China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a sovereign state located in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population of over 1.35 billion. The PRC is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party, with its seat of government in the capital city of Beijing. It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities, and two mostly self-governing special administrative regions.
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Oh great, the EU has ditched its facial recognition ban
The European Union is backing away from its plan to ban facial recognition technology -- delegating decisions on the software ...
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Volvo Cars is reportedly being merged with China's Geely
Swedish carmaker Volvo Cars and Chinese brand Geely Automobile are reportedly planning a merger that would have a knock on ...
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Chinese government rolls out coronavirus 'close contact detector' app
China has rolled out an app that lets people check whether they have been at close contact with someone infected by the coronavirus. ...
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Trump's new budget pours billions into AI and quantum R&D
The US Office of Science and Technology today released more information about President Donald Trump's FY 2021 budget and, ...
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Report: US Department of Justice holds China responsible for 2017 Equifax breach
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) today brought espionage charges against the four Chinese military hackers allegedly responsible ...
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Digital trends 2020: Every single stat you need to know about the internet
Trying to engage with your customers online? Then read this
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How Chinese tech giants are assisting in the battle against coronavirus with AI
The coronavirus outbreak, which originated in China late last year, has become a global health hazard. Last month, the World ...
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Coronavirus to hit China’s smartphone and LCD panel production hard
The effects of the ongoing coronavirus epidemic in China are still to be realised, with researchers anticipating LCD panel ...
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How Confucius loses face in China’s new surveillance regime
While conceived of and functioning differently in diverse contexts, ‘face’ describes a phenomenon that exists in every ...
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Report: Japan is working on its own digital currency in retaliation to China’s
A group of lawmakers in Japan are reportedly working on a plan for the country to create its own digital currency in retaliation ...
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China arrested a US university student for mocking its president in tweets
Censorship in China never ceases to baffle us, and the country has taken yet another surprising step by arresting a University ...
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Report: Whichever country claims AI supremacy this decade will rule the Earth
The Brookings Institution last week published a report from global economy expert Indermit Gill prophesying that the AI ...
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EU central banks team up to explore digital currency use cases
A raft of central banks are banding together to gauge whether they should launch their own digital currencies, Reuters reports. The ...
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China wants to make swappable electric vehicle batteries mainstream
China is making a push to support swappable battery technology that could cut electric vehicle refuelling times down to minutes ...
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Huawei CFO in Canadian court on fraud charges, faces extradition to US
Huawei exec Meng Wanzhou is scheduled to appear in court, where she will fight extradition to the US over charges of skirting ...
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Shanghai is testing facial recognition at pharmacies to catch drug abusers
Every few days, China finds a new way to introduce facial recognition in people's daily lives. According to a report from ...
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Study: North Korea, China, and Russia top internet censorship charts
A new study published by Comparitech.com, a site that compares privacy tools, ranks countries on how much they exercise internet ...
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Ethereum dev indicted for delivering cryptocurrency talk in North Korea
Virgil Griffith, the Ethereum developer arrested after allegedly traveling to North Korea to speak at a cryptocurrency conference, ...
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US Navy officers can't use TikTok on government-issued phones because it's a 'cybersecurity threat'
Last week, the US Navy banned TikTok, the short video sharing app, from government-issued mobile devices, as it represented ...
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This cryptocurrency mining botnet uses Taylor Swift pics to propagate itself
A cryptocurrency-mining botnet is infecting computers with an image of Taylor Swift to spread its malware as widely as possible. ...
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[Best of 2019] Chinese vertical dramas made for phone viewing show the future of mobile video
Vertical dramas are what Chinese producers call their scripted content made especially for vertical mobile play. But they're ...
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China's failed 'baby gene' experiment proves we're not ready to edit human embryos
More than a year ago, the world was shocked by Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui’s attempt to use CRISPR technology to modify ...
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Report: Palantir took over Project Maven, the military AI program too unethical for Google
Palantir, the surveillance company founded by Peter Thiel, has unsurprisingly stepped up to fill the void left behind after ...
