Tencent joined much of China’s Internet sector in a $290-billion selloff on Wednesday after Beijing signalled its strongest intentions yet to rein in Big Tech. Yet it’s in some ways better shielded than its peers.
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The mid-level bureaucrats left China’s richest man waiting as they prepared for a meeting that would send shockwaves across the financial world.
The Xbox Series X is billed as the most powerful videogame console ever made. But with a meagre line-up of games this year, that promise won’t mean much for a while.
As real artificial intelligence technology advances toward Hollywood’s imagined versions, the question of moral standing grows more important. If AIs have moral standing, it could follow that they have a right to life.
Naspers spin-off Prosus, which became Europe’s largest technology company this week, has always been something of a Gordian knot for investors.
Google and the US justice department are set to face each other in court on Friday for the first time since the government sued the company for illegally monopolising Internet search.
Just as the US government starts looking to rein in, or even break up, big technology companies in the belief they have too much power, China is going in the opposite direction.
The cure for bad information is good information. If people are sometimes persuaded by the false, that’s a risk attendant upon the proper practice of democracy. By Stephen L Carter.
The Covid-19 pandemic is fuelling a boom for Africa-focused money transfer companies, despite predictions from the World Bank of a historic 20% drop in remittances to poorer countries this year.
At Tesla’s Battery Day event in September, CEO Elon Musk set himself an ambitious target: to produce a $25 000 electric car in three years. Hitting that price is seen as critical to deliver a true, mass-market product.