Ewallet service WeChat Pay MY has announced that it will discontinue its payment service in Malaysia from Sept 1 due to “business strategy adjustment”. “Users will be able to withdraw the balance in their ewallets via the ewallet portal until December 31, 2024. However, users still could opt for special withdrawal arrangement from January 1, …
The International Telecommunication Union, an agency under the United Nations, says 6G could promote the growth of a range of advances, allowing communication to be immersive and connectivity universal. But with existing communication technology reaching its theoretical bandwidth limit, there are a series of big problems that have to be overcome. These include the difficulty …
BEIJING: China on Saturday (Jul 13) announced new controls on internet content, taking aim at video apps and social media platforms to purge material deemed harmful to children. The ruling Communist Party strictly regulates the domestic web, censoring content deemed vulgar, ostentatious or politically subversive. It has periodically clamped down on specific sectors, from online …
A staff member checks equipment at a data center of China Mobile in Horinger, Hohhot City, north China’s Inner Mongolia, Nov. 28, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Zhipeng) BEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) — Amid the global race to build artificial general intelligence, the development of stronger computing power has become a major focal point of China’s strategic initiatives, …
Like any tool, AI is not neutral – it reflects its creators’ agendas and biases. Our collective goal should be to apply innovation towards major social priorities, not just solely for private motives driven by profit. Hong Kong must brace itself, as the approaching AI shift could unsettle swathes of roles spanning retail, construction and …
Chinese people know their country’s Internet is different. There is no Google, YouTube, Facebook or Twitter. They use euphemisms online to communicate the things they are not supposed to mention. When their posts and accounts are censored, they accept it with resignation. They live in a parallel online universe. They know it and even joke …
By Fanny Potkin SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Some Chinese AI chip companies are now designing less powerful processors to retain access to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) production in the face of U.S. sanctions, four people with knowledge of the matter said. Aiming to impede breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and supercomputing by China’s military, Washington has …
The undated combo image shows a diagram (L) and two photos of an energy-efficient sensing-computing neuromorphic chip dubbed “Speck,” which mimics the neurons and synapses of the human brain. (The Institute of Automation, CAS/Handout via Xinhua) BEIJING, June 3 (Xinhua) — A team of Chinese and Swiss scientists has jointly developed an energy-efficient sensing-computing neuromorphic …
Insider Brief Chinese researchers have successfully trapped 512 ions in a two-dimensional Wigner crystal and performed quantum simulations using 300 of those ions as qubits. According to the researchers, this demonstrates the largest quantum simulator based on trapped ions achieved to date. The research was led by quantum physicist Duan Luming at Tsinghua University, who …
US officials have slowed the issuing of licences to chip makers such as Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices for large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator shipments to the Middle East, according to people familiar with the matter, while officials conduct a national security review of AI development in the region. It is unclear how long the …