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• AI-penned manga Paidon to be published this week

  A new manga called Paidon that was created by AI and drawn by a robotic hand will be published in this week's edition of ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• AI sent first coronavirus alert, but underestimated the danger

  Research suggests that an AI system sent out the first global coronavirus alert but only humans recognized the scale of the ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Indian government orders mobile internet to be suspended in the capital, says Airtel

  Amid protests in India over new and upcoming citizenship laws, Airtel said the government has ordered mobile data services ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• UberEats' India business is reportedly being sold to its local rival

  Uber is reportedly close to selling the India-based arm of its UberEats food delivery service to Zomato, a local competitor, ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Russia to pre-install its own apps on all phones, PCs, and TVs sold in the country

  Russia has officially passed a law banning the sale of electronic equiment that are not pre-installed with Russian software. ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• 265 Indian fake news sites caught pushing anti-Pakistan propaganda

  Researchers have discovered a network of 265 fake local news sites across 65 countries that are being used to disseminate ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• CEO of ride-hailing giant Gojek departs $10B startup to join Indonesian government

  Gojek founder and CEO Nadiem Makarim is stepping down from his chief executive role to take up a cabinet post in the newly ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• China’s social credit system isn’t about scoring citizens — it’s a massive API

  China’s emerging social credit system (SCS): rarely has a topic been more hotly discussed, and more poorly understood. When most people think about the SCS, they imagine it primarily as a scoring mechanism, a way for the central government to rank China’s citizens and companies ...

  • Trivium UB

• Advanced Israeli spyware is targeting Moroccan human rights activists

  Two prominent Moroccan human rights activists have been targeted with sophisticated spyware built by NSO Group at least since ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Riot's message to esports pros: We want no part of Hong Kong controversy

  Earlier this week the bottom fell out at Blizzard when it banned an esports pro from competing after he spoke out in support ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google banned a game about the Hong Kong protests

  Tech companies' involvement with the Hong Kong protests just keeps getting more and more tangled. Now Google has banned a ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• What on earth is Kim Kardashian West doing at a tech conference in Armenia?

  Kim Kardashian West was on stage at WCIT 2019 in Yerevan, Armenia, for 1.5 hours. Pity she didn't have anything of value ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal