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Eric Schmidt Is Building the Perfect AI War-Fighting Machine
Schmidt became CEO of Google in 2001, when the search engine had a few hundred employees and was barely making money.…
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How the US Could Ban TikTok in 7 Not-So-Easy Steps
Individual users would not have faced penalties for staying on TikTok, and internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon would…
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China Is the World’s Biggest Face Recognition Dealer
Early last year, the government of Bangladesh began weighing an offer from an unnamed Chinese company to build a smart city on…
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What the West Doesn’t Know About China’s Silicon Valley
Novelist Ning Ken first saw Beijing’s Zhongguancun neighborhood in 1973 as a 14-year-old on a school trip to the Summer Palace,…
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How Chinese Netizens Swamped China’s Internet Controls
The tragedy came as frustrations with zero-Covid policies were already starting to spike. Violent confrontations had broken out between workers and…
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China’s Digital Yuan Works Just Like Cash—With Added Surveillance
By the mid-2010s, Chinese people in big cities had generally switched from using cash to using Alipay and WeChat Pay.…
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The Strange Death of the Uyghur Internet
Making a living as a programmer also became hard, says a former Bilkan developer, who asked to remain anonymous out…
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How Retail App Temu Lures US Shoppers With Mind-Bending Prices
The prices seem almost too good to be true: Lenovo wireless earbuds for $3.70, an eyebrow pencil for 59 cents,…
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New US Chip Sanctions ‘Kneecap’ China’s Tech Industry
“The Biden administration believes that the hype around the transformative potential of AI in military applications is real,” says Allen…
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Silicon Valley Is Obsessed With Its Evil Twin, TikTok
Hi, everyone. Summer is gone but not the heat. People might return to the office not because of employer mandates,…
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