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7 Unique Things About China That Tourists Find Fascinating
With its enormous size and buzzing lifestyle, China never fails to amaze or shock first time travellers. Here is what you can expect in this Asian country.
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iQOO 15 Teased to Launch in India in November; to Come With Dynamic Glow UI Design
iQOO 15 will be launched in India soon, a company official has teased. The handset has already made its debut in China and is expected to arrive as the successor to the iQOO 13 in the country. Alongside, the company also teased the new design language of OriginOS 6, featuring Dynamic Glow that brings a light glow, smooth effects, and a new feel to ...
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"Indian PM Likely To Be Leader Of Free World In 40-50 Years": Tony Abbott
The 21st century belongs to India, and the Prime Minister of the country - whoever that might be four or five decades down the line - could take up the mantle of 'the leader of the free world', former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said.
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Video: 'Total Cringe, Chill Sesh'- Putin Tries Gen Z Slang At Economic Forum
A video from the event shows a young woman explaining how language shifts between formal and slang. Putin repeated the slang line with a smile, drawing laughs from onlookers.
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Z.ai Releases GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air Open-Source Agentic AI Models
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) lab Z.ai announced the release of two new open-source GLM models on Monday. Dubbed GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air, the AI firm calls them its latest flagship models. Both of them are hybrid reasoning models that offer a thinking mode for complex reasoning and tool use, and a non-thinking mode for instant responses. Add...
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Fluent In English, She Abruptly Stopped Speaking The Language. Here's Why
A Chinese woman, who was fluent in English, inexplicably lost her ability to speak the language after a cerebral haemorrhage.
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Baidu Looks to Patent AI System to Decipher Animal Sounds
Baidu has filed a patent application for an AI system aimed at translating animal sounds, like meows, into human language. The proposed technology, detailed in a recently published patent document, would analyse animal vocalisations along with their behaviour and body signals to infer emotions and convert them into understandable words.
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iQOO Neo 10 Pro+ Confirmed to Debut This Month, Pre-Reservations Begin
iQOO Neo 10 Pro+ is confirmed to launch in China soon. The Vivo sub-brand shared the first official teaser of the new Neo series phone on Thursday. The teaser reveals the design of the iQOO Neo 10 Pro+. It has a familiar design language with a dual rear camera unit. iQOO has not disclosed the launch date of the phone yet, but it has opened pre-orde...
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Redmi Turbo 4 Pro Launch Set for April 24; Design, Colour Options Revealed
Redmi Turbo 4 Pro will break cover later this week. The design and colour options of the upcoming handset have been revealed ahead of the launch. The smartphone is teased to come with a 2.5K resolution display. It will be powered by a Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset. It appears with a similar design language to the standard Redmi Turbo 4 variant, ...
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DeepSeek's AI Model Upgrade Intensifies Rivalry With OpenAI
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released a major upgrade to its V3 large language model, intensifying competition with US tech leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Foxconn Unveils First Large Language Model Dubbed 'FoxBrain'
Foxconn has launched its first large language model called FoxBrain. Foxconn said that though there was a slight performance gap compared with China's DeepSeek's distillation model, its overall performance is very close to world-class standards.
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DeepSeek Rushes to Launch New AI Model as China Goes All In
Deepseek is accelerating the launch of the successor to January's R1 model, according to three people familiar with the company. The company says it hopes the new model will produce better coding and be able to reason in languages beyond English.
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Traveller's Guide To Basic Phrases In 5 Most Popular Tourist Destinations In The World
Love travelling but struggle with the language barrier? Here is your guide to basic words and phrases for travelling in France, Spain, Italy, China and Turkey.
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China's Baidu to Make Latest Ernie AI Model Open-Source as Competition Heats Up
Baidu CEO Robin Li had long advocated for closed-source models as the only viable path for AI development, but the advent of DeepSeek has upended the sector. The startup offers open-source AI services that it claims are comparable in performance to US pioneer OpenAI's advanced systems but come with a lower operational cost.
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Apple Said to Be in Talks with Tencent, ByteDance to Roll Out iPhone AI Features in China
A successful partner for Apple's AI services in China could be a major winner in the country's increasingly crowded AI field where dozens of large language models have been launched by large tech firms as well as startups.
