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Your next hotel room may be smarter than you

Tired? Tell your hotel room you’re “going to sleep,” and it does the rest.

Baidu just lost Lu Qi, its leading AI expert

The Chinese search giant has announced that Lu will no longer serve as its COO or partake in other active management roles at the company come July.

Welcome to the Nasdaq, IQ! The Netflix of China just raised $2.25 billion in its IPO

The so-called Netflix of China just conquered the U.S. stock market. iQiyi, a Netflix-style service owned by internet giant Baidu, just raised $2.25 billion in its IPO, per Axios. Since the company originally hoped to raise $1.5 billion, we’re guessing it is counting this as a success. Prior to the IPO, iQiyi was valued at … Continue reading “Welcome to the Nasdaq, IQ! The Netflix of China just raised $2.25 billion in its IPO”

China Has Its Own Alexa, But It’s No Mere Knockoff

Unlike Amazon and Google, Baidu’s DuerOS avoids competing with its hardware partners.

Mozilla’s open source voice recognition tool nears human-like accuracy

Mozilla has released an open source voice recognition tool that it says is “close to human level performance,” and free for developers to plug into their projects. The free-software company also on Wednesday released a first set of crowdsourced recordings under its Common Voice project, designed to let anyone train and test machine learning algorithms to … Continue reading “Mozilla’s open source voice recognition tool nears human-like accuracy”

China’s Baidu just announced some funky smart speakers

Facial recognition may start ruining your chance to skip school

Facial recognition software may soon interfere with your God-given right to skip the college courses you’re paying $71,000 a year to not attend. It’s already happening at one Chinese university where a professor has set up an attendance system using facial recognition software. According to China Daily, students in Professor Shen Hao’s courses at the … Continue reading “Facial recognition may start ruining your chance to skip school”

Building Momentum In China, Streaming Site Viki Inks Deal With Baidu

Viki has more than 26 million monthly viewers who provide crowdsourced translations for its titles.

Visualizing Bitcoin’s Amazingly Fast Spread Around The World

You probably haven’t used a bitcoin. But from China to Tanzania, the underground currency is everywhere.

Reports: Baidu, The “Google Of China,” Is Now Accepting Bitcoin

China’s Google dips its toe into the crypto-currency.

Chinese Government Launches Anti-Internet Rumor Website

The Beijing Internet Association’s website is designed to debunk urban legends spread via Chinese social media… and, coincidentally, to convince Internet users that government corruption allegations are false.

Meet Baidu Eye, A Chinese Google Glass April Fool’s Joke…That’s Sort Of Real

China’s version of Google is also experimenting with augmented reality specs.

Baidu Launches English-language Antivirus Software

Chinese Internet search giant Baidu launched a free Windows security suite today, in the company’s latest effort to crack foreign markets.

Chinese Search Giant Baidu Goes Into Africa With Smartphone Browser

The browser, a collaboration with France Telecom, will be pre-installed in many of the cheap smartphones on offer in the telco’s African network.

Android Dominates Smartphone Market In China

Google may have pulled its search engine out of mainland China over two years ago but, of every 10 smartphones, nine of them run on its Android OS.

Baidu Employees Sacked, Then Arrested, After Accepting Bribes

Baidu, China’s Google, To Release Own-Brand Smartphone, Cloud Service [Updated]

Baidu’s Q1 Revenues Rise 75 Percent

The Tweet That Ruined A Former Apple Designer’s Weekend [Updated, With Response]