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Old NVIDIA GPU’s Being Repurposed Into AI Accelerators in China
The US has invoked some export control over China which restricts the sale of the fastest consumer and professional GPUs, mostly NVIDIA, which has in turn led to some interesting methods of skirting around the effects of the rules. A lot of these methods have involved repurposing older cards including…
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Alibaba Singles Day Sale Breaks Record With $25B USD Sold
While the US has Black Friday, China has their Singles Day sale every November 11 and this year Alibaba set their highest record yet. In 2016, their retail arm had a sales total of 120.78 billion RMB ($17.79 billion), but they have now outdone that with 163.8 billion RMB ($25.3…
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Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma Believes Robots Could be CEOs Within 30 Years
Speaking at a China Entrepreneur Club event, Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma addressed the upcoming workplace disruption that will be brought about by robots and the advancement of artificial intelligence. Ma spoke of the world experiencing more pain than happiness within the next 30 years due to this disruption if humans…
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Beggars in China Accept Mobile Payments via QR Codes
A strange phenomenon has been happening inside Subway stations in China with the proliferation of tech-savvy beggars using mobile phones to ask for money. They are not the typical homeless or drug addicted characters seen in other metropolitan areas, sitting down with a cardboard sign explaining why they need the…
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China’s LingLong Want to Add Alexa to DingDong!
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing China’s answer to the Amazon Echo, the LingLong DingDong. Just in case you missed that, it’s called the LingLong DingDong. You’d be forgiven in thinking that this was the ramblings of some chubby western bloke, trying to convince his mates down at the local pub that…
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AMD Collaborates With Alibaba to Deliver New Cloud Services
AMD is renowned for offering impressive products in both the consumer and corporate markets. Recently, AMD entered into a partnership with the Chinese firm Alibaba to supply chips for their datacentres. In this partnership, Alibaba Cloud plans to deploy AMD’s Radeon Pro GPU technology to expand its cloud computing offerings…
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Alibaba to Invest in Micromax, India’s Major Phone Maker
Alibaba, Chinese e-commerce firm is going to buy a stake in India’s major smartphone maker, Micromax. The e-commerce giant is believed pick up a 20 percent stake in Micromax. If the deal completes, Alibaba will be investing as much as $1.2 billion in Micromax. It makes sense considering the fact that India…
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