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Chinese smartphone makers, not Apple, benefited from Samsung’s Note 7 disaster

Samsung's Note 7 debacle led competing smartphone makers to gain market share in China. Oppo and Huawei were among the big winners. Apple was not.
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Powerful processor? Big battery? The Vivo XPlay 6 delivers, and then some

During an earlier launch event, Chinese manufacturer Vivo announced the XPlay 6, one of the company's latest flagship smartphones.
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China’s Gionee gives its S9 smartphone an alien look with dual rear cameras

Gionee unveiled the S9, the Chinese company's latest phone that follows the trend of dual rear cameras.
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China leads the way as world’s supercomputers get 60% faster than they were in 2015

Massively parallel systems with hundreds of thousands or millions of cores keep getting more powerful, and China leads this year's supercomputer race.
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China to Trump: Don’t be ‘naive,’ or iPhone sales could suffer

In a piece published Monday by the Global Times, the newspaper said that the new U.S. president would be "naive" to engage in a trade war with China.
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LeEco low on cash following big expansion; co-founder apologizes to shareholders

LeEco is having money problems, and it looks like its rapid expansion is at fault.
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Xiaomi’s Redmi 4 phones make you rethink what’s possible for less than $150

Xiaomi unveiled its trio of affordable Redmi 4 phones: the Redmi 4A, Redmi 4 Standard Edition, and Redmi 4 Pro Edition.
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Check out the incredible brickwork completed by robots in Shanghai

Meet Chinese studio Archi-Union Architects, who programmed robots to build a new art gallery in Shanghai's West Bund district.
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HTC Vive arcades to offer consumers in the U.S., China, and Europe a taste of VR

HTC will be launching new arcades across the US, China, and Europe titled Viveport to introduce VR to the masses
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Volvo set to shift production from Europe, build more cars in China

Volvo will soon build cars spanning its entire lineup at three plants in China, as well as existing European plants and a new U.S. factory.
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You’ll have to go international if you want Android with your $103 Meizu M5

Meizu's M5, the latest in the company's M line of phones, looks like your typical midrange phone, except when you consider the lack of Android anywhere.
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Primed for growth? Amazon Prime has just launched in China

A country-specific version of Amazon Prime has now launched in China, and Amazon hopes that this enormous marketplace may open the door for further growth.
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Qualcomm takes its patent battle against Meizu to the U.S., Germany, and France

Mobile processor maker Qualcomm will no longer keep its patent battle with Meizu in China, as the company filed actions in the U.S., France, and Germany.
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Watch a man set a record by back flipping out of the water 29 times in a minute

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With 4GB RAM and a 23MP camera, the ZTE Nubia Z11 Mini S offers big value

ZTE unveiled the Nubia Z11 Mini S, the latest addition to the company's Nubia line of smartphones.
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A Chinese rocket has just blasted off to begin the nation’s longest manned mission to date

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We flew to Shenzhen to experience China’s insane electronics bazaar firsthand

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Apple planning a second research and development center in China

Apple has announced plans for a second research and development facility in China following the groundbreaking of a Beijing-based facility.
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Baidu releases Melody, a medical assistant chatbot to keep physicians humming

Melody the Medical Assistant chatbot is designed to converse with patients and collect data on their conditions to save physicians time for treatment.
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Faster than a speeding — elevator. Shanghai Tower claims to have world's fastest

The Shanghai Tower now boasts the world's fastest elevator, but can it be topped?
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A company asked employees who own an iPhone 7 to resign

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Beijing’s silver-plated ‘Smog Free Tower’ turns pollution into carbon cubes

Today Beijing gets a little help from the world’s largest outdoor air purifier — a 23-foot-tall, metal hexagon called the Smog Free Tower.
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Apple's new China R&D center will open by the end of the year, develop hardware

Apple had said that it was planning to open new research and development offices in China. Now new details indicate Apple may develop hardware there.
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China’s alien-hunting telescope, the world’s largest, is now operational

After months of testing, China's giant alien-searching telescope FAST became fully operational on September 25.
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China sends most accurate clock in the world to the Tiangong-2 space station

The most precise time-keeping device on the planet is officially off it and is orbiting Earth in Tiangong-2.
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A professor in China is using facial recognition to gauge student interest

A computer science professor in China is using facial and expression recognition technology to gauge the interest levels of students in his classes.
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Deal between Didi Chuxing and Uber draws antitrust attention

The Ministry of Commerce, China's regulatory watchdog, launched an investigation into Didi's deal with Uber and its Chinese business.
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Uber has already lost nearly $1.3 billion this year

It may be one of the most ubiquitous companies around, but that doesn't mean Uber is doing all that...well. It's lost $1.3 billion this year.
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China just opened the world’s longest glass bridge in Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon

Height fearers, look away -- this glass six-meter wide bridge spans 430 meters, and overlooks a drop of a breathtaking 300 meters straight into a valley.
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Apple to build research, development facility in China by end of 2016

Apple has committed to building a research and development center in China this year. Construction could wrap up as soon as "the end of this year."
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Tesla joins Volvo and Mercedes in walking back ‘self-driving’ terminology

Language that describes driver assist modes takes another turn when Tesla removes 'Autopilot' and 'self-driving' from Chinese website following a crash.
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China is developing a hypersonic space plane that makes the Space Shuttle look primitive

China is moving to the forefront of the space race with a space plane that'll go from runway to orbit and back down again at hypersonic speeds.
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Porsche offers less powerful, less expensive versions of its 718 Boxster and Cayman in China

Porsche plans to release 250-horsepower versions of the 718 Boxster and 718 Cayman in China, beneath the 300-hp base models sold elsewhere.
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The Huawei Honor 5 Play gives you sticker shock, but in the best way possible

Alongside its announcement of the Honor Note 8, Huawei also announced the Honor 5 Play, the company's latest budget phone that features a $90 asking price.