technologySouth China Morning Post·Jul 13, 2026
Hong Kong authorities will ramp up autonomous vehicle (AV) tests and make more roads available for trials as Chinese technology company Baidu prepared to transition its robotaxi...
technologySouth China Morning Post·Jul 10, 2026
Hong Kong’s role as the exclusive Asian host of the Middle East’s flagship LEAP East exhibition affirms its status as a global hub for innovation and technology (I&T), the Touri...
technologySouth China Morning Post·Jul 10, 2026
Hong Kong and Macau are integral to mainland China’s ambitions to build a globally competitive commercial space industry, according to executives at Beijing-based commercial spa...
technologyCoinCentral·Jul 09, 2026
TLDR SFC orders crypto platforms to replace OTP logins within 12 months. Passkeys and hardware keys replace SMS and email authentication codes. Large online brokers should begin...
technologySouth China Morning Post·Jul 09, 2026
Hong Kong taxi drivers will be able to identify streets with high rider demand using a big data prediction model powered by artificial intelligence (AI) as soon as mid-2027, acc...
technologySouth China Morning Post·Jul 09, 2026
A Saudi Arabian tech giant has made Hong Kong its first stop on its maiden visit to Asia, expressing strong interest in partnering with local authorities to co-develop a smart c...
technologySouth China Morning Post·Jul 08, 2026
In a homecoming for Hong Kong’s artificial intelligence community, Cao Liangliang – former principal engineer and director at Google DeepMind, IEEE Fellow and architect of found...
technologyRobotics & Automation News·Jul 07, 2026
Robot.com, the company putting autonomous robots to work in the real world, has been named the official robotics partner of LEAP East, bringing its fleet of autonomous robots to...
technologySouth China Morning Post·Jul 07, 2026
Hong Kong should draft a five-year plan that includes an artificial intelligence (AI) focus that is not too broad, makes the most of its core strengths and attracts the best tal...
technologySouth China Morning Post·Jul 05, 2026
Hong Kong has to brace for the emerging risks of an artificial intelligence (AI) bubble bursting and quantum computers capable of hacking encrypted financial systems, the city’s...
technologySouth China Morning Post·Jul 03, 2026
Cybersecurity experts have called on authorities to impose fines on firms that suffer data breaches, after the personal information of more than 1 million people linked to a lea...
technologySouth China Morning Post·Jul 03, 2026
We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical...
technologyFinancial Post·Jul 02, 2026
Hong Kong has become a vital conduit for high-tech products moving in and out of China, emerging as one node in a $2 trillion network of Asian trade fueled by a global boom in a...
technologySouth China Morning Post·Jul 02, 2026
A cyberattack on leading Hong Kong appliance distributor Shun Hing Group has compromised the personal information of more than 1 million people, according to the city’s privacy ...
technologySouth China Morning Post·Jul 01, 2026
As Hong Kong marks the 29th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule on July 1, the South China Morning Post talks to the city’s senior officials about the administration’s ach...
technologySouth China Morning Post·Jun 30, 2026
As Hong Kong marks the 29th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule on July 1, the South China Morning Post talks to the city’s senior officials about the administration’s ach...
technologySouth China Morning Post·Jun 30, 2026
WhatsApp, one of Hong Kong’s most popular messaging apps, will soon no longer require users to share their phone numbers before they start texting. Starting this week, users can...
technologySouth China Morning Post·Jun 28, 2026
Hong Kong boy band Mirror member Stanley Yau Sze-chun recently lost his iPhone in the city and was surprised to discover it had surfaced at a market in neighbouring Shenzhen, sp...
technologySouth China Morning Post·Jun 28, 2026
Hong Kong cannot be faulted for not working hard enough to catch up in the global artificial intelligence (AI) race. Government funding is flowing generously towards projects fo...
technologySouth China Morning Post·Jun 25, 2026
Last week, while preparing a lecture on the visual culture of the Global South, I caught Google’s Gemini in a double hallucination. Cross-referencing a historical event between ...