カテゴリー: Computing
As the ‘civic hacker’ who became Taiwan’s first transgender cabinet minister, she is used to breaking boundaries. What can the rest of the world learn from her vision of a happy and inclusive web?Audrey Tang didn’t have the easiest of starts in life. T…
Trump has accused Taiwan of ‘taking’ the US chip sector, but Taipei has been at the forefront of the industry for decades, and its future could depend on itThe Hsinchu Science Park, on Taiwan’s west coast, is lush and green, with streets neatly planned…
US firm’s move, amid Beijing-Washington tensions, sparks rush to lure users to homegrown modelsAt the World AI Conference in Shanghai last week, one of China’s leading artificial intelligence companies, SenseTime, unveiled its latest model, SenseNova 5…
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…
The 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…
US 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…
Income 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…
Shares 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…
Washington’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…
Move 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…
Digital 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…
British 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…
Lee 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…