The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and SenseTime today announced that SenseTime, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, is joining MIT's efforts to define the next frontier of human and machine intelligence.
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Prior to the commencement of the 2018 Mobile World Congress (MWC2018) in Barcelona, Huawei held a pre-exhibition conference on February 25 and released the Matebook X Pro, the world's first FullView touchscreen laptop.
On February 23, JD presented its unmanned intelligent distribution station to be used in the National Civil Aerospace Industry Base in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province.
Fast Company released the 2018 edition of the World's Most Innovative Companies. Among the top 50 most innovative companies, Apple, Netflix, and Square were the top three. Tencent, which has been on the list for four consecutive years, surpassed Amazon and ranked fourth place in the list.
On February 19, QQ, a Tencent product, released data on red envelope gifting during the Spring Festival. A total of 210 million participants received 1.79 billion red envelopes by walking a cumulative 3.4 trillion steps, or about 2.24 billion kilometers (1.4 billion miles), equal to 40 times the distance from Earth to Mars.
During the Spring Festival, Meituan Takeout maintained normal operations and allowed customers to make reservations for Chinese New Year’s Eve dinner.
The heads of six intelligence agencies joined US Senate Intelligence Committee hearings. At the hearing, they advised Americans to avoid Huawei's products and services.
The Indian market is where China's smartphone manufacturers perform best with regards to internationalization. The Indian smartphone market grew by 14 percent last year, more than any other country. Chinese brands made up 53 percent of smartphone sales, according to the latest foreign media news.
On February 12, Didi released data from the first 10 days of this year's Spring Festival (February 1 to February 10). According to the data, 7.58 million people returned home via the ridesharing service.
China far outnumbers the US in blockchain patents and leads the world, according to the latest blockchain patent list. Alibaba is the world’s leading enterprise in terms of number of patents published for blockchain technology. All of its 49 patents came from the Ant Financial technology laboratory.
UC Browser announced its monthly active user count in India and Indonesia reached 170 million, with 130 million in India and 40 million in Indonesia.
Huami became listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the stock code HMI on February 8, IPOBoutique.com reported.
Recently, Deutsche Telekom, Intel and Huawei announced they successfully completed the world's first 5G interoperability development test using a 5G commercial base station that complied with the 3GPP R15 standard.
The global smartphone market was saturated in 2017. China's handset market plunged more than 10 percent and many Chinese mobile phone manufacturers, including Huawei and Xiaomi, are preparing to excavate the gold from the US market.
Apple US announced its revenue from the fourth quarter last year, which is also the first quarter of Apple's 2018 fiscal year.