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Report: A single province in China controls 54 percent of Bitcoin's hash rate
73% of Bitcoin's electricity comes from renewable energies, at least, that's according to a new report from cryptocurrency ...
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Why China's 'military AI budget' is irrelevant (spoiler: all AI is military AI)
A recently published study from the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), a think-tank at Georgetown University, ...
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Horrible Chinese game asks players to beat up Hong Kong protestors
There have been plenty of games and apps that have sprung up as a result of Hong Kong protests. Now, a rather distasteful ...
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24 Chinese nationals arrested in Thailand over alleged Bitcoin call center scam
Authorities have busted a call center in Thailand and arrested 24 Chinese nationals for allegedly running a Bitcoin investment ...
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CHEAP: 5 great Singles' Day deals, just for you
Singles' Day is a big deal in China, but that doesn't mean you can't benefit! We've rounded up 5 sick deals, just for you. ...
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China introduces mandatory face scans for new SIM card purchases
The Chinese government loves face recognition and including it in various services for authentication. In its the latest ...
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TikTok denies suspending makeup tutorial teen for raising awareness of China's detention camps
A girl has been uploading now-viral TikTok makeup tutorials, with a twist. Feroza Aziz tells users how to lengthen their ...
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The Honor View30 Pro packs flagship specs for $550
Huawei often offers some of its best deals through its Honor sub-brand, and this year seems no different. The company today ...
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Chinese state-backed hackers are compromising telecom operators to steal text messages
China's state-backed APT41 has developed MESSAGETAP malware to monitor and save SMS traffic from specific phone numbers for ...
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Bitcoin handed a lifeline as China lets cryptocurrency miners off the hook
It's been seven months since China decided it wanted to take steps to curtail Bitcoin mining in the country, but now it's ...
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Porcelain business raises suspicion amid China's blockchain renaissance
A porcelain and education business has attracted the suspicion of Chinese regulators after its stock recently boomed, CoinDesk ...
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Chinese netizens are protesting Notepad++ over its support for Uighurs
First the NBA. Now this.
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Tencent given green light to create blockchain-based invoice standards, bad news for tax evaders
After first announcing the project last year, Chinese tech giant Tencent has been given the go-ahead by the country's tax ...
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China’s tech race with the US heats up as it readies to launch its digital currency
China has approved a law to regulate cryptography as it readies to launch its own digital currency. But, what does this mean ...
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Moonday Morning: China goes crazy over blockchain
Hello, happy Monday and welcome to another Moonday Morning – Hard Fork's roundup of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency ...
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Huawei's foldable Mate X arrives November 15 (in China)
Huawei's take on the folding phone market, the Mate X, finally has a release date and price. Customers in China will be able ...
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Major Chinese browser ‘Maxthon’ has a bug that allows anyone admin access
One of China's most popular browsers, Maxthon, has a bug in its Windows version that can allow a hacker to take admin control ...
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US puts Chinese surveillance tech firms on economic blacklist over Uyghur abuse
The US government has blacklisted 28 Chinese organizations for their alleged involvement in perpetrating systematic abuses ...
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Private Chinese space company aims to rival SpaceX with a reusable rocket by 2021
i-Space, a Bejing-based space company, showed off its reusable rocket, Hyperbola-2, for the first time in public last week. ...
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iPhone spyware campaign reportedly targeted Uyghur Muslims for 2 years
The data-stealing iPhone exploits detailed by Google last week may been used for state-sponsored campaigns targeting the ...
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Chinese communist party’s app is reportedly spying on its 100M users
A report from the German cybersecurity firm Cure53 suggests the Chinese communist party's app, Study the Great Nation, ...
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TikTok appears to have walked back its 'shadow ban' on Trump posts
TikTok users are reporting an unusually high number of posts showing up in their feeds related to Donald Trump. While the ...
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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 ...
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Germany won’t ban Huawei from supplying 5G hardware — despite US pleas
Germany's upcoming 'security catalog' will not exclude Huawei from supplying equipment for the country's 5G mobile networks. ...
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China is paying Twitter to publish propaganda against Hong Kong protesters
Twitter has found itself in a tight spot after it was caught running ads from China's state-backed media outlet Xinhua attacking ...
