https://www.scmp.com/rss/328026/feed Gareth is an editor for the Post. He is a former managing editor for the EIU’s thought leadership division in Asia. He moved to Hong Kong with Reuters in 2003 and later joined Bloomberg as a finance editor. He also worked as an investment writer with Fidelity, BlackRock and JP Morgan. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Last week an Australian senate select committee held a hearing on the potential for foreign interference in Australian politics through social media. Executives from Meta, Twitter, TikTok and Google were invited to appear, although giant Chinese platform WeChat declined to participate. Australian Liberal senator James Paterson, a China hawk, said the Tencent-owned app’s decision not to attend could be interpreted as “contempt”, although he acknowledged that WeChat executives could not be forced... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3227762/debate-data-privacy-and-chinese-apps-could-do-dose-honesty?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3227762/debate-data-privacy-and-chinese-apps-could-do-dose-honesty?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 16 Jul 2023 17:00:09 +0000 Ever since Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT took the world by storm with its humanlike responses late last year, artificial intelligence (AI) has moved to the centre of the tech stage. Proponents have talked up a quantum leap in industrial efficiency while sceptics have painted a grim picture of millions of people being turfed out of a job. Fear of AI is not new. Who can forget Stanley Kubrick’s iconic film 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the AI supercomputer HAL that controls the spacecraft goes... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3225760/killer-robots-or-not-ais-threat-jobs-real-which-why-it-must-be-handled-wisely?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3225760/killer-robots-or-not-ais-threat-jobs-real-which-why-it-must-be-handled-wisely?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:00:10 +0000 Earlier this month, The Debrief, which describes itself as a platform dedicated to credible reporting on science, tech and defence news published an article about a whistle-blower who says he gave the US Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programmes that he says possess retrieved craft of non-human origin. The whistle-blower is David Charles Grusch, a former combat officer in Afghanistan and veteran of the US National... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3224288/us-whistle-blower-raises-ufo-question-perhaps-its-time-world-looked-answers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3224288/us-whistle-blower-raises-ufo-question-perhaps-its-time-world-looked-answers?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:30:14 +0000 The South China Morning Post on Tuesday launched its third edition of the China Internet Report, and in 2020 one theme dominates more than any other – the acceleration of digital trends as a result of the Covid-19 health crisis. The pandemic has permanently changed how people in China are using technology in their everyday lives, with increased online consumption and more people than ever before working online. “The Covid-19 pandemic has left a lasting and transformative impact on China’s... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3091967/scmps-china-internet-report-2020-finds-covid-19-has-accelerated-digitisation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3091967/scmps-china-internet-report-2020-finds-covid-19-has-accelerated-digitisation?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Jul 2020 22:00:12 +0000 Gojek, Indonesia’s largest start-up, said that ride-hailing and transport services around the world have been severely affected by Covid-19 while food delivery has been more resilient – although consumer demand and merchant needs are constantly shifting. “Consumption has shifted, there’s more interest in ready-to-cook meals now and we’ve been helping to deliver people’s favourite meals in this format,” said Kevin Aluwi, co-founder and co-CEO of Gojek in a recent interview with the Post. “Many... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3091529/improved-hygiene-contactless-deliveries-and-mobile-payments-surge?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3091529/improved-hygiene-contactless-deliveries-and-mobile-payments-surge?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Jul 2020 22:00:08 +0000 Formula 1 (F1) is introducing a new set of racing statistics for the 2020 season powered by Amazon’s cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services (AWS), giving global fans of the motor racing sport more on-screen and race-time insights into their favourite teams and drivers. Six real-time racing stats, including car performance scores, ultimate driver speed comparison, driver skills rating, high-speed/low-speed corner performance, car/team development and overall season performance as well as... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3090221/formula-1-announces-new-racing-performance-data-backed-amazons-cloud?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3090221/formula-1-announces-new-racing-performance-data-backed-amazons-cloud?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Jun 2020 07:00:06 +0000 After living through China’s recent Covid-19 outbreak, primary schoolteacher Cookie Shan now sets an alarm at 8am and 7pm each day to remind students in her WeChat class group that they need to fill in their daily health declaration forms, indicating if they have a raised temperature or dry cough, some of the key symptoms of the deadly disease. “When the alarm rings I send a message to their parents to fill in the forms and if I don’t get a reply I call them,” said the 25 year-old, who lives in... https://www.scmp.com/tech/innovation/article/3089431/software-robots-take-more-work-asia-covid-19-accelerates-demand?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/innovation/article/3089431/software-robots-take-more-work-asia-covid-19-accelerates-demand?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Jun 2020 11:30:11 +0000 The Covid-19 pandemic has fuelled a new appetite for food deliveries in Asia and around the world as more people work from home but it has also brought urgent challenges for the industry, says the regional head of online food delivery service Foodpanda. “It has been quite a roller-coaster ride for us,” Jakob Angele, chief executive for Foodpanda Asia-Pacific, told the Post in an interview this week, adding that the current health crisis has been “challenging” when it comes to dealing with a... https://www.scmp.com/tech/start-ups/article/3084383/covid-19-has-been-roller-coaster-ride-asias-food-delivery-business?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/start-ups/article/3084383/covid-19-has-been-roller-coaster-ride-asias-food-delivery-business?