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Without VPN and government authorization: banned WhatsApp suddenly works in China

WhatsApp has strangely been working on some devices in China for two weeks, despite the long-standing government ban on messaging services. The government's initiative is part of a broad blockage of foreign internet platforms (including Signal and In...

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Hackers attacked servers of UK's Ministry of Defense

The Ministry of Defense of Great Britain has become a victim of a hacker attack. As a result, there was a mass leakage of data of military personnel. The government does not mention the country that was involved in this attack, but Sky News reports t...

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China showed the project of a space base on the Moon - for some reason there was a NASA shuttle, decommissioned back in 2011

The video from the Chinese National Space Administration extensively describes the large lunar outpost, interestingly featuring CGI of a NASA space shuttle taking off from the surface of the Moon. The project is known as the International Lunar Resea...

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Apple's loss is a gain for Huawei. iPhone sales in China collapsed by 19%, while the local brand recorded growth of 70%

Apple faces increasingly strong competition in China, particularly from the domestic smartphone manufacturer Huawei. According to Counterpoint data, iPhone sales fell by more than 19% in the first quarter of 2024, while Huawei smartphone sales during...

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"Dead Bots" - a creepy new AI-powered business that helps Chinese people survive the death of loved ones

The new Chinese trend involves creating avatars of deceased relatives to communicate with them even after death and to cope with the loss of a loved one more easily. "Dad, did you suffer before you left?" - writes user Yansi Zhu to the bot, and it re...

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Apple gave almost 100 thousand iPhones for recycling - those "surfaced" on the second-hand market in China

Apple filed a lawsuit against a contractor, but decided to drop the case - presumably to avoid public disclosure of its anti-ecological practices. It is believed that the company destroys perfectly usable old devices to prevent a decrease in demand f...

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Apple has lost its lead to Samsung in the smartphone market - iPhone shipments fall 10% in the first quarter of 2024

According to the research company IDC, global smartphone shipments grew by 7.8% during January-March, reaching 289.4 million units, with Samsung taking the top spot among manufacturers with a market share of 20.8%, surpassing Apple. iPhone shipments ...

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In the first quarter Ukrainians bought 75% more cars from China, most of all - Volkswagen ID.4

Chinese-made electric vehicles continue to reshape the landscape of the automobile-electric vehicle market in Ukraine - you can see for yourself by looking at the latest statistics from Ukravtoprom for the most popular models in the first quarter of ...

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OpenAI investor: TikTok is "programmed fentanyl" by Chinese communists to manipulate Americans

TikTok should be viewed as "another form of heavy Chinese weaponry," billionaire Vinod Khosla assures, who was one of the early sponsors of OpenAI. He supported the forced separation of the social networking platform TikTok from its Chinese parent c...

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China has oversaturated the market with solar panels - some places are already building garden fences out of them

80% of the world's solar panel production is accounted for by one country. Chinese companies produce so many solar panels that they have caused market saturation - and, as a result, price drops. The Financial Times reports that in Germany and the Net...

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Tesla reported its first-ever drop in electric car sales. BYD's sales collapse almost 1.5 times

Returning to the beloved section Tesla vs BYD electric vehicles, let's discuss the new sales report for Tesla cars, which once again achieved victory over BYD after the first knockout in the last quarter of 2023. However, there is a nuance - for the ...

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China has created a processor for AI that is "90% cheaper than existing ones" - based on RISC-V and 14 nm process technology

The Chinese manufacturer Intellifusion has introduced the DeepEyes artificial intelligence processors with a claimed performance of 48 TOPS, costing 1000 yuan, or approximately $140. The use of an older 14nm technology process and, likely, ASIC techn...

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Xi Jinping on chip export restrictions: "No force in the world can stop China's technological progress"

Recently, the President of China and the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, met in Beijing to discuss the semiconductor industry. Relations between the countries became tense after the Netherlands, together with the USA, blocked the expor...

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China has banned the use of Intel and AMD chips in civil servants' computers

China has introduced new rules that prohibit the use of American processors AMD and Intel in government computers and servers, as well as block Microsoft Windows and foreign databases in favor of domestic solutions, according to the Financial Times. ...

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Catapult on steroids. Chinese railgun will launch crewed ships into space

To deliver astronauts into space requires an incredible amount of fuel (for example, the Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo mission carried 770,000 liters of kerosene, as well as liquid oxygen as an oxidizer), so researchers have long been expl...

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