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How Hong Kong protesters are embracing 'offline' messaging apps to avoid being snooped on
As pro-democracy rallies rage in Hong Kong, protestors are increasingly switching to peer-to-peer mesh networking apps like ...
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State-sponsored Chinese hackers have been targeting Southeast Asia since 2013
PKPLUG, a previously undocumented threat actor of Chinese origin, is behind at least six different cyber espionage campaigns ...
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NBA stands to lose billions as China lashes out over tweet supporting Hong Kong
The NBA boasts some 600 million fans in China and rakes in billions of dollars from lucrative TV and merchandising contracts ...
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China's new 500-megapixel 'super camera' can instantly recognize you in a crowd
Chinese researchers develop a new 500 megapixel facial recognition camera capable of capturing "thousands of faces at a stadium ...
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Chinese hacking group targets Southeast Asian governments with data-stealing malware
A threat group responsible for a series of malware-based espionage attacks has been increasingly targeting the Southeast ...
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Apple reportedly pulls app that warns Hong Kong citizens about police activity (Updated)
Apple has approved an app that allows people in Hong Kong to keep track of protests and police activity in the city state ...
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LocalBitcoins sees huge spikes in usage during Hong Kong’s political unrest
Bitcoin volumes have seen an increase in Hong Kong on peer-to-peer trading site LocalBitcoins. The platform has seen its ...
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Mobile malware campaign targeting Uyghur Muslims impacted Tibetans too
The mobile malware campaign targeting the Uyghur Muslim minority in China was also directed at senior members of Tibetan ...
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China has no idea when it will launch its digital currency
Despite reports that China was readying itself to deploy its government digital currency, it now seems it's less surefooted ...
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Surveillance campaign targeting Uyghur Muslims affected not just iOS, but Android too
The Uyghur community has been targeted as part of a large-scale surveillance operation via "strategically compromised websites" ...
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Chinese subway stations now let you pay for tickets by scanning your face
Facial recognition technology is used across China for everything from identifying criminals to measuring students’ attention ...
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Meet Panda, an illicit cryptocurrency mining crew terrorizing organizations worldwide
Panda isn't very sophisticated, but it is absolutely prolific: researchers say the crew could've earned roughly $90,000 in ...
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Moonday Mornings: Teen allegedly stole unreleased A-list music to sell for Bitcoin
Gather round forkers, it's time for Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork's wrap-up of the weekend's top cryptocurrency and blockchain ...
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China is following Facebook's playbook to issue a centralized digital currency
China's proposed token will supposedly be able to be used without an internet connection, too. What are the odds it never ...
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Elon Musk seemed unhinged 'debating' AI with Jack Ma
Tech moguls Elon Musk and Jack Ma took the stage last week at the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in China ...
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Chinese face-swapping app goes viral, invites criticism over privacy clause
Last week, a Chinese social app developer named Momo introduced a face-swapping app called Zao. The app, which lets you overlay ...
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How China’s Baidu outsold Google in the smart speaker market
Yesterday, market research firm Canalys published a report stating Chinese search giant Baidu has surpassed Google in terms ...
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Google plays politics with China as it quietly bans state-sponsored YouTube accounts
Google yesterday announced it'd banned 210 YouTube accounts “related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong” and the discovery ...
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How an AI in China helped nab a suspected murderer - with a face scan
We've read plenty of stories of how AI can be horrible, but it can also be surprisingly useful. According to a report by ...
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Dark web dealer made to forfeit millions in cryptocurrency gets 70 months in the slammer
A drug dealer ordered to forfeit millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for distributing ...
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Ugh, this is what Bitcoin’s hash rate means and why it matters
Bitcoin's hash rate has been reaching all time highs this year. But what is it? What does it mean? And why is it a measurement ...
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Accept my first-born in penance, Asus — I was wrong about gaming phones
I once claimed that gaming phones are niche – 2m pre-orders of the the Asus ROG Phone 2 in 24 hours prove me wrong. Well, ...
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Why US public schools' creepy use of surveillance AI should frighten you
Public schools across the US continue to spend millions implementing AI-powered surveillance solutions alleged to prevent ...
