China’s call to foster semiconductor independence has sent investors chasing after chip startups of all sorts. Moffett AI, a Shenzhen-based chip design company, has received a fresh Series A injection. The company did not disclose the exact amount, only saying that the proceeds were in the “several tens of millions of dollars.” The round was […]
China’s robotaxis charged ahead in 2021
Autonomous driving startups in China are in an arms race to put passengers in their machine-driven vehicles. Every few weeks, news arrives that another major player has got the greenlight to launch a new pilot program or a small-scale service. These press releases, often dotted with regulatory jargon and flowery language to aggrandize the companies’ […]
China To Create Own NFT Industry Based on State-backed Blockchain Infrastructure
China’s state-backed Blockchain Services Network (BSN) plans to roll out infrastructure at the end of this month to support the deployment of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), a major step to creating a Chinese NFT industry that is not linked to cryptocurren…
Dutch Athletes Warned To Keep Phones and Laptops Out of China
schwit1 shares a report: Dutch athletes competing in next month’s Beijing Winter Olympics will need to leave their phones and laptops at home in an unprecedented move to avoid Chinese espionage, Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant reported on Tuesday. The ur…
Roblox pauses service in China as it takes ‘important transitory actions’
On December 8, Roblox’s Chinese version LuoBuLeSi, published and operated by Tencent, abruptly closed down its server five months after it launched on iOS and Android. Many users, taken by surprise, took to Chinese social media to complain about the short notice. What users had been playing was in fact an “archive-deleting test version,” LuoBuLeSi […]
China’s Locked Down City Thrown Into Chaos After Covid App Crash
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: China’s Covid-19 health code system that strictly governs people’s movements crashed in Xi’an this week, worsening conditions in the locked-down city where the country’s worst outbreak since Wuhan has…
中国政府によるゲームライセンス発行停止によりわずか5カ月で1万4000社が倒産
中国政府はゲームに対する規制を強化し続けており、実名を入力しないとゲームができないシステムやゲームのプレイ時間を制限するための顔認証機能などを実装し、さらには週3時間以上のオンラインゲームを禁止する規則まで制定しています。そんな中国では、ゲームライセンスの発行停止に伴いゲーム関連企業が2021年だけで…
After US Sanctions, Huawei Revenue Plummets Nearly 30% In 2021
“Chinese telecom giant Huawei said on Friday its annual revenue had fallen by nearly a third from the previous year,” reports Agence France-Presse, “as it continued to be weighed down by U.S. sanctions that have hit its smartphone sales…”
The firm’s…
China Is Harvesting ‘Masses’ of Data on Western Targets from Social Media
The Washington Post reports:
China is turning a major part of its internal Internet data surveillance network outward, mining Western social media, including Facebook and Twitter, to equip its government agencies, military and police with information …
Securing the global digital economy beyond the China challenge
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