What the West Doesn’t Know About China’s Silicon Valley
[ad_1] Novelist Ning Ken first saw Beijing’s Zhongguancun neighborhood in 1973 as a 14-year-old on a school trip to the Summer Palace, former imperial gardens looted by European troops during the…
How Chinese Netizens Swamped China’s Internet Controls
[ad_1] The tragedy came as frustrations with zero-Covid policies were already starting to spike. Violent confrontations had broken out between workers and security at a Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou that manufactures…
China’s Digital Yuan Works Just Like Cash—With Added Surveillance
[ad_1] By the mid-2010s, Chinese people in big cities had generally switched from using cash to using Alipay and WeChat Pay. By the end of 2021, about 64 percent of…
How Retail App Temu Lures US Shoppers With Mind-Bending Prices
[ad_1] The prices seem almost too good to be true: Lenovo wireless earbuds for $3.70, an eyebrow pencil for 59 cents, two outdoor solar lamps for $6.39—all delivered for free.…
China’s WeChat Is a Hot New Venue for US Election Misinformation
[ad_1] When Chinese-language misinformation appears on US platforms like YouTube or Facebook, activists say it seems to get less actively moderated than English content, a pattern that has also been…
The US and EU are Teaming Up to Contain Big Tech
[ad_1] Are there areas where you think there can be more collaboration among regulators? We work very closely with our US counterparts, both the DOJ and the FTC. If we…
The Russian Spy in My Econ Class
[ad_1] Earlier this summer, the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) said it had intercepted a Russian military intelligence officer who was posing as Viktor (sometimes Victor) Muller Ferreira,…
How GPT-3 Wrote a Movie About a Cockroach-AI Love Story
[ad_1] With the film, I like how you sit there and you’re like, oh, what am I watching? Why is the power stone described as looking like a burrito? I…