China’s Social Credit System

Inspect-a-Gadget is a monthly segment where we feature a tech toy our editors have been playing with.For those who love outdoor adventures, you need a watch that can brave the elements. Luminox partnered up with the legendary British Adventurer Bear Grylls to create a reliable watch that has some pretty neat…

Sina Corporation launched Chinese microblogging website Sina Weibo (more commonly referred to as Weibo) on August 14, 2009. Weibo has grown into one of the biggest social media platforms in the country over the past decade, with 241 million daily active users (DAU), as of May 2020. Given the moniker…

BEIJING, July 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sohu.com Limited (NASDAQ: SOHU) ("Sohu" or the "Company"), China's leading online media, video, search and gaming business group, announced that today the board of directors of its subsidiary Sogou Inc. (NYSE: SOGO) ("Sogou") received a letter (the "Proposal Letter") containing a preliminary non-binding proposal…

BEIJING, July 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sohu.com Limited (NASDAQ: SOHU), China's leading online media, video, search and gaming business group, will report its second quarter 2020 unaudited financial results on Monday, August 10, 2020, before U.S. market hours. Sohu's management team will host a conference call on the same day at 7:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time,…

When Lauren Dry heard last year that facial recognition cameras were being trialled in the suburb of East Perth, she thought it was a joke.Key points:Facial recognition technology is slowly being trialled around the countryA privacy expert says there are serious questions about the efficacy of facial recognition softwareOne resident…

Introduction Is America in 2020 eerily similar to Germany of the 1920s? Is it appropriate to call the analogy Weimar America? With trillions of dollars printed in just days, 40+ million Americans out of work, and left and right-wing militias running amok fanning the flames of what were originally peaceful…

WE live in a dark phase filled with adversity. As dark and unpredictable as it gets. At this moment in the world, whatever flows, ruptures. Be it the flow (spread) of coronavirus, the flow of migration, the flow of money or the egregious flow of dis/information. Capturing the flow of…

Getty Three days ago, in a letter to members of the United States Congress, IBM announced that it was abandoning the development of general-purpose facial recognition technologies because of their potential for mass surveillance, human rights violations and racial discrimination. In his letter, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna called for a…

The Chinese government has launched a pilot program for a digital version of the yuan.The virtual currency ups the ante in the war on cash and creates the potential for the government to track and even control consumer spending. It also raises some concern that the Chinese could threaten dollar-dominance.The…

Among the torrent of Chinese state media editorials seeking to take advantage of the U.S. riots for political gain was a Monday editorial by the Global Times that sought to compare the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis to the U.S. ban against Chinese electronics giant Huawei. According to Chinese…