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Everything you need to know about China's new Nasdaq-style STAR Market
25 companies have begun trading on China's new STAR Market today, in a move that marks the first step towards major capital ...
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Who's responsible for domestic abuse witnessed by online tutors?
Emily Tate reports that many tutors teaching English online to students in China have witnessed these children being abused ...
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Over 100 Chinese loan apps are leaking millions of users' financial data
In China, over 100 loan apps are leaking their users' private data, including contact details, financial information, and ...
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Tons of iPhone users are joining the dark side by switching to Samsung
It seems Apple fans are finally shaking off the iPhone mania, with many of them switching to Samsung and other Android-powered ...
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Engineer nabbed smuggling US military-grade chips to China faces 219 years in prison
The electrical engineer is facing up to 219 years in federal prison after being found guilty of trying to smuggle military-grade ...
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Alibaba is nudging users to be more ethical with its in-app minigames
Four years ago, in a move designed to explore the viability of new offline sales models, Alibaba ran a little experiment. ...
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Chinese Bitcoin miner arrested for stealing electricity from oil well
Authorities in China have arrested a man after he reportedly stole electricity from an oil well to mine Bitcoin.
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Telegram founder claims China disrupted the app to sabotage Hong Kong protesters
After Telegram was taken down by a powerful DDoS attack yesterday, CEO Pavel Durov said the 'state-actor sized' attack was ...
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China and India account for most internet users: 2019 internet trends report
Mary Meeker published her 333-slide Internet Trends report Tuesday ahead of a presentation at Recode's Code Conference in ...
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Twitter 'accidentally' blocked accounts of China dissidents ahead of Tiananmen anniversary
Twitter has apologized after it suspended hundreds of accounts that were critical of Chinese government, days ahead of the ...
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Understanding the rising popularity of China’s rural influencers
Beginning in 2016, China saw the sudden and meteoric rise of the short video social media platform Kuaishou 快手. The ...
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TikTok's parent company ByteDance reportedly wants to launch its own phone
TikTok's owner ByteDance is developing a "phone preloaded with its own apps" to expand its user base as competition with ...
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China could hurt Apple profits by 29% if it avenged the Huawei ban, says analyst
Trump's Huawei ban was bad news for China, as it effectively crippled the world's second-largest smartphone maker from its ...
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TikTok maker's new app is another shot in the Chinese social media battle
ByteDance, the world's most valuable startup behind popular apps like TikTok, releases a new interest-based social app Feiliao, ...
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Total War: Three Kingdoms is a triumph of beauty and slaughter
Creative Assembly's Total War: Three Kingdoms is a triumph. There's no other way to put it. It's a gorgeous fantasy epic ...
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This tool lets you check if a website is blocked in China
Wikipedia has been added to Beijing's no-no list, along with big sites like Facebook. But what other sites are blocked? Comparitech ...
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WeChat quietly bans cryptocurrency fundraising
The Chinese equivalent of WhatsApp, WeChat, has updated its terms of service to ban merchants from fundraising by using tokens ...
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China’s dating apps are experimenting with livestreamed matchmaking
China’s largest date-to-marry matchmaking apps are experimenting with leveraging live-streaming to help users find love, ...
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South Africa’s first legal online rhino horn auction totally failed
Private rhino horn owner John Hume, held South Africa’s first online rhino horn auction during 2017, a major event in ...
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China's new regulations outlaw blood and poker... in video games
China's uneasy relationship with the video game industry became even more thorny last week. New regulations from the government ...
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How China's new highway for self-driving cars will boost its AV ambitions
China has its eyes set on making self-driving cars mainstream. In order to boost its position as a leader in this sector, ...
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China wants to destroy ‘wasteful’ Bitcoin mining
China, one of the world's most prominent blockchain and cryptocurrency forces, wants to put an end to "wasteful" Bitcoin ...
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China takes top spot with 25% of world's blockchain projects
China appears to be edging ahead as a world leader in blockchain technology, according to new figures from Beijing-based ...
