China’s Social Credit System

Religious groups face ever greater pressure to conform, and a web of mass surveillance is bolstering a system many call totalitarian. Its a far cry from the hopes of the idealistic student demonstrators, and a level of control far beyond what many imagined po…

BEIJING (AP) Thirty years since the Tiananmen Square protests, Chinas economy has catapulted up the world rankings, yet political repression is harsher than ever. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims are held in re-education camps without charge, student activis…

The world has been watching China’s social credit system with grim fascination, a real-life compulsory Orwellian horror in which citizens’ lives are determined by their social score. Daily activities are monitored and tracked, then distilled into a single num…

With China having become the world’s largest automotive market by individual sales, it’s worth keeping tabs on it for burgeoning driving trends. While that’s predominantly revolved around electric vehicles, the People’s Republic also has pretty strict driving…

Uber set pulses raising on its calamitous first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange earlier this month, but there were few surprises in its debut quarterly earnings. The earnings (revenue of $2.76 billion; a loss of $1 billion) were slightly abov…

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Australia is among 42 countries that last week signed up to a new set of policy guidelines for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Yet Australia has its own draft guidelines for ethics in AI out for public consultation, and a number of o…

I have written frequently on Wall Street’s underestimation of the impact of the China-US trade war. This war began in a formal sense in January 2018 when President Trump imposed steep tariffs on imports of solar panels and certain appliances. The immediate …

Everyone has their own idea on the ethical use of AI, but can we get a global consensus? Shutterstock/EtiAmmos Australia is among 42 countries that last week signed up to a new set of policy guidelines for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) syste…

Like hundreds of bright stars in the night sky, an army of glowing drones have taken the centre stage of a Chinese city during a daily light spectacle. Every night in Guiyang, the glittering unmanned aerial vehicles - 526 in total - take off simultaneously b…