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China begins testing robotaxis for hire amid race against US tech dominance
Autonomous hired cars are considered ideal for accumulating driving time and the data cache needed for cars to learn and become safe enough.
Government must galvanise India's app ecosystem to pare down Chinese influence
Quick disbursal of the Rs 20,000 crore Startup India corpus to app-based businesses is key, not reliance on large firms to create superapps.
Self-driving cars may go commercial in China by 2025, as India lags behind
Covering about 10 lakh km within Beijing alone, 12 Chinese automotive firms have tested 77 cars in 2019
Baidu overtakes Google to become global No. 2 in smart speaker market in Q2 2019
The global smart speaker market grew 55.4 per cent in Q2, 2019, and Baidu acquired 17.3 per cent market share.
ByteDance launches search engine to take on Baidu
The portal, called Toutiao Search, is part of the website for the Toutiao news aggregator owned by ByteDance.
Man poured water on Baidu CEO during speech, arrested
Chinese authorities have detained a man in connection with its investigation.
China's Tencent builds self-driving car team in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a hub for testing and research of autonomous vehicles.
China shuts 128,000 websites containing ‘harmful’ information in 2017: Xinhua
Xinhua says 30.9 mn illegal publications were confiscated over the course of 2017, while 1,900 people were subject to criminal penalties.
BlackBerry to make self-driving cars internet firm Baidu
BlackBerry shares rose per cent in Toronto to C$16.95, their highest one-day gain since April.
China investigates social media sites for breach of laws
Cyber surveillance is being tightened further ahead of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.