It’s not uncommon to see multiple adaptations of popular books, but this is hardly a “David Lynch’s Dune versus Denis Villeneuve’s Dune” situation. Weeks before Netflix is set to roll out its high-profile adaptation of Chinese author Liu Cixin’s award-winning sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem, a rival streamer is beating it to the punch. Samsung … Read more
China’s first offline esports experience hall Tencent V-Station, Shanghai, China, October 31, 2020. Costfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Tencent lost about $43.5 billion in market value on Friday after China surprised financial markets with a fresh set of rules aimed at curbing excessive gaming and spending. The draft guidelines from China’s National Press … Read more
Google executives defended its internal campaign “Project Hug,” which enticed 20 developers to not create app stores competitive with Google Play according to Epic Games, in an ongoing trial Thursday. No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” Purnima Kochikar, Google’s vice president of play, took the stand Thursday … Read more
A Chinese flag flies outside a residential compound in Beijing on April 30, 2017. Greg Baker | Afp | Getty Images Chinese companies have gained ground in global patent holdings in the cybersecurity technology sector amid growing U.S.-China tensions, according to a report from Nikkei Asia on Sunday. Chinese firms such as Huawei and Tencent accounted … Read more
An undated conceptual illustration of China’s technology aspirations. Yaorusheng | Moment | Getty Images Chinese technology giants including Alibaba and Tencent are among backers of Zhipu, the company said on Friday, an artificial intelligence start-up the country is hoping can be an answer to American firm OpenAI. Zhipu has raised more than 2.5 billion Chinese … Read more
Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Photos Tencent is the newest participant to hop on China’s generative synthetic intelligence (AI) bandwagon, providing its basis mannequin on which native organizations can take a look at and construct their very own purposes. Known as Hunyuan, the big language mannequin will be accessed through APIs on Tencent’s cloud platform. Chinese language enterprises … Read more
Tencent has confronted quite a lot of headwinds in 2022 together with a Covid-induced slowdown within the Chinese language economic system and a harder marketplace for gaming. Bobby Yip | Reuters Tencent on Wednesday reported a surge in revenue for the second quarter, however missed expectations, as its cost-cutting measures started to repay and gross … Read more
Chinese language tech big Tencent launched quarterly outcomes Wednesday. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Photos Tencent reported an 11% bounce in quarterly income Wednesday, marking its quickest development in additional than a yr, as the corporate noticed an enormous rebound in fee volumes, advert gross sales, and gaming. This is how Tencent did within the … Read more