By Wanyuan Song and Jana TauschinskiBBC News Image source, BBC; Getty Image; Nasa Three Chinese astronauts have begun a six-month mission, to work on the country’s new space station. It is China’s latest step towards making itself a leading space power for the decades ahead. What is the Tiangong space station? Last year, China put […]
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As if you didn’t already have enough to worry about, researchers this week showed off how they can eavesdrop on a room that’s hundreds of feet away using only the vibrations of a light bulb. OK, you specifically probably don’t have to worry about it. But it’s a nice reminder of just how sci-fi spying
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There are nearly 300 cities in China with 1 million or more people in them. Despite this, international brands tend to prioritize Tier 1 cities when looking to tap into the Chinese market. Due to China’s enormous size and phenomenal economic growth, an unofficial tier system has been widely adopted by media publications in recent
WUZHEN, China (Reuters) – A “Cold War mentality” and “bully behavior” are hindering mutual trust in cyberspace, China’s propaganda chief said on Sunday at the start of the World Internet Conference in the eastern Chinese town of Wuzhen. People walks in front of a screen at the World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province,
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tech2 News StaffOct 19, 2019 15:30:17 IST Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook met the chief of China’s market regulator in Beijing on Thursday, the Chinese agency said, a week after the U.S. firm was thrust into political tensions between the mainland and protesters in Hong Kong. Tim Cook. Image: Reuters Apple last week removed
BEIJING — When Facebook announced plans this year for a cryptocurrency called Libra, it said its goal was to reinvent money for the internet age. What the company probably didn’t imagine was that its efforts might spur China to get there first. China wants to start replacing the cash that people carry with a digital
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Is WeChat ecommerce doomed because of China’s new laws? China’s ecommerce industry has developed at breakneck speed, quickly growing to become the world’s largest market for ecommerce. With the market’s worth swelling to over 1 trillion US dollars, regulation has struggled to keep pace with the market’s growth, especially as social media platforms like WeChat
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The app shares President Xi’s thoughts as well as official information and propaganda The Chinese Communist Party has gained the ability to spy on more than 100 million citizens via a heavily promoted official app, a report suggests. Analysis of the Study the Great Nation app found hidden elements
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Apple Safari’s ‘Fraudulent Website Warning’ feature mostly relied on Google’s Safe Browsing technology. But starting with iOS 13, Apple has started using Tencent’s Safe Browsing technology as well to check and prevent users from visiting fraudulent websites For the fraudulent website warning to work, Apple has to share some data like your browsing history with Google.
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Hong Kong’s protests have disrupted Yang Yang’s family life. Though the 29-year-old lives in mainland China, he was inspired by the demonstrations to write a song about freedom and upload it to the internet. When censors deleted it, he complained to his family. They weren’t sympathetic. “How can you support Hong Kong separatists?” they asked.
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