China has issued a set of draft regulations that will require chatbots using artificial intelligence and developed by its tech giants to stick to the ruling Communist Party line, amid comments that the move will likely be the death of… Read More ›
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Tackling Chinese technological advantage
“China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances”. When the Pentagon’s former software chief Nick Chaillan made this claim, it felt as if the whole world… Read More ›
Two Chinese supercomputers reportedly break exascale barrier
Two Chinese supercomputers have reportedly broken the notorious exascale barrier, but their developers prefer to stay quiet about it for now. Both systems are reportedly based on China’s homegrown Phytium and Sunway processors and therefore do not use crucial technologies… Read More ›
Wikipedia blames pro-China infiltration for bans
Wikipedia has suffered an “infiltration” that sought to advance the aims of China, the US non-profit organisation that owns the volunteer-edited encyclopaedia has said. The Wikimedia Foundation told BBC News the infiltration had threatened the “very foundations of Wikipedia”. The… Read More ›
China on brink of laser-matter breakthrough
Nuclear weapons have already shown that it is possible to convert matter into large amounts of heat and light, but doing it the other way around, converting heat and light into matter, is much more difficult — but this is… Read More ›
China’s ambitions threatened by US equipment ban
China is making an all-out effort to achieve independence in semiconductors, but the learning curve is steep and US sanctions are hurting. America’s National Security Council for Artificial Intelligence issued a 750-page report yesterday proposing that the “United the United… Read More ›
China revealing extent of its censorship with BBC ban: Gordon Chang
China’s recent announcement that BBC World News is banned from broadcasting in the country is another troubling example of Beijing closing itself off and makes clear the extent of the Communist Party’s censorship regime, author Gordon Chang says. The authoritarian government’s National Radio and Television Administration… Read More ›
Trump bans 8 Communist China-linked apps from US transactions through executive order
On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump signed a new executive order banning any U.S. transactions with eight Chinese software applications. The executive order bans “any transaction by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of… Read More ›
China creating an Orwellian world with informatiion warfare
Chinese state and its leadership (Chinese Communist Party – CCP) are getting nervous at the pace of progress of their global pre-eminence and how the world is reacting to it. They firmly believe that history repeats itself. In their fervour… Read More ›
Europe’s Cyber Resilience
A False Sense of Security in the Private Sector as a Warning Sign and Means to Assess the Effectiveness of Cyber Security Awareness Measures In today’s world, no organization or enterprise is completely safe from cyber-attacks or their possible consequences…. Read More ›
TikTok asks defeated Donald Trump: ‘Are we still banned?’
Chinese video service TikTok has begun a legal challenge against the Trump administration over plans to shut it down in the US on 12 November. President Donald Trump ordered a ban on new downloads of the viral video service on… Read More ›
China’s controversial Huawei wants to kill off Microsoft Office and Google Docs for good
Huawei has announced that it is entering the world of office productivity software. The announcement of Huawei Docs, which contains the likes of Document, Spreadsheet and Presentation, aims to serve as alternatives to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint respectively. Huawei… Read More ›
U.S. to offer loans to lure developing countries away from Chinese telecom gear
The US government is embarking on an effort to persuade developing countries to avoid Chinese telecommunications equipment, offering financial assistance to use alternatives that Washington says are safer and have less restrictions. The United States is ready to offer loans… Read More ›
Chinese chipmaker denies military ties as US steps up feud
China’s leading maker of semiconductors has denied it has any links to the military following reports Washington is considering stepping up its feud with Beijing over technology and security by imposing export controls that could disrupt manufacturing for a national… Read More ›
China promises state support to keep BeiDou satellite system at cutting edge
The BeiDou-3 System (BDS) was officially commissioned by Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday and is intended to compete with GPS of the United States, Russia’s Glonass and the European Union’s Galileo. BeiDou spokesman Ran Chengqi said China’s “conquering of… Read More ›
FBI director says China’s economic espionage threatens free societies
America’s top law enforcement official is warning of the risks to free societies posed by the Chinese Communist Party’s espionage. This theft poses the greatest long-term threat to U.S. economic and national security, he says. In remarks to a Washington… Read More ›
World War III has begun and we are unaware
Most of the Earthlings keep looking at the happenings in the Middle East, in horror. We assume, and many times are made to believe, that any time this conflict may spill over to the other regions of the world, making… Read More ›
Chinese information warfare – a threat to the free world
