A Chinese personal safety app called Are You Dead? – recently rebranded as Demumu – has gone viral in recent weeks, ...

Users outside of China can download the app too. It’s called Demumu, and is currently the #6 top paid app in the US App Store with a $0.99 price. BBC says the app’s name “is a word play on a ...

Ronald Keung, head of Asia Internet Research at Goldman Sachs, says a key theme in China's AI landscape this year is the ...

BEIJING (AP) — In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or jarringly direct. A new, wildly popular app ...

From embracing an “Are you dead yet?” app to rewriting Lunar New Year customs, here’s how a rising generation of young adults ...

A new paid app called “Are You Dead?” or “Dead Yet?” has surged to the top of China’s charts, targeted at young people living alone.

In recent weeks, a morbid-sounding app has taken China by storm, tapping into widespread loneliness and youth disaffection in the world’s second most populous country.

In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or jarringly direct. A new, wildly popular app among young Chinese people is definitively the latter. It's called, simply, "Are You Dead?

Discover the "Are You Dead?" app, a viral safety tool in China reflecting anxieties of solo living and thinning social support in urban areas. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.

Merger of Wenku and Wangpan into a new AI unit comes as tech firms race to turn their services and apps into the next 'super ...

China has released a new app which checks you're still alive due to increasing numbers of people living alone in the country.