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The Reunion: a new science-fiction story about surveillance in China

... highlight the discombobulation of modern China, he greets me in... technology dominated, “ultra unreal” life in modern China, where centuries of progress... scene like a deus ex machina. Drawing on the...
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Canada among 200 nations adopting rulebook to act on Paris climate deal

... s top greenhouse gas producers, China and the United States, ......
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SpaceX Smashed the Record for Commercial Space Launches This Year

... That honor,  Business Insider found, went to China, which has launched about......
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California says all city buses have to be emission free by 2040

... partnership spree with cities across China to electrify their public......
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NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Could Assist Commercial Missions to the Moon

... space exploration sector. But why China’s space agency was absent......
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Google says it won’t sell face recognition for now—but it will be hard to slow its use

... is being deployed rapidly in China by many of the... expanded immensely in the U.S., China, and many other countries... use of the technology in China, it could prove...
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Starbucks adding delivery services to more than 2,000 stores via Uber Eats

... delivery roots actually began in China through a partnership with... stores across 30 cities in China since launching three months......
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Ridesharing IPOs and $850M for Luckin, Plaid and Zymergen

... The rise of Luckin in China has been simply astounding... big. And something big in China to boot, which means......
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At least 15 central banks are serious about getting into digital currency

... wrote. The People’s Bank of China also appears to be... easier to trace than cash. China’s central bank also cites......
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China’s BYD further drives into Chile with 100 electric buses

... from BYD’s factory in eastern China to land on the......
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Even Taylor Swift Is Using Facial Recognition Tech Now

... in surveillance states such as  China . It’s currently in......
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Emojis, WhatsApp and ‘XOXO’: How texting habits differ around the world

... up, ” Larkin said. “WeChat — China’s version of WhatsApp —......
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What China searched for in 2018: World Cup, trade war, Apple

China’s top search engine put... people have come online in China as of August, and......
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China’s Moon Lander Just Entered Lunar Orbit

... spacious Von Kármán crater . China is already planning Chang’e 5, ... to plan, that will be China’s first Moon mission to......
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Wandelbots raises $6.8M to make programming a robot as easy as putting on a jacket

... to open an office in China. The funding comes from ......
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CAPTCHAs Are Dead, And Neural Networks Killed Them

... University and Peking University in China, and Lancaster University in......
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Data that illuminates the AI boom

... 2. The focal points are China and the US, but also. Much has been made of China’s rising AI prowess see “ China’s AI awakening” and its......
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China’s losing its taste for nuclear power. That’s bad news.

... and post the pictures online, China General Nuclear Power CGN , ... shied away from nuclear power, China has been its strongest... in 2017, three were in China and the fourth...
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Starbucks challenger Luckin snags $200M investment on $2.2B valuation

... footprint spanned  3, 300 stores in China as of May, though... the Seattle coffee chain entered China nearly 20 years ago... services to 30 cities in China by the end...
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What Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s visit to Congress taught us (spoiler: not a lot)

... to launch a product in China right now. He also......