Chinese state and its leadership(Chinese Communist Party – CCP) are getting uneasy at the pace of progress of their global dominance and how the world is reacting to it. They firmly believe that history repeats itself. In their zeal to… Read More ›
China’s self-reliance efforts to counter US tech war attack at Huawei
We still remember that China has made great efforts to make its own early warning airplanes after US banned Israel’s export of such plane to China. Due to such efforts, China is now able to make KJ-2000 and KJ-500 early… Read More ›
World’s first 350km-per-hour driverless bullet train goes into service in China
China has just hurtled past another milestone in its vast high-speed railway expansion plans. As the countdown to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics continues, the new 108-mile high-speed railway line connecting the capital with Olympic host city Zhangjiakou has just… Read More ›
China is about to fire up its ‘artificial sun’ in quest for fusion energy
China is about to start operation on its “artificial sun”—a nuclear fusion device that produces energy by replicating the reactions that take place at the center of the sun. If successful, the device could edge scientists closer to achieving the… Read More ›
Welcome to China. You probably can’t buy anything, though
On her first trip to China, 30-year-old Courtney Newnham from Portland, Ore., eagerly lined up at a street pushcart to buy a skewer of candied hawthorn berries, a traditional snack. Then she realized nobody was giving the pushcart guy money…. Read More ›
A Chinese engineer says he was fired from Facebook after discussing a colleague’s death and it’s caused outrage in China
Chinese social media has erupted in anger over the dismissal of a Chinese engineer from Facebook. The California-based software engineer Yi Yin’s story was circulated on WeChat and widely debated on a Chinese discussion forum, according to Bloomberg. Per Bloomberg,… Read More ›
The Taiwan flag emoji has disappeared from the latest iPhone keyboard for users in Hong Kong and Macau
The Taiwan flag emoji has disappeared from the latest iPhone versions for users in Hong Kong and Macau, the Hong Kong Free Press’s Kris Cheng reports. Users on Hong Kong online forums spotted this change. The People’s Republic of China claims… Read More ›
Samsung and Sony end mobile phone production in China due to high labour costs
Samsung Electronics has ended mobile telephone production in China, it said on Wednesday, hurt by intensifying competition from domestic rivals in the world’s biggest smartphone market. The shutdown of Samsung’s last China phone factory comes after it cut production at… Read More ›
Internal documents showed TikTok censoring topics that would anger China
TikTok, a social media video app, has a history of censoring political content in line with the Chinese government, internal documents viewed by The Guardian reveal. The documents, which provided guidelines for TikTok’s moderators, broke infringing content into two categories:… Read More ›
Suspected Chinese spy company Huawei quietly opened a London ‘research lab’ with 60 computer vision engineers right next to Facebook and Google
Huawei has quietly opened a new artificial-intelligence research lab right on Facebook and Google’s doorstep in London, Business Insider has learned. The new office is at a prime spot in London’s buzzy Kings Cross neighbourhood and houses around 60 engineers… Read More ›
How China unleashed Twitter trolls to discredit Hong Kong’s protesters
For fans of pro tennis, European soccer and British tabloids, the mysterious Twitter account had a lot to offer. Beginning last year, it retweeted news, most of it in English, about Roger Federer and the Premier League, and it shared… Read More ›
China has been illegally redirecting traffic on the world’s Internet for 2 1/2 years
A recent discovery shows a Telecommunications company with ties to China’s government misdirected traffic for two and a half years. In recent times, a misdirection hacker operation allowed for the theft of over $150,000 in digital coins as unwitting people… Read More ›
Apple and Foxconn confirmed they broke a Chinese labor law by hiring too many temporary workers at the world’s biggest iPhone factory
On the eve of Apple announcing the iPhone 11, a report from China Labour Watch has accused the company – along with its manufacturing partner Foxconn – of profiting from worker exploitation to build the new phone. Investigators from China… Read More ›
Growing backlash in China against A.I. and facial recognition
China’s seemingly unfettered push into facial recognition is getting some high-level pushback. Face-swapping app Zao went viral last weekend, but it subsequently triggered a backlash from media — both state-run and private — over the apparent lack of data privacy… Read More ›
Huawei’s new phone could be the first major hardware casualty of the US-China trade war
On a normal year, millions of Huawei fans anticipate the announcement of the company’s new smartphones. But 2019 is not a normal year. In May 2019, Huawei was placed on a US trade blacklist, preventing US companies from doing business… Read More ›
Google is reportedly going to make its Pixel phones in an old Nokia factory in Vietnam to escape Trump’s China tariffs
Google is planning a big production shift from China to Vietnam,Nikkei Asian Review reports. Two sources familiar with the matter told Nikkei the company has already started work converting an old Nokia factory in northern Vietnam so that it can… Read More ›
Australia snubbed China’s Huawei and completed its undersea cable project to bring high-speed internet to Pacific Islands
