The Canadian government has announced that it will provide CAD$40 million to Finnish telecom company Nokia to study the possibilities of 5G technology in the country. Beijing fears that the research project is simply a prelude to banning Huawei from rolling out 5G services in Canada. 5G research The research project is aimed at understanding ...
China’s AI advances are making many governments worried. Now, investor George Soros has issued a warning about how Beijing’s AI program could end up threatening open societies. He was speaking at the recently concluded World Economic Forum in Davos. Replacing one monopoly with another? In 2017, China issued a broad strategy that aimed to make ...
Over the past year, Huawei’s ambitions to dominate the global 5G market suffered damage after countries like the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand banned the use of the company’s equipment. Now, one of the largest telecommunications companies in Europe, Vodafone, has halted the use of Huawei equipment in its core networks across the region due ...
As the Internet becomes a basic necessity like food and water, there has been a growing concern about keeping it open and free. Today, the Internet is largely regulated by governments and managed by a few large corporations. This has forced some people to look into the potential of a decentralized Internet built on the ...
The trade in blood diamonds, also known as conflict diamonds, has continued unabated for several decades despite producers, manufacturers, and governments implementing several steps to resolve it. Now, blockchain technology is offering a solution to end the problem. Blood diamonds and the Kimberley Process The UN defines blood diamonds as those that “originate from areas ...
The rise in privacy scandals in recent times has been a major cause of concern for many Internet users. While the issue with Facebook-Analytica revealed how personal information can be used to manipulate you, several other companies — like Google, Amazon, and hundreds of websites — routinely harvest your data for their profit. The only ...
When information about Google’s Project Dragonfly leaked online, there was a huge uproar among Internet rights activists, since Dragonfly would have complied with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) censorship policies and made life harder for the country’s citizens. A new wave of protests has hit Google as the latest reports suggest that the company might ...
When Chinese Internet users discovered that they could not access Microsoft’s Bing search engine webpage, the first thought that came to most people’s minds was that the website had been blocked by state censors. However, the service came back online soon and it was found that the accessibility issue was caused by a technical error ...
With Artificial Intelligence technologies becoming pervasive in all aspects of society, it was inevitable that they would be used by law enforcement. In the U.S., predictive policing technologies are becoming a favorite tool of police forces because of their ability to predict a potential crime. But such technologies bring with them a host of problems, ...
Rice University scientists have created a rubbery, shape-shifting morphing material that morphs from one sophisticated form to another on demand. The shapes programmed into a polymer by materials scientist Rafael Verduzco and graduate student Morgan Barnes appear in ambient conditions and melt away when heat is applied. The process also works in reverse. The smooth ...
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