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How Chinese Citizens Feel About the Controversial Social Credit System China's Social Credit System

How Chinese Citizens Feel About the Controversial Social Credit System

The Chinese social credit system has been given an unequivocally negative reception by the media in the west. Set to be rolled out nationwide in 2020, the system has even been described by one journalist as China’s “most ambitious project in social engineering since the Cultural Revolution”. On the surface,…
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February 11, 2020
Everyone Needs To Stop Assuming Autonomous Vehicles Are Going To Be Safer Than Humans Self-driving Vehicles

Everyone Needs To Stop Assuming Autonomous Vehicles Are Going To Be Safer Than Humans

Articles about how autonomous vehicles are almost here and how big a deal it’ll be aren’t exactly uncommon, but this one from a couple of days ago over at Interesting Engineering struck me in particular because it rehashes an idea that’s at the root of so many articles and self-righteous…
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February 11, 2020
Aflac to Open Global Cybersecurity Center in Belfast Belfast

Aflac to Open Global Cybersecurity Center in Belfast

A subsidiary of American insurance giant Aflac is to open a global IT and cybersecurity center in the Northern Irish capital city of Belfast.  Aflac Northern Ireland signed a 10-year lease with Belfast Harbor on 11,000 sq ft of office space within the ongoing multi-million-dollar waterfront development City Quays. With the opening of the new center on regenerated…
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February 11, 2020