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Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent are among the first 197 regulated blockchain firms in China
China's Cyberspace Administration has released the first list of companies approved to conduct business with blockchain tech. ...
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Bitmain’s dreams to go public slashed after IPO filing lapses
Bitmain’s hopes for an initial public offering (IPO) have been slashed after the cryptocurrency firm’s application to ...
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WeChat Pay to reportedly take on Google Pay and Paytm in India later this year
WeChat is planning to launch its payment service WeChat pay in India by May-June. It will be a UPI-based app approved by ...
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1.8M Chinese women deemed 'BreedReady' by creepy new database
An open database in China has been found to include the personal information of over 1.8 million women. It was discovered ...
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Delve deep into Bitcoin’s craziest conspiracy theories
Bitcoin has always been shrouded in mystery, and to this day, not much is known about its origins or the identity of its ...
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The top 3 blockchain employers are old-school corporates, our data shows
Despite the crypto-winter causing widespread layoffs in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry, there are still plenty ...
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This Chinese turn-based singing game looks amazing
Meetup Music (or 音遇) is a Chinese, turn-based singing game that has been lighting-up the country's app stores. We've ...
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Alibaba finally got its shitcoin namesake to drop its name
In a joint statement released on Monday, Alibabacoin and Alibaba announced they have reached an agreement which will see ...
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Report: Facebook ad clicks tumble, but the internet keeps on growing
The new 2018 Q3 Global Digital Statshot report from Hootsuite and We Are Social shows that there was plenty of change in ...
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Rise of foreign stars in Chinese social media marks the beginning of a new trend
China’s internet celebrity economy has expanded exponentially in recent years. According to a report released by iResearch, ...
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What TikTok’s Chinese predecessor can reveal about its future
TikTok’s sudden popularity might’ve taken many by surprise as the app burst out on the social media scene seemingly out ...
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Chinese cyberattacks on the US are on the rise again after a years-long truce
After a few years of slowdown, it looks like China's back to hacking US entities, according to a report by Crowdstrike, a ...
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Why Huawei CFO’s arrest is sparking tension between the US and China
While Huawei is selling tons of phones worldwide, it's facing a grim time in the US with plenty of lawsuits and governmental ...
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How realistic are China’s plans to colonize the moon?
The world is still celebrating the historic landing of China’s Chang’e-4 on the far side of the moon on January 3. Last ...
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Using social media to measure air pollution’s psychological toll
People are less happy on days when the air is more polluted, according to an analysis of 210 million posts on the Chinese ...
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Blockchain investment still lags behind fintech despite record-breaking 2018
European blockchain technology companies had a record year in terms of VC investment in 2018, although overshadowed by funding ...
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India’s porn crackdown isn’t working — but China’s is
This article was originally published on SEXTECHGUIDE, an independent publication that looks at the intersection ...
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China’s scientific achievements are surrounded by secrecy – but this could change
China’s recent scientific achievements – including its embryo gene-editing research and historic moon landing – appear ...
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Microsoft's Bing search engine is the latest victim of China's 'block and don't tell' (Update: it's back)
Update (January 25): After a day-long outage, Microsoft's Bing search engine is now accessible again, the company confirmed. ...
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Bitcoin con artists charged with $51M investment scam
A group of Bitcoin con artists has been charged with running an elaborate cryptocurrency scam that defrauded local and foreign ...
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This Chinese app reportedly maps nearby debtors to get you to shame them
China has reportedly launched a WeChat mini-app to highlight debtors around you, in an effort to shame them for not paying ...
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A cotton seed sprouted - and died - on China's Lunar Lander
On Tuesday, Chinese media reported that one of the cotton seeds aboard the Chang’e 4 lunar lander sprouted, marking the ...
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China's moon landing could launch a new space race
China became the third country to land a probe on the Moon on January 2. But, more importantly, it became the first to do ...
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200 million Chinese resumes leak in huge database breach
Last night, HackenProof published a report stating that a database containing resumes of over 200 million job seekers in ...
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China is forcing blockchain devs to dox users, censor content
The Chinese government is forcing blockchain companies to censor content, store users' identity data and share it with authorities. ...
