Ant Group asked by China to restructure as a holding company
Feb 03, 2021 23:54 pm UTC| Economy Business Technology
Ant Group Co would be turned into a financial holding company based on a restructuring plan imposed by a Chinese regulator. The agreement calls for putting all of Ants businesses into the holding company, including its...
Feb 03, 2021 08:25 am UTC| Technology
EA and BioWare have finally unveiled the first look on the Mass Effect Legendary Edition, along with the official list of gaming platforms where the collection will launch. Unlike what some fans expected, the developers...
Feb 03, 2021 07:04 am UTC| Technology
Xbox Game Pass is getting a slew of new games this month, including Wolfenstein: Youngblood. Despite the game being released on several platforms since 2019, its arrival in Microsofts service will be exclusively available...
Feb 03, 2021 05:53 am UTC| Technology
Apples new App Tracking Transparency (ATT) measure is now live as the company seeds the first version of the iOS 14.5 beta. It happens very shortly after Facebook announced it is also launching its own screen to tackle...
S. Korea to identify 'coronavirus-safe' restaurants via Kakao platform
Feb 02, 2021 23:55 pm UTC| Technology
The South Korean government has tapped the services of Kakao Corp. to identify local restaurants strictly following sanitary guidelines designed to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. According to the guidelines,...
Alibaba's 37% sales surge fails to calm investors worried about intensified crackdown
Feb 02, 2021 23:07 pm UTC| Business Technology
Alibabas 37 percent on-year jump in revenue for the quarter ended December failed to calm investors worried about a regulatory crackdown by China. The quarter included the companys big Singles Day sales blitz, which...
Artificial intelligence must not be allowed to replace the imperfection of human empathy
Feb 02, 2021 13:32 pm UTC| Technology
At the heart of the development of AI appears to be a search for perfection. And it could be just as dangerous to humanity as the one that came from philosophical and pseudoscientific ideas of the 19th and early 20th...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects