China’s Social Credit System

Someone inside the Communist Party of China took a very brave decision to leak 400 pages of documents about the country’s crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang province to an American newspaper. The documents shed some light on the creation of the ca…

The Great Hack's Professor David Carroll Netflix A revolution is brewing, resistance is growing, could the end be nigh for surveillance capitalism, a term which Harvards Shoshana Zuboff coined to describe how the human experience has been productized by cor…

They said blockchain would bring freedom by challenging world governments and greedy financial institutions. But what if blockchain is the ideal tool to enable totalitarianism? What if China Moves its Social Credit System to Blockchain? A few weeks ago, Chi…

China's biggest rubbish dump, which is 500 feet deep and the size of nearly 100 football pitches, will soon be filled up, according to the country's state media. The massive Jiangcungou landfill site, situated in Xi'an in north-western China, opened in 1994 …

Since the Peoples Republic of China announced in 2014 that they will launch a new system that is supposed to make sure its citizens and corporations will become more trustworthy (as the China Daily has reported), it has been a hot topic of speculation among W…

What was the first thing that you did this morning when you woke up? And what was the last thing that you did before you went to bed last night? Chances are that many of us probably most of us were on our smartphones. Our day-to-day consumption of all things…

Computing experts dismiss the announcement as “absolute and complete fiction” but at least one privacy experts fears that if China — which announced it is officially researching a 6G mobile network — uses the technology to track the public, it could cause “Wo…

Wang Sicong, the only son of Chinese real estate mogul Wang Jianlin and the heir to his estimated $12.5 billion fortune, has been banned from doing stereotypical billionaire heir activities: traveling and partying.  According to The South China Morning Post,…

Most people know that they can rate their Uber driver, and that the Uber driver can rate passengers in return. If you slip far below the average passenger rating, you may even get booted from the service. Now, the app perhaps best known as "Uber for dogs" ha…

The fall of the Berlin Wall on the night of November 8, 1989 dramatically and suddenly accelerated the collapse of communism in Europe. The end of travel restrictions between East and West Germany dealt a death blow to the closed society of the Soviet Union. …