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Questions over honesty and legality as livestreamers, particularly in online shopping, use avatars to boost their earningsIn September, Chen Yiru, a Taiwanese influencer with nearly nine million fans on Weibo, livestreamed footage of himself eating chi…
Read MoreAs jobs screening US, UK and EU platforms are shifted to India, viewing ‘gore’ to clean up the web has traumatised moderators‘I had to watch every frame of a recent stabbing video … It will never leave me,” says Harun*, one of many moderators reviewing…
Read MoreThe fight for the 21st century’s most critical technology has become a major source of hostility between the world’s two superpowersAs US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen heads to Beijing in an attempt to steady economic ties, high on the agenda will be…
Read MoreUS efforts to stifle China’s chip industry are thought to be part of a wider plan to hinder Beijing’s preparations for warSigns of the burgeoning conflict between the US and China can be spotted in many different places, from balloons in the sky to vid…
Read MoreIncome of Rishi Sunak’s wife from Indian tech firm to reach £13m for financial yearThe prime minister’s wife, Akshata Murty, will receive nearly £6.7m in dividend payments from her shares in the technology company Infosys this summer.India’s second big…
Read MoreShares plummet after Ernie Bot AI chatbot software falls short of expectations at unveiling in BeijingThe Chinese search engine company Baidu’s shares have fallen by as much as 10% after it presented its ChatGPT-like artificial intelligence software, w…
Read MoreWashington’s ban on hi-tech exports to China marks a huge gambit for economic supremacy for the next decadesThe US has taken unprecedented steps to limit the sale of advanced computer chips to China, escalating efforts to contain Beijing’s tech and mil…
Read MoreApple is now manufacturing a new phone model outside China – and the implications could be huge. Plus, a cyberstalking saga puts social media platforms on the spotDon’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThis week, the first iPhone 14s …
Read MoreMove taken against background of China’s Covid lockdowns and geopolitical tensions between Beijing and WashingtonApple has begun making iPhone 14s in India, as it moves some production away from China for the first time against a backdrop of Chinese Co…
Read MoreDigital minister Taro Kono wants to follow up his bid to phase out faxes by getting rid of floppy disks – but he faces opposition from bureaucratsJapan’s digital minister has declared war on floppy disks, decades after the technology became largely obs…
Read MoreBritish foreign secretary says Beijing will be held to account if it does not stop ‘systematic cyber sabotage’Britain has joined with the US and other allies in formally accusing Chinese state-based hacking groups of being behind the exploitation of an…
Read MoreLee Luda, built to emulate a 20-year-old Korean university student, engaged in homophobic slurs on social mediaA popular South Korean chatbot has been suspended after complaints that it used hate speech towards sexual minorities in conversations with i…
Read MoreJapanese machine can perform more than 415 quadrillion computations a second and has already worked out how breath droplets spread A Japanese supercomputer that has been named the world’s fastest is using its extraordinary capacity to identify potentia…
Read MoreLee Se-dol retires from Chinese strategy game after playing against Google algorithmThe only human ever to beat Google’s algorithm at the ancient Chinese strategy game Go has said he decided to retire because machines cannot be defeated.Lee Se-dol’s fi…
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