On July 20th, 2021 with 28 comments
China's capabilities in artificial intelligence are "much closer than I thought" to catching up to the US, former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt told...
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On July 19th, 2021 with 12 comments
Tencent has announced plans to buy British video game company Sumo Group for $1.27 billion. The Verge reports: The Chinese tech giant already has an...
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On July 19th, 2021 with 37 comments
The U.S. and a coalition of allies on Monday formally attributed the sweeping campaign against Microsoft Exchange email servers to hackers affiliated with...
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On July 11th, 2021 with 32 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo quotes the BBC:
Giant pandas are no longer classified as endangered but are still vulnerable, Chinese officials say. The...
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On July 9th, 2021 with 11 comments
The US Department of Commerce has sanctioned 14 Chinese tech companies over links to human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, including one...
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On July 8th, 2021 with 141 comments
A $150 million chip-making tool from a Dutch company has become a lever in the U.S.-Chinese struggle. It also shows how entrenched the global supply chain is....
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On July 4th, 2021 with 130 comments
"A human rights group that attracted millions of views on YouTube to testimonies from people who say their families have disappeared in China's Xinjiang region...
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On July 2nd, 2021 with 44 comments
According to CNBC, the UK's largest chip producer, Newport Wafer Fab, is set to be acquired by Chinese-owned semiconductor company Nexperia for around $87...
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On June 21st, 2021 with 102 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Bitcoin continued its dramatic plunge to $32,281 Monday morning, down 17.65% from a week earlier as some of...
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On June 17th, 2021 with 35 comments
The U.S. and European Union plan to cooperate more on technology regulation, industrial development and bilateral trade following President Biden's visit, in a...
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On June 4th, 2021 with 98 comments
President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Thursday that bans U.S. entities from investing in dozens of Chinese companies with alleged ties to defense or...
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On May 31st, 2021 with 276 comments
China has announced that it will allow couples to have up to three children, after census data showed a steep decline in birth rates. From a report: China...
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On May 24th, 2021 with 194 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Bitcoin took investors on another rollercoaster ride over the weekend after a top regulator in China...
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On May 12th, 2021 with 66 comments
Xiaomi and the U.S. government have text to set aside a Trump administration blacklisting that could have restricted American investment in the Chinese...
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On May 6th, 2021 with 293 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: China's emissions of six heat-trapping gases, including carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, rose to...
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On April 29th, 2021 with 165 comments
China is poised to report its first population decline in five decades following a once-in-a-decade census, the Financial Times newspaper said, citing sources...
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On April 26th, 2021 with 76 comments
"Nomadland" director Chloe Zhao made history on Sunday by becoming the first woman of color and first Chinese woman to win the Oscar for best director....
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On April 22nd, 2021 with 63 comments
China is behind a newly discovered series of hacks against key targets in the U.S. government, private companies and the country's critical infrastructure,...
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On April 14th, 2021 with 55 comments
Huawei has blamed the U.S. for the chip crunch rocking the global tech industry, saying Washington's sanctions against Chinese companies have spurred panic...
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On April 13th, 2021 with 7 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: The Open Invention Network (OIN) defends the intellectual property (IP) rights of Linux and open-source...
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On April 6th, 2021 with 136 comments
A thousand years ago, when money meant coins, China invented paper currency. Now the Chinese government is minting cash digitally, in a re-imagination of money...
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On March 27th, 2021 with 19 comments
Medium's tech site OneZero reports on "Rest of World" [dot org], which they call "a news site dedicated to telling technology stories about what's happening...
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On March 15th, 2021 with 84 comments
China's government has asked Alibaba Group to dispose of its media assets, as officials grow more concerned about the technology giant's sway over public...
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On March 10th, 2021 with 228 comments
China is freeing up tens of billions of dollars for its tech industry to borrow. It is cataloging the sectors where the United States or others could cut off...
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On March 8th, 2021 with 126 comments
The proliferation of cyberattacks by rivals is presenting a challenge to the Biden administration as it seeks to deter intrusions on government and corporate...
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On March 7th, 2021 with 70 comments
Tim Wu coined the phrase "net neutrality". He's the author of The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age , and Bloomberg calls him an "outspoken...
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On March 5th, 2021 with 50 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Wall Street Journal: U.S. officials blacklisted Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi Corp. as a company with military...
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On March 2nd, 2021 with 139 comments
The U.S., which once had a dominant head start in artificial intelligence, now has just a few years' lead on China and risks being overtaken unless government...
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On February 14th, 2021 with 168 comments
Peter Daszak is part of the World Health Organization's 14-member team investigating the origins of the coronavirus. This weekend on Twitter he described...
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On February 14th, 2021 with 85 comments
Thelasko shared this report from the BBC:
A steady decline in the levels of ozone-harming CFC chemicals in the atmosphere has resumed, scientists say. This...
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Multics is security spelled sideways.
