Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has launched a data privacy academy as part of efforts to align with the national strategy of developing the city into an international high-calibre talent hub. Announcing the news at a summit to mark the 30th anniversary of the watchdog on Tuesday, Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Ada Chung Lai-ling said…
Hackers are excited. Surveillance advertising corporations are elated. Political thought-police are enraptured. China has just approved the world’s first brain-computer chip. And they’ve beaten billionaire tech-bro and MAGA evangelist Elon Musk to market. The coin-sized device, called NEO, is the first surgical implant to pass clinical trials for commercial sale. Version one is optimised to…
After calling The Boys‘ final minutes “pathetic,” Elon Musk criticized showrunner Eric Kripke. He recently welcomed the billionaire’s verdict, who later revealed that he hadn’t actually watched the show. Elon Musk criticizes Eric Kripke It all started when Elon Musk initially expressed his disappointment with how The Boys treated Homelander‘s fate in the final moments…
Chinese technology consultant Kenneth Ren is training the workers of the future. The only thing is, they are not human. “We are essentially teaching robots to think on their own,” Ren, an overseas solution expert with RealMan Intelligent Technology told CNBC recently at the Beijing-based Humanoid Robot Data Training Center. Ren helps run what Chinese…
President Donald Trump’s three-day visit to China last week appeared to be an awkward and cringeworthy affair for some top executives who accompanied him, an adviser said Tuesday. Peter Navarro, Trump’s senior trade and manufacturing adviser, praised the state of U.S.-China relations during an interview Tuesday following the summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping but…
There was no joint statement out of Trump’s China trip today. But there might as well have been. In one of the most secretive spaces in Chinese politics, the walled compound where China’s top leaders live and work, the number of cameras and journalists granted access at the start of the bilateral tea this morning…
China is set to roll out the red carpet for Donald Trump, with the President of the United States heading to Beijing on a three-day visit to discuss the sometimes fractious relationship between these two tech powerhouses. The AI race is on, and while the USA is largely considered to be ahead in advanced chip…
Beijing: US President Donald Trump said he would ask Xi Jinping to “open up” China to American firms as he headed to Beijing on Wednesday for a high-stakes summit that will also bring up the Iran war. In a sign of Trump’s focus on business, Nvidia chief Jensen Huang boarded Air Force One during a…
China and America seemingly can’t stop banning each other’s gadgets, technology and more. The result is a deepening power struggle over who controls the hardware behind the next era of energy and computing. According to a report in Reuters, Chinese officials have held initial talks with providers of equipment to make solar panels as they…
A humanoid version of Olaf, the snowman from Frozen, has emerged as an example of how global collaboration is shaping the robotics industry. However, this robot also highlights China’s growing role in the sector’s supply chain. Demonstrated by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in March, the robot combines Nvidia’s and Google‘s artificial intelligence systems with Disney’s…