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7 Unique Things About China That Tourists Find Fascinating
With its enormous size and buzzing lifestyle, China never fails to amaze or shock first time travellers. Here is what you can expect in this Asian country.
-
iQOO 15 Teased to Launch in India in November; to Come With Dynamic Glow UI Design
iQOO 15 will be launched in India soon, a company official has teased. The handset has already made its debut in China and is expected to arrive as the successor to the iQOO 13 in the country. Alongside, the company also teased the new design language of OriginOS 6, featuring Dynamic Glow that brings a light glow, smooth effects, and a new feel to ...
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"Indian PM Likely To Be Leader Of Free World In 40-50 Years": Tony Abbott
The 21st century belongs to India, and the Prime Minister of the country - whoever that might be four or five decades down the line - could take up the mantle of 'the leader of the free world', former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said.
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Video: 'Total Cringe, Chill Sesh'- Putin Tries Gen Z Slang At Economic Forum
A video from the event shows a young woman explaining how language shifts between formal and slang. Putin repeated the slang line with a smile, drawing laughs from onlookers.
-
Z.ai Releases GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air Open-Source Agentic AI Models
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) lab Z.ai announced the release of two new open-source GLM models on Monday. Dubbed GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air, the AI firm calls them its latest flagship models. Both of them are hybrid reasoning models that offer a thinking mode for complex reasoning and tool use, and a non-thinking mode for instant responses. Add...
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Fluent In English, She Abruptly Stopped Speaking The Language. Here's Why
A Chinese woman, who was fluent in English, inexplicably lost her ability to speak the language after a cerebral haemorrhage.
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Baidu Looks to Patent AI System to Decipher Animal Sounds
Baidu has filed a patent application for an AI system aimed at translating animal sounds, like meows, into human language. The proposed technology, detailed in a recently published patent document, would analyse animal vocalisations along with their behaviour and body signals to infer emotions and convert them into understandable words.
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iQOO Neo 10 Pro+ Confirmed to Debut This Month, Pre-Reservations Begin
iQOO Neo 10 Pro+ is confirmed to launch in China soon. The Vivo sub-brand shared the first official teaser of the new Neo series phone on Thursday. The teaser reveals the design of the iQOO Neo 10 Pro+. It has a familiar design language with a dual rear camera unit. iQOO has not disclosed the launch date of the phone yet, but it has opened pre-orde...
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Redmi Turbo 4 Pro Launch Set for April 24; Design, Colour Options Revealed
Redmi Turbo 4 Pro will break cover later this week. The design and colour options of the upcoming handset have been revealed ahead of the launch. The smartphone is teased to come with a 2.5K resolution display. It will be powered by a Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset. It appears with a similar design language to the standard Redmi Turbo 4 variant, ...
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DeepSeek's AI Model Upgrade Intensifies Rivalry With OpenAI
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released a major upgrade to its V3 large language model, intensifying competition with US tech leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Foxconn Unveils First Large Language Model Dubbed 'FoxBrain'
Foxconn has launched its first large language model called FoxBrain. Foxconn said that though there was a slight performance gap compared with China's DeepSeek's distillation model, its overall performance is very close to world-class standards.
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DeepSeek Rushes to Launch New AI Model as China Goes All In
Deepseek is accelerating the launch of the successor to January's R1 model, according to three people familiar with the company. The company says it hopes the new model will produce better coding and be able to reason in languages beyond English.
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Traveller's Guide To Basic Phrases In 5 Most Popular Tourist Destinations In The World
Love travelling but struggle with the language barrier? Here is your guide to basic words and phrases for travelling in France, Spain, Italy, China and Turkey.
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China's Baidu to Make Latest Ernie AI Model Open-Source as Competition Heats Up
Baidu CEO Robin Li had long advocated for closed-source models as the only viable path for AI development, but the advent of DeepSeek has upended the sector. The startup offers open-source AI services that it claims are comparable in performance to US pioneer OpenAI's advanced systems but come with a lower operational cost.
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Apple Said to Be in Talks with Tencent, ByteDance to Roll Out iPhone AI Features in China
A successful partner for Apple's AI services in China could be a major winner in the country's increasingly crowded AI field where dozens of large language models have been launched by large tech firms as well as startups.
