17 articles
Japan
OpenAI arrives in Asia with inaugural Tokyo office
OpenAI has opened an office in Japan, marking a significant step in its global expansion efforts. Key points: ...
Carl Samson
News
Microsoft, AAJC launch digital Asian Resource Hub to connect AAPI to community resources, data
Microsoft and Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC), a nonprofit, civil rights organization, has launched a first-ever digital platform t...
Michelle De Pacina
China
Chinese hackers stole 60,000 US government emails in May breach
Microsoft has previously blamed a “China-based” hacking group for the breach back in July ...
Ryan General
Business
Bill Gates says China’s rise is a ‘huge win for the world’
In a new interview, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he views China’s global ascent as a “huge win for the world.” As ...
Technology
Engineer’s Internet Explorer tombstone goes viral: ‘He was a good tool to download other browsers’
South Korean software engineer Jung Ki-young’s decision to commemorate the end of Internet Explorer by erecting the browser its own gravesto...
Jane Nam
Nintendo ‘Laughed Their Asses Off’ at Microsoft’s Offer to Buy Them 20 Years Ago
Microsoft once tried to buy Nintendo and it didn’t go quite as planned, a recent Bloomberg feature on the creation of the original Xbox reve...
Microsoft Japan Gave Workers 3-Day Weekends and Increased Productivity By 40%
Microsoft Japan saw an increase in productivity after conducting a successful three-day weekend experiment. Known as the Work-Life Choice Ch...
Bryan Ke
Civil Rights
Microsoft, Amazon Employees Caught Using Work Emails To Buy Sex From Trafficked Asian Women
Employees from both Amazon and Microsoft in Seattle were recently exposed to be using their company email accounts to engage in Asian sex tr...
Asia
China’s Tencent is Now Worth Over $500 Billion
Massive Chinese tech company Tencent just hit a new milestone, exceeding 3.99 trillion Hong Kong dollars ($510 billion) in market value. Ten...
Meet the Singaporean Banker Who’s a Pro FIFA Player By Night
Chiang Wen Jun, also known as Hibidi, leads a very interesting double life that many people might want for themselves. That’s because ...
Bill Gates Joins WeChat, Welcomes Netizens in Mandarin
Microsoft founder Bill Gates now has his own account on WeChat, the most popular social network in China with more than 800 million monthly ...
Khier Casino
Microsoft Japan’s AI Schoolgirl Just Became Suicidal and Everyone’s Worried
Rinna, an AI “schoolgirl” developed by Microsoft Japan, shocked followers after going from being ecstatic to becoming suicidal &...
Microsoft Sends the Most Cringeworthy Party Invitation to Their ‘Bae’ Interns
“Hey Bae Intern! <3” The greeting above is exactly how Microsoft started its invitation for interns to an event set on July 11. Not exact...
Editorial Staff
Microsoft-Backed Startup Has a Genius Way to Give People Wi-Fi in the Philippines
Internet access to some parts of the world is either extremely limited or non-existent. It’s no secret that the Philippines has one of the w...
Microsoft Creates ‘Teen Girl’ AI – Becomes a Hitler-Loving Sex Robot Within 24 Hours
Microsoft recently discovered the shocking result of introducing their newest AI chat robot modeled after a teen girl to the internet —...
Bill Gates Had a Creepy Way of Checking Whether His Microsoft Employees Were Working
In the early days of Microsoft, a workaholic Bill Gates had an unusual way of tracking how long his employees worked. In an interview with t...
Misc
Here’s the Real Reason Microsoft Put Solitaire and Minesweeper in Windows
Just about everyone and their mothers has played at least one of the four iconic games that came with older Windows operating systems —...
Riley Schatzle
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