Smartphone apps have become part of our everyday lives, but as they’re memory hogs and drainers of battery life, people are now looking to consolidate their home screens by deleting underused icons. When it comes to news, however, Apple is giving smartphone and tablet users another option.

WeChat has introduced a feature that enables brands and publishers to set their own prices for content they produce, with interested users paying directly through the platform for access. In the age of ad-blocking, could this kind of paywall encourage people to pay for what they read and watch?

Despite the infamous Great Firewall, China’s netizens are outgrowing internet users across the rest of the world. But what are they spending their online lives doing in the landscape that exists beyond the Wall? And what – if anything – is the rest of the world missing out on?

Baidu – China’s most popular search engine – is developing AI that it hopes will be able to judge the quality of news articles and other web content, ultimately fending off fake news. If developers can perfect it, the use of ‘unbiased’ machines may buffer people's trust in the media.