Tech Thursday: Technically Fooled
Though Covid-19 tamed some April Fool’s pranks, some Chinese companies were up to their usual tricks
Though Covid-19 tamed some April Fool’s pranks, some Chinese companies were up to their usual tricks
Is this the end of China’s brief experiment with self-service stores?
Tech employees are organizing against a punitive work culture, pushing at the limits of online debate
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
Google games, ZTE is back, and deep-sea robots. The future’s here, the future’s Thursday.
Mao bombards the Block Chain Forum, “sugar daddies” app investigated, eugenics for employees, and misogyny on Airbnb
Exploring the far side of the Moon, Didi gets #MeToo treatment, and Amber Alert in the digital age
Students exit moon lab, high schoolers get facial recognized, WeChat blog shuttered after Didi murder, and further Weibo crackdowns
Daoist ritual for the nuclear gods, UFO in the sky, semiconductor ambitions, and more woeful news for human Go players
Henan’s internet gets healthy, foreign investment in Chinese surveillance, China’s chip sector rises, and sexism in tech firms
AI with feeling, another crackdown, and Ready Player One takes China by storm
Death of a cashless store, China’s internet habits, males using phones, and another phone-maker accused of spying