{"id":985224,"date":"2026-01-14T07:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985224"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:47:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:17:38","slug":"are-you-dead-chinese-app-for-solo-dwellers-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/14\/are-you-dead-chinese-app-for-solo-dwellers-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Are you dead?&#8217;: Chinese app for solo dwellers goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Are You Dead?&#8221;, an app that sounds the alarm if a user doesn&#8217;t check in every 48 hours, was one of China&#8217;s top-selling paid apps on Tuesday as the country&#8217;s growing class of solo dwellers flocked to download it. <\/p>\n<p>More and more people in the world&#8217;s second largest economy are living alone as marriage rates decline and the number of elderly empty-nesters grows. <\/p>\n<p>Created by Moonscape Technologies, the app pitches itself as a &#8220;safety tool crafted for solo dwellers&#8230; to make solitary life more reassuring&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Are You Dead?&#8221;, an app that sounds the alarm if a user doesn&#8217;t check in every 48 hours, was one of China&#8217;s top-selling paid apps on Tuesday as the country&#8217;s growing class of solo dwellers flocked to download it. More and more people in the world&#8217;s second largest economy are living alone as marriage rates decline and the number of elderly empty-nesters grows. Created by Moonscape Technologies, the app pitches itself as a &#8220;safety tool crafted for solo dwellers&#8230; to make solitary life more reassuring&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}