Tencent, Microsoft link app stores in China • The Register Forums
May 29, 2024 · Tencent and Microsoft have struck a deal that will see the Chinese gaming giant's Android wares available on the Microsoft Store, and playable on Windows PCs. A Microsoft China announcement explains the deal means Windows users can install mobile apps on their PCs. It quotes Tencent veep Lin Songtao expressing his enthusiasm …
Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145 - The …
Apr 28, 2023 · Tencent Cloud has announced it's offering a digital human production platform – essentially Deepfakes-as-a-Service (DFaaS). According to Chinese media and confirmed to The Reg by Tencent, the service needs just three minutes of live-action video and 100 spoken sentences – and a $145 fee – to create a high-definition digital …
Tencent explores a future where HPC, quantum, cloud and edge …
Jan 29, 2024 · Chinese tech giant Tencent has predicted that high-performance computing (HPC), quantum computing, cloud computing and edge computing will soon merge. That prediction was pitched in the Chinese tech giant’s 2024 top technology trends report, which offers a view of future tech and how it will impact human progress in an …
Tencent Cloud launches CentOS variant tuned for Chinese silicon • …
Jul 23, 2024 · Tencent Cloud has launched a version of its homebrew cut of Linux distribution CentOS. TencentOS Server V3, launched last week, is said to be compatible with CentOS7 and CentOS8, and happy running on CPUs built on the x86 and Arm architectures. It's 2024, so Tencent Cloud has made sure the OS allows use of virtualized GPUs …
Bad news for Tencent: Chinese companies steer employees away …
Nov 26, 2021 · Bad news for Tencent: Chinese companies steer employees away from Weixin or WeChat . Managers of large Chinese state-run companies have told employees to delete, shutdown and discontinue use of Tencent messaging app Weixin for work purposes, citing potential security breaches, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Tencent Cloud to revisit design after circular dependencies slowed ...
Apr 17, 2024 · 《Tencent Cloud would usually roll back this sort of change. But to do so, it needed the very same API it had just broken.》 Have to wonder how much of any organisation's services and infrastructure has a cyclic graph of dependencies. Trees are good but dags (directed acyclic graphs) will do. ;) Possibly not a triumph of devops but perhaps not.
Tencent Cloud's home-grown traffic-tamer halves WAN latency
Aug 5, 2024 · Tencent Cloud's home-grown traffic-tamer halves WAN latency . Chinese web giant Tencent has revealed “MegaTE”, a traffic engineering (TE) system it uses on its own cloud and which it claims outperforms rivals by tailoring network configurations to the needs of individual flows generated by VMs or containers.
Tencent builds one NoSQL database to rule all data models
Oct 11, 2024 · Tencent builds one NoSQL database to rule all data models . Chinese web giant Tencent has revealed it created a NoSQL database that it believes can handle multiple data models more elegantly than other attempts to do so, and has used it to consolidate its database fleet and improve resource utilization.
Pony Ma tells employees Tencent is ordinary and ... - The Register
Jan 13, 2022 · Tencent CEO Pony Ma Huateng referred to his Chinese multinational company as "ordinary" and replaceable in a leaked company speech given at the 2021 end of year employee meeting. A woman looks at the sky while walking through the streets of Shenzhen against the backdrop of the Tencent Building A woman looks at the sky in …
China ends crackdown on web giants with colossal fines for Ant …
Jul 10, 2023 · China's crackdown on web giants Alibaba and Tencent appears to be over, with the two to pay a combined $1.4 billion in fines to atone for past sins as Beijing moves on to "normalized" supervision. Baidu's Ernie bot generative AI chatbot app Baidu boss says good luck talking AI to Beijing if you don't understand censorship …