TOKYO, Japan – When CD Projekt Red announced The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past, it would have been easy to dismiss it as a nostalgia play. After all, this is a new expansion arriving more than a decade after Geralt’s last major adventure. After seeing nearly an hour of gameplay at Tokyo Game Show

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Late last year, Zhang Xuan’s small beef noodle joint in Shanghai suddenly began seeing a dramatic surge in orders. Sales over the past few months have been 50 to 60 per cent higher than normal, he estimates. The driver? The new Street Stars feature on Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding’s Amap mapping app, which listed Zhang’s eatery as the fourth best restaurant in Shanghai’s Changning district. Prominently displayed on Amap’s main page, the system uses artificial intelligence to rate...

Late last year, Zhang Xuan’s small beef noodle joint in Shanghai suddenly began seeing a dramatic surge in orders. Sales over the past few months have been 50 to 60 per cent higher than normal, he estimates. The driver? The new Street Stars feature on Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding’s Amap mapping app, which listed Zhang’s eatery as the fourth best restaurant in Shanghai’s Changning district. Prominently displayed on Amap’s main page, the system uses artificial intelligence to rate...

Chinese biotech deal making is moving beyond the licensing of individual drug candidates, as the country transforms from a follower to a global innovation leader, according to analysts. The latest transaction underscores that shift. Beijing-based cancer drug developer InnoCare Pharma said on Thursday that it had entered into a strategic research collaboration and licensing agreement with US pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly that could be worth up to US$3.35 billion. InnoCare said it would use its...

The Xbox Ally X20 comes with quality-of-life improvements including an OLED display and drift-resistant TMR joysticks.

MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Friday called for a balanced approach to a proposal to require social media platforms to obtain a congressional franchise to operate in the Philippines. Palace Press Officer Claire Castro said the proposal needed careful study because young people, businesses and other sectors use social media. “We must study it. There

AlphaGenome Atlas contains predictions for the molecular effects of all roughly 9 billion possible single-letter changes in human DNA. Researchers can search the database to see how individual variants are predicted to affect processes such as gene expression, RNA splicing, and chromatin accessibility across different cell types and tissues. That gives researchers something they have

For China’s elite artificial intelligence researchers, Silicon Valley no longer holds the unrivalled appeal it once did. A growing number are opting to stay home to build their careers, helping China overtake the United States as the leading workplace for top-tier AI talent, according to a study released this week by the think tank Carnegie China. China employed 41 per cent of the world’s leading AI researchers tracked by the study last year, pulling ahead of the US at 34 per cent, according to...

The United States and China must work together to establish safety guardrails for artificial intelligence, leading scholars and industry leaders said at a Singapore forum, warning that rapid advances in the technology demand stronger risk controls. Speaking at the FutureChina Business Forum on Friday, Jude Blanchette, managing director of consultancy Macro Advisory Partners, urged the two superpowers to find common ground despite escalating geopolitical tensions. “If ever there was a moment for...

A small number of users are said to be facing issues with their new iPhone’s Face ID system.

San Francisco and New York still lead The Observer‘s inaugural AI Cities Index, but the more consequential finding sits further east. Six of the world’s top 10 AI cities are in East and Southeast Asia, and Seoul ranks first globally for implementation: whether a city has the institutions, systems and practitioners to put AI to work across […] The post Ecosystem Roundup: Seoul tops AI implementation as Singapore joins the global top tier appeared first on e27.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump discussed artificial intelligence (AI) and Taiwan at the White House on Thursday as part of a state visit dominated by pageantry. On AI, Xi said that “the right thing to do is to draw on each other’s strengths, not guard against each other”, according to a statement from the Chinese foreign ministry. He also backed continued dialogue about risks, joint efforts to prevent misuse and keeping AI under human control. Trump earlier said on...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump discussed artificial intelligence (AI) and Taiwan at the White House on Thursday as part of a state visit dominated by pageantry. On AI, Xi said that “the right thing to do is to draw on each other’s strengths, not guard against each other”, according to a statement from the Chinese foreign ministry. He also backed continued dialogue about risks, joint efforts to prevent misuse and keeping AI under human control. Trump earlier said on...

MANILA, Philippines — In the digital age, it only takes one cyberattack to bring a government service to a halt. When the Maritime Industry Authority’s (MARINA) seafarer document system was hit, the disruption exposed a problem beyond the attack itself: an aging digital infrastructure that had been waiting years for an upgrade. The agency temporarily

If the American guests seated at the head table with President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump at Thursday’s White House state dinner were any indication, Washington now views its relationship with Beijing largely through the prism of technology. Analysts said the seating arrangement underscored how tech industry titans driving the global AI infrastructure boom were pushing to draw the two economic superpowers closer together. Sitting alongside Xi, Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan, Trump...

