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Televisions featuring 8K technology are displayed at the TCL booth during CES 2020 in Las Vegas. Photo: Getty Images

China’s TCL eyes premium TV market with large screens in a bid to revamp brand image

Chinese television set maker TCL is looking to reposition itself as a premium brand, hoping that increased sales of higher-end, larger-screen models will help boost its image.

  • Driven by the increasing popularity of larger display TVs, revenue for the TV business grew 30 per cent year on year in the first three months of 2024
  • Globally, TCL and its Chinese rival Hisense were the second-largest TV makers in the world by shipments, both taking 11 per cent of the market last year

Computer giant Lenovo sharpens AI focus after revenue growth in December quarter

Is AI the killer app for smart glasses? This Singapore-based start-up thinks so

Chinese entrepreneur’s AI-powered gadget Rabbit becomes surprise hit

Rabbit Inc, started by Xian native Jesse Lyu Cheng, has sold out of five rounds of pre-orders for its R1 device since launching in Las Vegas this month.

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The Rabbit R1 is a $200 AI-powered device that aims to compliment smartphones by performing certain tasks on behalf of users when prompted. Photo: Handout

Opinion | How China is making its dream of flying cars, drones and sky cities come true

Policy, financial and infrastructural support is creating a conducive ecosystem for China’s “low altitude economy”, integrating advanced aerial tech into everyday life and urban planning.

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Alibaba, TikTok woo US with AI and live-streaming e-commerce at CES

Alibaba and TikTok played to their strengths at CES, as they catered to a market where it has been increasingly difficult for Chinese companies to operate.

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Hong Kong start-ups attract interest from Microsoft, Best Buy at CES 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stopped by the booth of a start-up that makes an artificial intelligence-powered belt to guide the blind at the CES trade show’s Hong Kong pavilion.

Hong Kong start-up XOXO Beverages has made a machine that will automatically mix cocktails to specifications inputted through an app. Photo: Matt Haldane

Smart AI grills, no-clean ice cream: 5 new kitchen appliances at CES 2024

New hi-tech kitchen appliances at CES 2024 promise to make cooking a breeze, from a US$2,000 grill you can ask questions to a US$250 air fryer that uses AI to detect what type of food it is preparing.

Realme unveils 12 Pro series smartphone in parallel event to CES

Realme’s 12 Pro+ smartphone to launch at the end of January will focus on providing a better zoom lens at a budget price, as the Chinese firm caters to young overseas users.

Hisense and TCL push AI in TVs, chase industry trends like smart cars

Hisense and TCL, the two biggest Chinese TV brands, offered competing narratives about AI processing and the ability to produce their own technology in-house at CES 2024 in Las Vegas.

Hisense USA president David Gold on stage at CES 2024 in Las Vegas on Monday. Photo: Matt Haldane

Tech giants Alibaba, ByteDance lead China’s return to CES

More than 1,100 Chinese firms, including tech giants Alibaba and ByteDance, are exhibiting at CES this year, making up a quarter of the total, over twice the number from 2023.

Attendees arrive at the CES Unveiled event before the start of the CES tech show, January 7, 2024, in Las Vegas. Photo: AP

Microsoft is adding an AI key to allow users to call up Copilot with one click

The Copilot key will sit to the right of the space bar and is the first change to the Windows keyboard layout since Microsoft added the Start key in 1994.

What’s your dog thinking? 6 highlights from CES 2023

We look at the best of CES 2023, from a company offering buttons that cats and dogs can press to ‘talk’ to their owners, to a robot that can make any kind of bubble tea drink that you like.

Chinese gadget makers embrace new IoT standard to ease security concerns

Tuya, TP-Link and others at CES 2023 are boasting about smart device support for Matter, a standard meant to unify a fractured smart home market and bring greater security.

A display of smart devices that support the first version of Matter, a universal standard for the Internet of Things, at CES 2023. Photo: Matt Haldane / SCMP

CES 2023: video gamers feel bullets and bees with haptics wearables

Companies are using haptics vests and other next-generation simulation products to replicate the feeling of action in virtual worlds for video gamers.

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An attendee uses tactile gloves and vest during a VR demonstration at the bHaptics booth during CES 2023 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on January 6. Photo: Getty Images via AFP

Number of Chinese tech firms at CES 2023 less than half of pre-pandemic level

Chinese companies at the world’s largest consumer electronics show are exhibiting new PCs, TVs and portable power stations, illustrating the country’s supply-chain strengths.

World’s biggest tech show celebrates failures on road to innovation

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Acer unveils ‘bike desk’ at CES for multitaskers, aiming to capture new market

Taiwanese IT firm Acer reveals bike desk at CES tech fair that allows people to work and pedal at the same time, aiming to cash in on multitaskers in post-pandemic era.

Acer’s new eKinekt BD 3 Lifestyle work bike. Photo: Handout

CES unable to confirm Covid cases after 70 South Koreans test positive

The organiser of tech show CES said it was unable to confirm the number of Covid-19 cases from its in-person event in Las Vegas last week after 70 South Korean visitors tested positive for the virus.

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CES Asia is the latest victim of US-China tensions

Event organisers say they are cancelling the Shanghai edition of the major US tech show as they look forward to China’s “improved relations with the US and western world”

Visitors wearing virtual reality (VR) headsets try a driving system at a Nissan Motors booth during CES Asia in Shanghai on June 11, 2019. Photo: Bloomberg

CES global gadget fest set to gather people in Las Vegas despite pandemic

The Consumer Electronics Show is expected to take place in early January, bringing attendees from around the world together in Las Vegas.

In this file photo taken on January 10, 2020, attendees walk through the Las Vegas Convention Center on the final day of the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo: AFP

A smartphone made for readers

The Hisense A5C has a color E Ink screen that lasts 93 hours on one charge, but don’t expect 5G or NFC

Better than Apple AirPods? Meet Mobvoi’s US$99 TicPods 2

The AirPods may have set the trend, but now there’s a plethora of competitors serving up stylish earbuds with similar features – and cheaper price tags

What the future of transport looks like – on land, sea and air

Transport of the future featured heavily at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, with flying taxis, electric water bikes and autonomous vehicles of every kind on display.

China-based Smacircle’s simple electric bicycle was among the tech at 2020 CES in Las Vegas.

CES 2020: 24 of the coolest vehicles on display at the tech show

Las Vegas consumer electronics show had it all from electric SUVs and pickup trucks to electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft

Mercedes-Benz Vision AVTR. Photos: Business Insider

TV makers want to you watch TikTok videos on vertical TVs

China’s TCL, Skyworth and Hisense join Samsung at CES with their own TVs that rotate to portrait mode

Privacy, once hidden topic, gets attention at CES tech show

Start-ups at CES, the world’s largest annual consumer technology trade show, now volunteer information about how they secure your data and protect your privacy when using their cuddly robot or heart rate monitor.

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CES, formerly The International Consumer Electronics Show, held annually in Las Vegas, showcases the latest in, and the future of, technology: from wearables, automotive tech and self-driving cars to smart homes and drones. 
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9 September, 2024
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