Solana, one of the world’s largest blockchain networks, plans to expand in Hong Kong to tap the city’s growing demand for tokenisation, according to a senior executive. “I believe that the biggest opportunity for Solana is actually in [the Asia-Pacific region],” Solana Company chairman and CEO Joseph Chee said in an interview in Hong Kong earlier this week. Founded in the US in 2018, the company is behind one of the most popular cryptocurrencies. With a market capitalisation of about US$53...

United and Spotify today announced a first-of-its-kind way for travelers to enjoy their favorite Spotify content in the sky: streaming directly from their personal Spotify account on the seatback screen. Customers can scan a QR code to securely log in to access the full Spotify catalog, including over 100 million tracks, along with millions of podcasts, playlists, videos and albums directly from their screens*. Passengers can pick up their favorite content right where they left off and save new favorites to enjoy long after their flight.

Sarvam AI CEO Pratyush Kumar has offered lifetime access to the company's AI models to 70-year-old oral cancer survivor Raghunath AS after he highlighted the need for affordable text-to-speech technology to help people with speech disabilities communicate independently.

Specialist travel marketing agency Adido is hosting a free webinar to help travel brands prepare their digital marketing strategies for 2027. Taking place on November 12 at 2pm, the hour-long session will examine the key trends shaping travel marketing and what they could mean for the year ahead.

“This felt like a decidedly anti-tech election.”

China’s pure-play artificial intelligence chipmakers crossed an important milestone in the third quarter as several firms swung into profit, but severe supply chain hurdles and soaring memory costs cloud their long-term growth prospects. Domestic graphics processing unit (GPU) developers including Moore Threads, MetaX and Iluvatar CoreX are racing to fill the market void left by Nvidia, whose high-end processors face strict US export controls. These home-grown firms are competing fiercely to win...

An aerial view of the 200-foot-tall front of the Getz Ice Shelf with cracks, in Antarctica, in this 2016 handout image. NASA/Handout via REUTERSBeijing has approved a law to improve China's Antarctic research and ​strengthen regulation of its exploration activities, the ‌official Xinhua...

Among those elected to Congress on Tuesday are a mathematician, a microbiologist and a chemical engineer. They plan to take on a White House that has threatened funding cuts to research.

The Trump administration is scaling back or stalling investments that help vulnerable places harden themselves to rising flood and fire threats.

India is focused on becoming the artificial intelligence (AI) "application capital" of the world, Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said.

Motorola Signature 27 has debuted in global markets with a 200MP periscope camera, 7,000mAh battery, Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset and a 12,000-nit AMOLED display. Priced at $1,599 (approximately ₹1.51 lakh), the flagship is expected to launch in India soon.

China’s stocks pared weekly gains and the benchmark 10-year bond hit a record low as the global artificial intelligence (AI) stock bubble burst following the US Democrats’ landslide win in midterm elections. The CSI 300 equity index fell 1.4 per cent, weighed down by AI-related shares. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index dropped 1.3 per cent. The yield on China’s 10-year sovereign bond touched an intraday low of 1.58 per cent, according to Bloomberg, spurred by investor demand for safe-haven assets and...

Mirai, a company specializing in technology to boost hotels’ direct sales, has integrated with Mews Payments, Mews’ native payment gateway. Hotels that work with Mews can now collect payments for their website bookings through Mews Payments. This new development expands the integration with Mews that Mirai announced in February 2025, which syncs rates, inventory, availability, and bookings in real time between the Mews PMS and Mirai’s booking engine.

Holafly, the global leader in travel eSIMs, today announced key insights from its 2026-2027 Global eSIM & Travel Report ahead of the World Travel Market, revealing a powerful shift in how people connect, work, and plan their journeys abroad. According to the global report, a new kind of traveller is reshaping global mobility. Travel has fully emerged into a new era of digital fluency and intentional exploration. Today’s global travellers value relaxation and peace of mind, prepared with smart technology that makes seamless global mobility achievable and borderless experiences the new standard.

