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

Sometimes it's just nice for someone to acknowledge your existence ... and a Chinese company is cashing in on that feeling with a new app called "Are You Dead?" ...

“Some netizens say that the 'Are you dead?' greeting feels like a carefree joke between close friends — both heartfelt and ...

Are you dead?” That’s the question a viral app has been trying to ask people who are living alone in China. The app is called ...

Viral app cashing in on number of people living alone in China ...

"Are You Dead?", an app that sounds the alarm if a user doesn't check in every 48 hours, was one of China's top-selling paid apps on Tuesday as the country's growing class of solo dwellers flocked to ...

Are You Dead Yet?” appealed to the psychology of the insecure youths, who don’t want to disturb others but wish that someone ...

Developed by three young people in their 20s, “Demumu” (previously named “Are You Dead?”) became the most downloaded paid app on the Apple App Store in China last week, per local media reports. It is ...

A new bleak-sounding app has been downloaded in droves by many youth who live by themselves - and fear dying alone.

If I asked which is the world’s loneliest nation, you might well say Japan. Famously, Japanese has words for social ...

A new Chinese app, controversially named 'Are you dead?', is gaining immense popularity by addressing widespread loneliness. Users must check in daily; failure to do so alerts emergency contacts. This ...