When one TWOC writer began shopping at Alibaba’s Hema Fresh supermarket, little did she know that she would soon become reliant on its “New Retail” s…
Exotic and endangered animals are being traded online in China, in spite of numerous regulations, owner arrests, and deaths
An inability to recall payments leaves some WeChat and Alipay users high and dry
Advanced lock-pick on Taobao, Chinese Academy of Sciences develops laser assault rifle, and everybody else develops AI
Selling noodles as well as medicine, the humble vending machines get rebranded as the face of China’s “New Retail”
Henan’s internet gets healthy, foreign investment in Chinese surveillance, China’s chip sector rises, and sexism in tech firms
Blockchain scam, Alipay issues digital ID cards, LeTV’s (further) downward spiral, and Chinese AI start-up becomes the world’s most valuable
AI with feeling, another crackdown, and Ready Player One takes China by storm
Tech companies rush to out-spoof each other in alarming AI comedy bonanza
China’s “cashless society” will be developed from existing credit schemes—but how reliable are they?
From shopping online to renting bikes, Chinese citizens are contributing to the fabric of their own supervision
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