A U.S. move to blacklist four of China’s leading artificial intelligence start-ups has thrown a blockbuster Hong Kong listing into doubt and left billions of dollars of foreign investment caught in the cross fire. On Monday, the U.S. Commerce Department put eight companies on its “entity list,” accusing three of China’s leading facial recognition companies, […]
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NEW YORK/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc said on Tuesday it was reviewing its involvement in Megvii Technology Ltd’s planned initial public offering (IPO) after the U.S. government placed the Chinese artificial intelligence firm on a human rights blacklist. FILE PHOTO: The Goldman Sachs company logo is seen in the company’s space on
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WASHINGTON/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The U.S. government expanded its trade blacklist to include some of China’s top artificial intelligence startups, punishing Beijing for its treatment of Muslim minorities and ratcheting up tensions ahead of high-level trade talks in Washington this week. The decision, almost certain to draw a sharp response from Beijing, targets 20 Chinese public
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China is getting a major reminder that despite its advances in missile technology, the United States still holds a major edge over the communist nation.CNN reports that the USS Gabrielle Giffords left port in San Diego earlier this month with a very special armament. The littoral combat ship is carrying the advanced Naval Strike Missile,
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China’s first “copy cat” is ready to make its debut: A Beijing-based company reportedly created the nation’s first cloned kitten and it is an adorable fur baby. Huang Yu, the kitten’s owner, contacted Sinogene, a commercial pet-cloning company that has previously cloned 40 dogs, after his feline, Garlic, died after urinary tract infection complications earlier
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tech2 News StaffSep 02, 2019 19:31:46 IST Launched as a part of the Chang’e 4 mission, China’s lunar rover Yutu has recently discovered a “gel-like” substance on the surface of the moon. As per a report by People’s Daily, this substance is described as “unusually coloured”. This discovery was made during lunar day 8 which
The brains of two genetically edited girls born in China last year may have been changed in ways that enhance cognition and memory, scientists say. The twins, called Lulu and Nana, reportedly had their genes modified before birth by a Chinese scientific team using the new editing tool CRISPR. The goal was to make the girls
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Ren Zhengfei, the reclusive founder and CEO of China’s embattled tech giant, Huawei, is defiant about American efforts to impede his company with lawsuits and restrictions. “There is no way the US can crush us,” Ren said in a rare recent interview with international media. “The world cannot leave us because we are more advanced.”
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A man using a laptop computer walks past an illuminated sign for the technology firm Baidu in Beijing. (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg News) Move over, Google. In the latest development in the escalating tech device race between China and the United States, Beijing-based Baidu has overtaken the No. 2 spot in global smart speaker sales. According to
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Muslims in the most oppressed and closed-off region in China are using the country’s version of TikTok, the video-sharing app popular among Generation Z, to tell the world about the government’s abuse. Dozens of people from the Uighur ethnic minority have in recent weeks posted edited videos of themselves on Douyin, the video platform, appearing
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