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  1. DooKey

    China Has Launched the World’s First All-Electric Cargo Ship

    China launched an all-electric cargo ship that supposedly takes 2 hours to charge and has a range of 50 miles at it's top speed of 8 mph. While this sounds cool the irony of the situation is it's going to be used to haul coal to power generating stations along the Pearl River. It's going to...
  2. DooKey

    PUBG may be Officially Launched in China but with Socialist Modifications

    It looks like Tencent is going to launch a version of PUBG in China after all. Of course they have to make modifications that are in line with "socialist core values". I wonder what that means? Furthermore, the flood gates are going to open up for rampant cheating (not that it isn't rampant...
  3. DooKey

    China Challenges Nvidia's Hold on Artificial Intelligence Chips

    A call for research projects from China’s Ministry of Science and Technology posted online last month fills in some detail on the government’s plans. And it puts Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia, the leading supplier of silicon for machine-learning projects, in the cross hairs. The Ministry of...
  4. DooKey

    Everything You Need to Know About China's Ambitious Space Plans

    Over at Wired, they've put together a great story about the future of the Chinese space program and where they want to be by 2030. I believe, just as the author of this story believes, that China is going to be a major power in space in the next decade or so and they will definitely be a tough...
  5. DooKey

    China Pulls Ahead of U.S. in Latest TOP500 List of Supercomputers

    The fiftieth TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world has China overtaking the US in the total number of ranked systems by a margin of 202 to 143. It is the largest number of supercomputers China has ever claimed on the TOP500 ranking, with the US presence shrinking to its lowest...
  6. DooKey

    India Overtakes the US to Become Second Largest Smartphone Market

    According to Canalys, India has surpassed the US as the world's second largest smartphone market. It's not really surprising if you think about it since India does have a population of over 1.3 billion, but it does go to show that India isn't going to remain an underdeveloped country for long...
  7. FrgMstr

    China Loves to Cheat at PUBG

    BattlEye, the self-described "Anti-Cheat Gold Standard," is getting serious with cheaters in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. As per its own announcement via Twitter, it has now banned over 322,000 cheaters from PUBG. It also reports that the "vast majority is from China." Whatup with that...
  8. Megalith

    China Will Block All VPNs by February 2018

    The actual news here is probably that China hasn’t already been doing it: the country has officially ordered state-run telecommunications firms, which include China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom, to bar people from using VPNs. It’s a decision that renders little shock, being that the...
  9. FrgMstr

    Apple Spends $1B on New China Datacenter

    Reuters is reporting that Apple is building a new datacenter in Guizhou, China. It is doing this in order to abide by China's new strict cybersecurity laws. But don't worry, no data surveillance is going to happen. None at all. An Apple spokesman in Shanghai told Reuters the center is part...
  10. M

    Tesla Looking To Build Factory in China

    The Verge mentioned that Elon Musk paid a visit to China two months ago and now Tesla has confirmed that the company pursuing the possibility of opening a factory in the Shanghai region. Although you would figure it is to build more cars in that region of the world, but the company hasn't...
  11. cageymaru

    Facial Recognition Software Used to Crackdown on Marathon Cheaters in China

    Facial recognition software is being used in China to crackdown on cheating during marathon races. The act of wearing another contestant's bib during a marathon has become a huge problem as a health craze has swept China in last few years. This has made facial recognition software necessary to...
  12. Zarathustra[H]

    Smart Doorbell Bug Causes Massive Privacy Freakout

    Earlier in the month, a Reddit user noticed some odd traffic from his Ring branded smart doorbell and intercom going to a server related to Baidu in China. When this story was picked up by IoT For All, and reported as a huge vulnerability, it understandably set off quite a bit of concern among...
  13. Zarathustra[H]

    NSA, DOE Say China's Supercomputing Advances put U.S. at Risk

    Goodness, China, what a big Supercomputer you have! The better to brute force your encryption with, my dear! The NSA and the DOE are both warning that unless significant increases are made in U.S. investment into supercomputer resources, China is likely to take world leadership in...
  14. Zarathustra[H]

    Japan to Vet Bidders in Toshiba Chip Sale for National Security Risks

    With its US nuclear power unit, Westinghouse, suffering major financial losses and possibly even being in early bankruptcy talks, Toshiba has been looking to sell off most or all of its memory products unit, the second largest NAND producer in the world, to cover the costs. The Japanese...
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