SHANGHAI: Tesla boss Elon Musk presided yesterday over the ground-breaking for a Shanghai factory that will allow the electric-car manufacturer to dodge the China-US tariff crossfire and sell directly to the world’s biggest market for “green” vehicles. The plant in a Shanghai suburb is Musk’s biggest overseas move yet and
HONG KONG: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd yesterday launched a new chipset for use in servers, at a time when China is pushing to enhance its chip-making capabilities and reduce its heavy reliance on imports, especially from the United States. Huawei, which gets the bulk of its revenue from the sale
This year’s CES in Las Vegas is coming up and expected to unveil the next level of futuristic technologies such as automated driving advances, voice recognition in home appliances and augmented reality glasses. 2018 came and went and it’s time to ring in the new year, which in the tech
LAS VEGAS: Apple is not among the exhibitors at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show, but that didn’t prevent the iPhone maker from sending a message to attendees on a large billboard. “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone,” Apple says in the message to be seen by tens
OSLO: Budget carrier Norwegian Air posted smaller-than-expected passenger growth in December and additional fuel hedging losses, but earned more money from each traveller, its monthly traffic report showed yesterday. Norwegian, which has been courted by British Airways owner IAG, has rapidly expanded its transatlantic business in recent years but recently
The coming year will be a pivotal one for 5G, the fifth generation mobile communications standard which will set new bandwidth records. Mobile network operators and mobile phone manufacturers at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, running January 8-11, will be unveiling a host of new smart solutions
Evan Blass strikes again: the notable tech leaker tweeted a video of what could be an upcoming Xiaomi tri-folding smartphone. Though Evan Blass himself is questioning the authenticity of the video he shared Thursday on Twitter, it’s not often that his resources provide inaccurate or flat-out false information. The 20-second
Unlike laptops and PCs, that phone in your pocket is often left running for days and even weeks at a time. Do it a favour and give it a restart from time to time. Anyone with an Android or Apple smartphone who makes sure to regularly restart it will be
Sultan Muhammad V abdicates before end of term KUALA LUMPUR: Sultan Muhammad V abdicated as the 15th Yang di-Pertuan Agong yesterday, the first time a monarch has stepped down from the throne before completing his five-year tenure. He also holds the record as the youngest to reign as the Yang
KUCHING: A Sarawak cabinet minister is puzzled why Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng got emotional and blew his top over Sarawak’s request for payment of its tourism tax share. Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah also questioned Lim’s motive of bringing up the outstanding loan Sarawak owed to the federal government
