Blog Tag - Technology

Forget QR Codes, China’s Next Favorite Payment Method is Your Face
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. The launch of Apple’s new iPhone X – equipped with tech that can turn your face into a...
7 Apps for Beijing Beer Aficionados And Wine Snobs
With the explosion of Beijing's beer fridge scene comes the following inevitable, horrible situation: you're standing in front of massive fridges...
China Eases Rules on In-Flight Electronics Usage
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. Passengers may soon expect less boring trips when they are traveling by air in China....
It's Now Official: WeChat Really Is Watching You
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. To some extent, WeChat users were already aware of the possibility of the Chinese...
Baidu's Facial Recognition Solution Under Testing at Beijing Airport
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. Chinese search giant Baidu has signed a strategic partnership with Beijing Capital...
Brush the Dust off of Beijing Museums With These Apps
The last few times I have asked Beijing visitors or newbies about their impression of The Forbidden City, the answers were pretty standard: the first...
Top 5 Chinese Music Apps in 2017
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. Last week, Spotify announced that it had reached 140 million monthly active users (MAU...
Throwback Thursday: The iPhone Turns 10 But is There Much to Celebrate in China?
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our nine-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and...
Foreigners Are Out-WeChatting China's Most Active WeChatters
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. A WeChat report shows expats use the service more than the most active local users....
Bon App, Asia's Restaurant Recommendation and Review App, Comes to Beijing
Bon App, a platform for restaurant reviews and for foodies to connect, has now gone live in Beijing, following its launch across other destinations...
R1 WeChat Voice Messages – Literally Worse than Hitler
Social media has transformed our lives. Now it's easier than it's ever been to share videos of cats falling over, get into uncharacteristically...
R Beicology: Want to Know Which Factories are to Blame for Bad Air? Check Out this Pollution Map
In Beijing, few questions are more contentious than: "What is the main culprit behind our smog?" Some of us insist that vehicles are to blame, while...
Victim Details Her Story of Plane Molestation, Beijing Tech Boss Perpetrator Released
The woman involved in the sexual molestation case that landed a Beijing high-tech executive in jail for five days says she's just a student seeking...
TechNode's Top 10 WeChat Stories of 2016
We're pleased to announce that the Beijinger has partnered with TechNode to bring you the latest news and stories about China-related advancements in...
2016 Year in Review: The Year in Tech News and Tips
2016. What a time to be alive, eh? You can achieve pretty much anything (except proactivity) with a few jabs at your phone screen. This may be true...