Tech Thursday: Episode 18
US fund wants Sina board seats, iPhone X looms over iPhone 8, electric planes, and a Nanjing’s DNA repository
US fund wants Sina board seats, iPhone X looms over iPhone 8, electric planes, and a Nanjing’s DNA repository
China’s nano-suit, AlphaGo gets weirder, Tesla in China, and Chinese bike-share startups in DC
WeChat translation goes full racist, Tsinghua website blocked, Samsung and Huawei battle it out, and China locates new stars
AI and wine, China makes its own plane, Unicom goes big data, and WeChat changes the world
WeChat malware, iPhone prices raise eyebrows, quantum facility, and social credit for businesses: It’s Tech Thursday
Beer-baited trap and facial recognition nabs criminals, Google and AI in China, Tencent and flying taxis, and a kid named after an app
The chatbot poet, bitcoin seeks cheap power, robo-conference, sex-slave emojis and shared BMWs: It’s Tech Thursday
VR vs. drugs, the tiniest electric car, Tencent’s social credit scheme, and Didi pursues Uber abroad
Beijing China’s most cashless city, Apple removes VPNs, sexism in e-sports and a rogue chatbot: It’s Tech Thursday
Virtual communism in the classroom, Huawei’s Pacific cable cancelled, food delivered to trains, and space food from poop
Food app’s Halal fiasco, Apple’s new China head, Whatsapp off and on, and “nap capsules” put to sleep
Prophecies of VPN doom, 300,000 vanishing umbrellas, China leads in footsteps, and quantum satellite tests