Media & Tech
-
China Facial-Recognition Case Puts Big Brother on Trial
Facial-recognition technology has become embedded in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), from airports to hotels, e-commerce sites and even public toilets, but a law professor had enough when asked…
Read More -
White House Proposes Regulatory Principles to Govern AI Use
The White House in early January 2020 proposed regulatory principles that would limit authorities’ “overreach” in governing the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI). In a fact sheet, the…
Read More -
Envisioning the Future Battlespace
Drone Killers The U.S. Marine Corps successfully used a new directed-energy weapon called the Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System (LMADIS) to take down an Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle in…
Read More -
Singapore’s Food Revolution
Singapore, the tiny Southeast Asian city-state, is an unlikely place to transform farming. With tiered fish farms, vegetable plots atop office buildings and lab-grown shrimp, the island aims to increase…
Read More -
Scientists Edit Chicken Genes to Make Them Resistant to Bird Flu
Scientists in Britain have used gene-editing techniques to stop bird flu spreading in chicken cells grown in a lab — a key step toward making genetically altered chickens that could…
Read More -
Investors In Vietnam Learn to Live with Corruption Crackdown
A crackdown on corruption in Vietnam unnerved some foreign investors when it intensified in 2017, but they are now getting much more sanguine about it. Some even say the business…
Read More -
‘Urban mining’ in South Korea saves rare battery materials
Workers at a rural South Korean factory in Gunsan are busy extracting some of the world’s most coveted metals, used in the batteries that power electric cars. They’re not digging…
Read More -
Norway Powers Ahead: Over Half of New Car Sales Now Electric or Hybrid
Sales of electric and hybrid cars rose above half of new registrations in Norway in 2017, a record aided by generous subsidies that extended the country’s lead in shifting from…
Read More -
China’s Online Quiz Craze Lures Prize Seekers, Tech Giants
It seems like a game everyone wins: Some of China’s biggest tech companies, looking to hook in new consumers, are using cash prizes to draw millions of contenders to mobile-based…
Read More -
Promoting a digital India
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a gathering of business leaders in January 2017 that the country has the potential to become the world’s most digitized economy. Speaking at India’s…
Read More