wednesday tied up with Dida Chuxing, a local ride-hailing startup, to encourage more NIO owners to join the latter's car pooling platform to share their empty seats with commuters.
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Alibaba's autopilot upgrade gives LiDAR recognition more than 3x improvement
DAMO Academy, Alibaba's research and innovation institute, today announced that its sensing algorithm has enabled high-beam simulation of low-wire-beam LiDAR. This indirectly increases the LiDAR wiring harness by a factor of three or more, enabling low-cost generic LiDAR to replace high-cost radar, it said.
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ByteDance said to be in talks with India's richest man for investment in TikTok
ByteDance is in the early stages of talks with Reliance Industries Limited, India's largest private group, which could invest in TikTok's Indian operations, Tech Crunch said Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.
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Tencent says Trump's WeChat ban may not apply to the app in China
Tencent said that US President Trump's executive order banning its WeChat instant messaging service could have a minimal impact on its business if it only applies outside of China.
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Indian group wants to bar Huawei, ZTE from participating in the country's 5G deployment
India's Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) seeks to bar Chinese technology companies Huawei and ZTE from participating in the deployment of 5G network business, Indian media reported.
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70% of smartphones shipped in US in Q2 made in China
Around 70 percent of smartphones shipped in the US in the second quarter of 2020 were made in China, up from 60 percent the previous quarter.
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WeChat monthly active users grow 6.5% year on year to 1.206 billion in Q2
WeChat's global monthly active accounts reached 1.206 billion, up 6.5 percent year on year and 0.3 percent from the previous quarter, according to Tencent's second-quarter financial results released today.
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Over 100 TSMC engineers move to work in Chinese mainland companies, Nikkei says
More than 100 veteran engineers and managers from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world's leading chipmaker, have been hired by two Chinese chip companies since last year, the Nikkei Asian Review reported on Wednesday.
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China's Windows equivalent is officially named UnionTech OS and gets V20 Professional version update
Union Tech, the developer behind the China made Unity Operating System, today announced the release of its desktop operating system V20 Professional (1021) version and the official English name of the system: UnionTech OS.
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Huawei source says hasn't heard of 'Tashan Project' rumored for chip making
Chinese newspaper thepaper.cn quoted an unnamed source from Huawei's chip-designing arm HiSilicon as saying that he has not heard of the "Tashan Project” after an earlier report said Huawei has launched the project to make its foray into semiconductor manufacturing.