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China hacked the US Navy and stole personal info on at least 100K sailors
The US Department of Justice today unsealed documents pertaining to the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group APT 10's years-long ...
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2019 will be a pivotal year for Southeast Asian tech startups
With a rising middle class and a booming tech startup scene, Southeast Asia (SEA) sits where China did 10 years ago — on ...
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Google reportedly shuts down its Chinese censored search project
Google has stopped key data analysis needed for its highly contested China project, the censored search engine 'Dragonfly' ...
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Apple faces ban on sales of older iPhones in China over a tussle with Qualcomm (Updated)
Qualcomm announced that a Chinese court has awarded it two preliminary injunctions against Apple that might be banned from ...
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Starwood breach affecting 500M users reportedly part of a larger Chinese state-sponsored attack
The New York Times reports that the Starwood breach was part of a larger state-sponsored intelligence-gathering effort spurred ...
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Ethiopia to launch its first-ever satellite with China’s help
Ethiopia has announced its intention to launch its first satellite during 2019 costing a total of $8 million and China will ...
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Fortnite bests Russia and Japan to become world's 8th most-populated place
Epic Games today revealed that the number of players registered in Fortnite is now around 200 million. Let that number ...
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China has a new surveillance tool that identifies citizens by how they walk
Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool designed to identify people by how they walk, or the shapes ...
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Tencent to limit some mobile gamers to an hour of play time per day
Tencent is set to roll out sweeping changes to how it deals with younger gamers. According to The Wall Street Journal, Tencent ...
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Amazon gets patriotic while Google embraces censorship
Wired 25 was attended by some of the biggest names in tech, and Amazon and Google's bosses both took the opportunity to get ...
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China’s ‘barrage videos’ are chaotic af — and say a lot about loneliness
China's barrage videos reveal a lot about the population's psyche regarding loneliness. These videos show live comments that ...
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September in Africa: Alibaba saves wildlife and Google Partners comes to Nigeria
Pan-African ecommerce giant Jumia may be about to launch an initial public offering (IPO), if reports are to be believed, ...
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Elephant tusk DNA may hold the key to stiffer penalties for poachers
A study published Wednesday in Science Advances detailed a creative approach to stopping the illegal ivory trade. While ...
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Google allegedly working on censored search engine for Chinese market
Recently leaked documents reveal Google might be ready to make a government-friendly, censored version of its search engine ...
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Tencent teams with Chinese government to choke kids' game time
Remember last week when we found out China was going to be putting the squeeze on game companies in an effort to combat childhood ...
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Google just turned 20 -- time for it to grow up
Google's birthday may be a happy one for shareholders, but the rest of us have plenty of cause for alarm and concern as the ...
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We are thinking about Bitcoin’s energy usage in all the wrong ways
It's en vogue to critique Bitcoin mining for its potentially harmful impact on the environment - but that's not the whole ...
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Study: Air pollution responsible for 'huge' drop in intelligence
Air pollution could be a leading cause in a societal reduction in intelligence levels, according to new research. A study ...
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Now is the perfect time for foreign developers to focus on the Chinese app market
Although there are issues with China's tech scene — like its harsh censorship. Now is the perfect time for us developers ...
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Cryptocurrency media outlets banned from WeChat for spreading hype
Several prominent media outlets in China have had their WeChat accounts permanently frozen for hyping cryptocurrency too ...
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Censorship in China
China’s internet has always been heavily censored by its government. The Great Firewall is part of the People’s Republic ...
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China breaks up underground $1.5 billion World Cup crypto-gambling ring
A illegal World Cup gambling ring has been busted holding more than $1.5 billion in live bets - all in cryptocurrencies. ...
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Teen requires surgery to remove knotted USB cable from penis
I think it's fair to say that few of us have made decisions we didn't later come to regret. But personally, I can proudly ...
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China brags its cryptocurrency ban has practically killed local Bitcoin trading
A report from the People's Bank of China indicates that just one percent of global cryptocurrency transactions are conducted ...
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White House earmarks over $1B for quantum technology research
Recent bipartisan efforts from the US House of Representatives and Senate have led to the formation of a subcommittee to ...