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 14 May 2020 22:00:14 +0000 The South China Morning Post this week launched its China AI Report 2020, which shows how government direction, access to data, robust funding and entrepreneurial zeal have all allowed China to take a lead in the deployment of artificial intelligence. The report examines how AI is being applied across a range of sectors including autonomous vehicles, finance, health care, retail, smart homes and manufacturing, among others. Aside from technology, it finds that data and talent are of critical... https://www.scmp.com/tech/innovation/article/3049960/data-entrepreneurial-flair-and-government-backing-have-helped-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/innovation/article/3049960/data-entrepreneurial-flair-and-government-backing-have-helped-china?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 12 Feb 2020 22:00:10 +0000 Shuli Ren, in a Bloomberg article titled “Losing the Hong Kong that I love”, said she has “grown alarmed and disillusioned by the anti-Chinese rhetoric some locals have taken up as they battle for greater democratic freedoms. Many of us moved here precisely so we could enjoy similar liberties.” But there is another side to this story. I, too, feel like I am losing the Hong Kong I love, as do other Western expatriates who moved here to observe the spectacular rise of China – a country that has... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3041479/hong-kong-we-all-love-gateway-between-east-and-west-and-protesters?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3041479/hong-kong-we-all-love-gateway-between-east-and-west-and-protesters?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Dec 2019 22:30:12 +0000 After a successful listing in Hong Kong this week, Alibaba Group Holding chief executive Daniel Zhang Yong said he remains focused on the long term and empowering people through technology. “Today, because of digital technology, we can enable people and our merchants to do business in a digital way. We are able to help traditional companies transform themselves into a digital, data-driven company,” Zhang told the South China Morning Post this week. “That was our mission from day one. We have a... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3039627/alibabas-digital-infrastructure-help-partners-transform-their?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3039627/alibabas-digital-infrastructure-help-partners-transform-their?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Nov 2019 02:45:09 +0000 Amid an ongoing campaign by the US to shut Huawei out of global 5G markets on national security grounds, Huawei’s rotating chairman Guo Ping has upped the ante by saying that US attacks are motivated by a desire to suppress a rising competitor in a strategic area of technology. In an opinion piece in the Financial Times, Guo says the US has been undermining Huawei for years, pointing to a 2012 report by the House Intelligence Committee which labelled the company as a threat. The US has accused... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-leaders-and-founders/article/2187935/huaweis-guo-ups-ante-5g-war-words-accusing-us-wanting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-leaders-and-founders/article/2187935/huaweis-guo-ups-ante-5g-war-words-accusing-us-wanting?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Feb 2019 11:46:09 +0000 Social media giant Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg along with fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, celebrated its 15th anniversary this week. Chairman and CEO Zuckerberg, who launched the first version of Facebook from his Harvard dorm, marked the occasion with a personal post saying his aim was to build a “simple website organised around people” allowing them to connect with each other and share the things most important to... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-leaders-and-founders/article/2185166/facebook-15-zuckerberg-privacy-fake-news-and-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-leaders-and-founders/article/2185166/facebook-15-zuckerberg-privacy-fake-news-and-china?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 Feb 2019 13:00:18 +0000 Pressure is rising on Bloomberg over an investigative news report that claimed Chinese spies used microchips to infiltrate several major US technology companies, after executives at two other tech firms named in the report backed Apple chief executive Tim Cook in calling for a retraction. Super Micro Computer (Supermicro) chief executive Charles Liang issued a statement on Monday saying Bloomberg should retract the story as it contains “unsupported allegations” following on from Andy Jassy,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2169758/amazon-and-super-micro-back-tim-cook-and-call-bloomberg-withdraw-china-chip?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2169758/amazon-and-super-micro-back-tim-cook-and-call-bloomberg-withdraw-china-chip?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Oct 2018 03:00:15 +0000 Google chief executive Sundar Pichai publicly addressed his company’s plans to re-enter the Chinese market with a search and news-oriented product for the first time on Monday, saying such a service would be capable of serving 99 per cent of queries. Speaking at Wired’s 25th anniversary summit in San Francisco, Pichai described the Chinese market as “important for us to explore” given its size and the very high likelihood that it will become the largest and most lucrative internet-using... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2168715/google-ceo-says-china-search-engine-would-serve-99-queries-takes-swipe-baidu?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2168715/google-ceo-says-china-search-engine-would-serve-99-queries-takes-swipe-baidu?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Oct 2018 02:45:00 +0000 When you think of countries with aggressive border security, the bucolic land which provided the backdrop for the Peter Jackson-directed Lord of the Rings trilogy may not come to mind. But this week the New Zealand Customs Service received new powers at the country's borders, including the ability to demand passwords from travellers to search their electronic devices if they are suspected of committing a customs offence, in what amounts to a digital strip-search. Travellers who fail to hand over... https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/2166578/new-zealand-customs-officers-now-have-power-demand-passwords-digital?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/2166578/new-zealand-customs-officers-now-have-power-demand-passwords-digital?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Oct 2018 05:00:45 +0000 Ctrip, China’s largest online travel services provider, plans to boost the proportion of total revenue it makes from overseas customers from 2 per cent to at least 20 per cent over the next five years, using its recently-acquired Trip.com brand as a bridgehead for international expansion. While capitalising on the massive outbound Chinese tourist market, Ctrip also wants to grow its overseas business in Asian markets such as South Korea and Japan, and ultimately places like London in the UK,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2156222/china-travel-giant-ctrip-wants-book-bigger-seat-international-markets-tripcom?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2156222/china-travel-giant-ctrip-wants-book-bigger-seat-international-markets-tripcom?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Jul 2018 22:01:21 +0000