Xiaomi 17T, 17T Pro Bring ‘Leica Live Moments’ And Large Batteries

Xiaomi is launching two new flagships with Leica Live Moment, a fun feature for those who enjoy snapping candid photos.

Fans Already Have A Cool Theory About The Protagonist For ‘Dragon Quest XII’

Following the reveal of ‘Dragon Quest XII’, fans online have already come up with a cool new theory about the game’s protagonist.

Meet The Doctor-Turned-Entrepreneur Using AI To Save Lives

Aengus Tran traded medical practice to build AI software that delivers quick and accurate diagnoses of X-rays and scans. Now, the 32-year-old CEO of Sydney-based Harrison.ai and a 30 Under 30 Asia alum, is targeting America’s overstretched healthcare s…

‘Dragon Quest’ Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary By Revealing ‘Dragon Quest XII’

It’s been a long while since we’ve heard anything about the next mainline entry in the ‘Dragon Quest’ saga, ‘Dragon Quest XII’, but it’s been worth the wait.

The Samsung pay deal is the moment Korean unions changed register
The Samsung pay deal is the moment Korean unions changed register

Samsung’s 10.5%-of-profit bonus formula is only the second written profit-share agreement at a major Korean firm. Kakao’s union is already asking for more. Samsung Electronics’ unionised workforce voted in favour of the government-mediated pay agreemen…

Taiwan suspects NVIDIA chips were smuggled to China via a Japan transshipment route
Taiwan suspects NVIDIA chips were smuggled to China via a Japan transshipment route

Three suspects, including a Super Micro senior vice president, are accused of exporting US-restricted servers through false documents to Japan and then on to mainland China. Taiwanese prosecutors suspect that three individuals successfully smuggled at …

Samsung commits $1.5bn to a Vietnam chip-testing plant, with $2.5bn more on the table
Samsung commits $1.5bn to a Vietnam chip-testing plant, with $2.5bn more on the table

Samsung Electronics will invest 39 trillion dong, or about $1.5bn, in a semiconductor testing plant in Vietnam, according to a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. Construction has already begun in an industrial park 60 kilometres north of Hanoi, wit…

SPARQ opens $8.5M seed round for AI-native game engine, with a16z’s scout fund on the cap table
SPARQ opens $8.5M seed round for AI-native game engine, with a16z’s scout fund on the cap table

SPARQ, a UAE-based startup building what it calls an AI-native game engine, has opened an $8.5m seed round with early participation from the a16z Scout Fund, the vehicle Andreessen Horowitz uses to back early-stage deals through external scouts. The ch…

South Korea’s deputy PM says AI wealth must benefit the public. The Samsung strike showed why.
South Korea’s deputy PM says AI wealth must benefit the public. The Samsung strike showed why.

South Korea’s Deputy Prime Minister Bae Kyung-hoon said the wealth created by artificial intelligence must benefit the wider public, warning that the labour tensions that nearly shut down Samsung Electronics this week are not an isolated event but a pr…

Taiwan moves to detain three over alleged illegal high-end AI server exports to China
Taiwan moves to detain three over alleged illegal high-end AI server exports to China

The investigation is the island’s first formal semiconductor-smuggling crackdown and ties back to the wider Supermicro-linked diversion network that has been routing Nvidia Hopper systems into Chinese customers through Hong Kong and third-country relay…