Samsung may have another foldable up its sleeve this year, with a teaser image hinting at a device set to launch this week.

Long before artificial intelligence became the next big thing in the tech industry, Wang Jian was crafting the foundational infrastructure that would eventually power it. In 2008, he joined Alibaba Group Holding – owner of the South China Morning Post – as chief architect and founded Alibaba Cloud in 2009, convincing the company’s leadership to invest heavily in building a cloud computing infrastructure from scratch. Today, Wang’s purview has expanded considerably. As an academician at the...

Chinese technology giants are dangling annual pay packages approaching 1 million yuan (US$149,739) to attract artificial intelligence engineers who can turn AI models into commercial applications. Companies including ByteDance, Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group Holding are stepping up recruitment and training of the so-called forward-deployed engineers (FDEs), who work directly with customers to develop and integrate AI applications into business operations. Demand for such professionals has...

The cuts affect around one-fifth of the studio’s local workforce, with Ubisoft saying its Singapore operation remains an important part of its global production organisation.

The new electric GLB consists of two models and has a claimed WLTP range of up to 674km.

From the latest electric vehicles and hybrids to exclusive car deals and cash prizes, The Car Expo 2026 offers plenty of reasons to head down to Singapore EXPO this weekend.

China’s access to artificial intelligence computing power will double next year, but US-designed chips will account for about 65 per cent of that capacity, an indication of its continued reliance on foreign hardware, according to new research. Total compute available to Chinese entities was expected to expand in 2027 from about 4.6 million to 8.8 million “H100-equivalents” – a metric benchmarked against Nvidia’s data-centre graphics processing units, according to a report by the Washington-based...

Apple’s digital media streaming box gets a more powerful chip, support for Siri AI, and a new remote with some nifty features, and a higher price tag.

Xiaomi’s wind-sculpted concept car will arrive alongside the PlayStation-exclusive game’s EV Experience mode.

MANILA, Philippines – VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) Pacific 2027 has unveiled the eight organizations that will each represent a region as a partnered team.  The list includes Crazy Raccoon, FULL SENSE, GAM Esports, Gen.G, Paper Rex, Rex Regum Qeon (RRQ), T1, and ZETA DIVISION, combining returning organizations with new additions to the league’s partnership program.

MANILA, Philippines – Whether you’re setting up a new device or configuring an existing one, parental controls are probably much easier to turn on than you think. Parental controls aren’t limited to one device, one app, or one type of internet connection. Most major platforms (smartphones, gaming devices, and applications) already have built-in tools to

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is pitching the concept of “sovereign AI” in Kazakhstan – part of his global crusade urging nations to build domestic computing infrastructure using the firm’s chips – as the energy-rich nation emerges as a US-China battleground for artificial intelligence. Speaking at a fireside chat in Astana on Friday with Kazakh AI and digital development minister Zhaslan Madiyev, Huang said AI was reshaping every industry in a transformation that “affects every single person and...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is pitching the concept of “sovereign AI” in Kazakhstan – part of his global crusade urging nations to build domestic computing infrastructure using the firm’s chips – as the energy-rich nation emerges as a US-China battleground for artificial intelligence. Speaking at a fireside chat in Astana on Friday with Kazakh AI and digital development minister Zhaslan Madiyev, Huang said AI was reshaping every industry in a transformation that “affects every single person and...

Chinese artificial intelligence chip giant Cambricon Technologies reported a 147.7 per cent surge in third-quarter profit on Friday, as the country’s aggressive push to replace Nvidia chips continues to fuel high growth among local chipmakers. The Shanghai-listed chipmaker generated 1.4 billion yuan (US$210 million) in net profit for the three months ended September 30, up from 566.6 million yuan during the same period last year. Revenue reached 3.5 billion yuan, an increase of 104.5 per cent...

