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A cyber security report claimed the US had launched “tens of thousands” of cyberattacks on China and pilfered troves of sensitive data, the South China Morning Post said.
Top universities and research institutes in China have been spending large sums on advanced US computer chips designed by Nvidia to power artificial intelligence research work.
Soaring sales come thanks to its global appeal, with the online retailer surpassing Amazon for mobile downloads in the US in the second quarter of 2022, Pandaily said
Chinese tech chiefs at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai are said to be looking at speeding up their own AI chip development programme
Korean tech conglomerate revealed an ‘unauthorised third party acquired information from some of Samsung's US systems'
Foreign investors are lining up to capitalise on the opportunity, with new plants planned in Tamil Nadu and Bangalore, the Financial Times said.
The surveying and mapping law shows Beijing's concern over the mapping capabilities of "smart cars" and fear that data they collect may end up in the hands of hostile rivals.
More than half of the 2.39 million Indian accounts banned by WhatsApp in July were 'proactively' taken down before complaints were received, the company said in a report
World's largest contract chipmaker TSMC is building a $12 billion semiconductor plant in US state of Arizona
Market watchers say the latest ban is likely to affect a swathe of Chinese tech companies including giants such as Alibaba Group, Tencent Holdings, Baidu, and Huawei Technologies.
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