Wall Street Journal:
Chinese game makers, facing slowing domestic user growth and fewer game approvals amid the regulatory crackdown, are rushing into overseas markets like the US — With fewer titles approved and domestic user growth slowing, Tencent and its competitors are looking to expansion abroad
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Sunday, August 21, 2022
Chinese game makers, facing slowing domestic user growth and fewer game approvals amid the regulatory crackdown, are rushing into overseas markets like the US (Wall Street Journal)
SoftBank CFO says the company sold a large part of its stake in Alibaba to "instantly show" investors its finances were solid after a $23B quarterly loss (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
SoftBank CFO says the company sold a large part of its stake in Alibaba to “instantly show” investors its finances were solid after a $23B quarterly loss — Yoshimitsu Goto says Japanese technology group wanted to ‘instantly show’ its finances were solid
Saturday, August 20, 2022
Lloyd's of London will require insurer groups in its global marketplace to exclude state-backed hacks from stand-alone cyber insurance policies starting in 2023 (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)
James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:
Lloyd's of London will require insurer groups in its global marketplace to exclude state-backed hacks from stand-alone cyber insurance policies starting in 2023 — By 2023, insurer groups must add clauses to cyber policies excluding state-backed hacks that severely affect target nation's infrastructure, insurance marketplace says
An interview with NFT project Loot creator Dom Hofmann, who says it still has ~200 developers despite the project's market cap falling from $180M+ to under $6M (Casey Newton/The Verge)
Casey Newton / The Verge:
An interview with NFT project Loot creator Dom Hofmann, who says it still has ~200 developers despite the project's market cap falling from $180M+ to under $6M — Loot's Dom Hofmann on outlasting the hype cycle, public-domain video games, and why Creative Commons is the future
Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $300 million more in northern Vietnam
Britain sets out roadmap for self driving vehicle usage by 2025
A look at the challenges ahead for China's digital yuan, as e-CNY total transaction volume reached $12.3B in May and ~4.6M merchants across China now accept it (Nikkei Asia)
Nikkei Asia:
A look at the challenges ahead for China's digital yuan, as e-CNY total transaction volume reached $12.3B in May and ~4.6M merchants across China now accept it — Expansion will require new rules and huge investment in datacenters and other infrastructure — In three years of experiments …
Friday, August 19, 2022
Australia targets vehicle emissions to boost electric car supply
How to update the address on your passport online: A step-by-step guide
Report: TikTok's in-app browser injects JavaScript that can track users' keystrokes and taps into websites; TikTok confirms the code but says it's for debugging (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
Richard Nieva / Forbes:
Report: TikTok's in-app browser injects JavaScript that can track users' keystrokes and taps into websites; TikTok confirms the code but says it's for debugging — When TikTok users enter a website through a link on the app, TikTok inserts code that can monitor much of their activity …
How to disable nudges in Gmail, Google Messages on your Android device
Why Timex is not taking a dig at just Apple Watch
TechCrunch debuts a tool to check if an Android device is one of hundreds of thousands hacked by one of several spyware apps, after its probe into TheTruthSpy (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch debuts a tool to check if an Android device is one of hundreds of thousands hacked by one of several spyware apps, after its probe into TheTruthSpy — TechCrunch today launched a spyware lookup tool that allows anyone to check if their Android device was compromised by a fleet …
Vivo V25 5G may launch on August 25
SpaceX launches Starlink in Indonesia to improve internet access in remote parts of the country, starting with three local health centers (Stefanno Sulaiman/Reuters)
Stefanno Sulaiman / Reuters : SpaceX launches Starlink in Indonesia to improve internet access in remote parts of the country, starting w...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : An adapted excerpt from the book “Your Computer Is on Fire”, on how voice assistants like Siri and Alexa al...