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Tech Thursday: Facial Recognition for Farms
The latest target for China’s facial recognition bonanza is livestock, and aims to revolutionize farming
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Tech Thursday: Silicon Rush
With a rising tech sector and poor job prospects in their own fields, humanities grads are looking to join internet companies
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Seeing RED: The Rise China’s Hottest Trend-Setting App
Xiaohongshu is a social e-commerce app worth billions—but can it monetize its trend-setting reputation?
TECHNOLOGY
Message in a Bottle
WeChat has dropped one of its more endearing features—the ability to message complete strangers via bottle—due to complaints of pornography
TECHNOLOGY
Tech Thursday: Cutting CRISPR Corners
Though scientist’s gene-edited babies bred outrage, eugenics has a complicated place in Chinese family planning and health care
TECHNOLOGY
Tech Thursday: Purging Porn
Are the government’s new anti-porn campaigns going to kill the Chinese internet?
TECHNOLOGY
Tech Thursday Episode 48
Bill Gates becomes Beijing’s “toilet techie,” Didi gets new video surveillance, aviation technology astounds, and a Baidu smart park, and robot news …
TECHNOLOGY
Tech Thursday: Shooting for the Moon
From straddling bus to fake moon: Why is China so often credited with fantastical (and failed) tech innovations?
TECHNOLOGY
Gaming the System
Alipay’s environmentally conscious “Ant Forest” allows young Chinese to combine mobile payment with fighting pollution
TECHNOLOGY
Tech Thursday: War of Tycoons
There’s little love lost between Jack Ma and Richard Liu, but the drama of the last two weeks have cast the rivalry in different lights
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