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China’s short-video wars are heating up “WE AIM TO be the most customer-obsessed company in the world,” declares the opening line in the 700-page prospectus from Kuaishou, a Chinese video app. The firm, launched a decade ago by a former software engineer at Google and another at Hewlett-Packard, boasts more…

IT leaders are swapping out project-based IT service delivery in favor of product development models predicated on business outcomes. masterzphotois / Getty Images The shift toward product-centric IT has accelerated of late, as more IT leaders find project-based delivery models untenable for achieving their digital transformation aspirations. In traditional project…

The pandemic has ushered more robots into factories, warehouses and back offices. They are here to stay MARY BARRA, boss of GM, took to the virtual stage on January 12th to launch BrightDrop. The carmaker’s new logistics division will peddle such unsexy things as delivery vans and autonomous electric pallets…

Without a doubt, the biggest questions about dreaming are all variants on this question: Why do we dream? We began studying dreaming in the early 1990s and, between the two of us, have published over 200 scientific papers on sleep and dreams. Pulling together a variety of compelling neuroscientific ideas…

Fire Emblem--your favorite RPG franchise that combines chess and dating--and Gilmore Girls got a fan-made crossover. The creator, Marlowe Dobb, borrowed the power of both cult classics to create an hour-long Fire Emblem Sacred Stones mod with characters and plotlines from Gilmore Girls. Mods are asleep time to share my…

The worst manager I ever had could slip frictionlessly between enthusiasm and furor, high fives and reprimands. He liked to stalk through the restaurant where we worked, his shiny shoes and shiny hair possessed of the same stiff, lacquered sheen. In crossing his path, you risked falling victim to his…

(Source: Feishu) Multiple functions of cloud office software Feishu, the Chinese version of Lark owned by ByteDance, are banned on Chinese Internet giant Tencent’s WeChat platform, according to the social media posts of Xin Xie, ByteDance’s vice president. “Tencent’s bans on Feishu are uncalled for, and have disturbed many users’…

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20 years ago, the name Opera was only synonymous with its browser, but over time the Norwegian software company has grown, now offering a suite of products and services. Last month I had a conversation with Opera’s Executive Vice President for Mobile, Jorgen Arnesen to understand Opera’s “Africa First approach”.…

Source: CGTN On Jan.6, China’s Foreign Ministry responded to U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese software applications, stating that China will take necessary measures to protect their legitimate rights and firmly opposing the Trump administration’s wrongdoing for its unreasonable restraints on Chinese apps.  During yesterday’s…