If the American guests seated at the head table with President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump at Thursday’s White House state dinner were any indication, Washington now views its relationship with Beijing largely through the prism of technology. Analysts said the seating arrangement underscored how tech industry titans driving the global AI infrastructure boom were pushing to draw the two economic superpowers closer together. Sitting alongside Xi, Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan, Trump...

MANILA, Philippines – UAAP Esports is no longer content with proving that esports belong in the collegiate sports scene. It now wants to prove that it can draw the same respect, attention, and energy as the league’s biggest events. Don’t call it just another sport, esports is a main event. At least, that’s what the

Asian stocks and bonds fell as a global bond selloff deepened and inflation fears intensified, with oil prices remaining elevated. Regional indices pointed lower in early trading. Wall Street had finished a volatile session mixed to flat. The S&P 500 edged slightly lower. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 161 points, or 0.3 per cent. […] The post Altcoins are running on real news, Wall Street is running on fear appeared first on e27.

The Idea Tab Pro Gen 2 is the latest mid-range enterprise tablet from Lenovo. Released only this year, it refreshes and refines the specs and functions that came to define its predecessor. At a time when budgets are getting tighter and value for money is being pushed as the main impetus to buying devices, the

There is a particular misery that visits finance departments in the last week of every month. The sales figure on the point-of-sale screen says one thing, the bank statement says another, and somebody has to explain the gap before the books close. Gilang Gibranthama, co-founder of Jakarta-based Matchmade.io, has built a business around that misery. […] The post Same failure, better clothes: Matchmade.io on selling Indonesian finance tech in Singapore appeared first on e27.

Hitting “send” on a bank transfer used to come with a cushion of time. A payment might sit in a queue for hours, sometimes days, giving banks and senders a window to notice a mistyped account number or a suspicious beneficiary. Instant payments have all but erased that cushion. Money now lands in seconds, and […] The post Citi, HSBC back iPiD’s US$16M round to make instant payments safer across borders appeared first on e27.

Pipeline operators already receive large volumes of asset data, but physical activity along remote rights-of-way remains difficult to observe continuously. Vision AI is beginning to turn existing infrastructure into an additional layer of operational intelligence. Midstream operators face a problem created by the infrastructure itself: pipelines can run for hundreds of kilometres through terrain that […] The post Vision AI expands visibility across remote pipeline corridors appeared first on e27.

For many people, foot pain is ignored until it starts changing everyday behaviour. They walk less, avoid stairs, switch shoes, or live with knee and back discomfort that seems unrelated. GoodARCH is betting that a five-minute scan can narrow the gap between early signs and medical attention. The Asian arch support brand, operated by Taiwan-based […] The post GoodARCH launches AI foot mapping in Malaysia with US$230K healthtech investment appeared first on e27.

A few years ago, the early stages of a video project often began almost from zero. We would talk through the client’s direction, work out a script, develop the visual approach and gradually turn a loose idea into something the client could react to. That part has changed. Today, a client can give me a […] The post AI made the first draft easier. It didn’t make client decisions easier appeared first on e27.

AI technology is transforming the agricultural industry, changing how the outside world views farming and creating a data-driven system that ensures precision and maximises yields. Imagine a world where technology tells you remotely how many nutrients are lacking and how plants are showing signs of stress and so on. It’s a beautiful experience, not science […] The post AI vs agtech: How AI is revolutionising agriculture appeared first on e27.

Most AI writing about work still frames the shift too narrowly. The conversation often starts with a familiar question: which tasks can AI do? That is a useful starting point, but it misses the more important operational change. The deeper shift is not that AI can write, summarise, classify, or draft faster than before. It […] The post AI will not become your employee. It will change what work has to be managed appeared first on e27.

Founders still ask me the question they asked in 2019: what does a good backlink cost. This September I finally answered it properly. ESBO Ltd, the link building and digital PR agency I run, exported its entire publisher database, 16,625 sites across 53 languages with verified authority scores and traffic, and published the numbers as […] The post The most expensive links aren’t really links: What 16,625 publisher price lists tell SEA startups appeared first on e27.

I was sitting in a cafe in Kuala Lumpur recently, sipping an iced mixed coffee with orange, when I realised that the way I organise for trips is exactly how I used to try to “organise” my startup. I was obsessed with the perfect project management software, the flawless internal wiki, and the 18-month roadmap—not […] The post The founder’s dilemma: Structured serendipity appeared first on e27.

Indonesia’s SME lending ecosystem looks different in 2026 than it did five years ago. The peer-to-peer lending sector that produced KoinWorks, Investree, Modalku, Akseleran, and dozens of others has consolidated. The number of OJK-licensed P2P lenders has fallen sharply since 2022. The platforms that remain — KoinWorks among the most prominent — operate inside a […] The post The KoinWorks era: What Indonesia’s SME lending journey has taught the next generation appeared first on e27.