Kashgar, China — You expect to have problems when reporting on sensitive stories in China. People following you, thugs blocking your way, obstacles springing up in the most innocuous of places — it shocks you at first but eventually you get used to things like that. It comes with the territory.
But when we went to the region of Xinjiang a few months back, it was a whole other level — surreal, sinister and sometimes comical all rolled into one. Read More
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Watch Hong Kong Protesters Use Lasers To Disrupt Facial Recognition Cameras
Protesters in Hong Kong appear to be keenly aware of the Chinese mainland’s all-pervading Orwellian surveillance system and facial recognition software, and they are already taking action to thwart such systems installed in Hong Kong.
The UK Independent reports based on a viral video posted by a freelance journalist this week:
Protesters in Hong Kong are using lasers to blind security forces and avoid facial recognition cameras used by authorities.
Hong Kong protestors are on another level. Here they’re using lasers to avoid facial recognition cameras. A cyber war against Chinese artificial intelligence. pic.twitter.com/t1hIczr5Go — Alessandra (@alessabocchi) July 31, 2019
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Brain Talker Makes “Mind Reading” Possible—Tianjin Creates the World’s First Brain-Computer Codec Chip
The world’s first Brain-Computer Codec Chip (BC3), Brain Talker, was announced on May 17, 2019, during the 3rd World Intelligence Congress at Tianjin. The Brain Talker was a joint effort of Tianjin University and China Electronics Corporation with fully independent intellectual property.
This BC3 chip was specially designed to improve the Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology, which aims at decoding a user’s mental intent solely through neural electrical signals, without the use of the human body’s natural neuromuscular pathways. Read More
Haier, China Mobile and Huawei Launch the World's First AI+5G Interconnected Factory
Haier, China Mobile, and Huawei jointly launched the world’s first AI+5G interconnected factory at the 2019 World Industrial Internet Conference (WIIC) in Qingdao. This improvement refines future smart manufacturing by innovating and transforming enterprise organizations, business models, and ICT technologies, and integrating key technologies such as AI and 5G.
China Mobile Shandong and Huawei helped complete 5G base station deployment for Haier’s interconnected factory in Zhongde Industrial Park, Huangdao District, Qingdao on June 13, 2019. Read More
This autonomous bicycle shows China’s rising expertise in AI chips
It might not look like much, but this wobbly self-driving bicycle is a symbol of growing Chinese expertise in advanced chip design
One chip to rule them all: It natively runs all types of AI software
We tend to think of AI as a monolithic entity, but it has actually developed along multiple branches. One of the main branches involves performing traditional calculations but feeding the results into another layer that takes input from multiple calculations and weighs them before performing its calculations and forwarding those on. Another branch involves mimicking the behavior of traditional neurons: many small units communicating in bursts of activity called spikes, and keeping track of the history of past activity.
Each of these, in turn, has different branches based on the structure of its layers and communications networks, types of calculations performed, and so on. Rather than being able to act in a manner we would recognize as intelligent, many of these are very good at specialized problems, like pattern recognition or playing poker. And processors that are meant to accelerate the performance of the software can typically only improve a subset of them.
That last division may have come to an end with the development of Tianjic by a large team of researchers primarily based in China. Read More
China Internet Report 2019
China has emerged on the world stage with a host of global tech companies that are innovative and competitive. And increasingly, their successes are being studied and replicated in other markets. This report, informed by on-the-ground reporting by the South China Morning Post and Abacus, offers insights into China’s tech trailblazers and the big important trends shaping the world’s biggest internet community. Read More
Inside the West’s failed fight against China’s ‘Cloud Hopper’ hackers
Hacked by suspected Chinese cyber spies five times from 2014 to 2017, security staff at Swedish telecoms equipment giant Ericsson had taken to naming their response efforts after different types of wine.
Pinot Noir began in September 2016. After successfully repelling a wave of attacks a year earlier, Ericsson discovered the intruders were back. And this time, the company’s cybersecurity team could see exactly how they got in: through a connection to information-technology services supplier Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Teams of hackers connected to the Chinese Ministry of State Security had penetrated HPE’s cloud computing service and used it as a launchpad to attack customers, plundering reams of corporate and government secrets for years in what U.S. prosecutors say was an effort to boost Chinese economic interests. Read More
China’s tech sector faces ‘hangover after the party’, with trade war and economic slowdown hitting employment
Tech sector demand for new hires down 25 per cent in first quarter from a year earlier, while jobs seekers up 37 per cent, meaning demand outpaces supply
Baidu, Tencent and JD.com are all ‘optimising’ their workforces, as analysts point to a sector in decline after years of expanding at an unrealistic pace Read More
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