There was advice on marketing for those already entrenched in the travel industry and on careers for those just starting out during the final day of World Travel Market London 2026, part of RX Global. Meanwhile, new AI assisted-booking technology, sure to be a hot topic at next year’s show, was showcased in a live demonstration. Warnings on making assumptions on audience emerged at the Trends stage in a session on the ‘Contradiction Economy’. Abi Best, Managing Director of Lemongrass Marketing advised: “A woman aged 30 may have more in common with an 80-year-old depending on where their interests are… You need to be really specific and relevant to your audience.”

Strategic risk-taking was a key theme at the ITT Future You Summit as it returned to WTM to offer inspiration and advice on a career in travel. Angela Riseam-Smith, Head of Learning and Development at Hays Travel, outlined the independent travel agency chain’s various apprenticeships and management programmes, covering in-branch sales to head office opportunities in marketing, finance and HR.

Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has revealed that its ongoing investigation into the agentic cyber attack targeting its systems also exposed names, usernames, password hashes and live tokens for all users. "While we investigated, we removed access to Reactor and Data Solutions," the company said. "At this time we continue to have no evidence that any investigations data has been accessed

The sweeping midterm election victory by US Democrats has triggered warnings from analysts that an impending regulatory clampdown could derail the nation’s multi-trillion-dollar artificial intelligence data centre buildout. Wall Street forecasters slashed their projections for Big Tech infrastructure spending hours after the vote, cautioning that a wave of proposed project moratoria and tighter oversight could stall up to 30 per cent of planned US facilities and force developers to downscale...

A backdoor has been found hiding in the web server that runs Control Web Panel (CWP), a free panel for managing Linux hosting servers, researchers at QiAnXin's XLab said this week. The backdoored web server executes commands that attackers send via web requests, and those requests never appear in its access logs. Installing it takes root access, so the attackers must already control the server.

Two flaws in Barracuda's Email Security Gateway, an email-filtering appliance, can be chained to run commands on it as root, its highest level of access, with no login required. The company released patches on Monday, and the security firm watchTowr detailed the attack chain on Thursday. One flaw, CVE-2026-116606, is an authorization bypass. An unauthenticated attacker can use it to restore a

Hong Kong’s Exchange Fund, the war chest used to defend the local currency, reported a 74 per cent tumble in third-quarter earnings amid pervasive market uncertainty. The outlook for the final quarter is also challenging, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said on Friday. Earnings totalled HK$18.6 billion (US$2.4 billion) in the quarter, plunging from HK$70.8 billion a year earlier. For the first nine months of 2026, total earnings slid 39.6 per cent from a year earlier to HK$171.9...

Meta, Google and TikTok have sued California Attorney General Rob Bonta, challenging a new law that restricts autoplay videos and personalised feeds for users under 16. The law, scheduled to take effect in January 2027, could impose fines of up to $50,000 per affected minor for non-compliance.

China is now both a global production hub and a key source of global demand, with a growing capacity to absorb goods from around the world, according to a report released on Thursday in Shanghai in east China.

No single country owns the high seas. So who protects the life in them? The BBNJ Agreement, which entered into force in January 2026, gives countries a way to establish marine protected areas in international waters.

Inside Jiaolong: A simulated dive into China's deep-sea exploration

3 charged in scheme to use AI to impersonate CEOs and attorneys to steal $129 million

The artificial intelligence company pledged to be more collaborative with the communities where it is building its data centers.

Chinese scientists have cooled a cloud of rubidium atoms aboard China's space station to an equivalent temperature of 9.7 trillionths of a degree above absolute zero, a record low according to the research team.

China launched a group of remote sensing satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Thursday.

The New York Times reported last week that Mr. Huang had a close relationship with an executive that U.S. officials determined was funneling information to Chinese intelligence.