Australia has completed the laying of undersea cables for its high-speed internet project in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, a snub to Chinese tech giant Huawei, which had previously competed for the deal. Australia on Wednesday laid the… Read More ›
Facebook, Twitter accuse China of running disinformation campaign against Hong Kong protesters
Twitter and Facebook have suspended numerous accounts that they say are tied to a Chinese disinformation campaign against pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. Twitter said Monday it suspended 936 accounts likely related to the activity. The company said the disinformation… Read More ›
China incites mainland Chinese to violence against Hong Kong protesters
The Chinese Government has a powerful tool for taking Hong Kong’s protests into its own hands — and the scariest part is how well it’s working. Over the past few months, your news feed has no doubt been flooded with… Read More ›
Huawei employees admit links to China’s military and intelligence, British report claims
Throughout the conflict between Washington and Huawei, a central theme has been the alleged connections between the company and state defense and intelligence agencies in China. The theory goes that the company has links and is obliged, under Chinese national… Read More ›
U.S. blacklists more Chinese tech companies over national security concerns
The Trump administration added five Chinese entities to a United States blacklist on Friday, further restricting China’s access to American technology and stoking already high tensions before a planned meeting between President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China in… Read More ›
Huawei’s global future? Africans have a decisive role
After being cut off by service providers like Google and hardware suppliers including Intel, Qualcomm and Xilinx, Huawei’s future in the OECD countries is definitely dim. Populous Asian countries like India, Indonesia and the Philippines, with sizable markets, will probably… Read More ›
Managing TikTok Internet app is the first global test to China’s cultural power
The Beijing-based TikTok “added approximately 13.2 million new users [in] the United States during Q1[2019]…” reported on April 10 by the Mobile App Store marketing intelligence agent Sensor Tower. If you do not know what TikTok is, this Influencer Marketing… Read More ›
Bahrain, US 5th Fleet’s headquarters, signs 5G with Huawei
“Bahrain, headquarters of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, plans to roll out a commercial 5G mobile network by June, partly using Huawei technology despite the United States’ concerns the Chinese telecom giant’s equipment could be used for spying. Washington has… Read More ›
Switzerland’s acceptance of Huawei’s 5G is a step toward ‘International Society’
“Swiss mobile network operator, Sunrise, has confirmed that it will launch commercial 5G services in Switzerland this month (March 2019),” according to the UK-based Total Telecom’s news on March 1. “ At MWC 2019, Sunrise’s CEO, Olaf Swantee said that… Read More ›
An American boy’s ‘fake smile’ got 1.8 million Weibo fans in China
CNN’s updated report on Nov 9 said that Gavin Thomas, born in Minnesota and still in elementary school, has some “unique facial expressions, which have become a hugely successful, viral meme …… A gif of Gavin’s face, smiling awkwardly, might… Read More ›
Is US-China ‘AI Cold War’ happening?
“The AI Cold War that could doom us all” is a long Oct 23 essay published by WIRED, a Hi-Tech website. It begins with the stories that the artificial intelligence system AlphaGo, developed by Alphabet which is the parent company… Read More ›
As Intel and Alibaba team up, why should Jack Ma retire?
“Intel and Alibaba Cloud have announced,” quoted from a Hi-Tech news website published on Sep 21, “the launch of the Joint Edge Computing Platform, an open architecture for Internet of Things (loT) applications that integrates AI (Artificial Intelligence) and cloud… Read More ›
World politics after the US ban on selling chips to ZTE
China would return to 2G telecom if there were a total ban of selling chips by the Western countries to this developing country, according to an analyst in Hong Kong, because China’s self-developed attainments in this sector still lag behind… Read More ›
China’s shared bikes as one of the ‘four new inventions’ in foreigners’ eyes
High-speed rails, Alipay, shared bikes and online shopping are China’s new four great ‘inventions’, said a number of foreign youngsters in China, mostly students from the Third World countries, when responding to a survey by the Silk Road Research Institute… Read More ›
Best way to beat the Great Firewall of China
Restrictions and geo-blocking have become abundant in the world, though some of them are stricter than others. For many tourists it’s always inconvenient to deal with these issues, as they don’t want to be shut off from the world, but… Read More ›
Twelve talented Polish students honoured by China’s Huawei
Huawei, a global leader in providing the latest information and communication technologies, announced the winners of the third Polish edition of the Seeds for the Future conference during an official ceremony at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw. The… Read More ›
‘Improving’ US mobile infrastructure may allow Chinese players to join US market
A Huawei executive revealed that it could now possibly collaborate with Tier One US carriers again after regulations on security concerns have eased and improved. However, it is more than and beyond the gradual alterations on the country’s mobile security… Read More ›
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