- If you call a car “self-driving,” people expect it can drive itself — despite warnings to the contrary
- The world’s biggest personal computer-maker, Lenovo, said first-quarter earnings rose 64% to $173m (132m pound), beating market expectations
- French payments processing group Ingenico has struck an alliance with China’s Alipay that will enable Chinese tourists visiting Europe to pay for…
- Second-quarter profits at Tencent, whose products range from instant messaging and social networks to online games, exceeded expectations as it…
- So good, the Chinese did it twice
- Apple plans to open its first research and development centre in China later this year, the latest in a series of steps to bolster its presence in a…
- Hike Messenger, an Indian rival to Facebook’s WhatsApp, has achieved “unicorn” status after Tencent and Foxconn joined a fresh funding round that valued the business at $1.4bn
- Ford will build a totally self-driving car by 2021 as it seeks to take the lead in the global race to produce the world’s first high-volume driverless vehicle
- After losing communication with a space probe two years ago, NASA says it has reestablished contact
- The KN-11 missile was launched off the coast of Sinpo and flew about 500km (300 miles) before falling into the Sea of Japan, a US official said
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- Mr Bryant, the former captain of the Los Angeles Lakers, told the Wall Street Journal he felt he has a talent for identifying entrepreneurs
- Tencent has overtaken its rival Alibaba to become China’s most valuable tech firm after strong results
- A Northwest China shopping mall is the latest to draw lines on social media after introducing pink, extra-wide parking spaces for women motorists
- A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked an Obama administration directive meant to expand bathroom access for transgender students in the…
- China’s major telecom operators have announced plans to cancel domestic roaming charges as they are instead turning to 4G services as a major source of profit
- Some of China’s most high-profile actors and actresses are vastly overpaid, receiving up to 100 million yuan ($14.99 million) for a single movie or…
- Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei snagged the top spot on this year’s list of the top 500 Chinese private companies
- Six scientists have completed a yearlong Mars simulation in Hawaii, where they lived in a dome in near isolation
- A prototype Apple 1, a holy-grail item in electronics memorabilia, has been sold for $815,000
- The world’s largest aircraft crash landed at the end of its second test flight on Wednesday
- The Prime Minister will take Britain out of the EU irrespective of threats from former British Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair who muted campaigners…
- President Barack Obama will expand a national monument off the coast of Hawaii, creating a safe zone for tuna, sea turtles and thousands of other…
- South Korea’s government has announced a host of measures to encourage people to make more babies, as concerns grow over the country’s stubbornly low birth rate
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