MANILA, Philippines – As demand for AI infrastructure puts pressure on memory-chip supplies, affordable smartphones are becoming a necessity as prices on new devices face mounting cost pressures worldwide. With more everyday activities moving online, rising smartphone costs could make it harder for some Filipinos to access digital services. A mobile-first Philippines A July 2026

This article was first published by The Korea Times in a partnership with the South China Morning Post. Chinese humanoid robot makers are accelerating efforts to gain a foothold in South Korea, moving beyond dance performances and showroom displays to factory trials and commercial deployments, as Seoul ramps up investment in physical artificial intelligence. A growing number of Chinese robotics companies – including Hong Kong-listed UBTech Robotics, start-up Anyverse Dynamics, Shanghai-based...

This article was first published by The Korea Times in a partnership with the South China Morning Post. Chinese humanoid robot makers are accelerating efforts to gain a foothold in South Korea, moving beyond dance performances and showroom displays to factory trials and commercial deployments, as Seoul ramps up investment in physical artificial intelligence. A growing number of Chinese robotics companies – including Hong Kong-listed UBTech Robotics, start-up Anyverse Dynamics, Shanghai-based...

MANILA, Philippines – Bioware is shutting down. Bloomberg broke the story with a report that parent company Electronic Arts would be cutting around 400 jobs, about three percent of the company’s staff, including the roughly 50 people who remain at the Canadian studio. A fifth Mass Effect game was in reportedly in development, but is

In half a day, most retail stores sold out of all iPhone Duo models, with scalpers and resellers approaching buyers as they left with their new devices.

Chinese artificial intelligence model developers DeepSeek and MiniMax have completed export registration procedures and proceeded with open-source releases and overseas licensing activities, according to Chinese state media, days after Beijing moved to tighten oversight on AI tech transfers. Yuyuan Tantian, an influential social media account affiliated with state broadcaster CCTV, reported on Thursday evening that the two AI companies had completed the required registrations after Beijing...

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Chinese stocks rebounded on Friday after a sell-off drove the benchmark index into a bear market, as surging trading volumes in the nation’s biggest exchange-traded funds (ETFs) pointed to possible state buying and major companies at the centre of the artificial intelligence trade sought to soothe investors. The CSI 300 Index rose 1.7 per cent to 4,105.33 at the close, reversing an earlier decline of as much as 2 per cent. Turnover in several key ETFs tracking the gauge surged, suggesting that...

The artificial intelligence agent software market across Asia, Australia and New Zealand is set to expand more than 14-fold by 2030, according to research firm Omdia, as Chinese tech companies increasingly deploy automated tools across office and industrial operations. During its annual event in Beijing on Thursday, Omdia forecast that regional market revenue, which included mainland China and Hong Kong, would reach US$11.2 billion in 2030, up from an estimated US$782 million this year. Over the...

The studio behind Baldur’s Gate, Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect is shutting down; a sad end for a developer that once seemed to have a magic touch with RPGs.

Compared to its standard version, the bZ4X adds an additional motor and all-wheel drive to the mix.

TOKYO, Japan — For Christopher “kiririn51” Ortiz, game director and co-founder of Sukeban Games, .45 Parabellum Bloodhound started with a battle system from the past. Sukeban Games is best known for VA-11 HALL-A, the cyberpunk bartender visual novel that established the studio and its narrative-driven approach.  With .45 Parabellum Bloodhound, the developers are stepping into

MANILA, Philippines –  Department of Science and Technology (DOST)-Davao Region named Filipina space biologist and biomedical scientist Florence Pauline “Pauli” Basubas a science ambassador on October 15 during the opening of the Regional Science, Technology, and Innovation Week (RSTW) in Davao City. The 28-year-old ambassador studies how living organisms respond to conditions beyond Earth, including

The conversation around data centers in the Philippines has gotten louder. As someone covering enterprise tech, there seems to be the noise over Pax Silica and the misconception of data centers being one monolithic thing. When in fact, not all data centers are the same, and Pax Silica is a supply chain, not a data

Data sovereignty is not as simply as we thought When the government passed Executive Order 119 to push for data privacy and sovereign data in Philippine soil, there’s more to the context than just having physical data centers to house private citizen data. Whenever you query into an AI tool, the data travels across boundaries

The Firestarter collection pairs a flame-covered Titan Evo with the first K/DA-themed Magnus Pro desk.